[Eleutheria5]

Weird visuals, good narrative.

[ansel12]

I had read 2 books on the Gypsies within about a year of each other and not much longer afterward got picked up by a gypsy in California as I was hitch-hiking to Houston, the conversation probably surprised him.

I love it when books come into use like that.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Everyone I have ever know who has had dealings with them don’t like them for good reason.

[jimwatx]

Gypsies seem to be the one group that even politically correct Europeans are allowed to hate openly.

[jdsteel]

My maternal grandmother was likely Gypsy, Jew or both.

Sent to America at 14 on her own as it was safer for an orphan to do that rather than stay in Asto-Hungary at that pre-WWII time.

[PghBaldy]

The two groups Hitler wanted to completely eliminate were Jews and the Roma (previously called “Gypsies”).

[TChad]

I met my first Gypsy last week. I'm still kicking myself for somewhat falling for his phony sob story, but I was exhausted from prolonged lack of sleep, and it was not much money. His entire family was in his car, trying to participate in the scam.

I expect Gypsies to be picking pockets in France, not conning Americans in a Walmart parking lot.

[Fiji Hill]

the more colloquial word for Gypsies in Eastern Europe, "cigan, cigány, țigan", it comes from the Greek "antsigan" which means untouchable.

That's probably the root of the German word for Gypsy, "Zigeuner." When I was in Germany, I had plenty of Zigeunerschnitzel, a veal cutlet smothered in a gravy comprising tomatoes, onions, other vegetables, and spices.

[jonascord]

There is a movie, King of the Gypsies, with Sterling Hayden in one of his last roles. It makes a case that here in the US, their style was starting to fall apart back in the '70s.

Oddly, I saw it again, just last week. It's on Kanopy, a movie site run by the library.

By the way, if some stranger knocks on your door and offers to resurface your driveway for a ridiculously low price, DON'T DO IT!

They slosh a pail of used motor oil on your drive way, and it will look good until the next time it rains and washes into the sewer. It was a scam in Central Illinois, years back, and the local popo accused a Gypsie family operating in the area. They seem to go for the Short Con.

True? Hellifino.

[Albion Wilde]

the more colloquial word for Gypsies in Eastern Europe, "cigan, cigány, țigan"....

Italian = zingari

[Albion Wilde]

French = gitans

Spanish = gitanos

[Paal Gulli]

The Gypsies originally came from India.

Genetic Sequencing Traces Gypsies Back to Ancient Indian Origin

The Parisians mistakenly believed the Gypsies had come from Bohemia, which is how the deadbeat lifestyle became known as "Bohemian."

[jroehl]

There are actually as many Gypsies in the world as there are Jews.

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[COBOL2Java]

Among the scams that Klinger attempted in M*A*S*H was pretending to be a Gypsy King

"I am Zoltan, King of the Gypsies!"

[Texan5]

I haven’t heard of any Gypsies/Roma of the Eastern European variety living around here, other than some of the snowbirds who live here in the Winter-early-mid November to late March- claiming to be Gypsies-but their “real” homes are in one of the far Northern states and they leave to live there the rest of the year, just like all the other snowbirds, so I think they just say that to be different. There are some real Irish Travelers who live near Ft. Worth and show up here in the Spring/summer to sell asphalt driveway and other construction work-expensive and badly done work, and they always drive brand new fancy trucks, have new equipment. But those are not Gypsies...