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To: afraidfortherepublic

I remember reading in Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” of the common phrase, “No Irish need apply”.


4 posted on 08/17/2010 8:32:37 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: Drawsing
I remember reading in Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” of the common phrase, “No Irish need apply”.

Or Blazing Saddles', "All right... we'll give some land to the n-----s and the ch---s. But we don't want the Irish!"

7 posted on 08/17/2010 8:35:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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