05-08-2008, 03:50 AM
I didn't realize Elvis was such a prolific writer.
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http://www.officethug.com/blog/2005/09/w...ALTER.html
http://blog.pennlive.com/bluelagoon/2007...ER_if.html
I feel really bad for white America. Really, I do. What other group in our country has to be so afraid of opening their mouths? I can't count the number of times I have heard someone say something which I took as completely innocent and turned it into a race thing. I'm not talking about Don Imus' dumb ass; he was totally out of line. I'm talking about the oft used term "BUXTEMHALTER".
Let's face it folks, you don't have to be black or even poor to be BUXTEMHALTER. Some people just have no training.
The original term referred to Jews in Europe, who were forced to live in one area, usually the worst part of town. Nowadays you could interchange BUXTEMHALTER with any number of economic and location descriptors, such as "BUXTEMSCHPALTER' or "BUXTEMSCHMALTER". Of course, to some redneck is actually considered a good thing, kind of like the empowerment of "BUXTEMFALTER" in the nineties, I guess. In general, BUXTEMHALTER as an adjective refers to people who are uncouth, ill mannered, and generally socially irresponsible, regardless of economic or racial demographic.
YOU MIGHT BE BUXTEMHALTER IF:
- You go to a restaurant and order ice water with extra lemons and use the sugar on the table to make it lemonade.
- You tip 10% on a check for good service and you think it was a good tip.
- You have children with more than one person, all out of wedlock.
- You think it's cool to blast your music from your car stereo so everyone within a four block radius can enjoy it with you.
- You play your car stereo loudly while washing your car at a car wash.
- You show up to a friend's house and instead of parking, getting out of the car, and knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell you honk your horn loudly for several minutes.
- You are over the age of twenty and you watch more than four hours of BET, MTV, or CMT a day.
- You have been a guest on a daytime television show.
- You have had a paternity test done on daytime television.
- Your first name is either a term of endearment or a name brand or a place. Like Precious or Chevrolet or Paris.
- You refer to a class, race, or social struggle and have no idea what you are talking about but it sounds good because you saw it on television.
- You buy luxuries you can't afford at the beginning of the year and then anxiously wait for your tax return so you can pay your rent.
There are more and I'm sure that this is a topic that we will visit again in the future. For now be comfortable in the fact that BUXTEMHALTER behavior knows no color. But be afraid of the fact that you may actually be BUXTEMHALTER.
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http://www.officethug.com/blog/2005/09/w...ALTER.html
http://blog.pennlive.com/bluelagoon/2007...ER_if.html
I feel really bad for white America. Really, I do. What other group in our country has to be so afraid of opening their mouths? I can't count the number of times I have heard someone say something which I took as completely innocent and turned it into a race thing. I'm not talking about Don Imus' dumb ass; he was totally out of line. I'm talking about the oft used term "BUXTEMHALTER".
Let's face it folks, you don't have to be black or even poor to be BUXTEMHALTER. Some people just have no training.
The original term referred to Jews in Europe, who were forced to live in one area, usually the worst part of town. Nowadays you could interchange BUXTEMHALTER with any number of economic and location descriptors, such as "BUXTEMSCHPALTER' or "BUXTEMSCHMALTER". Of course, to some redneck is actually considered a good thing, kind of like the empowerment of "BUXTEMFALTER" in the nineties, I guess. In general, BUXTEMHALTER as an adjective refers to people who are uncouth, ill mannered, and generally socially irresponsible, regardless of economic or racial demographic.
YOU MIGHT BE BUXTEMHALTER IF:
- You go to a restaurant and order ice water with extra lemons and use the sugar on the table to make it lemonade.
- You tip 10% on a check for good service and you think it was a good tip.
- You have children with more than one person, all out of wedlock.
- You think it's cool to blast your music from your car stereo so everyone within a four block radius can enjoy it with you.
- You play your car stereo loudly while washing your car at a car wash.
- You show up to a friend's house and instead of parking, getting out of the car, and knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell you honk your horn loudly for several minutes.
- You are over the age of twenty and you watch more than four hours of BET, MTV, or CMT a day.
- You have been a guest on a daytime television show.
- You have had a paternity test done on daytime television.
- Your first name is either a term of endearment or a name brand or a place. Like Precious or Chevrolet or Paris.
- You refer to a class, race, or social struggle and have no idea what you are talking about but it sounds good because you saw it on television.
- You buy luxuries you can't afford at the beginning of the year and then anxiously wait for your tax return so you can pay your rent.
There are more and I'm sure that this is a topic that we will visit again in the future. For now be comfortable in the fact that BUXTEMHALTER behavior knows no color. But be afraid of the fact that you may actually be BUXTEMHALTER.