Comments on: By golly!*

By: Bill Corr

Bill Corr — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:50:06 +0000

IRONY ALERT

A parody version of the Kumbaya-style lyrics set to Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ would readily include ‘golliwogs’ in the rhyme.

“All hold hands in joyful union; hymies, huns and spicks and frogs
Ragheads, Pakis, Chinks and dagoes, Hindus, Japs and golliwogs”

Can someone finish this off and send it along to the dogeater at the United Nations ?
END OF IRONY ALERT

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:23:28 +0000

People keep describing her as ‘a toff’. Why is it OK to use the word ‘toff’ but not the word ‘gollywog’?

Here’s another Toff dealing in gollywogs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135931/Race-doll-row-hits-royals-Queen-say-sorry-golliwogs-sale-Sandringham.html

By: Free The One Show One!!1!

Free The One Show One!!1! — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:02:20 +0000

Update: The campaign to Free The One Show One!!1! will be on hold until I get that damn Kia Ora song out of my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxnTMxOEmbA

By: Free The One Show One!!1!

Free The One Show One!!1! — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:24:08 +0000

The brutal suppression of Carol Thatcher is the GREATEST crime against humanity in the MODERN age! She’s a national TREASURE! She is Diana, Boudicea and Florence Nightingale all ROLLED into one! The haters are just JEALOUS of her beauty AND talent, not to mention her GREAT accomplishments!

This is as BAD as the Nazis/Stasi/Inquisition! What has happened to our GREAT cuntry when a dotty old dear can’t make casually racist remarks over the SHERRY without fear of people taking offence? It’s not as if she’d have done it if there was a darkie in the room, is it?

And just a few weeks ago it was poor Prince Harry, one of the MOST noble and yet down-trodden people of the modern AGE, again PERSECUTED for what he said in private! Like Carol he would never have EVEN DREAMT of being racist if he thought he’d get into trouble for it.

There has been enough SUFFERING! STOP THIS PC MADNESS!!!!

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:01:35 +0000

What this is really about is bringing down Carol Thatcher because she is upper class. People keep describing her as ‘a toff’. Why is it OK to use the word ‘toff’ but not the word ‘gollywog’? There was even a comment on the Daily Mail article saying that private education makes people racist. It’s class envy and people like Adrian Charles and Jo Brand or whoever it was who used this private comment to try to grind an axe against Thatcher betray themselves as class-warfare dinosaurs. If Jonathan Ross had an RP accent he would not have been allowed to come back on the BBC.

By: comstock

comstock — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:24:26 +0000

Every once and a while a nice easy target comes along, and wham!

By: Monty

Monty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:04:45 +0000

I had a golliwog as a child. I remember him well. It never occurred to me that he looked anything like a black man. In fact he didn’t look like a representation of a human at all, more as some kind of magical musical creature.

If you ever see a black man who does look like a golliwog (flat as a pancake, shiny, improbably large round eyes) send for an ambulance immediately. Tell them someone has been run over by an asphalt spreader- come immediately.

By: David All

David All — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:55:07 +0000

Golliwog never made it here in the US as a term of insult except perhaps in the Eastern Establishment of Bush Sr. Never heard of it in the Mid-West and believe me we had plenty of insulting terms. Interesting to find out the root of the insult word, Wog that the British used in the old days of the Empire to put down the non-white peoples they were ruling over.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:31:26 +0000

It’s just for me and my dog!

(At the risk of breaching Ven’s sexual mores) I’ll be your dog!

By: bissli

bissli — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:26:59 +0000

After long hours of research, It happens to be true. It is too orangey for crows

It’s just for me and my dog!