Operation Blue Gum Called Off

[garbon]

Never heard of this either.

[Jaron]

Me either.

I guess now Operation Mooncricket, after the national cricket of Australia, has commenced.

[The Brain]

Unlike most posters I have heard about lazy African-Americans who refuse to work.

[Caliga]

Never heard it before, but I will begin using it.   

Will the new operation be: Operation Wind Chime? 

[Malthus]

What on earth does "blue gum" even refer to, racially speaking?

[Josquius]

I've never heard that slang. But amusing.
To me blue gum would bring to mind someone who in the old days bit a lot of fake money and had coppery gums. Though thats all just pulled from my head/arse of course.

[grumbler]

What on earth does "blue gum" even refer to, racially speaking?

That would depend on who you believe.  Looking into it, it appears that in some cases it refers to blacks without any white ancestry (and who therefor have purely blue gums with no pink tones) - this may be a term that "lighter-skinned blacks" use as a term of disparagement.  That explanation could equally well be one that somebody just made up.  Teh interwebs are full of the latter (stuff like "the significance of the word "National" in "Arlington National Cemetery" for instance).   

[Agelastus]

...Teh interwebs are full of the latter (stuff like "the significance of the word "National" in "Arlington National Cemetery" for instance).

I see you are still determined to pretend you are an ignoramus incapable of simple thought, a surprising trait in a man as well educated as yourself. You could keep it to the appropriate thread, though, out of courtesy to the others here on Languish.

Anyway, on topic -

I checked the internet and found the "blue Gum" explanation myself, and I have some doubts. Despite the stereotype of the "smiling African" it seems odd to me to base a racial epithet on something that most of the time you will not see (the gums of the African in question.)

[grumbler]

I see you are still determined to pretend you are an ignoramus incapable of simple thought, a surprising trait in a man as well educated as yourself.

Oh, very mature!    Way to show you have a sense of humor. Nice example of an ad hom, though.  Crazy Canuck might not have gotten an F on his post if he could have seen this earlier.

You could keep it to the appropriate thread, though, out of courtesy to the others here on Languish.

Obviously you are not very familiar with how things work here at languish (or on pretty much any discussion board).  Silly concepts get brought transferred to different threads as a matter of course.  See "Marti tackling" someone or some thing.

[KRonn]

I've never heard of this term. I guess it's the B-G word?