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February 25th 15, 06:59 PM
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PowerFlarm Update for the Seniors Contest in Florida
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 9:52:03 AM UTC-8, Charlie Papa wrote:
Watch the video and find the this is the next line in the lyrics about a post-apocalyptic radioactive future. I suspect I'm one of the few here (at least from outside South Africa) who actually knew what the word meant without looking it up, and while that's one I've never been called (I did get called kaff*r in London, once), I know where Herb was coming from. Context is everything, Lehrer was consciously (but satirically) being offensive back then, it's interesting how what is offensive about his songs has shifted in the intervening 50 years... Marc 
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