Friday, January 09, 2004

 
Coyote ugly name
Or: The Ugly Mexican

C'mon, "coyote charter" is a little lame. It did arouse some curiousity as to the meaning of "Coyote Ugly" -from the movie(and apparently a real bar). Good ol' Google came up with "It comes from a sexist joke. And I'm going to tell it badly because I only remember the punch line. Something about waking up the morning after with a woman so ugly, you chew your arm off to escape -- like a coyote chews his arm off when it is caught in a trap." To gnaw on this further, I suppose that after Uncle Sam "wakes up" he'll be tempted to chew off his arm to escape from his Ugly(its beauty will be in the eyes of the work permit-holder) Hispanic-majority Southwest. (There has already been a net migration of Anglos from California.) This would, however, leave Sam a little er, lame, and Hispanics, like Hitler(hmmm, is there a MoveOnbacktomexico.org?)won't be satisfied with anything like the Sudetenland or a hunk of Poland -they want the whole enchilada. And what"s with the mangling of the ol' "Don't make the best the enemy of the good"?(since I was the first to mangle it, I get to cast a stone here)
What's next -?The present perfect is the enemy of the past participle"?(my education was a bit thin on grammar) I suppose now is as bad a time as ever to propose some old Originals for The Reactionary Talking Doll - I mean *Action Figure*.


1. "Let's call it the 'Lebensraum for La Raza charter.'"

2. "Sometimes the U.S. has to try to make the bad the enemy of the worst."

3. "NUCLEAR WINTER. FIGHT IN THE SHADE!" (thanx to Diences, a Spartan who fought at Thermopylae and nyahnyahnabooboo to VD Hansen for his petty childishness in not recognizing its brilliance.)

There was another one dispatched to someone awhile back but I can't remember it -musta' been a real zinger; it's like a Serbian nationalist who has trouble keeping his dukes in a row -though it's lack of interest that threatens to shoot this site down. -groan-or stuff like that........