NEWS: Asshole Fuckface Roundup #28

You've not been to too many places, then? I've heard it in common parlance in both rural and urban centers in at least three states.

However, having said that, I disagree that it was innocuous. As ardour noted above, it's code that tells one part of the audience one thing, while it's telling another part a different thing.

In other words, it should not have been used, but the skeptic in me thinks it is along the lines of saying "rule of thumb" a la "Boondock Saints."

And those fools rolled that dead guy for over a half-mile thru one of the busiest stretches of manhattan before that cop intervened...

why didn't they just borrow his ID & pretend to be him, like I do when I cash my dead friend's SSI checks??

puff puff pass???

Well, "shuck and jive" is clearly some kind of regional etymological ceolocanth, then.

I'm suddenly reminded of Randall's big running joke in "Clerks II." Interestingly, in talking about that movie (and that scene(s) particularly) I have found a lot of people I know whose grandparents used the phrase from the movie in a non-racial manner, e.g. telling a group of children to get off of the porch and do something.

*shrug* Language is super-weird. I'm going to go ahead and re-state that I think Cuomo shouldn't have said it, and anybody past a certain point in a political career should have been handled well enough to know what you can't say and why.

aka a dead guy

whats the difference between a dead flat mates body and a European sports cars? I don't have a European sports cars in my garage.

I think that pretty much everyone can agree, only those who are directly insulted by a racial slur, in this case black people, can say if anything has lost it´s impact.

Ignorance is when you graciously and sincerely apologize for unintentionally giving an offense which you didn't understand was an offense.

Insensitivity is when you just say "What? What's the big deal? I shouldn't have to walk on eggshells, man."

Silly Chris Matthews, it's Anne Coulter who only has a career because of Bill Clinton's fuck ups.

Actually, I canceled my cable subscription months ago, and I don't miss it at all. I do watch the occasional MSNBC.com clip, or I happen to catch MSNBC during work. MSNBC is acutally the best cable news network, but that's not saying much in this world of junk food media.

Chris Matthews' mind may turn to shit when the female sex is involved, but let's give the guy, at least, some credit where credit is due. I won't lower him to the level of Howard Stern or Don Imus.

Though I would say any freshmen-level political science professor is more creditable than Chris Matthews.

It's all about perspectives.

I was totally ignorant of that. I really had no idea "shuck and jive" had any sort of racial connotations what so ever. I always understood it to refer to dodging, blows or responsibilities, but never in a racial context.
Glad to pick up on that. It's not like I've been throwing the phrase around, but ah, where's that More You Know banner ?

I didn't know either, and I'm originally from the South side of Chicago.

I'm totally pullinng for Clinton, but you can't hold against her what the racist nim-nim's of the world say.

And holy shit, I totally have a hankering to watch Wekend at Bernie's now! (as if my previous Robin Hood- Men in Tights craving wasn't bad enough)

Chris Dodd is my hero of the day.

So, was the first Asshole Fuckface a Spaniard named Tomas de Torquemada, an inventor and scientist named Fritz Haber, aka the "father of chemical warfare", or Gilles de Rais, a nobleman and soldier who lived during the 1400s?

When citing the etymology of an expression a good rule of thumb is to avoid a reference like "Yahoo! Answers." The page cited has one vote and the expertise behind the definition is "I teach some African-American Studies courses." Next time please look to page 1281 of Cassell's Dictionary of Slang or page 943 of the Dictionary of American Regional English. I hope that all will be niggardly in their criticisms.

RACIST!

Of course, those are bare bones definitions, not origins of the phrase.

Source.

In such matters, perception is everything and etymology nowhere.

The first asshole fuckface is actually very hard to place, as are #2 through 3,650...this is actually related to how we discovered the gregorian year...and the phenomena known as a leap year...this is when all of the asshole fuckfaces are supposed to leap to their death somewhere off the of the coast of France...this was supposed to be a day of celebration...many escaped at that time due to a random meteorite somewhere around Siberia...and have been escaping since....they are loose, and cannot be contained....and they seem to concentrate on leap years and election years to come out in force...they can come in the guise of anything- a democrat- a demon r%^n p#$%l, you just never know...

And the last I knew we were trying to get rid of them with professional wrestling...but it seems to have backfired....