I thought Freudian slips have pretty much been disproven. Am I wrong?
I had an embarrassment of a great uncle that dropped epitaphs all the time. Coon was a favorite of his. I won’t list all the other but coon was his ‘polite’ way of avoiding the N word. he was a grade A :wally
Jim
You are very lucky indeed.
Although probably that epithet isn’t as common as it once was. I have a friend who’s interested in old catalogues of sheet music. There would be a whole category for “coon music”.
Here lies the corpse of Lester Moore
Forty shots from a .44.
No Les, no Moore
Daniel
Time for my ignorance to be abated:
What is that from?
Who among us hasn’t accidentally had a slip of the tongue? I dare say ever Walter Cronkite must have misspoke sometime in his career. He apologized immediately and was even an admirer of Condi. Good heavens life is too short to get upset over a slip of the tongue.
Same here.
:smack: ep·i·thet not epitaphs.
Geez, I hope I don’t get fired over that. 
Jim
Wow. That’s unbelieveable. I heard it a lot as a kid.
Thanks to Denis Leary, I actually heard “porch monkey” recently. From a relative who also uses “coon.”
Aren’t there new FCC rules that translate into major fines for broadcasting offensive material? Could this have something to do with that?
I usually think of it as a slur used in the south a long time ago. Although I wasn’t there, or then, I knew what it meant too.
And I’ll third that. As I read it, I originally thought he’d meant “boon” before he explained he’d meant “coup”.
It’s like “grool” in Mean Girls.* And I, like most people, have been known to do it. Fortunately, most of us do it with less mortifying results.
*“Grool… I meant to say cool and then I started to say great.”
Well I heard it mostly in NYC in the 70’s. This is where my genius of a great uncle lived. Actually most of my Mom’s family was in NYC at that point. We were the first ones out.
Jim
That’s a new one on me. I know that the DSM still includes similar experiences in the description of OCD (for example, an obsessive thought that one might shout out a profanity in church, which the person experiences as disturbing and alien to him or herself). I’m curious to see any information you could provide to suggest that these types of experiences do not exist.
The more I think about it, the more unlikely it is that they have been “disproven,” in the sense of them not existing, because I can recall plenty of evidence regarding demand characteristics eliciting responses or other ways of cueing people subconsciously. Perhaps you mean that they have been disproven in the sense that they represent a deep seated desire. I would agree with that (see above re: obsessive thoughts and OCD), in that they may in fact not have links to some real yet unacknowledged desire of the person.
It’s probably because I grew up in a rural part of ohio with very few african-americans, so it just didn’t come up. (if african-american is no longer correct, feel free to substitute the current term of choice.) Or perhaps I heard it somewhere and just didn’t know what it meant and therefore don’t recall. Or maybe my family and circle of friends were just more careful about what they said than others. 
He’s teasing you for apparently confusing the word “epitaph” with “epithet.”
To continue the “accidently saying the worst possible thing” hijack,
When I started my current job, the CEO of the company was a British woman with horrible, horrible teeth. She could have been the cover girl for “The Big Book of British Smiles.” I managed to make it through an interview with her without staring at those vile choppers, but my downfall was on my first day of work. She told me how pleased she was that I had started, and I responded “I"m looking forward to working on a project I can really sink my teeth into.”
Thanks, I figured that out in post 28. 
Jim
So, where was this sensitivity to racial delicacies when Bill Bennet suggested lowering the crime rate by aborting black babies?