Name change

Dave could you possibly Cap the first three letters of my
handle. Seems to confuse some. Thanks Ted

I still wouldn't understand it, LOL. What's it mean? ;)

tar-ogers-thats what i make lisa into when she starts braggin about how warm it is at her house when im freezing here at mine!!!! heeeee heee heeeeee

All set.

T. A. Rogers........and he's a he, and a very nice one at that! And guess what, it ain't warm at his house now either! LOL!

"eyes"

LOL, Dori - you've got that right! And we're supposed to be down to about 4-degrees Sunday night. Ugh!

Oooooh...TA Rogers. I never even thought of initials! I'm a little slow on the uptake here, LOL!

Some in the Military called me that TAR and when I was in school TAR Baby. Thanks Eyes

Ted, I bet you've read the Tar Baby story (Joel Chandler Harris), then. It's one of my favorites :)

How I would love to have that old book, so well used in my childhood and with my oldest kids. Unfortunately, it was later decided to be racist. It was one of my favorites, but I never saw the negative angle. I always wanted to go to that jungle and find some tigers to make syrup.

The one with the syrup was Little Black Sambo, another "banned" un-PC book. I loved it, and thought Sambo was a really smart kid!

Oh, right! I mixed up two favorites, as the Tar Baby was in Song of the South. Senior moment, maybe?

I loved Uncle Rhemus and Song of the South, too. It's avaialble overseas in the PAL video format (I think that's what it's called) but not in VHS. It'd almost be worth it to get it in that format get a video service to copy it onto standard VHS. I miss that movie!

I have a very old copy of Uncle Remus, I treasure old books. I remember my little copy of Black Sambo and the pictures of the tiger chasing him round the tree. I loved that book, hate that it hurt some though.

Growing up in the deep South, and living on an island near Vicksburg, MS. for a time in my earliest days, I was fortunate in that I had only black children for playmates. I didn't notice that we were different, so the pictures never seemed to be any more discriminatory to me than some of the comic strips of the time, like the one I always called Mags and Jiggy, actually Jiggs and Maggie, I think. Or the Kattzenjammer Kids. As I learned to read, I had to sort out "mit" and "und" and the other lingual oddities, along with black dialect. Later, I thought the negative remarks were aimed at us as "ignorant Southerners", not at my friends of color specifically, and I still have that impression. How much has been lost!

I grew up in a house that never called the differences between people, even way back then. it was a big shock when I turned a teen and found out about racism. still don't understand it.

I didn't read the "Wonderful Tar Baby Story" until I was in college, and had a GREAT American Lit. professor who taught me a deep appreciation for a lot of different authors and stories. I loved the dialect in this story; the animals and the dialect remind me of the "Mother Westwind" stories that I grew up reading. In fact, I have the entire set of hardbound books. They belonged to my mom, and her dad before her. I'm only borrowing it, though - at some point I think I'm supposed to pass it to my brother :)

Go_Vols, I have a similar set of children's books, including all the Uncle Remus stories. My dear Grandmother gave them to me when I was a child. I wouldn't give them up for anything. They will be passed through the family as grandnieces/nephews are born. In these days of PC, that is the only way some classics will ever be passed on to future generations.