Remember that case of the sniffles I mentioned? Well, today I feel like a piece of microwaved dog dookie. Friday my darling and I met up in the city to attend the first ever New York Comic Con, she after working all night (such is the life of

back Every Saturday morning serial oater had bushwhackers hiding in the canyon. They were the ones in the black hats. Oh, I know about bushwhackers, having grown up on a steady diet of Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy. But I ... am asked to believe

Michael West typed thus: Every Saturday morning serial oater had bushwhackers hiding in the canyon. They were the ones in the black hats. Oh, I know about bushwhackers, having grown up on a steady diet of Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy. But I ... am

So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? Every Saturday morning serial oater had bushwhackers hiding in the canyon. They were the ones in the black hats. Oh, I know about bushwhackers, having grown up on a steady diet of Tom Mix and

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? Every Saturday morning serial oater had bushwhackers hiding in the canyon. They were

"Non-white" would be usual in today's US. I don't know whether "colored" was ever used that much in the US to mean "non-white" as opposed to "black or known to be of sub-Saharan African descent".

And in American Sign Language, the sign used to translate the English word "Negro" is now considered to be to ... English word, it is represented by fingerspelling, "N-E-G-R-O." That is according to the author of the following

david56 wrote on 02 May 2004: CyberCypher typed thus: mUs1Ka wrote on 02 May 2004: No, no. Conan was ... doesn't make Conan a *barbarian* and a *librarian* as well. I thought it was Conran who was the barbarian. Conran may or may not be a

A 'coloured' boy? What colour had someone coloured him? Seriously, ... why?' may be? (Can you imagine someone answering that 'question'?) For once (just for once, mind!) I?m going to defend Doc Robin's use of what, at first

I think "non-white" would have been preferable to "coloured." Today maybe. How about in three years time? I seem to remeber it was a polite non-derogatory term when it started out. Thirty years ago, people objected to