I read it, too, probably in a church sponsored day-care in the DC suburbs in the fifties, or at my grandparents' houses.
And I remember the restaurant, though I don't remember ever stopping in for a stack. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick - > > You're the first other person I have ever met who confessed to having read >> Little Black Sambo. >> >> Thank you for that, Steve. [sigh] >> > And I read it in great delight too! I'm sure we are not alone. Obviously > Tory is with us too. > > But did you ever eat pancakes at the restaurant by that name? > > > > >> Nick >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.**com<[email protected]>] >> On Behalf >> Of Steve Smith >> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:18 PM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Turning into butter, was RE: faith >> >> Steve, >>> >>> Do you remember in what childhood story, things run round and round a >>> tree until they turn into butter? >>> >> My mixed allusions were definitely intentional. The reference of >> course, is how we, the FRIAM community are very good at hashing and >> rehashing the same material until even those of us doing the hashing (can >> you find the etymology for hashing?) are even tired enough of the sight of >> our own tails that we might as well turn into butter from all that >> agitation. >> >> The story of course, would be "Little Black Sambo" where he lead the >> Tigers >> out to eat him for breakfast to chase one another around a palm tree until >> they turned to butter (something about vanity amongst the >> tigers who had first stolen his clothing, etc.). This story, of course >> is now totally and completely politically incorrect, though the Sambo was >> a >> very dark southern Indian boy I believe as opposed to a Black African >> Slave >> in the southern US as many people assume. (else it would have been >> panthers?) >> >> In any case, the restaurant chain "Sambo's" who used the boy and his >> tigers >> as Icons made a mean stack of pancakes with plenty of *butter* (which as a >> child I was sure was made of melted tigers). The Chain has either gone >> defunct or changed it's name. >> >>> Those things weren't monkeys, weasels, OR MULBERRY BUSHES. >>> >> If I can mix metaphors, surely I can mix nursery rhymes and childrens >> stories of various origins... when I first heard those stories I had >> never >> seen a weasel, a monkey, a tiger, a mulberry bush or a black person. And >> yet somehow the stories made sense... how is THAT for Faith? >> >> Ever hear the one about... Ladle Rat Rotten Hut? >> >>> Hint: No teacher would read this story to a child, nowadays. >>> >> My sister had a black life-sized infant doll handed down through the >> family, >> known as a "tar baby" referencing the days when white slaveholding >> children >> were allowed to "play" with slaves' babies... as >> if they were dolls. I remember when my mother explained how totally >> politically incorrect (there was no term for this, it was just explained >> as >> "wrong headed") the whole situation was... until then, my sister >> thought it was "just another doll". I lived in a secluded southwestern >> rural area where I'd never seen a "person of color"... well, plenty of >> Native Americans and descendents of Spanish Conquistadors, but no African >> Americans, and no TV either, though I suppose pictures in Encyclopedias >> and >> Nat'l Geographics? >> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.**com<[email protected]>] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Steve Smith >>> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:23 PM >>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith >>> >>> Doug - >>> >>> Congratulations on avoiding another opportunity to become someone's >>> hood ornament! >>> >>>> Apropo of nothing, of course, except that I retain my faith that they >>>> are out to get me when I'm on the motorcycle. >>>> >>> However, for the sake of the Monkey, the Weasel and the Mulberry bush, >>> I contend that your use of the world "faith" here aligns with my use >>> of the word "Faith" in general and roughly matches what those who I >>> believe you revile (or at least chide) do. You (as they) choose a >>> *working >>> statement* which has no basis in fact (has been refuted or at least >>> can't be verified), but which *works well for you* and the *rhetoric* >>> of the statement plays well within your community (of other riders who >>> subscribe to the same Faith). >>> >>> I think I'm turning to butter. >>> >>> - Steve >>> >>> >>> >>> ==============================**============================== >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe >>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at >>> http://www.friam.org >>> >>> >>> ==============================**============================== >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe >>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at >>> http://www.friam.org >>> >> >> ==============================**============================== >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, >> unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> >> ==============================**============================== >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
