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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1288 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on June 13, 2005 and belongs in the language, misc. category. The previous post was Bins And Benches, and the next post is Spam From TypeKey Users.

Learn To Sing Like A Nigger

Anyone who lives in the West End of Glasgow will be familiar with Colin, the mysterious man who distributes flyers for his business repairing sash windows, hanging blinds, and doing similar odd jobs around the home.

Quite often, these flyers also contain information about Colin’s doo-wop singing group.

Which is quite funny.

His latest flyer is also quite, er, funny:

Now, I can see how a non-racist person with a certain sense of humour might make a joke including the word ‘nigger’, but who in their right mind would distribute the above to half the homes in the West End, including, one assumes, several black households? And what’s with the spelling of boyz with a ‘z’? Is this a flyer for the first ever gay racist doo-wop choir?

I can only assume that Colin’s twin passions for DIY and doo-wop have finally pushed him over the edge. Either that or it’s a prank from anti-Colin forces.

Posted at 2pm on 13/06/05 by Jack Mottram to the language, misc. category.
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