As an ex-Orleanian (who spent a while playing the harmonica on the streets of the French Quarter; who taught boxing to the boys in the now-closed Milne Boys Home where the orphan, Louie Armstrong, was housed; and who did a stint in the local parish jail), I'm enjoying the new HBO-TV drama series, "Treme." It basically shows the struggle for respect and justice by the working class of New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina and interwoven with the theme of Crescent City music. Lovers of the Big Easy will understand and appreciate "Treme," but I fear that outsiders who dislike N.O. will have reinforced their view of the city as Third World and inhabited by nothing but backward baffoons.
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What's a baffoon?
Anonymous, baffoon, or in this case, "baffoons," is the anglicized Latin generic plural of neuter, but preferably masculine, gender. (Cf. Enid, "Ribaldry in the Streets [of Rome]."
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