[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

When I was a very young kid, we used to sing (to the tune of the TV show theme song):

"Daniel Boone was a man.
He was a biiiiigggg man.
But the bear was bigger,
so he ran like a niggger
up a tree."

It really didn't seem incredibly racist and hurtful at the time. Probably because I and all the other kids who were singing it had never become friends with any kids other than other Caucasians like us. Or maybe it was because a lot of kids songs had hurtful things in them that weren't really meant to be hurtful.

"Jingle bells, Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg.
Batmobile lost a wheel,
And Commissioner Gordon lost a leg."

Hmmmm ...

Our version of was:

Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Robin ran away
Wonderwoman lost her knickers
Flying TAA, HEY!

(but TAA went belly up (trans australian airlines) and then we only had Ansett and then we got virgin - but I think TAA became something inbetween... Oh fug maybe it became Qantas? then Ansett went belly up.. oh poop can't remember. but the song became defunct once TAA stopped flying.