Doing the Zebra

[steepholm]

Okay, I'm doing this mostly to see whether I can work out how to post a poll, but I am interested in the results, as it's a moral quandary that has stumped me for years...

[Poll #1808368]

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

That´s what six pairs of more or less silly shoes and one pair of pedes in the nude walk allover on a rare, hardly known recordcover of a now long forgotten pop band from the ...er: late 1960s, I think? One has already turned into a hippie, for instance.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

You know, the term isn't used in the U.S. and most Americans don't know it. There's no need to be insulting about it.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Oh! I am so terribly sorry, I was absolutely sure you were merely joking and applying my bad sense of humour in trying to join in! My apologies, sincerely.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I have never been to the U.S. so did not realise this, at all. I thought it was a common term in all english-speaking countries, whether american or otherwise. Lack of knowledge on my side, as you can see. No intention whatsoever to insult you or anyone, on the contrary! I thought, we were having fun...