Crunkin' BUXTEMHALTER fedEx F/U!

[Harbourmaster]

I personally had no problem with your use of the term since, as I understand it, you actually live in what could be considered a g3tt0...

[Black Landlord]

[quote Harbourmaster]I personally had no problem with your use of the term since, as I understand it, you actually live in what could be considered a BUXTEMHALTER... This is true- 95% of forum users would lock their doors and roll up their windows if they found themselves in my BUXTEMHALTER. Although 95% may be an underestimate.

[ztirffritz]

What the heck is BUXTEMHALTER? The only reference to that word on Google is this thread.

[Jack D.]

[quote ztirffritz]What the heck is BUXTEMHALTER? The only reference to that word on Google is this thread.
Marklar.

[incognegro]

http://www.officethug.com/blog/2005/09/w...hetto.html



http://blog.pennlive.com/bluelagoon/2007...to_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 "ghetto".

Let's face it folks, you don't have to be black or even poor to be ghetto. 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 ghetto with any number of economic and location descriptors, such as "redneck' or "trailer park trash". Of course, to some redneck is actually considered a good thing, kind of like the empowerment of "bitch" in the nineties, I guess. In general, ghetto as an adjective refers to people who are uncouth, ill mannered, and generally socially irresponsible, regardless of economic or racial demographic.

YOU MIGHT BE GHETTO 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 ghetto behavior knows no color. But be afraid of the fact that you may actually be ghetto.

[$tevie]

I don't like the term "ghetto" and I don't like the term "gay", either one, when used to denote inferiority. I think both of them are glib, shallow terms that originate from an arrogant sense of false superiority and could easily be replaced by the millions of existing insult words. Get a thesaurus and find some fershlugginer, drossy, good-for-nothing, inutile, no-good, valueless, crappy-ass, ineffectual, inutile, unusable, worthless, sh!tty words to use instead.

[Black Landlord]

I didn't realize Elvis was such a prolific writer.

[quote incognegro]

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.

[$tevie]

He was the James Joyce of Tupelo.

[vision63]

What about Ghetto Fabulous?

[incognegro]