How did this get by unnoticed?

This is another example of a thread title that tells you absolutely nothing about the content.

 

I'm 31, white and from the Midwest by way of Texas. Never heard that used, even by my horribly racist grandmother.

 

Well ... if that's the case, that a young guy wrote it ... do any of you think jumping off a cliff over it just perpetuates the term, gives it identity?

 

Great call dools.

 

What's even more fucked up is THE NEXT DAY, Brit Hume called Fred Thompson a spearchucker! Damn!

 

I've heard that term with reference to native Canadians in the past. I just can't see that phrase ever coming out of my vocabulary otherwise even though, it's certainly not every day slang in many areas.

 

It was a funny bit. I think it ends something like this.
Chevy: "Spearchucker"
Rich: "Peckerwood"
Chevy: "Nigger"
Rich: "Dead Peckerwood."
CLASSIC STUFF. The facial expressions were outfuckingstanding.

 

Great sketch. Pryor nailed it, especially with his last three comebacks to the word-association game Chase initiated.

"Honky!" (offended)

"Honky honky!" (outraged)

"DEAD honky." (frighteningly serious)

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ginterview.phtml

 

I might have been mistaken but it was funny. This column, unfortunately, wasn't funny.

 

I live in rural Alberta where growing up native jokes were a past time, especially in the dressing room at the rink - not me so much, but I heard more than I care to remember - and not once have I ever heard the term spearchucker

 

No, the column certainly wasn't funny. I agree the sketch was. Funny in an awkward sort of way.

I'm stunned the reference in the column got through the editing process -- and that it was written in the first place.

 

Hate to sound like a scold, but you don't have to be a thousand years old to know what certain words from other times mean. That's what books are for. A mistake like this doesn't necessarily prove to me that the writer and his desk are young - it proves to me that they don't read.