Ok, you're a white person and you're in a room full of all kinds of people. Its noisy and you can't hear yourself think. You an either say in a loud voice...Shut up, NIGGER! Or 'Quiet down, you SPIC!' Everyone will stop what they are doing and you will have their full attention. Not just the blacks and the mexicans. Everyone will be looking to see what you have to say next.
Once, when I was drunk, in a room full of mostly, but not all black women, most lesbians and a few gay guys, I was trying to explain a really funny joke I'd heard. I got to the line about 'the dumb black guy' and suddenly the room went quiet. Then I just got angry and being drunk ... well, ... Oh, and another thing, never ask a black lesbian if her girlfriend is gaining weight.
aHHH, so you get what I meant here. You say something that stops everyone in motion. Like going to a baby's first birthday and saying the kid is funny looking.
And didn't that make you angry that all those people are just assuming you meant something insulting?
You say "Well, my broker is E. F. Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says ..." This actually works. Back in the late '70s when that commercial aired, I was sitting in class one day and the guy in front of me was talking to the guy next to him. And he's telling the guy about this commercial. And he gets to the point that says "Well, my broker is E. F. Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says ..." And just like that, a room full 13 year old punks suddenly shut up.
There was time when the words..The President has been shot!....would do the trick. Not so much nowadays.
Only because they wanted to know how to properly conduct a check kiting swindle. And I believe the commercials you're referring to were early 80s rather than late 70s.
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Now days that would result in rabid cheering. At least until they realized Darth Cheney was probably already sworn in.
I have a better way. I've used it in classes with a bunch of rowdy teenage boys. I say clearly "Do you think this naked chick looks hot?
I know how to clear a room full of blacks......when I was in Bosnia we would switch the big TV in the mess hall to "Jeopardy" - they would run out like the place was on fire. Seinfeld had the same effect, until it went off the air for good (that year).
