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

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Maybe that's the same reason people are freaking out about two of the
Transformers in the new Transformers movie. They're both DEEP Southern
(morons if you ask me) but I'm told many are screaming racism. :(
~Lance
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

>  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:
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>>
>> 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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