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To: USS Alaska
Rick would have to think real hard about calling it a day, but his dago dander is up...

Excuse me? Dago dander? What in hell are you talking about, and why did you use such a nasty word, equivalent to the n-word?

16 posted on 01/20/2012 10:48:45 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
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To: Albion Wilde
Excuse me? Dago dander? What in hell are you talking about, and why did you use such a nasty word, equivalent to the n-word?

Both of my grandparents came from Sicily, so don't get pissy with me.

It's not a nasty word and you probably haven't got a clue where the term dago came from.

When Italian immigrants came here in the late 1800s, and couldn't speak English, many got jobs on the railroad construction sites.

They knew that by being payed weekly the bosses were shorting them on their pay and began demanding to be paid daily, by pointing to their palms and saying "day go, pay" and the Irish thugs that even then were humping for the soon to be union bosses, began to deride them by calling them dagos.

No shame there, and no apology coming from me, a proud dago, and I have no idea what rankled your sensitivities.

22 posted on 01/20/2012 11:06:01 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke The Terrorist Savages)
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