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[joe at polcari.com (Joe Polcari)]

Yah, neither does mine.


I must be on the wrong mailing list or something.

On 3/15/16, 12:32 PM, "Discuss on behalf of Drew Van Zandt" <discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org on behalf of drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:

>My Linux system doesn't have any of these weird commands installed.
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>*Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective
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>On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Peter Olson <peabo at peabo.com> wrote:
>
>> > On March 15, 2016 at 7:52 AM "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <
>> blu at nedharvey.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Political correctness is synonymous with respect for other people.
>> >
>> > Anytime someone says they're sick of being politically correct, it means
>> they
>> > want to be disrespectful of other people, without any backlash.
>> >
>> > The white man in the room doesn't get to tell us what's racist and
>> what's not
>> > racist. If the majority of black people would feel that's a racist term,
>> then
>> > by definition, it is.
>> >
>> > Cotton pickin isn't racist, just like the confederate flag isn't racist.
>> > Meaning - they both are. Because the majority of African Americans feel
>> they
>> > are.
>>
>> To give another example, I heard someone yesterday refer to the paddy
>> wagon.
>>  She was in a belligerent mood, so I did not think to inform her.
>>
>> Dictionary.com has an entry for paddy wagon which claims
>>
>>     1. Informal. patrol wagon.
>>
>>   1925-30; probably paddy policeman, special use of paddy
>>
>> Much further down the page it says
>>
>>   Slang definitions & phrases for paddy wagon
>>
>>   [1930+; fr patrol wagon, perhaps influenced by the fact that many
>> policemen
>> were of Irish extraction, hence paddies]
>>
>> The entry for paddy reveals
>>
>>   Origin
>>     familiar variant of Irish Padraig Patrick
>>   Usage note
>>     This term is used as a neutral nickname or term of address for an
>> Irishman,
>>     though it may be perceived as insulting.
>>
>> Dictionaries are supposed to define the actual usage of a word, based on
>> citations of its use.  But this can only do a limited depth into the
>> origin.
>>
>> Is the paddy wagon the truck where the drunken Irishmen are loaded, or is
>> it the
>> the truck operated by the Irish police in America?  I suspect the former,
>> but I
>> don't have any way to determine the truth.  I think the term must have
>> originated in the police vernacular.
>>
>> Dictionary.com continues:
>>
>>   Paddy
>>   noun (pl) -dies
>>   1. (Brit, informal) a fit of temper
>>
>> Hmmmm, further down:
>>
>>   An Irish person or person of Irish extraction (1780+)
>>
>> Now, guess what?  If you look at these definitions you'll find lots of
>> arguments
>> that this was inoffensive.  It might be true.  The compilers of the
>> dictionary
>> probably never got hauled off in a paddy wagon
>>
>> Peter Olson
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