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Re: Blackboards (was Re: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read])

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03
Staving Roger Mills:
>Muke Tever wrote: > > > > Has the word "chalkboard" not appeared in this thread at all? That's what > > they got called here... > > >Probably coined by some administrator who thought "we can't call them >blackboards if they're green.....and greenboard doesn't sound right" :-))).
More like the work of some political correctness monkey who decided that "blackboards" was racially offensive. Surely it's more offensive to automatically assume that people are so easily offended? (ridet, annat, currit). Pete

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