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Spearchucker Jones
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h***@gmail.com
2016-04-07 08:43:28 UTC
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"He was called "Spear Chucker" because he had been a great javelin
thrower". Yeah, that`s like saying we`ll call this character nigger `cause he`s from Niger. How can you be so insensitive and ignorant?
Will Dockery
2016-05-28 04:30:28 UTC
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"He was called "Spear Chucker" because he had been a great javelin
thrower". Yeah, that`s like saying we`ll call this character n***** `cause he`s from Niger. How can you be so insensitive and ignorant?
Well, the author of the original M*A*S*H novel, Richard Hooker, was never known for being sensitive.

In fact, the original Hawkeye hated liberals, and mentioned enjoying "kicking their ass" in one of the books.

Here, I just found, is the complete (I think, haven't made it to the end) first novel scanned and online:

http://www.slideshare.net/puckslam/m-a-sh-01-a-novel-about-three-army-doc-richard-hooker
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