Calling all White Folks! Y'all didn't even know what Bamboozle meant! Hahaha

Y'all might have thought it means to be tricked, conned.....have the wool pulled over your eyes, right?

Well according to MSNBC, y'all would be WRONG!

Per the MSNBC Chatter Channel journalism Geniuses, when Barack Obama uses it, it's Code Talk (only Black people understand this, and since you're not Black, you have no clue....cause he's going over your heads).

It really means, "I'm like Malcom X"! See....only Black people would know this, and they are laughing at you right now, cause y'all didn't even know!

Yep...I saw that on my TeeVee about an hour ago!

Who Knew about this odd phenomenon? Not Y'all. cause it's CODE! (neener, neener, neener!)

So next time President Obama talks, Y'all White Folks just need to find a Black Person near you, to find out what the President really meant to say.

But think about the genius that is Obama! This could help the economy in a long run. Black folks can open up "Translating the Obama Code" shops all over these United States. Then, Y'all White People can come in and get a CODE deciphering for a relatively low price. This might just make a dent in the unemployment of Black people, especially in those states where it is running at like.....50%+ (according to a genius thread from yesterday).

Some will call it Affirmative Action, no doubt!
But you know what I say? Hell...if Da Vinci could have a CODE, why can't President Obama have one too? Just Sayin'! :shrug:

Y'all straight on that? (that's Code too!)

I mean....I know that the article was neutral to flattering and that the author was African American, but still....seems like one of those pieces Politico writes specifically to get air time.

:rofl::rofl:

I'll wait til the Cliff Notes version is released. ;)

They left out "hoodwinked"! That was a ridiculous segment.

I mean, I'm black, have been for 42yrs and I totally missed that one. When he said bamboozled, I really thought the meaning was pretty clear. Who knew???..guess I missed the code talking class on the southside of chicago and in detroit. :shrug:

:yourock: :applause:

or just hoodwinked?

means Folks in da Hood winking at each other,
cause y'all White Folks can't follow the drift! :rofl:

OBAMA CODE DICTIONARY:

Hoodwinked (hdwngk)
tr.v. hood·winked, hood·wink·ing, hood·winks

Verb 1. hoodwink - influence by slyness
beguile, juggle
cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
2. hoodwink - conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow
deceive, lead astray, betray - cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"

You humans speak strangely. You always fool us Cosmogalacticans.

the cashier. It's not code for anything! It's like being 'squared' or the military 'squared away'.

People are so stupid. And paranoid.

Now I'm scared.

I was open to them actually showing something worthwhile but those were some pitiful examples. Who came up with that crap? And shame on Tam'ron for playing along!

I stopped watching Television after that.

I stopped watching Television after that.

it's not meant as a bad thing, like white people should feel left out.

I didn't get the Malcom X thing. What does Malcom have to do with bamboozling?

That's more of an age and regional thing, IMO. Malcolm X didn't cross my mind at all when he said the word, and it probably didn't cross Obama's mind either. I guess when he says a word a white historical figure used he will be speaking code to whites, by that logic.

Malcom X, not bamboozled (wink, wink) - Code is supposed to be hard to understand.

I don't think people took it that way. It's just such a stupid article. Secret code is just so silly.

Malcom X gave a speech where he was talking to blacks and said, "You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. You've been bamboozled."

to Black people.

I feel so stupid.

Which means, not squared with "what you see is what you get".
See, Code talk is meant to make you feel stupid....
or that's what MSNBC would like you to believe.

descriptive terms using the english language. I blame Schoolhouse Rock for for not being completely honest as to what all these "words" really meant.

Here's a link to Slate calling the use of the word "code" back in 2008....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/01/24/obama-doubles-down.aspx

To show how sheltered I am, I had never heard of "okey doke" in the context used, either.

were code. Looks like there are some experts on TV explaining it all now. :shrug:

We sometimes speak "Black English" but this is not a part of it to my knowledge.

Black English ....

Gurl, you be looking good in that outfit!
You shore know how to wear some rags.
You are too tough.

or

Get on Ms.Thing, you lookin mightee pretty this mornin'

What's interesting to me is that the way we speak to each other has been carried on for years and years.

If someone said this to my 90 years young Mom, she would understand it completely and take it as a compliment.

:shrug:

Teach you to let on about the Code!

http://www.mojoflix.com/Video/White-Eddie-Murphy.html



Also note the bold above for the TRUE secret to why the banks collapsed.


Caveat emptor: I write this reply not knowing WTF the OP is talking about. I must be BAMBOOZLED!

Unless you read this book!

Then, you've been Bamboozled.

Yo squared on dat?

and hyperbole are never understood by so many.

That and "kill my landlord!" Eddie was great back then.

my brother, Malcolm. Is there a Muslim code, too, that he's using? Just curious......

Jonathan Swift condemned the word in 1710 in his "The Continual Corruption of Our English Tongue," along with such other recent coinages as "mob," "bully," "sham," and "bubble."

(Which seems odd, because Swift is also credited with coining the use of the word "bubble" in the current stock price sense, when he wrote in 1720, "The Nation too, too late will find/ Computing all their Cost and Trouble/ Directors Promises but Wind/ South Sea at best a mighty Bubble.")

Just for that I'm NOT gonna teach you the sekrit good ol white boy handshake! I mean it too! See that NOT all in capitals? Yessir that means taint no wiggler room in there, nosiree!

:P

-Hoot

I understood President Obama perfectly the other night when he spoke before Congress. Are there alternate days that he speaks in "code"? Maybe he doesn't on Tuesdays but every other Thursday in months that end in the letter "R"?

I'm so confused

Well damn I'd sure as hell like to know what code GWB was speaking in for the past 8 years because I sure as hell didn't understand him...

And it made me wonder why the cable nets never covered the REAL code-speak that went on during the Bush administration - his little phrases that were meant to send a message to the fundie hordes.

Instead we get this black/white code nonsense that will have every freeper trying to find hidden meanings in everyday conversation. Ridiculous.

oh, so NOW the corp rw "journalism" is suddenly so concerned over truth...

;-)

:spray:

:hi:

I know what "bamboozle" means. I knew about the term long before I knew anything about Obama.

Sho nuf.

Black folk started sending code words to each other back in 1939 in the movie "Gone With The Wind"

Mammy, Pork, and Prissy...house servants of the O'Haras... were all supposed to send code words giving details on an uprising. It would have worked, but poor Butterfly McQueen (Prissy) kept getting all hysterical and forgetting her lines.

I'm just like Barbara Billingsley. Except I'm a brunette. And forty pounds heavier.

"Chump don't want no hep, Chump don't get de hep. Jive ass fool ain't got no brains anyhow."

:hide:

dat right ther is the truth, son.

See what you have done frenchie:rofl: I'm giving out too much code without getting paid first.

Oh well, just put my check in the mail.

Something that has been irritating me for months. IT IS NOT CALL THE FIST BUMP. It is a dap or pound!!!! Schooling white folks make me head hurt:hurts:

And here I thought all along that Bamboozles were the cocktail of choice for decadent panda bears...

It's been eight years, so it probably SOUNDS like code to them...

It keeps people guessing, not to mention it keeps them thinking.

Word.