# Any Daniel Boone Fans?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096 "2015-09-21T13:33:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/41 "2015-10-07T04:42:01Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> That’s one of the alternate lyrics I heard. I wasn’t going to bring up the racist lyrics. I didn’t want to be “that guy”.

> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> I am SOOOO glad I didn’t have to be the one to bring that version up. I owe you.

Someone had to step on the land-mine: might as well be me.

> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> That is silly. Bears ran from Daniel Boone, not the other way around. :dubious:

Best answer yet!

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/42 "2015-10-08T00:20:32Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Is “Nigger” so very worse than “Spic”, “Yid” or “Mic”?  
> Not sure about the spelling of the last one.

Methinks there is a -k at the end.

ETA: At the end of “Mick” that is.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/43 "2015-10-08T00:21:32Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> I am SOOOO glad I didn’t have to be the one to bring that version up. I owe you.

You have a strange worldview…“Somebody HAD to bring it up?”

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**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/44 "2015-10-08T00:43:04Z")

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Part of the “fighting ignorance” shtick here. Now you know at least one word that rhymes with “bigger”. Ain’t we-all enlightened?

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/45 "2015-10-08T01:08:29Z")

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And, of course, his kid’s name wasn’t “Israel”, it was “Iz-rul” – or maybe “Iz-raal”.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-daniel-boone-fans/732096/46 "2015-10-08T01:47:05Z")

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> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> Methinks there is a -k at the end.
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> ETA: At the end of “Mick” that is.

Thanks, some of my ancestors were, you’d think I would know. 🙂

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