Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Black chick, white guy

Last night at pub trivia:

Question: In the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what was the name of the runaway slave who teams up with Huck on his voyage down the Mississippi River?

Friend 1: It's Nigger Jim*.

Me: I'm just going to put Jim.

Friend 1: I think you have to put down the whole name.

Friend 2: But I don't like that word.

Me: I don't either.

Friend 1: Just put it down so we don't lose a point.

Me: Fine.

Friend 3 (who is African American): I can't believe you wrote that. Racist.

Me: If I have sex with you later will that make up for it?

Friend 3: Sure.



Later she passed me a note: You ready to pop the cork on this bitch?








*Apparently this is the name used by many critics and has been perpetuated ever since, but never appears in the book itself. Thank you Wikipedia!

4 comments:

AnoMALIE said...

so it was correct? :X How sad! :(

Heff said...

Look. In the name of trying to get a Trivia answer correct, I think you did THE RIGHT THING.


...and I'm assuming you got some "coffee for your cream" later ?!?!

OK, that wasn't very nice either.....

I digress.

Brian Smart said...

Reminds me of the MASH film; the black guy who shared the tent with Hawkeye and Trapper was Spearchucker Jones was it not? Not sure how they got away with that name.

repliderium.com said...

I hear shit like this and i immediately have "Blazing saddles" flashbacks!
back in the day, huh?
:)