What I said, again.

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about, _"I'm white. [Pause.] My husband doesn't think so"_ ?
>
> Funny? Racist? Surreal? Â  I don't pretend to have all the answers.
>

Well, just standing there with its mouth hanging open, it seems
somewhat surreal to me. OTOH, I think that is has, as Richard Pryor
once put it, "p'tincha." The Chappelle Show, The Boondocks, or South
Park could probably make something satirically funny out of it.

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-Wilson
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–Mark Twain

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or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
idiotic or unworthy.
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