More pearoastage I'm afraid...
I have a mate who's surname is Sampson (who used to be a b3taphile, and may or may not be reading. *waves* just in case). He was introduced to me as "Sambo", and not being one for using racial epithets it had never occured to me the potential and obvious disaster waiting to happen.

Said disaster happened not less than a month later on a lunchtime maccyd's and doobage run, when, after going on ahead while he parked up we spotted him trying to locate us from the middle of a large gaggle of black students loitering just inside the door.

"Oi! Sambo! Over 'ere!" I bellowed, waving my arms in the air. I didn't stay long, and fortunately there was not only another door, but a very long and quiet period of shock from said coloured ladies and gentlemen.

I still go a nice shade of beetroot whenever I hear the word sambo as an epithet.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:53, 2 replies)

People
called me Sambo as a nickname for years (and some still do). I only recently found out it was racist :S
(THIRTY-TWO - Sputnik -, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:55, closed)

I had a mate at school..
surname Packford therefore nicknamed Packy. It never once occured to us that this might have other connotations.
(Magnus, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 10:15, closed)