Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Dan Rempel wrote:
>
>
>>Rodney Webster wrote:
>>
>>>In article <lai8k0drqcn2itr5l2e26uu2a2dpmgpudo@4ax.com>,
>>> Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>This refers to the program 'Information Please', and the date would
>>>>have been sometime between 1945 and 1951.
>>>
>>>
>>>A few years after that the movie "The Dam Busters" was made in England.
>>>It was the true story of a bombing squadron in WWII that used a newly
>>>invented "bouncing bomb" to destroy dams in Germany.
>>>
>>>One of the pilots had a black dog whose name was "Nigger".
>>>
>>>IMDB trivia here:
>>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/trivia
>>>
>>>Naturally redubbed in the US release.
>>>
>>>As well as this, I remember from my youth a British comedy (made in the
>>>'70s) which was a parody of the famous book about a black stallion
>>>called "Black Beauty".
>>>
>>>The comedians are trying to decide on a name for the horse they have
>>>found, and one says:
>>>"Oh he's so black and he's such a beauty, I'll call him... 'Nigger'"
>>>(The line was deliberately meant to shock.)
>>
>>While we're trading anecdotes, my family has been in the lumber business
>>for quite some time, and I remember visits to ye olde sawmill, where a
>>machine to rotate the logs while they were being sawn was called a
>>"nigger."
>
>
> What is the machine usually called, or what is this type of machine called
> now?

Don't know, although in things like safety documentation they're called
"log turners"; I doubt the guys in the mills call them that. I'll try to
find out and let you know.

Dan