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BUT RACIST AND WRONG!! But still funny.

and I didn't feel bad for it...

good one

She was an academic studying for a PhD in Linguistics, so her writing was somewhat dense, as academics tend to do. Her boss, a guy named Mostar was bitching at her for writing such a long annual report. "Just call a spade a spade!" he proclaimed. Audrey (my boss) just started laughing and walked out of his office, asking his secretary to point out his error. Mostar didn't even know what he had said.

Audrey's Mom was well known in the CD (Central District, Seattle, equivalent to the 'Hood' in today's language, where I lived and worked.) I worked in one building and for some reason Audrey had me make a delivery to one of our branches where Audrey's Mom, who knew me, was doing a demonstration of corn rolling, very popular at the time. Her audience was a bunch of older Black ladies. I walked in with a 50 pound box of books and she says,

"Michael, come up here for a moment." Now I knew she was up to no good, but I didn't have much choice. So I, a 6 foot 2 inch 200 pound young white guy with long hair to my waist and a full beard, went up to Mom, about five foot one and (I thought, then, pretty old.) She reached up and grabs my beard and yanks on it and says,

"We're gonna corn roll Michael's beard here." Of course, I reacted appropriately, yelling, "No, Ms. Wright. No!" much to the delight of the audience. She then proceeded with her lesson, which was that my beard was coarse enough so that it could be corn rolled, but my hair, long, and straight, was much too fine to allow it.

I was the token white guy in our building. The assistant boss was Chinese and my co-workers were all Black or Japanese. They taught me how to eat real Asian food. Once in awhile we would all go out to dinner and invariably we would have someone come up to the table and say, "Where are you all from?" That wasn't the real question, of course. They wondered how we would all be hanging out and eating together.

I wish we could all talk about race with incidents like this, which were fun for all concerned, kind of a celebrate the differences thing, rather than get worked up about it. Audrey gave me a break in life when I needed it. I'll never forget her.

The most frequently asked question in Iraq; the way Saddam`s name will appear on government records,and his death certificate;the man who knew George Bush best of all, his business partner.
All right you "tarpheads" tell me now, Hussein Saddam,speak up?

But I'll laugh anyway!

OK? That means to deal with the subject matter of the thread rather than go off on some tangent nobody understands. Thanks.