@cliff-mashburn saidYeah and there would a proper kerfuffle if they started burning witches again, well, in dem states anyway.
https://www.facebook.com/Retrovision/photos/a.1460635974165071/3254983784730272/
can you imagine the uproar if it was published today?
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@mott-the-hoople saidNo it’s only used by people in possession of a vocabulary being gay or straight is not a factor.
“ proper kerfuffle ”
is that a queer term?
Do you need to check before you borrow it, are you still in dread of being outed?
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@mott-the-hoople saidNo not at all why would you say that?
do women scare you? little man
I’m as straight as a dye son your the warm brother in the closet, remember?
Your so scared of women you do not want them leaving the house or showing up at the work place. Are you blind to how that looks?
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@cliff-mashburn saidFunny?
https://www.facebook.com/Retrovision/photos/a.1460635974165071/3254983784730272/
can you imagine the uproar if it was published today?
I would say trivial.
@cliff-mashburn saidWhat's funny about it?
https://www.facebook.com/Retrovision/photos/a.1460635974165071/3254983784730272/
can you imagine the uproar if it was published today?
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@athousandyoung saidYou're not the only person wondering.
What's funny about it?
I thought it was less than average and he
said he would tell me what was so hilarious
about a TV Guide cover. I can only guess that he
will tell us in his 'Weakly Prognostication.'
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@athousandyoung said"What do negroes want from TV?"
What's funny about it?
You don't find that funny?
@cliff-mashburn saidSorry, Cliff. Consider your audience. Now, if you had had a stand-up comedian do a video talking about it, they would laugh and laugh. But that is comedy, they do not get humor. They simply do not.
"What do negroes want from TV?"
You don't find that funny?
Now, having said that, it is not really supposed to be funny. So my comment about the stand-up doesn't quite nail this. The Post was meant to point out how casually the differences in the two main races in this country were accepted.......that, they indeed had a different 'place' in society, and all,, even they, were cool with it.
That, though it would be impossible now, if this were put on a magazine cover today how unbelievable that would be. I found the post interesting. Thanks Cliff.
@cliff-mashburn saidTV Guide didn't even put a black actor on its cover until 1966. http://www.craigupright.net/uploads/1/3/4/7/13477182/upright_2015.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/Retrovision/photos/a.1460635974165071/3254983784730272/
can you imagine the uproar if it was published today?
Of course, the term "Negroes" is now disfavored, but its use is "funny", how?
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@no1marauder saidNo, that word and others such as mulatto are now in the dust bins of time.
TV Guide didn't even put a black actor on its cover until 1966. http://www.craigupright.net/uploads/1/3/4/7/13477182/upright_2015.pdf
Of course, the term "Negroes" is now disfavored, but its use is "funny", how?
And i havent said it was funny, i just dealt with that premise above. I did enjoy using it to drive home the diff between comedy and humor
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@no1marauder saidFunny in that it shows how far we have changed. That word used on the cover of the TV Guide, which was in almost every American household at the time, would be unthinkable today.
TV Guide didn't even put a black actor on its cover until 1966. http://www.craigupright.net/uploads/1/3/4/7/13477182/upright_2015.pdf
Of course, the term "Negroes" is now disfavored, but its use is "funny", how?
You don't find that funny?
Or perhaps odd would be a better word?
Eye opening?
Gotta be a word for it.