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1# Hip Hip Hooray!
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How it's Used: "We won the little league game! Hip hip hooray!"
What You're Actually Saying: "We won the little league game! Let's go kill some Jews!"
Say What?:
The first half of "hip hip hooray" is adapted from "hep hep," an old German shepherds' herding cry. That is, actual shepherds from Germany. Not the dogs.
Sounds pretty innocuous, right? Well, it was, up until around 1819, when the citizens of Germany and other neighboring countries began using it as their rallying cry while going Hebrew-hunting in the Jewish ghettos. So keep that in mind next time you're trying to come up with an appropriate cheer at your cousin's Bar Mitzvah.
2# Picnic
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How it's Used: "Wow, look at that! The sun's shining, the bluebirds are singing ... why, I think it's a lovely day for a picnic!"
What You're Actually Saying: Wow, look at that! The sun's shining, the bluebirds are singing ... why, I think it's a lovely day to lynch a black person!"
Say What?: Confused? We're including this one just to save everybody the trouble down in the comments. If you bring up the topic of tribal words, it's usually only minutes before some helpful expert will chime in with:
"Did you know 'picnic' dates back to lynching parties? It's true, 'picnic' is short for 'pick a n*gger.' As in, pick one to lynch. So when you eat sandwiches in the park, the blood of African Americans stains your very checkered tablecloth. Enjoy your sandwich, bigot."
This one, however, is bullstuff. According to Snopes.com, the word "picnic" actually derives from the totally innocuous French word "piquenique." The other, horrible meaning of the word is found nowhere outside of that one idiotic email forward.
So it was never a euphemism for anything. Or even a real phrase. And if you believed that email, then we have some snake enlarging pills to sell you.
