June 14, 2004

• White Shame + Black Rage = Funny.
• Whether or not you think it's funny, it's obviously meant as satire - more amusing are those who take it at face value and get all offended.
• fo shiz.
• "Sally and Johnny are fictional characters portrayed by friends of the site's creators, and the site is a satire of the racial stereotypes often faced by blacks in predominantly white environments. [...] Chelsea Peretti, 24, a struggling stand-up comedian who is one of the site's creators, said: 'It really shocked us how quickly this site took off. We were expecting a huge response, but not this huge.'" ("Black-White Harmony: Are You Kidding Me?" New York Times, 17 Nov. 2002. Available as a .doc here, from EPA.net.)
• that's so sept. 10th
• I have never, in all my 41 years on earth, met a woman named Sally. Is it me?
• *checks google so as not to drop anyone in it, coast looks clear* Had a girlfriend whose (professional) name was Sally Forth.
• I know precisely ONE Sally. She's great -- beautiful, smart, classic American values, etc. She's everything you'd hope for in a Sally.
• I had a classmate in 1975 named Sally. But that's ONLY one I've ever known personally.
• Had a girlfriend whose (professional) name was Sally Forth. The original Sally Forth? Or the cheap imitation? I have never, in all my 41 years on earth, met a woman named Sally. Sally is my mother's name.
• I know a couple of Sallys. They're both great gals. Apart from both being English-speaking blonde white chicks, they have nothing else in common.
• Wow! just wow! Best derailment to date! Ohh, sorry... continue.
• Diz: you never met Sally Field?
• Sally Struthers?
• No, but I once shared a stick of gum with Teri Garr. It was September, 1985, at the old Buffums on Wilshire out back by the Porte Cochiere (spelling?)... She had just purchased a new leather rolling suitcase and was trying to navigate the damn thing out of the store and into one of the taxis that hung in the cool shadows by the Employees Entrance. I didn't work there; my girl Becky was trying on her umpteenth swimsuit up on 5 and I'd stolen away for a Parliament in the bright fall sun. Teri was wearing red pumps and a red dress just like the one she left Fred Forrest in in "One From The Heart." She hit me with that suitcase real good. I went down. She was very apologetic and pulled me up, her tan elbows like little crinkly latkes. She was bee-yoo-ti-ful. Shesaidshewaslateforherplane, wouldre-packinthetaxi, was Iokay, wouldIlikesomegum? In that order, in one silvery gust of breath. I said yesto the gum. Juicy Fruit. She got in the cab and sped on her way. Inever told anyone this storyuntil now. Not even Becky, in her Maillot, up on 5. I never saw her again, but I heard she's fighting MS. Godspeed, Teri!
• No, but I once shared a stick of gum with Teri Garr. It was September, 1985, at the old Buffums on Wilshire out back by the Porte Cochiere (spelling?)... She had just purchased a new leather rolling suitcase and was trying to navigate the damn thing out of the store and into one of the taxis that hung in the cool shadows by the Employees Entrance. I didn't work there; my girl Becky was trying on her umpteenth swimsuit up on 5 and I'd stolen away for a Parliament in the bright fall sun. Teri was wearing red pumps and a red dress just like the one she left Fred Forrest in in "One From The Heart." She hit me with that suitcase real good. I went down. She was very apologetic and pulled me up, her tan elbows like little crinkly latkes. She was bee-yoo-ti-ful. Shesaidshewaslateforherplane, wouldre-packinthetaxi, was Iokay, wouldIlikesomegum? In that order, in one silvery gust of breath. I said yesto the gum. Juicy Fruit. She got in the cab and sped on her way. Inever told anyone this storyuntil now. Not even Becky, in her Maillot, up on 5. I never saw her again, but I heard she's fighting MS. Godspeed, Teri!
• (sorry)
• I know one girl called Sally. She's ugly, covered in fake tan and sleeps with everyone in sight.
• it's a satire... from new york times: One artist, a 30-year-old New Yorker named Jonah Peretti, has reached millions of people with a series of subversive online projects he calls contagious media that spread, viruslike, by quick linking and electronic word-of-mouth. His 2001 e-mail exchange with Nike over an attempt to order a sneaker customized with the word ''sweatshop,'' for example, has been seen by more than 10 million people, he said, and a Web site he created with his sister Chelsea in 2002 called ''Black People Love Us,'' which satirizes a white couple who consider themselves enlightened on race relations, had three million page views in one month.
• or, i should say, it is a parody. it is satire. (not thinking/typing straight. monday morning before coffee. yawn.)
• 'sokay, Dizzy, it was worth reading twice.
• This Sallie is very happy to be a monkey. p.s. sorry for the derailment, just had to chime in.
• This is old. It's a joke. A funny one, I might add.
• I think it could have been funnier if they had reached for the I-can't-tell-if-this-is-real-or-not reaction, rather than just satire. That said, I find the site well meaning, but a little patronizing and self-righteous.
• SideDish: Could you please try not to derail the thread? We're talking about Sally. I knew a Sally in high school. She was nice. Dizzy: Don't be sorry. It was Teri's fault, not yours.
• What's a sally?
• sorry to sully the sally. thread.
• Is there a spanish version for Sally? Like Peter = Pedro, John = Juan, Mary = Maria, etc? If not. Then I had never met a Sally. :(
• My Spanish teacher used to talk about someone she knew named "Sala de clase". I presume that's the Spanish equivalent of Sally..
• we have a Sally as an actor this summer at IRT. She's awesome. Only one I can think of. Dave Chapelle needs to see that website.
• She's cuddly and she's bouncy, she's like a rubber ball, I bounce her in the kitchen, I bounce her in the hall. And now my life is different, since Sally came my way....
• I bounce her in the kitchen, I bounce her in the hall I got some on my finger, so I wiped it on the wall. /Chuck Berry toiletcam
• I went to school with a Sally, but that was .. uh, first grade, so a long time ago and I'm not aware of meeting any other sallys. And I've only ever met one Cecil, as well.
• more about that scallywag Jonah Peretti.
• There was Long Tall Sally, and before her there was My Gal Sal by Paul Dresser, (a brother of the American novelist Theodore Dreiser), and W. B. Yeats Down by the Sally Gardens (where sally refers to willows), and then my favorite, Sally Lunns. Sal or Sally van be a nickname for Salvatore as well as Sarah.