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skip fox

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6. WARNING!!! CAPTIONs at DU are creative!

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sun Jun 21, 2015, 10:06 AM

Jun 2015

But as CAPTIONERs we often try to channel the essence of what our subjects said or provide what we think they would have said if they thought they could get away with it. All for satiric purposes.

(ON a historical note, the argument about a gentlemen taking his property anywhere he wanted was actually made on the floor of the U. S. Congress in an attempt to make territories recognize and accept slavery. Before the Civil War of course.)

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Ol' Dixie! . . . Please come CAPTION former Dukes of Hazard star Ben Jones!!! [View all] skip fox Jun 2015 OP

" Of course that property I am talking were human slaves." n/t Bonhomme Richard Jun 2015 #1

What a grotesque display of classic, know-nothing, RW historical revisionism bullwinkle428 Jun 2015 #2

"Ideals like people ought to be able to do anything with their own property they want to"..... Bonhomme Richard Jun 2015 #3

yea, those 'sacred ideals' like owning black people. that is what it stands for mr jones. spanone Jun 2015 #4

Another gem : "Slavery benefitted the North more than the South..." bullwinkle428 Jun 2015 #5

WARNING!!! CAPTIONs at DU are creative! skip fox Jun 2015 #6

Ben Jones is saying: "Hell, the Southern flag means pleanty of things like skip fox Jun 2015 #7