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Old 11-19-2017, 09:58 AM   #31
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I'm still flummoxed by Heckle and Jeckle being banned as "racist". Who on earth by? They are two yellow-billed magpies; black-and-white birds; one with a pukka English accent, the other with a Brooklyn accent. Unless of course the English accent counts as racism. Or maybe the Brooklyn accent is racist, given the bird species is exclusive to California?
Probably because the people banning them couldn't tell magpies from crows and everyone knows that anything with crows in them are racists.
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Probably because the people banning them couldn't tell magpies from crows and everyone knows that anything with crows in them are racists.
Maybe "they" confused Heckle and Jeckle with the crows from Dumbo.
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