If Music Could Talk

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Wolter wrote:There are only a few thousand.

Thanks goodness the English have never been shy about expressing their bigotry thru public art.

Actually almost all of them are by the legendary American cartoonist Thomas Nast, inventor of the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey. He sure hated those immigrants. And people say the Republican Party changed a lot from the 1860s.

Wolter wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Wolter wrote:There are only a few thousand.

Thanks goodness the English have never been shy about expressing their bigotry thru public art.

Actually almost all of them are by the legendary American cartoonist Thomas Nast, inventor of the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey. He sure hated those immigrants. And people say the Republican Party changed a lot from the 1860s.

Whoops, you're exactly right. A landmark book by David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness, explores, in part, how the Irish gained status in the US. Rather than find common cause with the other shit-upon peoples of America—blacks, Asians, Jews, and Southern and Eastern European immigrants—they identified with and absorbed the hierarchy and got in as much as possible with the in crowd. They may not have made much money, but they benefited from gaining the status of white in relation to all those other subhumans. Sorry, Marxists, the revolution has been delayed by scrambling for a place in the pecking order.

Thank you all so much, everybody.

Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Flex wrote:Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Flatterer.

Flex wrote:Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Oh, go on.

Silent Majority wrote:

Flex wrote:Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Oh, go on.

I thought he looked like this:


I can say that, because I look like this:

JennyB wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:

Flex wrote:Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Oh, go on.

I thought he looked like this:
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f54cf49 ... -lucky.jpg

I can say that, because I look like this:

Don't you mean,


BTW, I love that your image was from chabad.org

matedog wrote:

JennyB wrote:

Silent Majority wrote:

Flex wrote:Happy birthday to a dude who I can honestly count among my best buddies; you're a great pal and a stellar person, James. Also, having seen you with my own eyes, I can 100% confirm you look just like this:

Oh, go on.

I thought he looked like this:


I can say that, because I look like this:

Don't you mean,


BTW, I love that your image was from chabad.org

True. I just googled "stereotypical Jewish woman" and she was the first to come up.

Happy belated!

Kory wrote:Happy belated!

Don't encourage James to expect recognition on more than one day a year. It's bad for his development.

Flex wrote:

Kory wrote:Happy belated!

Don't encourage James to expect recognition on more than one day a year. It's bad for his development.

But I was gone all weekend!

Kory wrote:

Flex wrote:

Kory wrote:Happy belated!

Don't encourage James to expect recognition on more than one day a year. It's bad for his development.

But I was gone all weekend!

Me too!

Happy belated birthday, James.

I know something else that's bad for his development. Hint: There's been a photo of it posted in this very thread!

Spiff wrote:

Kory wrote:

Flex wrote:

Kory wrote:Happy belated!

Don't encourage James to expect recognition on more than one day a year. It's bad for his development.

But I was gone all weekend!

Me too!

Happy belated birthday, James.

I know something else that's bad for his development. Hint: There's been a photo of it posted in this very thread!

The ship has sailed on my joining the Catholic church, Spiff.