Given all the press that the word "nigger" has been receiving lately, what with books about it and white comedians blurting it out uncontrollably, we at Unfettered Letters thought it a good time to look more closely at the history of another racially charged word: the much beloved and lamented "honky." Popularized in the 1970s [...]
The Unfettered Letters Presents: Life Instructions 101 Part One: Mischief in the Social Environment How To Make People Socially Uncomfortable, Episode Un, The Camera Trick Prestidigio the Magician, misogynist par excellence, misanthrope emeritus, and sixth most famous child entertainer in Paramus, New Jersey, returns with a new offering from his social bag of tricks. He [...]
The following is a paid advertisment for Jerry Dither’s Texas Bulb Warehouse. ALL BULBS MUST GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SUPER LIQUIDATION SALE!!!!!!!!!You want red bulbs?We got ‘em!You want special frosted holiday bulbs?We got ‘em!Sexy black bulbs?You bet!We’re so excited that we don’t have time for spaces between sentences! Orevenwords!!!!Want some more exclamation points?Here they are: !!!!!!!!!!!! Brighten up the [...]
May 29, 2007 Fountainbleau West 33 Estate Road Milton, Connecticut Sent Certified Mail Dear L. Crew Sirs: I was recently perusing your Summer catalogue and unfortunately did not find anything in the way of outerwear the I would like to purchase at this time. The cargo pants on p.36 do not come in Olive; likewise, nothing in [...]
Pop "Pop" Walters, former headmaster and head grammarian and language expert here at Unfettered Letters., has instituted a new feature in which we scan the shores and sidestreets of this great country of ours to find out how Americans just like you first used swear words when they were just tiny tikes. There are some [...]
Vice-President Dick Cheney came out of his Washington residence this morning, saw his shadow, and promptly declared that "Summer is in its last throes." Told by one of his assistants that the new Fall shows wouldn’t be on for another month and a half, and most people had at least two barbecues still planned, Cheney [...]
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The 12 Most Embarassing White People of the 20th and 21st Centuries Countdown
Honky, We Hardly Knew Ye
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