“…I haven’t had a song or a dance or let off a squib for a long time; why’s that?..” – C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Ignorance fought. I thought it was some cute British way of saying “frolic” or something.
We’re trying to ignore it, but you won’t shut the fuck up! It was clearly a movie reference if you know the movie; in any case you asked, the comment was explained and you now understand. There’s no need to insist on correcting him about what to say in polite company. It’s condescending and people hate that shit. Okay, it wouldn’t be a good choice in a different crowd, but here, a lot of people know Mongo means Alex Karras in Blazing Saddles. Everybody knows what everybody meant, so stop arguing about it!
Mmm, barbecue squab.
Charles Sqwab?
One vote for VCO3 being an amusingly crazy muthafucka.
One vote for Baffle behaving like a pedantic ninny.
I used to live in a town where the biggest funeral home was named Gross Mortuary.
I don’t think it was as messy as VC03’s driver seat when his head exploded upon hearing about Squibb Inc. though.
VCO3 is apparently on neither the V/Oct or Hz/V standard but something else proprietary.
Your own cite explains that “jury-rigged” and “nigger/ghetto-rigged” are not interchangable. “Jury-rigged” doesn’t carry the stain of shoddiness, as the other does. If you want a harmless substitute, try “jerry-built”, or simply “shoddy.”
We’ve gone through this dance before, and there wasn’t evidence (outside of Sgt. Rock comic books) that “jerry-built” was a jab at wartime Germany. 
It would have been nice if my mother married some guy named Squibb when she married for the 2nd time. But no, she married a drunkard named Boozer. That the name on her grave marker too. I covered it with black tape the last time I went to the cemetary.
I saw this thread and thought of Harry Potter and why are squibs being pitted.
I am such a nerd.
*Vincent, Jules, and VCO3 are riding in a car. VCO3 is in the back seat. Jules is driving, and Vincent is messing with the radio. He pauses on a station, and a commercial for Squibb begins. VCO3’s head explodes.
Jules: Jesus Christ Almighty!
Vincent: Fuck!
Jules: Look at this mess! We’re drivin’ around on a city street in broad daylight –
Vincent: – I know, I know, I wasn’t thinkin’ about the splatter.
Jules: Well you better be thinkin’ about it now, motherfucker! We gotta get this car off the road. Cops tend to notice shit like you’re driving a car drenched in fuckin’ blood.
Vincent: Can’t we just take it to a friendly place?
Jules: This is the Valley, Vincent. Cecil don’t got no friendly places in the Valley.
Vincent: Well, don’t look at me, this is your town, Jules.
cut to Jimmie’s house
Jimmie: – I’m talkin’. Now let me ask you a question, Jules. When you drove in here, did you notice a sign out front that said, “Dead Doper storage?”
Jules: Naw man, I didn’t.
Jimmie: You know why you didn’t see that sign?
Jules: Why?
Jimmie: ‘Cause storin’ dead Dopers ain’t my fuckin’ business!*
With apologies to Quentin Tarantino, et. al.
BOOBS!!!
[sub]Sorry…I panicked…[/sub]
Add one more vote to each of these. I like VCO3.
Alright, I came on too strong. Sorry.
But for fuck’s sake stop calling me a PC fuckwit. My record on this board definitely shows otherwise and my post in this thread was clearly intended as educational, not critical, which a lot of readers haven’t seemed to notice.
This thread is a bit of a damp squib. 
‘Dopers’ could be construed as a derogatory reference to people afflicted with a substance abuse problem.
That is the funny part about all this. You think you are educating us. Many of us, including me BTW, are old enough to have gone to school way back when mongoloid, negroid and caucasoid were presented as legitimate racial classes and when mongoloid was an common term for the mentally handicapped. We didn’t just learn about it from a friend in Australia.
Just updating your stats here: I did not know the term “Mongo”, was not familiar with the movie reference, and did feel a little startled on seeing it because it looked like it might well be a slur.
Not startled enough to post about it, but startled enough to be a counterexample to your statement that “absolutely no one else” considered the term a little suspect.
It’s strange that you found Mongo startling when the word retard was used earlier in the thread as an unambiguous insult. I would never do that.
Maybe it’s unfair, but it seems that Baffle chose the less offensive and more ambiguous comment to get worked up over because he had some bit of trivia he desperately wanted to show off.
Bingo.