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

[Wilson Gray]

Aw shuckins, y'all! :-) But, seriously, folks, I really and truly do
appreciate the good words. OTOH, I wish that I knew more about dialect
and less about "stuff."

IAC,

Thank you very much!
--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> 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:
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>> _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
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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