His descendant…uh…
Rembrant?
Nah, that sucks.
Hey Quasi:
:smack:
Biggest. Whoosh. Ever.
"His curtain crawler . . . ", er. . . Paul, er?
His broken rubber, Flubber!
Actually, you wouldn’t want to use “his girl Judy” since that would imply that he and Judy were doin’ the nasty! :eek: Remember, “my girl” is a common phrase for someone to refer to their girlfriend. So, had they used that, it would have implied that either George and Judy were having incest, or that George was a bigomist. Either option wouldn’t have cut it on TV back in the 1960s. (Fox, however, I’m sure, would have no problem airing such a program today.)
Tonight, on “Cuckolded by America”…
I’ve seen drawings… no, I’m not telling where. Let’s just say you guys aren’t the first to have this particular thought cross your minds.
Thanks to Tuckerfan and to some extent, Mr. Blue Sky, for opening that door just a bit so that I can elaborate a bit on my OP.
First off, let me tell you that I had a bit of trouible putting the words together for what I really wanted to say, because I didn’t want to come across as a jerk.
Okay…
The problem I have with the theme is the word Boy. Back in the late 60’s that word did not have a very good reputation due to the segregationist idiocy down here in the south, and I always thought that had the writers of the theme given this some thought, one of them might have said, “Hey! Let’s use ‘son’ in the place of boy, okay?”
I guess I needed y’all to “read between the lines” a bit on this post, but then again maybe I need to quit being such a pussy and say what I mean to begin with. 
But it was still a fun thread. Y’all were real creative!
Q
Wait, just a second, Quasi. I, too grew up in the segregated South, and while it’s true that “boy” had an unfortunate overtone, it was also perfectly normal to refer to your son as “boy.” Certainly, Oscar Hammerstein meant no harm when he wrote “My Boy Bill” for Carousel.
I posted an answer, but it musta got lost.
First of all, that’s part of the problem I was having with the OP, I expressed an opinion about something that happened that I cannot possibly change.
All I meant was, given the times, I might have said, “Hey, let’s not use the word ‘boy’ here, okay?”
I also understand about the use of the word by non-blacks to refer to their male offspring. My own Dad used to refer to me that way, proudly. (I hope).
Just another case of ol’ Quas’ making a mountain where there wasn’t even a molehill, apparently. I seem to be doing that a lot lately, so just forget it. 
Q
Quasi, I think you were expecting a lot from a cartoon that didn’t even acknowledge the existence of black people.
What about Rosie, you insensitive clod???
As a white man I realize I’m not in a position to speak with authority on why raciallly charged language is offensive, but I always assumed that the reason “boy,” when used to refer to a black person, is objectionable is that it suggests that the person so called is immature, uneducated, irresponsible, and generally available to be ordered around by any white man who comes by, regardless of their actual ages or their relative social position – that is, that the person is a child, or no better than a child. Therefore, it’s not really an inappropriate form of address when you are talking to or about an actual child.
Similarly, if you went out hunting and bagged yourself a buck, you’d be perfectly comfortable bragging about it to your black friends, but you’d certainly never use the term to describe a black person. The offense is not in using a word which denotes an animal (or a child), the offense is in using it to signify that the person referred to is an animal or child.
–Cliffy
Rosie wasn’t black, she was metallic.
Seriously though, at least they resisted the temptation to make Rosie some sort of “Rochester”-like character. IIRC, she just has some sort of Midwest accent or something.
Actually, Rosie speaks like she’s from Jersey or thereabouts. Her voice is, I think, meant to mimic Shirley Booth’s, who had a TV show at the time about a maid called HAZEL.
How about:
“His seed, Siegfried?”
“His loins’ fruit, Newt?”
You mean Friends?
If it is innapropriate to even USE the term “buck” then those 10-10-220 commercials with Terry Bradshaw have some serious EXPLAINING to do!
[total hijack]
But on that subject, I didn’t know “Buck” was a negative or racial phrase until the late 80’s when the writers of Capt. America made a black character the new sidekick to a replacement Cap and made him the new “Bucky”. Obviously, the writer hadn’t either because a few issues later, they changed him to Battlestar. Where I was from, the DEEP South, people used the term “Buck” in a positive manner. If you refered to a young man (black or white) as a young Buck, it SEEMED to mean he was young, strong and virile. Maybe there was a hint of “brash” in there as well, but it was used for whites and blacks alike. [/total hijack]
Yeah, I don’t think a white cartoon character referring to his white offspring as “boy” is anything to get in a lather over…then or now. It’s a shame when a word as innocent as “boy”, used in the father/son context, is even considered by the offerendi (sp?) to be offensive.
Now if George had of been white, and Elroy was black, not his son, and named Leroy, then yes that would be a situation with serious racial overtones.
But that is hypothetical and as such is nothing to get our panties in a bunch over, right?? Thanks.
Homer calls Bart “The Boy” and “boy” all the time!
That’s from the theme song of “The Hubbards.”