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Ladies and gentlemen, the newest stamp from the Mexican postal service, commemorating a beloved cartoon character named "Memin Pinguin".




Yeah, I actually had to lj-cut a stamp. I guess there must be about 8 black people in Mexico. Reminds me of the Sambo-ish caricatures in Japan.

Comments

[hexennacht.livejournal.com]

I think it's damned funny; Mexico seems to live to needle the US. They're like our crazy fucking uncle who lets all the kids drive.

[dorothy-parka.livejournal.com]

http://www.lacasa.es/web/conguitos/conguitos/conguitos.asp?idioma=ingl%E9s

my father brings me these when he visits south america. oy gevalt!

Echolalia attack!

[fimmtiu.livejournal.com]

"/WEB/CONGUITOS/CONGUITOS/CONGUITOS"!

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

I wonder if england ever did a gollywog stamp.

hmph

[bikupan.livejournal.com]

i think the gollywogs were limited to marmalade only! i remember you could send away the robertsons labels and get a doll!

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

this is so wrong but I have a gollywog and owen calls it "pitty the fool". He and ryan pretend its Mr. T. It's ryans fault. I take no responsibility.
Now I want marmalade.

[bikupan.livejournal.com]

likewise! i'm jelous you have one of those dolls. we only ever had the PG Tips monkeys and used to play with them in the bath. i think they were actually egg cups though...

[loose-joints.livejournal.com]

Wow. I heard about these and the brouhaha that ensued, but I hadn't seen them. Now I see why there was such a brouhaha.

[foo2rama.livejournal.com]

I like this one the best, just gets all those loose ends of racism in one place.

[namja.livejournal.com]

Bush himself did not take a stand on the flag, though, slyly, his wife, Laura, publicly stated that she does not believe the flag is racist.

Font hell

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

Is that COMIC SANS!?!?

Re: Font hell

[substitute.livejournal.com]

T TORGOX I AM KERNING YOUR SAMBO