She's 1/2 coonass--that's what does it for me But Giadda de Laurentis smokes her (Rachel's just too short for me).

I like some of the food channel stuff too.

For prime time: My Name is Earl and the Office and like Kerry, Boston Legal. Other than that, we flip between the History and Discovery Chanels when we are watching TV. On the weekends it is always on sports.

Oh she's hot!

For me its Adultswim, can't take life seriously all the time!

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It's a Louisiana thang.

Un Acadien. 'cadien. Cajun.

Many cajuns find the term insulting but some freely use it self-referentially.

I don't know the derivation of the term but I do know that sometimes black people get all huffy sometimes when cajuns are telling coonass jokes.

They come in all shapes, sizes and pigments. In Montegut they are swarthy and american-indian looking because, well, they lived amongst the indians. In Robert's Cove they tend to be fair and tall because lots of germans moved into that area. Etc. Unlike the English colonialists, the French married quite freely among various people and married slaves and free people of color owned slaves. To Englishmen they were immoral.

To themselves it's Laissez le bon ton roulez!

Tom Selleck, cigars, scotch, fast cars and the man who holds the key to my whip case...

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there is no guilt in pleasure.

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Tell that to Jesus.

There is certainly no pleasure in guilt though

To add to Bot's answer:

Coonass is an epithet used in reference to a person of Cajun ethnicity.

Although some Cajuns use the word in regard to themselves, other Cajuns view the term as an ethnic slur against the Cajun people, especially when used by non-Cajuns.

Socioeconomic factors appear to influence how Cajuns are likely to view the term: working-class Cajuns tend to regard the word "coonass" as a badge of ethnic pride; whereas middle- and upper-class Cajuns are more likely to regard the term as insulting or degrading, even when used by fellow Cajuns in reference to themselves.

Despite an effort by Cajun activists to stamp out the term, it can be found on T-shirts, hats, and bumperstickers throughout Acadiana, the 22-parish Cajun homeland in south Louisiana.


Etymology
The origins of "coonass" are obscure, and Cajuns have put forth several folk etymologies in an effort to explain the word's origin. Some believe that the word refers to the Cajuns' occasional habit of eating raccoons, or from the use of coonskin caps by the Cajuns' ancestors while fighting in the Battle of New Orleans or in the Revolutionary War under Spanish colonial Governor Bernardo de Galvez. Others attribute the term to the racial slur "coon," used in reference to African-Americans — thus implying that Cajuns are lower than African-Americans in social standing. Yet others hold that the term derives from the shape of Cajun women after having children (like a raccoon viewed from above).

The most popular folk etymology, however, stems from late Louisiana congressman and cultural activist James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, who maintained that "coonass" derived from the continental French word "connasse," which he contended meant "stupid person" or "a prostitute without health papers" (dirty prostitute). He asserted that Frenchmen used the term in reference to Cajun soldiers serving in France during World War II, and that Anglo-American soldiers overheard the term, transformed it into "coonass," and brought it back to the U.S. as a disparaging term for Cajuns. Citing Domengeaux's etymology, Louisiana legislators passed a concurrent resolution in the 1980s condemning the word. (Contrary to popular belief, the lawmakers did not ban the term.)

Research has since disproved Domengeaux's "conasse" etymology. Indeed, photographic evidence indicates that the Cajuns themselves used the term prior to the period in which "conasse" allegedly morphed into "coonass." As a result, the origin of "coonass" remains uncertain.


Miscellanea
Cajun governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards often used the word "coonass" in reference to himself and other Cajuns.
In the early 1980s, a Cajun worker sued his former employer over repeated use of the word "coonass" in the workplace. The lawsuit led directly to the federal government's recognition of the Cajuns as a national ethnic group as protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
While campaigning for President in Louisiana, Ronald Reagan once suggested his own appointment as an "honorary Cajun coonass."

Sources
Acadian and Cajun Genealogy and History
Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture
Jules Gilpatrick, 1965 LSU Graduate, freeflyte@centurytel.net.
Shane K. Bernard. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2003).







By the way, my wife is 1/2 coonass and doesn't find the term offensive. Or maybe she just ignores me as usual and doesn't know I use it

I'm a bit confused. Surely if youre the mistress you should be in posession of the keys to the whip case?

- Peter.

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Well, every now and then Mistress does a little "roll reversal."

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Oooooowwwww! You are so baaaadddd! Do you need to be spanked, too?

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oh YEA, ill second that!

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Hey, Mistress, isn't that one of the basic tenets of Catholic theology?

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way hotter and big doedee's too!

I enjoy watching CSI, Overhaulin', This Old House, and Landscaper's Challenge on TV, but there is no guilt felt in watching these programs.

My real guilty pleasure?

Laguna Beach, The Real O.C.

Yes, (head hanging in shame), I actually Tivo this show.

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Oooo.. Ouch. Yeah, that' pretty embarrassing, man... Sorry. That show is TERRIBLE!

However, I admire you for having the courage to admit to watching it regularly... I saw about 10 minutes of it one night, and wanted to throw a chair or something at the television. Horrible, cheesy, bad, bad, bad...



Occasionally if I'm home on a Sunday night, I'll watch that "Girls Next Door" show with my fiance'. (That's the one with Hugh Hefner's Playmate girlfriends...) My fiance' loves the show, and obviously I enjoy it for the T&A factor. ...So I guess that's my one guilty TV pleasure.


Mike

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