And in (additional) honor of the Giants' World Series win...

[Jonathan Lighter]

What they said.

JL

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

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> > Wilson,
> > You gotta write a book, or a series of books. Get yourself an assistant,
> > secretary, editor, typist, stenographer or whatever is needed, and start
> > about 60 years ago or so and just keep talking and writing. What you have
> > to say needs to be preserved for posterity. Seriously, not kidding, get
> it
> > done, and I bet you can get a lot of any kind of support you need for
> this
> > (editorial, publishing) from this list.
> > DAD
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> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> _Thirty Seconds over Tokyo_ (1944).
> >
> > During The War, the less well-known _China's Little Devils_ (1945),
> > together with _Crash Dive_ (1943) and _God Is My Co-Pilot_ (1945),
> > were movies that I considered to be the most inspirational that I'd
> > ever seen. Of course, at the time, I was a mere tyke six-to-eight
> > years old.
> >
> > Odd fact: down in Texas, it was said that the good Chinese could
> > easily be distinguished from the bad Japanese by the fact that Chinese
> > eyes slanted upward, whereas Japanese eyes slitted horizontally. In
> > like manner, the Germans were said to have ordinary Afro-European
> > round eyes, whereas the EYE-talians (it was not common knowledge that
> > EYE-talians were also European) had eyes that slanted downward, the
> > mirror-image of Chinese eyes.
> >
> > There was also a word, "Japtalian," whose meaning and application I've
> > now forgotten. (Ha! And y'all thought it wasn't *nothing* that I ever
> > forgot!) After wandering through my memory palace, the best that I can
> > come up with is that it may have been applied to any random person of
> > unknown ancestry, it being the case that the population of Marshall,
> > TX, consisted solely of blacks, whites, "Jews" (in quotes, because we
> > black folk couldn't wrap our minds around the fact that white folk
> > divided the uniform - to us - white world into "white folk" and
> > "Jews") and "Mexicans" (in quotes because, of course, Texas was Mexico
> > before it was "Texas").
> >
> > "Mexican" _tamaleros_ wandered freely throughout the 'hood, selling
> > Tex-Mex comfort-food. Apparently, this was a quite-widespread custom.
> > My favorite Los Angeles taqueria was run by a black Texan. The joint
> > was called "El Taqueria Hoggly-Woggly." Fellow Southrons will
> > appreciate the pun. The best _tamal_ that I've ever tasted was bought
> > from a black-Texan _tamalero_ in Saint Louis.
> >
> > (I'm assuming that they learned the art of Mexican cuisine from the
> > _tamaleros_ of their 'hoods back in Texas.)
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > ââ,¬â?oââ,¬â?oââ,¬â?o
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"ââ,¬â?oââ,¬â?oa strange
> > complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > ââ,¬â?oMark Twain
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