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Thread #6378   Message #1608121
Posted By: Azizi
18-Nov-05 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Polly Wolly Doodle
Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote Polly Wolly Doodle
dick greenhaus wrote that:

"In the 1950s, the enlightened refered to the bugs as "Chegroes"

-snip-

I'm not sure which prior post this comment refers to..[meaning what bugs were referred to by that name].

I was a kid in the 1950s and I never called any bugs "Chegroes".
Nor do I remember any one else doing so.

"Chegroes" sounds to me alot like "Negroes".

So if "the enlightened" refered to certain bugs as "Chegroes" it would seem to me that that would put into question the definition of who is [or was] "enlightened".