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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Odd School Names (Pekin Chinks)
Message-ID: <378@persci.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 13:29:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.378
Posted: Mon Aug 26 13:29:45 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 11:22:29 EDT
References: <622@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1136@ihuxn.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill the Cat -Ack!-)
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Summary:  (Peek in chinks)

In article <1136@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>Don't forget the Pekin Chinks (Pekin, Ill.)  Actually, there was
>a big flap about that team name a year or so ago when some
>namby-pamby, limp-wristed, bleeding-heart liberals suggested that
>the name was racist or something.  Got national press.  They're
>still the Pekin Chinks.  "Don't say 'Chinks'.  'Chinks' is bigotted."

Actually, wasn't that name from around the old pioneer days, when log
cabins didn't have transparent glass windows and the peeping toms had to
peek in chinks?

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