[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Boudreaux and Clarence

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

I bet that's it... offer a joke in the dialect of southern-born persons
of French descent, whose great-great-grandparents were transported from
Arcadia by the mean old redcoats (after the last war when the
English-speaking colonists fought side by side with the King's troops),
and some 21st century liberal is bound to think you are making fun of the
way African Americans don't talk.

Siarlys

(Most northerners can't tell the difference... they think only black
people cook collard greens and fry catfish, or serve black-eyed peas for
New Year's Day.)

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:43:53 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
I missed it if there was... Green, were they in reference to the slang of
the south vs french?



On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:


John, did you get any comments disapproving of this one?  someone i
forwarded it to complained that it was racist.  i don't agree, but i'm
curious to know if anyone else saw it that way.

greenBubble

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Subject: [GCFL.net] Boudreaux and Clarence

Boudreaux live across de bayou from Clarence, who he don
like at all. Dey all de time yell across de bayou at each
other. Boudreaux would yell to Clarence, "If I had a way to
cross dis bayou, I'd come over dere an beat you up good,
yeah!"

Dis went on for years. Finally de state done built a bridge
across dat bayou right by dere houses; and Boudreaux's wife,
Marie, say, "Now is you chance, Boudreaux. Why don you go
over der an beat up dat Clarence like you say?"

Boudreaux say, "OK," and start across de bridge, but he see
a sign on de bridge an he stop to read it and den he go back
home.

Marie say, "Why you back so soon?"

And Boudreaux say, "Marie, I dun change my mind 'bout
beatin' up dat Clarence. You know Marie, dey got a sign on
dat dere bridge dat say, 'Clarence 13 ft. 6 in.'

You know, he don look near dat big when I yell at him across
de bayou."

Received from Wayne Shelton.
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