Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:16:30 PST

From: barbara harris GRADMA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UVVM.UVIC.CA

Subject: Re: sand nigger



Allen Mayberry mentions "rug pilot"; I first encountered "rug rider" when I

came out to B.C. in the early 1960's. Now we're all so p.c. that nobody would

dare use it in public. The same person who introduced me to "rug rider" also

used "ankle biters" to refer to her and her friends' small children. Both

terms were used quite commonly by the yuppies of the time, at least in

Victoria and, especially, Vancouver.