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To: moonshinner_09

The word “paddy” was once an ethnic slur. It was in reference to Irish immigrants who got drunk and stupid on the streets of New York, right off the Ellis Island potato boats. The cops would go out in big trucks and collect them, and they called those trucks “paddy wagons”. And that phrase still lingers in the American lexicon. Is this a great country, or what?


10 posted on 04/13/2013 7:51:27 PM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: jespasinthru

The Paddy Wagon got its name from Irishmen, often referred to as Paddies- or Padraigs- Irish for Patrick.


12 posted on 04/13/2013 8:26:21 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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