Here you go Pete: #------------------------------------ Excerpt about Barack Obama:
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. From 1992 to 2004, he also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama #------------------------------- Regards, LelandJ Pete Theisen wrote: > Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: > > >> I didn't get it, please explain. >> > > Hi Eurico! > > There is a whole class of jokes called knock knock jokes. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-knock_joke > > Black people in the US often speak in a peculiar dialect, sometimes > called ebonics, which includes the pluralization or posessivization of > certain nouns, so I would become Is or I's (pronounced "Eyes"). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics > > >> * * *Eyes who? *** >> > > >> ***Eyes your new president.* >> > > Barack Obama, the media-predicted winner of the presidency, is half > black. If one were to subscribe to the somewhat racist "one drop rule" > that makes him all the way black. So the joke assumes he speaks ebonics. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
