Well, back in my day, the definition of tired queen, or more often tired old queen, was an unflattering term for a gay man (possibly a drag queen, though not necessarily) whose shtick had gotten old and tiresome, and/or was beyond his years and no longer the center of attention or life of the party.
In other words . . . someone unlike me. 
Shaddup, DrM!
That sounds kind of… silly, IMO. I don’t have any cites, but I’m fairly certain it has to do with natives not wanting to be known as “Americans”, since they were here before it was named “America”, by non-natives.
On the subject of “kike”, Merriam-Webster states that the origin is unknown. But are there any theories out there as to its etymology?
And, I’d like to repeat my request as to the original and/or negative meaning of “Dutch treat”?
Anyhoo…
Tired-queen… old, and sour and only 77.
Spectre of Pithecanthropus said “It’s not really a treat.” “Going Dutch” (i.e., receiving a “Dutch treat”) means that you pay your own way. In other words, “Hey, I’ll treat you to dinner. You pay for your own food.” So “Dutch treat” is saying that Dutch people are stingy.
The planning director of New Orleans was forced out of his position after only a few days, because he described the messed-up politics of his department as a tar baby.
Crippled is a no-no now. Isn’t handicapped looked down upon now, with disabled, challenged and differently abled being uacceptable substitutes? I now crippled is a no-no now, and I wonder how the Slashdot crowd got away with naming an open source image editor The Gimp.
A lot of older adults, including my father, use the word colored to describe blacks/African Americans/people of color. They don’t use the term with racist intentions, but I’ll admit my brain skips a beat when I hear old farts use it.
A SDMB cliche: Oriental refers to a thing, not a person.
I’ve also heard that the term Gypsy is now considered rude, and that Roma sould be substituted.
Don’t be silly, Cajun Man! We never think of you as tired.
On a gaming message board I frequent, the board software has a language filter, replacing naughty words with “edit”.
I’m pretty good about keeping my language clean, so imagine my surprise when the dreaded edit showed up in one of my posts.
The phrase I was attempting to post was “nip it in the bud”.
another word:
*Queer * (as in odd).
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought “grease monkey” refered to someone that worked on cars or machinery. As far as I know it has NOTHING to do with a racists comment. My brother would refer to me as a grease monkey when I was working on my Camero because I would literally get covered in grease and oil, when changing out the rear end.
Yes, that’s exactly what it means. It’s a term often used with good humor, to describe car mechanics. I’ve never heard it used in a racist context. Frankly, I think anyone who tries to assign racist overtones to it is just smoking something.
JULES
That’s what I’ve been sitting here
contemplating. First, I’m gonna
deliver this case to Marsellus.
Then, basically, I’m gonna walk the
earth.
VINCENT
What do you mean, walk the earth?
JULES
You know, like Caine in "KUNG FU."
Just walk from town to town, meet
people, get in adventures.
VINCENT
How long do you intend to walk the
earth?
JULES
Until God puts me where he want me
to be.
VINCENT
What if he never does?
JULES
If it takes forever, I'll wait
forever.
VINCENT
So you decided to be a bum?
JULES
I'll just be Jules, Vincent -- no
more, no less.
VINCENT
No Jules, you're gonna be like
those pieces of shit out there who
beg for change. They walk around
like a bunch of fuckin' zombies,
they sleep in garbage bins, they
eat what I throw away, and dogs
piss on 'em. They got a word for
'em, they're called bums. And
without a job, residence, or legal
tender, that's what you're gonna be
-- a fuckin' bum!The hamsters jumped the gun on me there. Allow me to give credit where credit is due. My last post was meant to be a quote from the script of Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino, the PC police are coming for you.
As I understand it, referring to people as “hillbillies” is no longer acceptable. The preferred term is “sons of the soil”.
How can Tar Baby be offensive, it’s just the name of a character/monster from Brer Rabbit. It is like finding Hobbit or Orc offensive. Also the nature of a Tar Baby that you get stuck to it and struggling just makes things worse seems appropriate for a company suffering from missmanagement.
According to the politically correct human resources department here at work I’m no longer supposed to call my female co-workers “sperm receptacles”. OK, tell me the new oversensitive term they’ve come up with for this month, and I’ll use that until you all decide that one’s offensive too…
Who’s gonna tell son of the soil queen?
A character who just happens to be black, though. From this page:
Ironically, the nickname Tarbabes is used by California’s Compton High School, whose student body is overwhelmingly composed of African-Americans. However, as this entertaining list informs us:
The candy they now call “licorice babies” were once (are still) known as “tar babies” by some people. My grandparents used to call them “nigger babies”. :eek: My mother picked up that term as well, but I’ve long since weened her off calling them that. (Although I wouldn’t be surprised that that’s the first name that comes to mind when she sees the candy or gets a craving. Not that she’s racist, it’s just that’s the name she grew up knowing them as.)
Johnny L.A. - Thanks for the slur origin thread link and the explanation about “Dutch treat”. If I had actually thought about the modern meaning of the term, I might have figured it out. :rolleyes:
Anyhoo…