Indian, the new Ogden Nash
A comedy conversation
by Crackalacka 68,758 11 12/12/2005 02:44 PM 404 views
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I went to my parents Xmas party this weekend, and met my brother's new girlfriend. She happens to be half Apache. Unfortunately for me, I learned this after about 7 Newcastles. I loudly blurted out, "Oh, your mother's an Indian". The look that she gave me was about the same as if I had told her that her mother "gave good wampum" for 20$ or pretty beads. She then told me that they prefer the term "Native American". In my drunken stupor, I then proceeded to call her an Indian about three more times in the next five minutes without even realizing it. She then stormed out of the house followed by my brother who called out over his shoulder, "Emerson!". Apparently this is less offensive than Indian, cause I laughed. Needless to say I was indeed the Emerson of the evening. I make my wife so proud.
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Sorry SR.
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Crackalacka 68,758 11
12/12/2005 04:54 PM
I think my blatant racism exceeded zug's moral tolerance.
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Nachos is not a festive dish 57,521 23
12/12/2005 06:42 PM
Maybe she was just pissed because, in actual fact, her mother gave very bad wampum.
For $10.
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Piquantrax - Keeping Kwanzaa Kool 8,691 9
12/12/2005 06:55 PM
You should have run outside and told her you made her mother a reservation....
at a local hotel.
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Oliver Chest: Vagisil on Toast 203,475 12
12/12/2005 06:58 PM
That's strange that she took such offense to it. She must not be very smart.
One of my best friends is an Injun, and she is very involved in the Injun community here. She uses the term "Indian" when she talks about injuns. I think Native is the more preferred term, but out here Indian is still pretty acceptable.
Or maybe it's one of those things where only Ogden Nashes can call Ogden Nashes "Ogden Nashes."
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daisypie 49,378 9
12/12/2005 07:02 PM
<action>can hear the sound of distant drums...</action>Uh oh, SR's going on the war-path.
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Oliver Chest: Vagisil on Toast 203,475 12
12/12/2005 07:05 PM
Nah man, he's just rockin out to Inna Gadda Da Vidda.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 03:09 AM
It's hard to find some kind of good come back to a white boy who's already calling himself Crackalacka.
Like trying to insult a Jew that's wearing a shirt that says Oven Dweller on it.
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Dogs Akimbo 211,584 32
12/13/2005 09:29 AM
as if I had told her that her mother "gave good wampum" for 20$ or pretty beads
Wampum is pretty beads.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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SquidBoy 19,912 12
12/13/2005 09:37 AM
Technically, wampum could be ugly beads, too.
Just sayin'..
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Rent: Seasons of Phla - Merry Christmas, bitches! 131,068 34
12/13/2005 09:41 AM
During Native American month, someone told me there is no iroquois word for 'art,' because all objects were created to be both useful and beautiful.
Now I think that person was lying.
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Crackalacka 68,758 11
12/13/2005 10:45 AM
Current Update:
Last night I was talking to my mom, and she told me my maternal great, great, great grandmother was also indian. I now have full rights to use the word since I am one.
What's up, my INJUNS!!
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Crackalacka 68,758 11
12/13/2005 10:47 AM
ps
Whats up Suicide Ranger? My tribal brother from another squaw mother!
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 10:50 AM
I shall now reflect my heritage with the indian nose icon and my new indian name.
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Santa is just a Mailman, when you think about it 176,450 56
12/13/2005 11:01 AM
On an unrelated note: Hahaha, Cracka, you have switched to the nose icon. That's the gayest icon EVAR! I can't believe you're actually wearing that!
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 11:39 AM
gayest icon EVAR!
Check out my injun name. I think with a name like that I can be pretty confidant in my sexuality.
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No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
12/13/2005 11:55 AM
"She then told me that they prefer the term "Native American"."
UNTRUE!
I asked three of our programmers Vishnu, Suresh and Surini if they preferred to be called "Native American" or "Indian".
All three prefer to be called "Indians."
Random Fact: Suresh makes a wicked slushie!
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Freeze Dried Instant Egg Nog 10,327 12
12/13/2005 11:55 AM
Does anyone else feel like they are going to choke when they say "Ogden"?
No?
Nevermind.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 12:31 PM
So Cracker... what Nation was your great, great, great, great grandmother?
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No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
12/13/2005 12:34 PM
SR,
Sure, Cracker's Grandmother was a fat ho, but that's no reason to call her a "Nation".
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 12:36 PM
No Key, that's funny, because people often ask me what tribe am I, and I respond. "Due I look like more than one person dip Shakespeare?"
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Fratberry 283,018 53
12/13/2005 12:46 PM
Dued!
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 01:00 PM
I get a lot of people asking me if I'm Indian, it has to do with the way I look, I'm sure, it's the long hair dark skin, high cheek bones. It's pretty obvious to most people, so most of the time I just stare at them blankly when they ask. The best part about this is to watch them slowly get more and more nervous that they've made a mistake. It's at the point when I bust out the Tomahawk and hit them once between the eyes, and reply. "Yes, you guessed it. Here's your prize!"
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Whistler P. McManus 186,122 44
12/13/2005 01:01 PM
I'm never sure about this one. Some seem to prefer Indian and some Native American. Lene Lenape (the local aboriginals here) is so awkward sounding, and I'm afraid I'm mispronouncing it.
That's why I usually stick with "hit me, Tonto!"
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Whistler P. McManus 186,122 44
12/13/2005 01:04 PM
On the serious, even tribal names are risky. I believe that Lene Lenape translates literally to "human being," and Algonquian to "our evil enemy." I could have that reversed. The idea is that the first whiteys to show up here asked one group what it's name was and then asked the same group what the other group's name was. So some tribes ended up becoming known by the name their ancient rivals called them.
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 01:08 PM
I am not sure what kind of Injun she was. My family has lived in the South Western part of Texas since the late 1700's, so I'm guessing the no-good, fire water swilling, white women raping tribe just like the rest of them.
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No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
12/13/2005 01:18 PM
You tell 'em whitey!
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 01:19 PM
I end up getting called chief at work. It doesn't bother me. When I first get hired at a job. There's always that one guy that calls everyone chief. I really enjoy this, since people don't know me that well at the new job I like to Frost with them. The guy says to me. "Could you hand me this thing bla bla bla." I proceed to be helpful. He responds with "Thanks, chief." I in turn respond with. "What did you say? Did you just call me CHEIF?! What is that suppose to be some kind of joke?" At this point several people have stopped what they are doing and are looking rather nervously at both of us. He is looking pale and like he wants to run. He responds, "No I call everyone chief." "Why's that?"
"I don't know." "So racial slurs are common place here?" "No, I mean I never thought-" "Thought what? That there aren't any Native Americans around any more, we killed them all off, so Chief is ok to use?" "Yes, I mean no, I... I...-" "That's cool, I was just about to say something about all the Wet Backs in the kitchen, nice to know I'm in good company."
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Whistler P. McManus 186,122 44
12/13/2005 01:27 PM
Log the Frost in, hautboy! You need clickies.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 01:28 PM
It, is just annoying Oboe, How often do you get asked if you're white?
How often dose a Mexican get asked if he's Mexican? How often does a Black person get asked if he's Black? They get asked almost none of the time, because people see those kinds of people everyday. But when you're as uncommon, as the native peoples this land, then people must know what you are. It doesn't offend me, as much as it just annoys me. If you were paralyzed and were in a wheel chair, and every new person you meet, asks, "Are you paralyzed?" That person would get sick of having to answer that question.
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Fratberry 283,018 53
12/13/2005 01:31 PM
How often do you get asked if you're white?
I get asked that every time I unfurl my penis.
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 01:33 PM
I live near San Antonio Texas, which is commonly known amongst us whiteys as "Little Mexico". It is an interesting fact that most of the mexicans that live in San Antonio are actually part Indian, and part Spanish. The original mexican people were Mestizo Indians. So all these common mexicans are actually mostly Indian. In my neck of the woods, Indians are not that uncommon.
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Fratberry 283,018 53
12/13/2005 01:36 PM
That's a pretty common theory.
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 01:36 PM
I've also heard Indians have "big pee pee like buffalo", which is why I should have guessed my heritage long ago.
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Fratberry 283,018 53
12/13/2005 01:38 PM
Irish?
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No_Key_Bandit 76,490 10
12/13/2005 01:41 PM
"How often do you get asked if you're white?
I get asked that every time I unfurl my penis."
I usually get asked if it's too cold.
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Oliver Chest: Vagisil on Toast 203,475 12
12/13/2005 01:42 PM
I usually get asked why I'm in the mens room.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 01:50 PM
Mestizo Indians... You're really quite fun to listen too. Mestizo sounds like a weird derivative of a Spanish word that means mixed, which I wouldn't put it past anyone, since Mexicans are mostly Spanish/Native Americans. Because the Spaniards that came here to conquer the lands, killed of the men and knocked up the women in order to make the place more like home.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 01:52 PM
In my preschool, the bathroom was coed. We were too young to feel awkward, but it caused some confusion. There was one girl whose mom always had to pack her extra pants, because she couldn't quite grasp the fact that girls weren't supposed to pee standing up.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 01:53 PM
Someone needs to let all those girls in the Hustler magazines know that too.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 01:54 PM
SR is right. Mestizo isn't the name of an Indian tribe, but rather it is a derogatory term used to describe the mixed children of Spaniards and Indians. Kind of like Oreo, but with red and tan people instead.
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 02:02 PM
Sooooo.....you're saying I'm right about the Mexicans being Indians, I'm just doing it in a really racist way? Just remember, I am one of these mixed up Mexistizodian bastards.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 02:04 PM
I think you look more like a prick.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 02:06 PM
The original mexican people were Mestizo Indians.
No, I'm not saying you're right. The original Mexican people were probably...well, Mexicans. When they mixed with the Indian people mestizos were born, but this doesn't make all Mexicans part Indian.
But anyway, let's stop talking about this. They're all minorities so what does it matter?
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/13/2005 02:11 PM
Hey you can be racist, doesn't bother my any. Racist chicks still squeal and cry the same when raped.
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Crackalacka parties with squatting beavers 68,758 11
12/13/2005 02:13 PM
I forgot to add the disclaimer that some or all of my so called facts may be based on completely fictitious statistics. I really don't know or care where Mexicans or Indians came from. This whole thing started out as a thread about someone being overly sensitive. I 5clickied SR on his post about me calling myself Cracker. Racial remarks are thrown around here like poop so I thought no one would be so sensitive. Maybe I was wrong. I found out something about myself and decided to make fun of it. I hold no ill will or hate towards anyone.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 02:15 PM
Eh, I'm just Frost-ing with you. Stop apologizing, ya Poe.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 02:22 PM
Let's play Fun With Babelfish!
I even love to you, but now I want to you in baul of my car, for despues. It warms up
That's hot.
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dick fernandez 714 8
12/13/2005 02:27 PM
El giggidyo gigggidy
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Mr. Sir, smuggling sugar plums. 66,727 9
12/13/2005 02:34 PM
I hold no ill will or hate towards anyone.
Ha. You'll never make it as a GABber.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 02:38 PM
Read closesly Erika, I didn't actually apologize now did I.
Meh, all that wimpy vagina blubbering sounds the same to me.
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Mr. Sir, smuggling sugar plums. 66,727 9
12/13/2005 02:38 PM
You can't just say it.
You have to mean it.
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Chickens wears his blue bandana for Tookie 286,539 61
12/13/2005 02:58 PM
How often do you get asked if you're white?
When I go to highland games, I never take pants, only the kilts, so all the way there and all the way home, and any runs into town for supplies (SUPPLIES!) always draws a "are you Scottish?" from the locals.
My usual response is "Why no, thilly. Why would you ask, big fella?"
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Chickens wears his blue bandana for Tookie 286,539 61
12/13/2005 03:01 PM
An excerpt from Scotland Today Magazine about the Highland games in Banner Elk, NC: "I was on my way to the games wearing regular clothes and stopped into a gas station where I was warned by a local to avoid Banner Elk cause them crazy Scottish people with them "flannel plaid skirts" is in town."
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Chickens wears his blue bandana for Tookie 286,539 61
12/13/2005 03:04 PM
My great grandmother was 100% eastern band Cherokee and my adopted son is 1/2 eastern Cherokee, 1/2 pollock. You can't have lived in these mountains for more than three generations and not have a red Ogden Nash or two in the woodpile.
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Chickens wears his blue bandana for Tookie 286,539 61
12/13/2005 03:05 PM
My great grandmother was 100% eastern band Cherokee and my adopted son is 1/2 eastern Cherokee, 1/2 pollock. You can't have lived in these mountains for more than three generations and not have a red Ogden Nash or two in the woodpile. I'm one generation out for the proceeds from the casino, but the kid should get a full ride to college.
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Erika - Always on the Naughty List 76,152 9
12/13/2005 03:11 PM
Don't mind Chickens, he just likes hearing himself talk. He's not the #2 poster of all time for nothing.
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Dogs Akimbo 211,584 32
12/13/2005 11:28 PM
How?
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/14/2005 12:52 AM
My great grandmother was 100% eastern band Cherokee
I totally believe that chickens, I can smell the Cherokee blood on you. It smells like bull-Shakespeare
The way I see it with all the Full-Blooded Cherokee Grandmothers out there, there's no way we could have lost this land. Or Cherokee women are bigger sluts than, drunken teenagers on spring break.
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Millie Christmas and a Happy New Year 116,988 28
12/14/2005 01:09 AM
People ask me if I'm Italian all the time. I think it's the big boobs and the moustache.
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Holiday Spiced Suicide Ranger 27,937 12
12/14/2005 01:19 AM
Well, prove it like any red-blooded American girl would and SUYT!
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Festive Filly 39,193 20
12/14/2005 01:21 AM
The polite way to ask about a Native Americans' heritage is, of course "So. What part of North America did we steal from your ancestors?"
Demo, you have no idea how badly I want to click this.
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Millie Christmas and a Happy New Year 116,988 28
12/14/2005 01:22 AM
Oh, American Woman! It's a song. An anti-American song penned by an envious Canadian.
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Mr. Piemaster - Now with 50% more creepy! 12,538 15
12/14/2005 01:26 AM
The earth is only 22 years old, Satan put the Native Americans here to challenge our belief structure and stray us from the path of the lord.
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Humphrey B Devoid of Frivolity 51,764 12
12/14/2005 01:57 AM
You want to talk about genocide and mass-murder. You've got nothing on us.
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Chickens is down 10 pounds 286,539 61
12/14/2005 06:50 AM
Believe what you want SR, but their log cabin is at the entrance to my property. The eastern band Res is less than 40 miles from my home. And my grandfather and his 8 brothers carried more of the genetic characteristics of their mother than their Scottish father.
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ringworm 68,315 13
12/14/2005 06:53 AM
and i thought you just said "cock-a-doodle-doo" at this ungodly hour. jägerbombs give you wings.
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