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." I think I was in my teens before I realized what the term
usually meant, and that it wasn't a real good idea to use it around most
people.

Dan