one quick question:

is anyone offended by the term "picnic"? is this a racial slur?

an intense discussion around the watercooler today.....

O master riffy! enlighten me! either that or forward al sharpton's email.

TIA! i'll hang up and take my answer from the tub.

I've never heard the word linked to anything racial......what is it supposed to mean in a racial way?

Starbuck wrote on May 20^th, 2008 at 12:56pm:

one quick question: is anyone offended by the term "picnic"? is this a racial slur? an intense discussion around the watercooler today..... O master riffy! enlighten me! either that or forward al sharpton's email. TIA! i'll hang up and take my answer from the tub.

Well not racial exactly. They closed all the roadside picnic areas and rest stops in Maine because folks didn't appreciate little kids watching cruisers suck each other off in public.

TenThousandMotels wrote on May 20^th, 2008 at 1:27pm:

Starbuck wrote on May 20th, 2008 at 12:56pm: one quick question: is anyone offended by the term "picnic"? is this a racial slur? an intense discussion around the watercooler today..... O master riffy! enlighten me! either that or forward al sharpton's email. TIA! i'll hang up and take my answer from the tub. Well not racial exactly. They closed all the roadside picnic areas and rest stops in Maine because folks didn't appreciate little kids watching cruisers suck each other off in public.

that was truly a sad day for you, wasn't it?

wait you mean like "I'ma go to a picnic and eat a sandwich?" How in the world is that racist?

My Mom told me as a kid, I could ruin a niggers picnic, so I'm saying "Yes", there's some kinda racism in there... Me, I don't give a fuck, b/c some niggers ruined my chess tournament and hockey skills competition!

I can't for the life of me see any reason that this word would be construed as racist. Unless one tries to imply that it is an abbreviation of the very racial term "piccaninny". However, according to wikipedia there is no relationship between the two words. So the short answer is, no. There is no racial slur implied or derived from the word picnic. Glad to be of help.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic


Riffy

Picnic, wow that's taking it to a whole nother level.  :blankfriggingstare1

Ms. Peachez lives for picnics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrqW3nx5HM

Starbuck wrote on May 20^th, 2008 at 12:56pm:

one quick question: is anyone offended by the term "picnic"? is this a racial slur?

Only if you're mixing english and french...
Picnic = pique-nique

Pique = spade (cards)
Nique = fuck

(true !)

[quote author=Jeep Nique = fuck

[/quote]

:aimama

If any connection between the word "picnic" and Leiber-Stoller's lyrics for "Down Home Girl" can be made, then there's a case.  I believe this is where MJ learned to write a lyric like that in "Brown Sugar," in a more political age.

There's a whole book to be written on the songs that white songwriters wrote for black acts, all the way back to vaudeville and minstrel shows.  And - as said here frequently to thundering inconsequence - MJ is the Jolson of the Rock age.

Breakfast picnic.

http://server3.uploadit.org/files/Mahakala-specialKKK.jpg

The only reason i dislike the term picnic is because it give me lame images of sitting on a checked blanket eating cold chicken and of trying to be romantic when you'd rather be down the pub drinking VB, maybe watching some strippers, and THEN going home to the Mrs to plug her.

And if anyone thinks thats racist...blow me. I am sick of this crap. When will it bloody end?

White is right!

you tell em corgi ;)

in any case...i lost the argument. our picnic is now an outdoor gathering. even this left leaning liberal is left scratching his head....

snopes will help explain:

http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp

when I was a young'un, the kid sown the street's last name was piccininni. We always called him pickaninny until told that was WRONG.

:aimama