[78-L] Racial Words.

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 24 06:53:24 PST 2009


Julian Vein wrote:
> Spats wrote:
>>
>> Currently on the UK comedy circuit, the people who seem to get 
>> 'racialist' abuse are redheads. Goodness know why, but there it is. 
>> The are GINGER jokes by the score.
> =====================
> I didn't realise "Ginger" referred to redheads. I though it was Cockney 
> rhyming slang for "Ginger Beer"!

Whaddaya, trying to hijack this thread over to gay euphemisms? (I thought a 
euphemism was one of those small tubas in Salvation Army bands.)

dl



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