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Her ape husband is half white. should he be half blamed?
This is targeting an ethnic group for hatred and persecution.
Ruby: You have some nerve questioning Megillah's motives for her speech! Also, It's been "decades since slavery"? Does Megillah know the word century? I thought the Emancipation was proposed in 1863 and signed in 1865. What decades?
The great ape's name is a near-homophone to the Hebrew/Yiddish word megillah, which means scroll, and is often used in a joking way to indicate a long, drawn out story; and, by extension, the teller of such a story. There is no apparent connection between that definition and the ape, other than making a suitable rhyme. In The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten, 1968, p. 233, the author observes that megillah "rhymes with guerrilla".
What Megillah are you referring to? The Megillah Esther or LaHavdil Magilla Gorilla.... I assume you mean Magilla Gorilla, but when you spell it with an 'e' it sounds too much like Megillah Esther, one of the books of Torah...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magilla_Gorilla_Show