Black thru Face Painter's Eyes

WordSmith

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Aug 19, 2001, 3:51:29 PM8/19/01

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Today I had a gig at the Zoo, for the Fairmont
Hotel's picnic. Most of the attendees and the
children were black. I just wanted to throw these
positive observations into the mix of recent
racial conversations.

1. Three of the four times I've been tipped while
face painting, were by black women.

***I am well paid for face painting so I never
expect tips and am not entirely comfortable
receiving them. However, in this situation, a tip
is a sincere gift of appreciation...and I don't
like to insult the giver by turning down the
gift. By the same token, it is bad form to
solicit tips, eat at the buffet (stealing), hand
out business cards (competing), sell souvenirs or
do anything not in the event contract. (I thought
this was an interesting observation, given that
blacks are less likely to tip waiters in
restaurants.)

2. Little black boys really seem to love their
maternal nurturers. Never has a white boy asked
for his mother's name scripted inside a heart.
Today, I painted several "tattoo" hearts with
names of moms and grandmoms inside.

--
Wordy Smith

"I'd rather have three minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special."
- Steel Magnolias
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James S. Prine

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Aug 19, 2001, 10:05:51 PM8/19/01

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>Never has a white boy asked
>for his mother's name scripted inside a heart.

Well, in my experience, when you open those things up, they're kinda squishy
and full of blood. How the heck do you write inside one of those things
anyway?

James S. Prine
"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!"

Oloruin

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Aug 20, 2001, 10:29:16 AM8/20/01

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"Smokin Dave" <smoki...@smokindave.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe this is because, as you stated earlier, "Most of the

> attendees and the children were black".

I believe the context in question was over Wordy's tenure as a face painter.

WordSmith

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Aug 20, 2001, 11:45:23 AM8/20/01

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Oloruin wrote:
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> > Maybe this is because, as you stated earlier, "Most of the
> > attendees and the children were black".
>
> I believe the context in question was over Wordy's tenure as a face painter.

Ed Zachary.
I was speaking solely from experiences as a face
painter. (with a dash of waiter experience
comparison.)

metonymy

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Aug 20, 2001, 9:19:31 PM8/20/01

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> I believe the context in question was over Wordy's tenure as a face painter.

Face painting is tenure track? I had academia figured
all wrong.

Jim Linn

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Aug 25, 2001, 10:20:48 AM8/25/01

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Did I arrive at a bad time?

Jim

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WordSmith

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Aug 25, 2001, 10:26:34 AM8/25/01

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Jim Linn wrote:
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> Did I arrive at a bad time?

Nah, just at a quiet time <g>
Welcome Home!

Chantal

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Aug 25, 2001, 5:37:37 PM8/25/01

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On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:20:48 GMT, "Jim Linn" <jml...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:

>Did I arrive at a bad time?
>
>Jim
>

Waw! Jim! That's a long time now. Welcome back

Chantal
>

Jim Linn

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Aug 25, 2001, 6:18:58 PM8/25/01

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Hello Chantal. I see a lot of familiar fonts still posting... Good to see
you
:-)

Jim

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Ryan M. Landry

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Sep 1, 2001, 11:12:56 AM9/1/01

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That's why the mommas never turn in their felonious "boys" when the law
comes lookin'. Their "boys" could machine gun 40 people in a Starbucks
or LeMadelaine's and they would protect their "boys."

I think its an under-devolpment of their race.