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  • Oh and did anyone else catch the slur The Big Show let slip tonight?  Hmm, I wonder if many Asians watch Raw is War...

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.

 #43671  by kent
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 12:36 am
<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>i usually do but not tonight and i doubt it would bother me anyway.</div>

 #43677  by Crono
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 3:53 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>If someone isn't offended by the constant "dubbing" gag they do with Kaientai, I doubt that any typical slur would anger someone any moreso.</div>

 #43684  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 5:34 am
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Maybe...But IMO, what Show did was on a different level....</div>

 #43685  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 5:37 am
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Big Show called Kaintentei "gooks". Didn't seem to bother Kainentai. But what could they do if it did? Nothing I guess...</div>

 #43686  by Zeus
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 6:43 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>That is one of the funniest gimmicks I've seen in a long time</div>

 #43687  by Crono
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 7:13 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Well, it's not even the right term, cause it's only supposed to be used to mean "Vietnamese."</div>

 #43694  by El Kabong
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:11 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I thought that was super-lame... they don't need to do that shit.</div>

 #43695  by El Kabong
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:12 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>IN-deed....</div>

 #43699  by S.Cody2
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 11:32 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I thought it was the Chinese.</div>

 #43705  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:01 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>heheheh...Did you see the "Indeed" sign in the crowd? Awesome!</div>

 #43706  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:01 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>The term was made in the Korean or Vietnam war (can't remember which one), but is pretty much applied to all Asians..</div>

 #43707  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:02 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I think Show just slipped while trying to ad lib. I don't think it was scripted at all...</div>

 #43708  by G-man Joe
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:06 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Yep. It was first used in the Philippines after the US defeated Spain in 1898. The Americans decided to make the islands it commonwealth and that started the war with the Filipinos for independence. The "gooks" were defeated.</div>

 #43720  by El Kabong
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 3:43 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I dunno... that's a pretty major slip... you don't hear anyone else using racial slurs... you just have to be smarter than that, you're on freakin' national TV...</div>

 #43734  by Ishamael
 Tue Apr 17, 2001 6:41 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yeah, it was a big slip, but Big Show probably won't be winning the Nobel Prize in Physics this year either...he ain't exactly the quickest thinker on his feet...</div>