Austinist: News Bits: UFOs, Xenus, Dyads & OWNs

LoudMouth

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:50:47 -0600

Tom Cruise is one crazy honker. That's my new slur for white people, honker. He wants to go on vacation and romp and play and frolick but he can't because all you people need help. That's sad.

YoYoMa

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:28:51 -0600

Conan, I think you completely missed the point of the "Canadian" as a slur article. South Park skewered Canadians, as in, those people that live north of the US.

ConanTheLibrarian

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:59:41 -0600

So many topics, so many thoughts. 1)On the Autism vaccination link. My wife is a Speech Pathologist for Pflugerville ISD who works with a lot of autistic kids at the elementary schools. The parents of the kids tend to be Accountants, Computer Programmers, Engineers, or other professions that work with numbers. If Autism (a spectrum of disorders, not just kids who rock back and forth or savants like Rainman)was a communicable disease, the area around Dell/Samsung would be a "Hot Zone". 2)Canadians- South Park did it first 3)The Tom Cruise video. Be afraid, be very afraid. The thought of him going to someone pinned in a car after a wreck and saying "It's your fault because you let the Thetans control your thoughts" as the blood oozes out of the victim's mouth is especially scary to me because I've seen a person impaled on a steering wheel (pre-Nader 1950s model)of a car, and have administered first aid many times. Pray for Katie Holmes. 4) UFOs- of course people out in the country are going to notice them. Unlike other towns in the metroplex, their heads are stuck up their rectums, or contemplating their navels.

ConanTheLibrarian

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:59:26 -0600

adi

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:36:27 -0600

i'm ready for an Austin UFO sighting!

kenneth1

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:45:22 -0600

I've also heard the epithet "Mexican" used as a racist slang term for Mexicans.

LoudMouth

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:40:26 -0600

I never heard anybody using it, but the whole thing reads like a mother asking the other Ladies Who Lunch, "Is it crack?" in a whisper while holding up a baggie of roaches.

YoYoMa

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:13:44 -0600

best part of the canadian story was that I heard people using it 15 years ago in high school.

LoudMouth

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:47:43 -0600

Oh shit, I thought that said "aboot".

LoudMouth

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:46:42 -0600

Best part of the Canadian story is the typo in this sentence, "She ... assumed they must be talking abut someone else."