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2020-06-20 -PC Follies

Cracker Jack Changes Name To More Politically Correct Caucasian Jack

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Posted by Snoter Guelph1823 2020-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Does this mean one cant go to the Honkie Tonk anymore.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2020-06-20 00:34|| 2020-06-20 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Irony is, a cracker is a person from a particular geographic and social background. I'm not a cracker nor a descendant. Calling me a cracker is about like calling me a Swede or a Lithuanian. Incorrect and no skin off my butt.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 03:24|| 2020-06-20 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 If words have power, leave it to the illiterate to latch onto the powerless ones.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 04:41|| 2020-06-20 04:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Not this morning Bee.

You got me with: "'CBS wants a race war': Outlet slammed for headline saying police killed black man while leaving out he reportedly fired first." Thought that one was the Bee and it wasn't.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-20 09:01|| 2020-06-20 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Waiting for Glenn Miller's 'Chatanooga Choo Choo' to gain attention for at least 2 references to the term 'boy.'
Shoe shine and train information requests.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-06-20 09:40|| 2020-06-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Any train out of Chattanooga will do.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 10:00|| 2020-06-20 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The term cracker jack is not politically incorrect or a pejorative.

For example, "He was a cracker jack fighter pilot."

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-20 10:25|| 2020-06-20 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 You be talkin' dat etymology sh*t now. Dat ain't ebonics. GTFO, cracker...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 10:45|| 2020-06-20 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Looked it up last night after seeing it in the Bee. From Merriam-Webster:

The late 19th-century pairing of crack and jack to form crackerjack topped off a long history for those words. Cracker is an elongation of crack, an adjective meaning "expert" or "superior" that dates from the 18th century. Prior to that, crack was a noun meaning "something superior" and a verb meaning "to boast." (The verb use evolved from the expression "to crack a boast," which came from the sense of crack meaning "to make a loud sharp sound.") Jack has been used for "man" since the mid-1500s, as in "jack-of-all-trades." Crackerjack entered English first as a noun referring to "a person or thing of marked excellence," then as an adjective. You may also know Cracker Jack as a snack of candied popcorn and peanuts. That trademarked name dates from the 1890s.

Posted by JHH 2020-06-20 12:14|| 2020-06-20 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Crack shot is an expert marksman
Crack head is a VP's son

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-20 12:24|| 2020-06-20 12:24|| Front Page Top

#11 How many too big word in there for Maxine Waters?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 12:24|| 2020-06-20 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 And we've often heard "crack troops". "Cracker of a shot" is often heard in the UK in soccer/football matches.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-20 12:48|| 2020-06-20 12:48|| Front Page Top

#13 ...and then they came for Harry Carry.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-20 16:47|| 2020-06-20 16:47|| Front Page Top

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