Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: > I didn't get it, please explain.
Hi Eurico! There is a whole class of jokes called knock knock jokes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-knock_joke Black people in the US often speak in a peculiar dialect, sometimes called ebonics, which includes the pluralization or posessivization of certain nouns, so I would become Is or I's (pronounced "Eyes"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics > * * *Eyes who? *** > ***Eyes your new president.* Barack Obama, the media-predicted winner of the presidency, is half black. If one were to subscribe to the somewhat racist "one drop rule" that makes him all the way black. So the joke assumes he speaks ebonics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
