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To: Condor51

As my Irish grandfathers would say, “Green beer Irish”—they hated that stuff. They were the first people I ever heard call someone “abortionists”—which is what they called the Kennedys.


27 posted on 12/31/2011 5:32:43 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Is it really time to go?)
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To: Darkwolf377
I never heard that, which is not surprising. It wasn't that long ago I heard the pejorative term: Lace Curtain Irish.

Maybe that's because it was a 'Chicago Thing' and 'Shanty Irish' was used most often. And it's not like I was kept indoors (We were always outside 'playing'), my 'old hood', was originally Irish (very close to Bridgeport), and I had a lot of fellow 'Mick' friends.

(Being called a 'Mick' never bothered me, thought it was kinda funny. Like 'so...?')

29 posted on 12/31/2011 5:44:09 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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