Is that a whole friar? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 02:51 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Why the showing of papers by Obama was Racist
I've got a reference to a friar (no pun intended) in the 1500's using the term "long pig". On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > > On 4/28/2011 11:56 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > For those more anthropological in mindset, longpork was the term > > used for white missionaries who were eaten by cannibals a few centuries ago. > > I don't know which came first, but I have also heard the long pork > euphemism in documentaries about sailors from the 18th and 19th > century that resorted to cannibalism when shipwrecked and|or stranded at sea. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337134 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
