Comments on: Culture Clash!!! When Worlds Collide In A Good Way

By: MKT (not Joe)

MKT (not Joe) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:36:48 +0000

Cultural? I don’t know, but confusing, yes!

OK, I was at a bar-b-q this weekend and everyone kept calling this one person Joe. So I thought his name was Joe. When I found out his name wasn’t Joe, I thought I had confused him with another person, and I thought his name was Joe. I was horrified to have gotten people mixed up.

As it turns out, NO ONE was named Joe. The men called everyone Joe. It was just a nick name like bro or dude.

Why can’t everyone have their own nickname? This will ensure that I don’t get confused and try to apologize for not remembering your name, when it was never given to me in the first place!…

Even my husband is still laughing at me about this one.

By: TheDad

TheDad — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:53:42 +0000

Has anyone seen the episode of the Tom Joyner Sky Show where they ran a little parody commercial that was full of “church sayings”. It was infomercial type so that you’ll know what to say back when someone uses one, that way you can have the last word… it was hillarious LOL

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:36:14 +0000

@THE DAD, I was living in Savannah GA at the time. My co-workers were all from the south. No they weren’t playing they even told another black co-worker who wasn’t with us at the time, he also said that he’d never heard that saying.

By: Misbeehavin

Misbeehavin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:46:16 +0000

I try to remember that saying everytime I get stressed out

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:52:02 +0000

This post made me smile. I do get drained with serious posts. I can attest that “black don’t crack”. My dad’s skin color is a beautiful brown and although he is 74 he looks like a 50 year old man. I have white skin and not sure how i am going to hold up. But I can say I have never had a cavity. Now I do have a sister that is 38 and i am 41 but ppl think she is my child. I guess i had her when I was 3. LOL. She does look younger than 38 but I also look younger than 41. There are many things that we hope we got dads genes and not moms.

By: TheDad

TheDad — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:29:58 +0000

@Nicole - WHAT… Nicole I have to ask what state you live in. I need more info on these black folks that never heard that before. Are you sure they weren’t playing.. Unbelievable.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:18:31 +0000

I’ve heard that saying hundreds of times. I can’t believe he never heard that before.

I had the same thing happen to me. I was talking to some black co-workers about getting old and plastic surgery. I told them that I wasn’t worried cause black don’t crack and they looked at me like I was from another planet. They all told me that they’d never heard that before.