MAROONED!

[DukieInKansas]

Home at last! Home at last! Thank God almighty, I'm home at last!

Welcome Home!

[DukieInKansas]

Thanks all. It starts again tomorrow.

I saw an auto transport truck this morning. I thought of you.

[shereec]

Glad things are back to normal!

[bjornolf]

Awesome man.

Why is it every time I see this thread, I think of Gilligan's Island?

[Miles]

Awesome man.

Why is it every time I see this thread, I think of Gilligan's Island?

Because a Captain started the thread?

[devildeac]

Awesome man.

Why is it every time I see this thread, I think of Gilligan's Island?

I think of coconut.

Or Bugs Bunny.

[bjornolf]

Awesome man.

Why is it every time I see this thread, I think of Gilligan's Island?

I think of coconut.

Or Bugs Bunny.

Hey, now, no racism on this board, damnit. Don't make me get off my couch! ;)

[devildeac]

Awesome man.

Why is it every time I see this thread, I think of Gilligan's Island?

I think of coconut.

Or Bugs Bunny.

Hey, now, no racism on this board, damnit. Don't make me get off my couch! ;)

I'm missing the racism reference.

Coconut (macaroon reference)

Bugs Bunny (moron reference)

Don't make me search for that pancake bunny...

[CameronBornAndBred]

I think of coconut.

Or Bugs Bunny.

Hey, now, no racism on this board, damnit. Don't make me get off my couch! ;)

I'm missing the racism reference.

Coconut (macaroon reference)

Bugs Bunny (moron reference)

Don't make me search for that pancake bunny...

Here's something I didn't know. I found this while looking for a picture of Bugs Bunny.

http://www.uh.edu/naacp/maroon.html

As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their own separate communities -- a New World adaptation of an African form of resistance. These enslaved Africans set up small communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although most focused on their survival -- building homes, raising crops and livestock, fortifying the community against attack -- others engaged in guerilla warfare against neighboring plantations and provided a base to which other fugitives could flee. The individuals in these communities were called Maroons.

[devildeac]

Hey, now, no racism on this board, damnit. Don't make me get off my couch! ;)

I'm missing the racism reference.

Coconut (macaroon reference)

Bugs Bunny (moron reference)

Don't make me search for that pancake bunny...

Here's something I didn't know. I found this while looking for a picture of Bugs Bunny.

http://www.uh.edu/naacp/maroon.html

As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their own separate communities -- a New World adaptation of an African form of resistance. These enslaved Africans set up small communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although most focused on their survival -- building homes, raising crops and livestock, fortifying the community against attack -- others engaged in guerilla warfare against neighboring plantations and provided a base to which other fugitives could flee. The individuals in these communities were called Maroons.

No wonder Looney Tunes went off the air .

And I posted pancake bunny, not Bugs Bunny, you wascally fellow.

[Lavabe]

Silly me... I think of the University of Chicago (Maroons) and Eastern Kentucky University. And well, there's that popular group Maroon 5.

[CameronBornAndBred]

And I posted pancake bunny, not Bugs Bunny, you wascally fellow.

I was looking for this.

[indoor66]

And I posted pancake bunny, not Bugs Bunny, you wascally fellow.

I was looking for this.

Yip, Yip, Yip THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

[bjornolf]

My understanding of the situation from a documentary was that it was a thinly veiled reference to "octamaroon" or "octoroon", a derogatory remark used to describe people who were 1/8 black in the post Civil War era. They also used the term "quadroon" to describe someone 1/4 black. I was also aware of the "maroon" reference of the guerilla fighters, but my understanding was that they were referring to the other in bugs bunny. I was joking with the racism reference, though. I knew that wasn't the intent of the poster at all. I thought it was more of a fun history lesson. The interesting thing is that you seldom heard bugs use that phrase in later years of the cartoon.

[devildeac]

And I posted pancake bunny, not Bugs Bunny, you wascally fellow.

I was looking for this.

Ah.

[devildeac]

My understanding of the situation from a documentary was that it was a thinly veiled reference to "octamaroon" or "octoroon", a derogatory remark used to describe people who were 1/8 black in the post Civil War era. They also used the term "quadroon" to describe someone 1/4 black. I was also aware of the "maroon" reference of the guerilla fighters, but my understanding was that they were referring to the other in bugs bunny. I was joking with the racism reference, though. I knew that wasn't the intent of the poster at all. I thought it was more of a fun history lesson. The interesting thing is that you seldom heard bugs use that phrase in later years of the cartoon.

Now that is a good history lesson.

[captmojo]

Where to tomorrow, Capt?

Wed was: Winston, chapel hole, Raleigh
Thur: Eden, Martinsville, Salem
Fri: off duty, out of available service hours
3 day weekend. Not really any time off. Too many chores.

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

Own the road agin. Jest cain't wait t' git own the road agin!
Love, Ima

[lawgrad91]

Where to tomorrow, Capt?

Wed was: Winston, chapel hole, Raleigh
Thur: Eden, Martinsville, Salem
Fri: off duty, out of available service hours
3 day weekend. Not really any time off. Too many chores.

Capt, you spend a lot of time in my necks of the woods, don't you? If you see a cherry red Saab (most likely) or a British Racing Green Mini, wave cuz it's me!

Where do you go in Martinsville, Jim Mills or the Nelson group?

Good luck with the chores!

[captmojo]

Capt, you spend a lot of time in my necks of the woods, don't you? If you see a cherry red Saab (most likely) or a British Racing Green Mini, wave cuz it's me!

Where do you go in Martinsville, Jim Mills or the Nelson group?

Good luck with the chores!

We used to do both but no longer have the Chrysler business and Mercury is on the way out. I guess they are still a Lincoln dealer. I've only been there once since they moved into that old Lowe's store, but that;s a HELL of a lot better than what we had to deal with up in Basset Forks.
Last trip to Martinsville was to deliver Nelson Honda's first arrival of the new Honda CRZ, two seater.