[Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Peter Reitan]

Pretty sure I learned "Bad Boys . . . but Violet" back in the day.

It works fine, with all three suggestive of the word, instead of one 
literally the word and two suggestive.

bAd - blAck; bOys - brOwn; bUt - blUe.

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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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Sent: 10/31/2019 1:47:27 PM
Subject: Re: banana (UNCLASSIFIED)

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>You'll have noticed that "Bad boys" would have done just as well....
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>JL
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>On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
>AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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>>  >
>>  > In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in
>>  the
>>  > coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
>>  >
>>  >  For people with degrees anyhow.
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>>  Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  But
>>  the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to us with a
>>  straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly"
>>  -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)),
>>  so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the radar.
>>
>>  (Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist,
>>  but are also much less memorable.)
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