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mojo2 · Nov 4, 2005, 03:21 PM

This ad actually ran in The Atlanta Journal:

SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, race unimportant.
I'm a very good-looking girl who LOVES to play, take long walks in
the woods, hunting, camping, fishing trips, and cozy winter nights by
the fire. I really like a man with a pickup truck. A candlelight dinner
will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when
you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Rub me the right
way and watch me respond. Kiss me and I'm yours. Call (404) 875-6420 and
ask for Daisy.

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane
Society about an 8-week old Black Labrador retriever puppy.

BTW, I repeatedly tried posting this and it wouldn't work UNTIL I took ALL the words, "BLACK" out of the title and copy and then re-spaced the text so it looked like a different post and not just that I took out the offending words.

Is there a racist filter in the software???

(For the clueless, I edited the post after it was accepted and re-inserted the BLACKS where appropriate.)

MacNStein · Nov 4, 2005, 03:28 PM

I love it.

mojo2 · Nov 4, 2005, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by MacNStein

I love it.

Tell me what you think of my thread titled: "Before And After"

jcadam · Nov 4, 2005, 04:09 PM

black is black is black.

Yep, I can use racial epitaphs.

mojo2 · Nov 4, 2005, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by jcadam

black is black is black.

Yep, I can use racial epitaphs.

That's a clever use of the word, 'epitaph' if you were making a political statement.

If your English failed you, it's an understandable gaffe. No prob.

Here's the epitaph of Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde fame).

Bonnie Parker
Crown Hill Cemetery,
Dallas, Texas

"As the flowers are all made sweeter by
the sunshine and the dew, so this old
world is made brighter by the lives
of folks like you.'

While she was making the world darker
for the relatives of people she gleefully shot
during bank robberies, Bonnie made it known
that she wished to be buried
alongside her lover, Clyde Barrow.
Relatives, however, saw to it
that they were interred
in different Dallas cemeteries.

http://www.alsirat.com/epitaphs/

If you meant EPITHET, here's the definition.

epithet
noun {C} FORMAL
an adjective added to a person's name or a phrase used instead of it, usually to criticize or praise them:
- The opera-singer's 104-kilo frame has earned him the epithet of 'Man Mountain' in the press.

ironknee · Nov 4, 2005, 04:34 PM

so black, so poor

tooki · Nov 4, 2005, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by mojo2

BTW, I repeatedly tried posting this and it wouldn't work UNTIL I took ALL the words, "BLACK" out of the title and copy and then re-spaced the text so it looked like a different post and not just that I took out the offending words.

Is there a racist filter in the software???

There's a filter, but it doesn't prevent posting -- it replaces the offending words with asterisks, like this: **** you, stupid malfunctioning forum server!

What I think happened is that it got messed up and the duplicate-post filter caught it, thinking it had been posted, when in fact the first attempt had failed. That's why you had to make it substantially different before posting.

Sorry about the problems, they're affecting me as well.

tooki

mojo2 · Nov 4, 2005, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by tooki

There's a filter, but it doesn't prevent posting -- it replaces the offending words with asterisks, like this: **** you, stupid malfunctioning forum server!

What I think happened is that it got messed up and the duplicate-post filter caught it, thinking it had been posted, when in fact the first attempt had failed. That's why you had to make it substantially different before posting.

Sorry about the problems, they're affecting me as well.

tooki

Thank you very much for such a civilized and thoroughly informative post. It is what I have come to expect from you. One day I hope to be as civilized in all my communications here.

Nah, not really. I have more fun being the way I am.

Seriously though, thanks!

ReggieX · Nov 5, 2005, 09:08 PM

Great ad! Black Labs are great dogs.

angelmb · Nov 6, 2005, 05:07 AM

Come on, be fair, people goes crazy if anybody post picts of girls and nobody ask for picts of the puppy…

and the puppy… got a home finally?

Athens · Nov 6, 2005, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by mojo2

This ad actually ran in The Atlanta Journal:

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane
Society about an 8-week old Black Labrador retriever puppy.

BTW, I repeatedly tried posting this and it wouldn't work UNTIL I took ALL the words, "BLACK" out of the title and copy and then re-spaced the text so it looked like a different post and not just that I took out the offending words.

Is there a racist filter in the software???

(For the clueless, I edited the post after it was accepted and re-inserted the BLACKS where appropriate.)

Im posting this at work

Athens · Nov 6, 2005, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by mojo2

This ad actually ran in The Atlanta Journal:

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane
Society about an 8-week old Black Labrador retriever puppy.

BTW, I repeatedly tried posting this and it wouldn't work UNTIL I took ALL the words, "BLACK" out of the title and copy and then re-spaced the text so it looked like a different post and not just that I took out the offending words.

Is there a racist filter in the software???

(For the clueless, I edited the post after it was accepted and re-inserted the BLACKS where appropriate.)

Im posting this at work

test blacks

Oisín · Nov 6, 2005, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by angelmb

That is the sweetest, most adorable puppy ever!

Someone stop me, before I trail off into incomprehensible infantile baby blathering...

Athens · Nov 6, 2005, 08:36 AM

Awwww I want one

Athens · Nov 6, 2005, 08:56 AM

I want everything in that picture LOL isnt it sooo cute

Person Man · Nov 7, 2005, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Athens

I want everything in that picture LOL isnt it sooo cute

Including the boy?

Oisín · Nov 7, 2005, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

Including the boy?

A bit young for my taste... give him another ten years or so.

Athens · Nov 7, 2005, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

Including the boy?

Yes because I want to skip the crying and dirty diapers stage LOL

KeriVit · Nov 7, 2005, 09:22 PM

Athens, if this your taste, see kevin's latest thread....

jcadam · Nov 7, 2005, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by mojo2

That's a clever use of the word, 'epitaph' if you were making a political statement.

If your English failed you, it's an understandable gaffe. No prob.

Here's the epitaph of Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde fame).

http://www.alsirat.com/epitaphs/

If you meant EPITHET, here's the definition.

foiled by the spell-checker again.

spatterson · Nov 8, 2005, 09:45 AM

Very clever advertising... I think its very creative! Could be a new ad campaign.

Also, for petes sake Athens I hope your not talking about the boy in the picture... LOL, just kidding... but that is a very adorable picture, the puppies are very cute, and the elder puppy too.