[Magdalen] The Deen controversy

[Don Boyd]

There were plenty of words never-to-be-uttered in the Methodist parsonages 
where I grew up, and to tell the truth I rarely heard them elsewhere, since 
the taboo against cussing in front of the preacher apparently extended to 
preachers' kids as well.  (In small-town West Texas, I might as well have 
had a scarlet "PK" placard hanging from my neck, so well was my status 
known.  I later learned that many PKs were famously hell raisers but they 
must not have been as afraid of upsetting their parents as I was.)

During my freshman year in college I heard the following joke:
    "Do you know how you can tell if you're in an area of racial tension?"

    "No.  How?"

    "They call redbugs* Cheegroes."

Hahaha.  (NB, in West Texas at least chiggers were often called redbugs. 
Can't say for the rest of the country.)