On 10/12/2020 7:53 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 4:50:33 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> On 10/10/2020 7:59 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> Leo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2020 Oct 8, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
>>>> (in article >):
>>>>
>>>>> This was 2003
>>>>> http://mlmug.org/MoMStan.html
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember that Stan and Andy met once for lunch. They took a picture
>>>> of themselves looking at a river. The picture of them was from the back. I do
>>>> not stand by this memory.
>>>
>>> Probably right. Andy never showed his face, only his butt.
>>>
>>> I always guessed that he was a "witness protection plan" fellow
>>> and the bad guys finally caught up with him that New Year's Eve.
>>>
>> Andy was mentally ill.
>
> He was, but he crossed the line with that "No Legs Murphy" shit.
> Blake was no friend of mine, but... Then there's that worthless
> turd, Greg Morrow, who used the phrase, "Slant Eyes." That's not
> OK. A person's ethnicity and culture are more or less kind of fair
> game, if they're relevant to the topic, but racial characteristics are
> never OK. And to Jebus, who suggested that my wife of all
> people had named her Halloween dessert "Spooktacular," out of
> racial animus, I want to tell you this. When I told her about that,
> she had never known of the pejorative, "spook." She, unlike me,
> didn't grow up with racism, and has been an active anti-racist
> since long before it was popular. She doesn't have a bigoted
> bone in her body.

Growing up, I heard the term "spook" used for Halloween as well as a
racial comment. Its all in the mind and how you want to interpret.
This time of year and being a treat, there is only one logical
conclusion. Unless you like to make racists comments.