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Re: ping owl: it's a small world

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On 2018-11-05 2:23 p.m., owl wrote:
> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> On 11/5/2018 12:22 PM, owl wrote:
>>> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>> I recently found out I have relatives in Kannapolis.
>>>>
>>>> They're my Mom's cousins, and they live on Concord Lake Rd.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh yeah, I think I know who you're talking about.  The youngest one's
>>> a waterhead, right?
>>
>>
>> We call him Punkinhead!
>>
> 
> Y'all got some people in Richmond too, I think.
>   
>>
>>>> Note: Concord Lake Rd. turns into Lake Concord Rd.  A Linux advocate
>>>> must've been in charge of street names that day.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It used to be all Lake Concord Rd, AFAIK.  I only recently found out
>>> that part of it is now called Concord Lake Rd.  There were some road
>>> additions and extensions in the 70s in that area, but I don't really know
>>> when they changed the name.  Of course, I could be wrong here though.
>>> I just know that we always use to call the whole thing Lake Concord Rd,
>>> and I never heard anybody refer to "Concord Lake Rd."  I can barely
>>> remember what that area used to look like.  Things have changed so
>>> much.
>>
>>
>> Hope not
>> https://www.nytimes.com/1898/05/30/archives/two-negroes-put-to-death-lynched-at-concord-nc-for-assaulting-and.html
> 
> Damn.  It says 1500 men attacked the jail.  I hope they didn't mess
> anything up.
> 
> https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/05/30/102562694.pdf
> 
> The girl was 12 years old.
> 
> https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39849462/emma-hartsell
> 
> Somebody needs to take care of Gohde before he does something like that,
> if he hasn't already.

I'm just glad that they used the term "negroes" which, to this day, is 
accurate. Unfortunately, morons like Snit have turned every accurate 
word into something unusable because of political correctness.


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SilverSlimer

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ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 11:07 -0500
  Re: ping owl: it's a small world SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 11:26 -0500
    Re: ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:23 -0500
  Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 17:22 +0000
    Re: ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:47 -0500
      Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:23 +0000
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 12:27 -0700
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 11:47 -0800
          Re: ping owl: it's a small world Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 17:01 -0800
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 20:07 +0000
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 19:17 -0500
          Re: ping owl: it's a small world Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-06 01:09 +0000

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