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I can't be sure but he may also have been gay.
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What is a "Coonass"?
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 Buggles73 |
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Posts: 26336 (06/19/08 9:53 AM) Registered user |
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Delmar Nibs |
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Posts: 6 (06/19/08 9:54 AM) |
Hi TC.
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TobaccoRhoda |
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Posts: 26296 (06/19/08 9:57 AM) Registered user |
Cajun governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards often used the word "coonass" in reference to himself and other Cajuns
In the early 1980s, a Cajun worker sued his former employer over repeated use of the word "coonass" in the workplace. The lawsuit led directly to the federal government's recognition of the Cajuns as a national ethnic group as protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While campaigning for President in Louisiana, Ronald Reagan once suggested his own appointment as an "honorary Cajun coonass." Although the Louisiana state legislature condemned the word's use in 1981, the Louisiana Air National Guard's acclaimed 159th Tactical Fighter Group referred to itself as the "Coonass Militia" until 1992.[4] University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban came under fire in early 2007 for using the term while speaking "off the record" to a reporter. Audio of the conversation was leaked onto the Internet before garnering mainstream media attention. [5] The term is used in a non-disparaging manner in the 1993 movie A Perfect World when Robert "Butch" Haynes (Kevin Costner) complains that he can't "find a good coonass waltz" on the radio. |
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TravelRachel |
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Posts: 2137 (06/19/08 10:00 AM) Registered user |
 
Treeing Walker Coonhound. I never call him coonass. |
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Delmar Nibs |
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Posts: 7 (06/19/08 10:01 AM) |
I am in fact. But I aint no coonass. Didn't coonass appear in a Charlie Daniels song?
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Lost Shaker of NaCl |
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Posts: 994 (06/19/08 10:59 AM) I'm demanding |
1. coonass
love it 176 up, 10 down hate it Coonass is a controversial term in the Cajun lexicon: to some Cajuns it is regarded as the supreme ethnic slur, meaning \"ignorant, backwards Cajun\"; to others the term is a badge of pride, much like the word Chicano is for Mexican Americans. In South Louisiana, for example, one can often see bumper stickers reading \"Warning - Coonass on Board!\" or \"Registered Coonass\" (both of which generally depict a raccoon's backside). The word's origin is unclear: folk etymology claims that coonass dates from World War II, when Cajun GIs serving in France were derided by native French speakers as conasse, meaning \"dirty whore\" or \"idiot.\" Non-French-speaking American GIs allegedly overheard the expression, converted it to the English \"coonass,\" and introduced the term back in the United States. There it supposedly soon caught on as a derisive term among non-Cajuns, who encountered many Cajuns in Gulf Coast oilfields. It is now known, however, that coonass predated the arrival of Cajun GIs in France during World War II, which undermines the conasse theory. Indeed, folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet has long rejected this theory, calling it \"shaky linguistics at best.\" He has suggested that the word originated in South Louisiana, and that it derived from the belief that Cajuns frequently ate raccoons. He has also proposed that the term contains a negative racial connotation: namely, that Cajuns were \"beneath\" or \"under\" blacks (or coons, as blacks were often called by racists). Despite efforts by Cajun activists like James Domengeaux and Warren A. Perrin to stamp out the term's use, coonass continues to circulate in South Louisiana and beyond. Its acceptability among the general public, however, tends to vary according to circumstances, and often depends on who says it and with what intention. Cajuns who dislike the term have been known to correct well-meaning outsiders who use the epithet. by pastorchik Sep 29, 2003 email it 0 comments |
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Hamdingers |
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Posts: 8905 (06/19/08 11:06 AM) |
No, we did. We laughed on the inside.
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jessica has spoken |
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Posts: 6259 (06/19/08 11:10 AM) Registered User |
James and Boo... Definitely coonasses.
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EmmaPeel |
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Posts: 1662 (06/19/08 12:28 PM) |
There is a subtle difference between "coonass" and "coon".
Please note. And in the Venn diagram, there is some overlap. |
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TobaccoRhoda |
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Posts: 26320 (06/19/08 12:31 PM) Registered user |
I knida like the 'conasse' explanation. In that one it means 'stupid cunt'.
So, in the future, if I use conasse, consider yourself flamed. |
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merkyl |
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Posts: 54913 (06/19/08 12:32 PM) Registered loser |
Noted.
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Hamdingers |
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Posts: 8915 (06/19/08 12:34 PM) |
And if TC uses 'come on ass', consider yourself propositioned.
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hossc |
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Posts: 16127 (06/19/08 12:34 PM) Registered User |
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minerva |
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Posts: 4321 (06/19/08 1:38 PM) Registered user |
Delmar Nibs wrote:
Call up Trudy on the telephone Send a letter in the mail Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas And they won't let me outta this jail And if she asks you how I'm fairing Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker And the girl I left behind Now Johnny Lee Walker was a card mechanic Had a hand for trouble and a eye for cash Luckiest man in Dallas County He had a gold watch chain and a black mustache And he loved his whiskey and he loved his women Drove a big long Cadillac limosine Kept a big fine fancy townhouse in Dallas And a hotel suite in New Orleans Carried a switchblade knife in his left hip pocket And a 44 hog leg up under his coat Cut you down in a New York minute If he catch you cheating that was all she wrote So call up Trudy on the telephone Send her a letter in the mail Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas And they won't let me outta this jail If she asks you how I'm fairing Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker And the girl I left behind I just got to town last Friday evening Sure as hell didn't mean to stay I was on my way back to Louisiana Had a powerful thirst and six months pay I met a peroxide blonde in a bar on D-ville I was flying high and feeling mean Poured down a bottle and a half of red eye I dropped 35 dollars in the slot machine And the boys in the back was dealing 7 card I set down and won me a 110 I was raking in chips like Grant took Richmond Till big Johnny Lee come a strolling in He red-dogged the table like a 707 Pretty soon he done won all of my bread I accused him of cheating he reached for a pistol I grabbed a chair and went upside of his head Then I took off a running like a motorcycle Heard the bullets whining and sirens wail But it took half the cops in Dallas County Just to put this coon ass boy in jail So call up Trudy on the telephone Send her a letter in the mail Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas And they won't let me outta this jail And if she asks you how I'm fairing Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker And the girl I left behind |
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