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By: I’m Off! at The Mock Dock

I’m Off! at The Mock Dock — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:14:51 +0000

[...] heading to DC today on account of business, which as you may recall from previous entries, makes me very very important. I have had approximately 37 seconds of sleep. You know those nights when you convince [...]

By: jordan

jordan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:28:48 +0000

Cracks me up how race always finds it’s way into this blog from no where!LOL

By: justforlaughs

justforlaughs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:11:19 +0000

Color has nothing at all to do with scary! My husband and I became totally totally lost somewhere in West Virgina, out in the boondocks somewhere and happened upon a delapitated old gas station. It had a pay phone (obviously this was wayyyy before cell phones, yes I’m old!) and so, my husband walks over to the phone and I notice this youngish WHITE guy walk up behind him with a sharp looking knife, yes a knife…and so being stupid I jumped out of the car and ran over to him to warn him…the guy put the knife down (I think he was actually picking dirt from under his nails, ha) but the 3 or 4 people milling around actually scared the crap out of me. Had nothing to do with color (has anyone ever seen the movie Deliverance by any chance?) Mock was not being racist…

By: sbarros

sbarros — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:24:22 +0000

First, Dodges suck @ss. I had a neon. HAD…HATED. Second, wow, the racist accusations fly around here. This is a mocking sight in which everyone is mocked equally. Portland, Maine is a mostly white city, with a moderately low crime rate, except for drugs. I have driven through neighborhoods after getting lost leaving the civic center only to find myself in a “sketchy zone”. And yes, all WHITE people. Sketchiness has no color boundries nor financial ones. Some people are just that way.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:52:42 +0000

Dear TreeShaker,
It is with great aplomb that I must address your previous comments. My friend, Mockarena is in no way a racist. As she and I skipped through the park yesterday, arm in arm, calf-muscles firing, she happened to espy a young, brown boy leaning against a tree. As we approached, she simply said, “Hola.” She smiled. We skipped.

As that boy looked up, he blurted out, “My naime is Rhamajaban Ndubipriya. I am Indian.”

Mockarena turned on her heal, causing me to fall down. Her heart broken at her insensitivity, she dropped her head. As her gaze fell to the bright green grass of Stony Falls Park, she saw the lone tail feather of a Canadian goose. She bent down, picked it up, muttered something about socialized health-care, and found the inexplicable, exuberant joy that draws us together.

With that feather in her hand, she walked over to Rhamajaban Ndubipriya and placed that goose feather in his hair. She proudly raised her non-racist hand and with a single tear littering her cheek, shudderingly said, “How.” She then slapped the malt liquor from his hand and handed him a poker chip.

I mean how can this woman, this Modern-day Mother Theresa be considered racist? For that inane belief, Treeshaker, I ask you to check yo’self, before you wreck yo’self.

G’day to you,
Holmes
Holmes@themockdock.com

By: Punky

Punky — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:30:12 +0000

Mockarena, I do hope you don’t have to wear pantyhose at your meetings! I’d have to quit then and there!

As for the “racist” remarks, I didn’t get that at all from your original post. I think someone felt the need to feel important, as in, “Look at all the posts I caused from my remark!” I was actually waiting for Zed and the Gimp to show up in your post, from your description of the BP!

By: SnarkyBritches

SnarkyBritches — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:24:49 +0000

TreeShaker… what statements, Exactly, would you have Mock ‘reconsider’? Cuz I’m as stumped as Dame and Mock when I say “whu??? racist? Where’d that come from?” So perhaps you can tell us. ThanksEverSo.

By: Mockarena

Mockarena — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:29:12 +0000

Fortunately or unfortunately (I haven’t really figured out which yet) I am obsessed enough with keeping plugged into what’s going on that I have brought my laptop to my important business meeting, and am hiding out in the back row of an auditorium and I am reading this NONSENSICAL ACCUSATION that I am racist?!?!? What in the Freaketing Frack!??!?

Thanks for responding pretty much EXACTLY as I would have, Dame.
I have no idea what the predominant race is in East St Louis. I just know it is a scary looking area which had scary and mean looking people in it OF ALL COLORS. The older guy leering at me? White. The sweet googly eyed guy who came to my rescue? Black. How much any of that had anything to do with my post? NOTHING.

Treeshaker, I think you’re trying to put words in my mouth. Unless of course you’re upset over me calling my white Avenger “virginal” - is that what you meant? If that’s the case, you’re right. If I would have had a black Avenger I would have felt totally BADASS in it.

I guess that must mean I’m racist.

By: Dame Aufschneider

Dame Aufschneider — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:15:35 +0000

Don’t mean to spark a rant here…and I’m sure thousands of other commenters will…but since Mock is tied up today in work stuff…I must address.

Racist?

Really?

The only MENTION of race was the word “black” which was used to describe a human being with which Mock had a pleasant exchange.

Never getting lost in St. Lou…I had no idea if this was a white or black “bad” part of town. And Mock never indicated such. So. The “racist” slant that YOU chose to give the post is from ideals and perspective that you yourself have made.

Sorry. Couldn’t let that go. Keep reading…just please make your comments make more sense.

By: TreeShaker

TreeShaker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:52:55 +0000

Mock I love your blog. It’s one of the first sites I visit every morning, because, well, mocking IS one of my favorite activities. You have such a keen eye for the oddities of life.
And while St. Louis has never been one of my favorite cities to drive through…I can’t help but wonder why you didn’t notice how racist your last rant is. Please read again, and reconsider some of your statements, k?