At 05:27 PM 9/6/98 -0400, you wrote: >...in a coons age... > >This is inappropriate for this forum. This phrase refers to the >inability of a white man to judge the age of a black man. As such it is >a racist reference. > > Newton It does? I always assumed it was an indefinite number because no one ever new just how long a raccoon lived, since the only dead ones you see didn't exactly die of old age. Another presumably harmless euphemism bites the dust. No, wait, that probably refers to shooting Native Americans. Well heck. No, wait... Ron
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