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We have another celebrity in our midst!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBm-cXfdPgs
If you have not seen the Poo Poo Broussard videos, you need to check these out....especially the Titanic parody!!!
James The Jeweler, you is one funny dude!!! mais my lips is chapt, chapt!!!
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Dude, I saw this last week. Classic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
Didnt realize the dude was one of our own!Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunGuru
Z.
That is funny stuff! Thanks for the link Z!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
That is one of the stupidest and degrading videos I’ve ever seen. Bravo on perpetuating the most negative stereotypes associated with Cajuns. If some of you guys like Poo Boudreaux so much then why don’t you see if he can become a mascot of UL. Then we can truly become the laughing stock of the nation. I doubt these two knuckle heads ever graduated from UL. I have 0% Cajun blood in me but my best friend is 100% Cajun and a UL grad and he was mad as hell when I e-mailed him the link.::x::Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
oh shut up..Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Its only offensive if you chose to take it that way. I know James personally, and he is a very enlightened individual. One of the smartest people I know. He does this character all in good fun, and we are both from a long line of very simple and country people. Their take on it: Its sayings and stories that will be gone soon because the younger generations have lost touch with older family members. The stereo typical "cajun" existed, get over it. This part of the country has grown leaps and bounds in the past 50 years, and alot of people that live here now, don't know what it was like growing up in Church Point, or Eunice, or Mamou, or Fussion, or Bayou Potage'. Those of us that do, appreciate James' humor.
I think you have to be from around here to even get half of the jokes. My friend from CP showed me this video last week and we couldn't stop laughing. The outakes video is the best, that titanic one is kinda dumb tho. Pooooo, my lips is chap chap!
You and James don’t realize that this is how the rest of the country perceives Cajuns. Putting this junk on you tube just perpetuates these stereotypes. In effect he is taking the Cajun culture back 50 years. When I was growing up if you called someone a Cajun that was fighting words. It took many years to break that perception and your buddy is dragging in back to 50 years. The fact that it is coming from a Cajun makes it just that more ignorant. Your buddy maybe a gentleman and a scholar, I don’t know the man but I don’t find this stuff funny and the people that I sent that link to were stunned.Quote:
Originally Posted by foofoochaisson
As far as growing up in rural Acadiana I did. The Cajuns I knew didn’t act that way. I know of nobody in Mamou or Eunice that fits Poo Boudreaux. Similar to the movie “The Waterboy” these videos just keep that stereotype going. I don’t appreciate Zeebart posting this junk to a Ragin Cajun board. It just gives my universities enemies more ammo. He should have posted it on the cult board so others couldn’t see it. Although I’m Cuban I feel pride and privilege in growing up in a Cajun culture. You don’t see Cubans making stupid videos of themselves like this.
My friend grew up in Mamou and he didn't see anything funny about this. What exactly are you laughing at? Ignorance? That is what will make the rest of the country chuckle too. Would you find it so funny if these were LSU grads?:hot:Quote:
Originally Posted by geo_cajun
Ok, we can all agree that James' character is a bit exagerated. That being said, I also think we can all agree that NO ONE believes that people this far behind the times exists! This is the very first time that this conversation has even come up concerning James. People from around here enjoy this stuff because either A) they know someone who fits the description or B) they have older family members, and have heard these sayings before. Who cares what the "rest of the country" says?! Are you inbred swine? Are you an ignorant man with huge teeth? Obviously not, so I don't see the problem. Everybody is so quick to get offended over politically incorrectness.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
And as far as being called a Cajun and "them being fighting words", as you so eliquantly put it, I have never heard or seen of anyone from around here get offended by that. Maybe being called a coonass, but never a cajun.
I wouldn’t call it politically incorrect. I would call it ethnic suicide. We have all heard Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes and chuckled. Many times they are outwitting others are it just shows two good natured souls that have not caught up to the times. Perhaps that is what your friend was trying to do with this but boy at least from where I’m sitting he has taken it a whole different level. I might be a lot older than you because calling someone a Cajun in the late 60’s and 70’s were fighting words. Nobody even those that were wanted to be associated with the word Cajun because it meant you were ignorant and country. In the late 70’s there was a renaissance and appreciation for the Cajun culture. They were indeed fighting words. Coonass was particularly offensive but in the Cajun nature it has become a badge of honor as you can see them proudly proclaiming it on the bumper stickers and windows of their cars and trucks. I don’t think that to many educated Cajuns would find those videos funny. It really doesn’t belong on an UL board open to public because they wouldn’t have a clue. But then again the guy that posted it isn’t a grad.Quote:
Originally Posted by foofoochaisson
Look, I see your point. I honestly do. But like you said, the appreciation for cajun culture as at an all-time high. The accomplishments of people from this state and its colleges are being recognized more than ever before. In my opinion, we as Louisianians have shed that stereotypical "cajun" skin, and have come into our own. Thats why I really don't see these videos as "ethnic suicide".Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
You made the comment that intelligent cajun grads wouldn't find this stuff funny. Well, look around dude. Go ahead and google "poo poo broussard" and see what happens. Its everywhere, from ages 13 - 60, people (from around the world - might I add) love this guy. If you ask me, its an accomplishment.
Well, I can say, as a UL grad (and with a few friends who are also UL grads) that we think the video is funny. We actually had a discussion about this in one of my classes. I think one of the problems in this country today is that everything is now "offensive" (or politcally incorrect).
One of the unique characteristics about the cajun culture is the ability for Cajuns to not take themselves too seriously (in other words, have a sense of humor.) My 64 year old mother constantly laughs at herself for not being able to pronounce english words correctly. Dave Petitjean, Ralph Begnaud, Murray Conque, etc. are just a few examples of this. No one has ever sued any of these men for telling jokes about Cajun people (well, as far as I know.) It's just not in our nature.
And if outsiders really think "The Waterboy" is true and Cajun people actually ride lawnmowers to school and have a pet donkey in their house, then they are the ones who the joke is on.
And yes, I am Cajun.
Dude thank you for seeing my point. If someone from USC stumbled upon this board and saw that video what would they think? I caught a bit of SNL the other night and they had a Southerner with a confederate uniform with a mostly drunk six pack of Bud and he was hooting and a hurling and firing off a shotgun at every chance. We that live here know that is not the norm for a Southerner. Those that don't say well there you are. It doesn't belong on a UL board. As far as Poo Boudreaux I would encourage them to tricking Yankees for more money that want a true Cajun experience. Poo could take them duck hunting and let them shoot a bunch of decoys etc.... You seem like a good guy so I'm going to leave with make sure people are laughing with you and not at you.Quote:
Originally Posted by foofoochaisson
Well, I grew up between Ossun and Vatican, and my views on this are closer to yours, RCajun. I just don't find this stuff the least bit funny. I'm not offended by it. It is just very lame and does not portray Cajuns positively.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Do you want us to be a regional or national university? YOu may find it funny but I don't. If I was a student from California and was deciding on Tech or UL that video would makeup my mind real quick. Zeebart never graduate from anyplace so he wouldn't know it doesn't belong here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns1
Hey everyone check out the real cajun on the front page of the advertiser today ,maybe we can get him to come out of the swamp every now and then to be our mascot-------I wonder what he is smoking in that pipe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Membertou
Why are so many people in this country so damn sensitive. You can't say this because it will offend these people, you can't say that because it will offend these people. Until people stop being so sensitive with everything that is said and done nothing in this country will change.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
I don't find the video's funny at all but do they make me mad that they are making fun of my culture, NO!!! These are jokes take them for what they are and move on. There are things done every day that some people will find offensive that others won't, it's part of life, don't take everything so serious and life will be much better.
Well, I actually attended Ossun Elem and know plenty of people that live East and West of HWY 93 that think this is just good ole', good time cajun humor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Membertou
And since when did anyone ever suggest that James' videos "represent" UL? Because its on our forum it automically reflects our education, atheletic department, students, and staff? Thats ridiculous. I'm a member of many forums and just because I post an image or video, it doesnt mean it reflects my familys views, or my schools views; ITS MY VIEW! If its funny to Z, then its funny to him; not neccessarily the entire forum. It just so happens that about 95% of us also think its funny.
Thank You! Some crazy hillbilly yelling my lips or chapped? I refuse to call him a Cajun because I yet meet a Cajun like that. Zeebart that posted this crap is not a graduate of any college. It doesn't belong here even if you find it funny. What if a coach or player saw this? ::x::Quote:
Originally Posted by Membertou
Hey if you want Poo Poo Boudreaux to represent your school contact Martin Hall ASAP!Quote:
Originally Posted by Clutch0364
You can take a vote if you like but I find it offensive even thought I'm not Cajun. Go to the USC forums and see if you will find any videos of drunk Southern rednecks with shotguns in hand. If you post it on a school website then it becomes an image of the school although none of these boards are official thank god it is a bad image of UL. If you don't see that then you are just as ignorant as the character of Poo Poo Boudreaux.::x::Quote:
Originally Posted by foofoochaisson
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!! Not everyone takes things as seriously as you do RCAJUN.... if there is a student from "USC" as you like to think looking at our board... I would have to think they are "smart" or "informed" enough to know that this video on YouTube is a JOKE... do you honestly think people believe this is a real portrayal of Cajun living... everyone knows that it is a joke and something to be taken lightly... if a student from California were trying to decide between us and tech and chose tech because of that video... then good let them go to tech and have fun in North Louisiana where there is just so much to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Take a deep breath and relax... if that infantile video can offend you than I feel sorry for you....
Well you are entitled to that opinion, but posting something on an unnofficial college forum does NOT mean it promotes what the school or staff promotes. I may be alot of things, but ignorant is not one of them... I'm a Cajun, born and raised my whole life.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
And btw, its Poo Poo Broussard..
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Originally Posted by foofoochaisson
LOLOL, I baled hay on the location that is now Ossun Elementary. You missed the Cajuns by at least 20 years. The last one died in 1980.