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Fictional Sports Figures

  1. Joe Palooka, boxer
  2. Crash Davis, minor league baseball catcher
  3. Jimmy Blake of the Mudville Nine, baseball
  4. Casey of “Casey at the Bat”
  5. Shoeless Joe, from Hannibal, MO, baseball player (Damn Yankees)
  6. Clyde Taylor, Negro League baseball player (Cold Case)
  7. Rod Tidwell, football player (Jerry Maguire)
  8. Rocky Balboa, boxer (Rocky film series)
  9. John Kelly, football (soccer) player, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical The Beautiful Game
  10. Roy Hobbs, major league baseball player (The Natural)
  11. David Chappellet, skier, (Downhill Racer)
43567

Fictional Sports Figures

  1. Joe Palooka, boxer
  2. Crash Davis, minor league baseball catcher
  3. Jimmy Blake of the Mudville Nine, baseball
  4. Casey of “Casey at the Bat”
  5. Shoeless Joe, from Hannibal, MO, baseball player (Damn Yankees)
  6. Clyde Taylor, Negro League baseball player (Cold Case)
  7. Rod Tidwell, football player (Jerry Maguire)
  8. Rocky Balboa, boxer (Rocky film series)
  9. John Kelly, football (soccer) player, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical The Beautiful Game
  10. Roy Hobbs, major league baseball player (The Natural)
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  11. David Chappellet, skier, (Downhill Racer)
  12. Rodney Thibodeau, baseball star in “Everything Matters” by Ron Currie Jr.
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Fictional Sports Figures

  1. Joe Palooka, boxer
  2. Crash Davis, minor league baseball catcher
  3. Jimmy Blake of the Mudville Nine, baseball
  4. Casey of “Casey at the Bat”
  5. Shoeless Joe, from Hannibal, MO, baseball player (Damn Yankees)
  6. Clyde Taylor, Negro League baseball player (Cold Case)
  7. Rod Tidwell, football player (Jerry Maguire)
  8. Rocky Balboa, boxer (Rocky film series)
  9. John Kelly, football (soccer) player, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical The Beautiful Game
  10. Roy Hobbs, major league baseball player (The Natural)
    Reply With Quote
  11. David Chappellet, skier, (Downhill Racer)
  12. Rodney Thibodeau, baseball star in “Everything Matters” by Ron Currie Jr.
  13. Fox Running, Olympic miler, in R. R. Knudson’s novel Fox Running

Pass.

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded

In the clinical sense.

(Note: most racial slurs were always considered offensive.)

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
43571

Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian

In the Native American sense.

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid

Amazing that this was considered a valid medical term for Down Syndrome

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro

Regards,
Shodan

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. nice

Originally meant foolish or stupid, from the Latin for ignorant, nescius. It has ameliorated nice-ly. :cool:

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
43577

Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
  9. you

Saying “You people” to the NAACP cost Ross Perot the nomination. In these forums, you can get a warning if the word “you” is in your response to a comment.

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you

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you

feel like I do?

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
  9. you
  10. colored
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Huh?

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
  9. you
  10. colored
  11. dear

(when used by a man to a woman who isn’t his wife/girlfriend/daughter)

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
  9. you
  10. colored
  11. dear
  12. boy

Especially when used towards a grown man in a service job

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Words that were once not considered offensive but now are:

  1. retarded
  2. oriental
  3. Indian
  4. Mongoloid
  5. Negro
  6. queer
  7. nice
  8. crippled
  9. you
  10. colored
  11. dear
  12. boy
  13. Transsexual

*Transgender is preferred.

Next:

Title of movie, book, or play that contains a job/career.

  1. Chef
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Title of movie, book, or play that contains a job/career.

  1. Chef
  2. The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra