Re: Some plugins for doing basic recipient checks

[John Peacock]

Dave Rolsky wrote:
Err, I think you mean tarpit. Tarbaby is a nasty racial epithet.

The fact that some people appropriated the term doesn't change the 
original source's usage in the slightest, which was *not* (by most 
analyses) a racial epithet:

        http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/remus/anatar.html

I'll refer to it as teergrube, from now on... ;-)

John