A friend's conversation on Facebook last night had me in such fits of giggles that I just had to share........
Warren - Wow!!! TV has just plunged to new depths. I have just watched a programme on extreme sports "Man versus beast". One of the challenges was who wins the race pulling a jumbo jet over 20 metres? An African elephant or a team of 44 little people harnessed together? I can't quite imagine that brain storming session at that production meeting.
Warren’s Dad - OK, who won? I must know now. What do you mean by "little people", midgets or as in compared with an elephant?
Warren - No Dad, genuine small people. Midgets is a non politically correct description. Despite all that " little people power" the elephant stormed it.
Warren’s Dad - "Little people" can have many meanings, midgets has only one meaning. Politically correct is rubbish. One of my best friends when I was at school was a midget, and proud of it, or was he a dwarf? So what size were these people?
Warren - Dad I'm tellin ya!!!! They were all kinds of freakishly vertically challenged little guys and gals. Maybe not so much your primordial dwarf stature but very much your average fairground midget ,,,,,,, hey no offense to any little dudes out there. Anyone who can sit on their bum, lean forward and pain the skirting board is cool by me.
Warren’s Dad - So what’s the objection to what sounds like a very interesting programme. People expect too much these days. When I was a lad in the Yorkshire coal mines etc etc
Warren - I missed the orangutan versus marine on monkey bars. I expect that would have been worthy of a TV quick award on merit alone.
Warren’s Brother - Dad, could it be that your friend at school was simply a child and therefore by you calling him a midget, dwarf or little person was not only politically incorrect it was just mean?
