All that hair would surely get wrapped around the front axle.

It's a curious thought, but I think it could end up with your own personal relationship with the word. My first occurrence with word was Blazing Saddles. I watched it with my family at a young impressionable age(10ish) and was explicitly told that the word was hurtful and demeaning and to never be used. It was…

Especially difficult for American's adopting English humor. I feel the Brits toss that word around liberally. I read somewhere it actually came from the name of an eastern goddess and was originally a more positive association.