"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:19:31 +0100, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
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>>>"notbob" > wrote in message
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>>>> On 2013-06-21, Ophelia > wrote:
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>>>>> We have a soft toy called a golliwog. Generations of children have
>>>>> loved
>>>>> them but they are none pc (politically correct) now. I read in the
>>>>> news
>>>>> last
>>>>> year that police made a toy shop removed them from the window.
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>>>> DOH! Yep, definitely non-PC and mega inflamatory.
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>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg
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>>>> And here folks think Sambo's is a showstopper. Whew, that's Sambo's,
>>>> Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and a black lawn jockey all rolled in
>>>> one and writ large!
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>>>I suppose some of the white nursery rhyme characters are non pc now too.
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>> Humpty Dumpty is, according to the BBC.
>> BBC... proudly protecting us from reality:
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...pty-rhyme.html
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> Yes, we must be protected from all kinds of nonsense now Blackboards
> were out of fashion and indeed any word with black in it. Totally stupid.

Now we use white boards!