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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:09 PM
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Ask A Mexican.


For those of you out there who haven't seen it, "Ask A Mexican" is a weekly syndicated satirical "advice" column that frequently takes on the immigration issue.

The author, Gustavo Arellano, just gave this interview.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/11/29/coverstory.html

Good stuff. This kind of thing is just what's needed these days, IMO.

Here's his column, if you're interested.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/11/29/askamexican.html

Note: People who don't understand the term "satire" may be offended.
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:14 PM
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1. I always catch his column...
in the local free press. He's a hoot.
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cosmik debris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:15 PM
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2. It helps to be fluent in Spanglish too.
But that was very funny!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:18 PM
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5. I'm starting to pick some up.
Last week he taught me all about the word "gabacho."

:thumbsup:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:17 PM
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3. Our local alternative rag syndicates this. I love it, but the letters they get about it
Edited on Fri Nov-30-07 02:17 PM by blondeatlast
indicate how widespread is the heartbreak of the wittically challenged.

Hadn't seen the first one in the link--:rofl:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:17 PM
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4. hysterical! nt
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:18 PM
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6. He's often irreverently truthful
love his column.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:25 PM
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7. Damn! They need to run this one here in NM
but the local papers are right wing bird cage liners who don't get "satire" and neither will their constipated readership.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:27 PM
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9. Is there an alternative paper? Our "alternative" (started local, now national--"New Times")
runs it.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:37 PM
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10. "Street News" sold by homeless folks
is the closest we have. There was an entertainment paper that tried to get started, haven't seen it in a long time.
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MarkPontes Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 02:27 PM
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8. so wrong, yet so right
Yeah,

it's all in good fun to make a point. it's funny stuff.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 03:38 PM
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12. Welcome to DU.
:rofl:
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 03:36 PM
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11. Funny guy.
My juera missus reads me his articles in a hombre voice. It's a hoot.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 04:14 PM
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13. ¡Órale!
:D
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