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To: DManA

The Irish can take a joke.

Jesse was mistaken and using the Irish reputation in doing so.

The streets and the subway system in New York, built by laborers, Irish predominant, are in very good order after over 150 years.

You must visit, to get an idea of what you are talking about.

My own family had the Bricklaying contract for the Empire State Building. It was put up in 1033, during the Depression. In a very short time. Have an uncle who was an engineer on the Trade Center.

they put up the gargoyles on the Chrysler Bldg and the ornamental plastering at Radio City. The brownstone at the Natural History Museum.

The Irish were not known in those parts, where they had so much input, as doin shoddy work due to drinking. So, any jokes regarding that from another part of the country where, BTW, they had no predominance, would not be a joke, but a lie and a mean one.

SO, as I said, the Irish won’t take lying.

And St. Pul, by the way, was settled by Scandinavians and Germans.

The Irish would like for him to just stick to the truth, and they’ll take any jokes therein.


61 posted on 05/06/2014 1:14:15 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
There was a depression in 1033? must have been due to those pesky first millennialists
65 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:29 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: stanne

Let us review the action.

A post is made about a tasteless “joke” on national TV about the drunken Mexicans. The Mexicans take umbrage but you scoff at their reaction saying the Irish can take a joke.

In my personal experience the Irish are as prickly as any other nationality, maybe more, so I test this theory by providing you with a PERFECTLY analogous example of a tasteless “joke” on national TV about the drunken Irish.

You prove my point by becoming all prickly.

I have nothing to say about the Irish in general. But one specific self identified Irishman can’t take a joke any better than the Mexicans.


67 posted on 05/06/2014 1:49:53 PM PDT by DManA
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