self-degredation for fun and enlightenment (subtitled the educational value of absurdity)

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hon·ky or hon·kie also hon·key
n. Offensive Slang pl. hon·kies, also hon·keys
Used as a disparaging term for a white person.

[Possibly blend of Wolof honq, red, pink, of light complexion, and
hunky1.]

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crack·er
n.
1. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
2. One that cracks, especially:
a. A firecracker.
b. A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds
candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or
both ends and torn.
c. The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.
d. One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper
with data or programs.

Offensive.
3. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural,
especially southeast United States.
4. Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern
United States


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

A Irishman was once asked if he believed in Pookahs, a "paranormal
being" often attributed with wise but childish/prankster tendencies or
something like a cross between a leprechaun and the Native American
perspective of the Coyote (often times being seen as a large white
rabbit! Seen "Harvey", boys and girls?). His very bluntly responded to
the interviewer "No sir, I cannae say that I do, but if you went and
asked a Pookah, I reckon he doesn't believe in me, either."


This post doesn't make sense to you? Good, you've just experienced step
one in `Guerilla Ontology' (go look that one up yourself).

-S

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