Enhanced Threat-- or, Who Can/Can't Say What

[Wilson Gray]

Different strokes for different folks, I reckon. IMO, "I was as happy
as a pig in shit" is funny. Or is this meant as irony?

Redd Foxx had a variation of the second comment. He said that the two
heads looked like a butt. That one also failed to strike me as funny.

BTW, who was this Robin Harris?

-Wilson

On 4/23/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>  >Jackson told him if information wasn't forthcoming at
> >once, "I will beat you like an escaped slave."
> >I dare say that NO one of a pigmentally-challenged persuasion could say
> >THAT to a man of ANY color and get away with it!!!
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> The late comedian Robin Harris had a line, "I was happy as a runaway slave.=
> "
> He also referred to two bald black men, sitting next to each other in the a=
> udience,
> as looking like "a couple of shaved monkey nuts".  Man, he was funny.
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