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Justin D.
05-01-2007, 02:39 PM
I'm sure many here already know this, but I just found out about it. Apparently, a column in the Orange County weekly titled "Ask a Mexican!" has been running since 2004. Here's a link to the article that discusses it (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2836564720070501?feedType=RSS) and here's a link to the actual column (http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/ask-a-mexican/ask-a-mexican/27059/). AaM's regular writer, Gustavo Arellano, says, "It's kind of a Trojan Horse. When you discuss things in a humorous manner you are going to find a much more receptive audience than if I just wrote a straight-ahead editorial browbeating someone into accepting what I believe."

Sounds like good reasoning to me, and it's the thinking that led to some of the best some skits on The Chappelle Show and SNL.
K'Nort
05-01-2007, 05:18 PM
Oh good.

I thought the thread was going to be some sort of rewrite-a-Billy-Joel-song idea.
Tom
05-01-2007, 05:19 PM
Oh good.

I thought the thread was going to be some sort of rewrite-a-Billy-Joel-song idea.

I thought the exact same thing.
Chris N
05-01-2007, 05:19 PM
Did we at least take it to new heights?
howyadoin
05-01-2007, 10:17 PM
Did we at least take it to new heights?We definitely bludgeoned it to death.
Chris N
05-01-2007, 10:18 PM
We definitely bludgeoned it to death.

Well I'm not tired of it yet. Of course I missed most of them. Atheist and Jew were the only hangers-on by the time I got here
howyadoin
05-01-2007, 10:23 PM
Well I'm not tired of it yet. Of course I missed most of them. Atheist and Jew were the only hangers-on by the time I got hereAh, you missed the 4 or 5 waves of bandwagon-jumping, then. The board was littered with them for awhile there.