On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:14:46 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>Goomba38 wrote:
>
>> Puester wrote:
>>
>>> I equate "Paki" with things like Wop, Guinea, Frog, Slope, Dago, etc.
>>> Politically incorrect is just another way to say distasteful, prejudiced,
>>> mean, and ugly.
>>>
>>> gloria p
>>
>> I don't necessarily agree. The words seem to lose favor and suddenly
>> they're mean and ugly?
>> When we were kids it wasn't a crime to say "colored" then came "black"
>> then that fell out of favor and now anything short of
>> "African-American'is the term, whether someone actually comes from
>> Africa or America is beside the point? So it does get confusing yet
>> isn't necessarily prejudiced, mean or ugly. If it isn't being said with
>> a hateful intent, is it hateful? Or just a different era of language?
>
>I think I shall demand to be called a European-American. Thank you all
>for your compliance. Oh......and Tiburon-American is okay too.

not lamniform-american?

your pal,
blake