OT: RANT!!!

Absolutely crazy!! Of course, when I spread Robertsons marmalade on my toast, I miss my little friend who used to be on the label! When I was a little girl I only wanted the jam that had Golly on it.

Gillian

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! please, I'm begging - this is a joke!

Cheryl

Where does that leave the (apocryphal?) frugal Victorian gents who insisted on their suits being made from the wool of black sheep so that the colour would not fade???

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I keep wondering how the meter of the verse is affected.

Though - what would a rainbow sheep look like and what color would the wool be? If you muddle the colors of a paint box, it looks black! LOL

Cheryl

I suppose the next line would have to be "Yes, sir, yes, sir - thirty bags full!

But can`t you feel a design coming on? Rainbow sheep, for Heaven`s sake!

They changed the name of a pub in Ipswich from "Uncle Tom`s Cabin". I can understand that in some ways, but it`s also pretty ironic that it`s in the part of town with, I should say, a good 50 per cent black population.

It`s also ironic that it`s the other side of the road from the "Live and Let Live" pub (The sign being the lion laying down with the lamb).

Just think of all the songs and stories that should be changed if they follow it through.

BLUE eyed Susie

Bye, bye, BROWNBIRD

CHESTNUT Beauty (doesn`t quite have the same ring to it, does it?)

BLONDEBEARD the Pirate (He wouldn`t be half as scary!)

Pat P

On the one hand , yes it sounds ridicolous, and as if things have gone too far. On the other hand , this is a very natural result of Generations of Over Doing the Opression and Insultive expressions. Now in order to stop, the pendulum of change has to sway further than needed to eventually get it right. You still speak of Joseph`s multy colored coat , which in the original was not multy colored nore a coat. You speak and quote many mistaken conceptions that came from mistaken translations dome of which deliberate , some mistaken. If one pusehes something hard for hundres of years , no wonder once it gets loosened it jumps in the face / culture of the pushing force.

In a lighter tone i was always amazed why English sheep say Bah while ours say Meh? mirjam

Ha, what's next? antique white linen has to be anitque caucasian linen? Black aida has to beAfro American Aida? Or Yellow fabric Asian fabric?

I suppose purple would have to be apoplectic Caucasian! What would we call green?

Pat P

There was the movie YellowBeard.

Cheryl

I really have to laugh at this -- it's soooooo true :-)! I just wish I could remember what it is that the Japanese girls said their dogs & cats "say". It certainly wasn't woof or meow!! Mirjam and others who speak a native language other than English -- what do *your* dogs & cats say? And how about your cows (moo), horses (whinny), pigs (oink), etc.????? CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Keeping to your theme, I'd say nauseated Caucasian.

How about Martian?

Anne (> Pat P wrote:

Miss Kitty says she'd be terribly ashamed of her communication skills if all she could say was Meow. She's actually partial to Mleh (which expresses her disdain for such things as a mother who hasn't yet gotten up to feed her breakfast), but has a working vocabulary of a couple dozen distinct sounds. One of which probably sounds a lot like your Cows go 'mø'

Yes Goats Meeeh here as well , donkeys say IEjaaaaaah IEjaaaaah , Camel , Pprurrrr mirjam