Re: We are all Africans (was Re: PDAs are searchable by cops)

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 20:33:33 MST


Re: "...you add Trailer Park resident and you get White Trash instead of
Good Ole Boy. Good Ole Boys usually have..."

Begging your pardon, but where does civility, compassion, intelligence and
reason fit into the extropian equation? One would think an extropian would
be intelligent enough not to have to indulge in stereotypes to convince
others you aren't anything like these poor "mediocre" humans, hmm?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Donaghe" <Terry@Donaghe.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:38 AM
Subject: RE: We are all Africans (was Re: PDAs are searchable by cops)

> No... you add Trailer Park resident and you get White Trash instead of
Good
> Ole Boy. Good Ole Boys usually have decent houses.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> > [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of John Marlow
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:43 PM
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: RE: We are all Africans (was Re: PDAs are searchable by cops)
> >
> >
> > You forgot trailer park resident.
> >
> > jm
> >
> > On 6 Feb 2001, at 13:56, Terry Donaghe wrote:
> >
> > > Qualification for being a Good Ol' Boy:
> > >
> > > 1. Pickup truck
> > > 2. County native
> > > 3. Almost never travelled out of county
> > > 4. Owner of a huge arsenal of firearms
> > > 5. Beer drinker
> > > 6. Whiskey drinker
> > > 7. Good Baptist (regardless of 5 and 6)
> > > 8. Large beer gut
> > > 9. Member of local hunting lodge
> > > 10. Owner of at least 6 dogs
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> > > > [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Kuecker
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:08 PM
> > > > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > > > Subject: RE: We are all Africans (was Re: PDAs are
> > searchable by cops)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At 10:39 AM 2/6/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > > > >I drove a pickup in Louisiana and Mississippi from 1991 to
> > > > 1997. I got
> > > > >pulled over once in all that time for an illegal U-Turn.
> > A white guy
> > > > >driving a pickup in LA and MS is about as normal as can be.
> > > > Of course, I
> > > > >didn't have a gun rack - so points off there, and seldom
> > > > were there beer
> > > > >cans in the truck bed...
> > > >
> > > > The gun rack and beer cans might prove you are a "good 'ol
> > > > boy" in some
> > > > areas...and suspect without them.
> > > >
> > > > Just got back from eastern Tennessee - and I can say it's a
> > > > whole different
> > > > world compared to the Chicago suburbs...
> > > >
> > > > Chuck Kuecker
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > John Marlow
> >
>



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