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Bloomberg's Irish 'jokes' get boo-birds from historical society audience
The New York Post ^
| February 10, 2011
| David Seifman
Posted on 02/10/2011 8:37:11 PM PST by Oratam
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Mike told a group of prominent Irish Americans that he was used to seeing "people that are totally inebriated hanging out windows" of the Fifth Avenue townhouse of American Irish Historical Society while celebrating the release of a book celebrating 250th anniversary of New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade while he stood in that very Fifth Avenue townhouse.
I cannot wait until March 17th. I'll find my place along the line of march good and early.
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posted on
02/10/2011 8:37:15 PM PST
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
Once, long ago, in a bar in the Bronx, I met the guy that hit Dinkins in the head with a beer can for what that mayor tried to assert over the parade. I got the impression he’d do it again, were he so roused.
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posted on
02/10/2011 8:47:40 PM PST
by
OldNewYork
(social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
To: Oratam
That joke has run it’s course Mike. If a major city mayor had made a joke about Bloomberg, his heritage and money they’d be....
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posted on
02/10/2011 8:48:09 PM PST
by
mewykwistmas
("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
To: OldNewYork
Bloomie’s gonna need a lot of protection from the NYPD marching in the parade this year . . . wait a minute . . . the NYPD are who???
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posted on
02/10/2011 8:57:01 PM PST
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
What is he mashugana? He can't tell a joke about rich faygele?
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posted on
02/10/2011 8:59:43 PM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: Oratam
This guy, I’ll remind you, is supposed to be the great moderate hope to take the GOP back from us bigoted wingnuts.
:-D )))
Mikey, lines like this were funny in “Bulworth” because Warren Beatty is a skilled comedic actor. You are not. And most importantly, he was playing a fictional politician, which again, you are not.
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posted on
02/10/2011 9:01:13 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: BOOM. Taste My Cluebat!)
To: mewykwistmas; kbennkc
Local NBC news played an audio clip of the mayor saying this and hearing him reveals he obviously was feeling a wee bit too comfortable with this crowd and made a tragic faux pas. Only members of the group in question are allowed to make jokes at that groups expense.
Will a billionaire lib face the same fate of some low-level well intentioned flack-catcher? Nah. He's mayor for life.
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posted on
02/10/2011 9:10:44 PM PST
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
Bloomie, that was so GAY!
To: Oratam
"...but we won't take the Irish!"
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posted on
02/10/2011 9:57:58 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Oratam
Being a McK.....here goes.
How many Irishmen does it take to screw in a light bulb?
.....Anyone.......anyone?
3......one to hold the light bulb and 2 to drink until the room spins.....HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:00:17 PM PST
by
Puckster
To: Oratam
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:06:54 PM PST
by
Puckster
To: Puckster
Did you hear about the Irishman who saw a brawl going on in the street? He stopped one of the participants and asked, “Pardon me, is this a private fight, or can anybody join?”
I’m married to an Irishman. That means I get a free pass on Irish jokes. ;-)
To: Pining_4_TX
Reminds me of the phrase: “I went to see a fight.....and a hockey game broke out!”
My son, ahem, who has a masters in physics and computer modeling, played hockey, and could of played Div I at Holy Cross(but chose St. Olaf), being the McK that he is, he was almost always the one to layout the big check that would get the team agoin.
At 5’9” and a half, he met a 6’2” defenseman bringing the puck up ice out of his defensive zone full body on......the defenseman laid on the ice for about 5 minutes, and my son had his bell rung, but stayed on his skates, and as he skated back to the bench, shaking his head to clear the cobwebs, he was grinning from ear to ear.
That’s my boy.
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:30:14 PM PST
by
Puckster
To: Oratam
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:34:34 PM PST
by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: Keith Brown
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:39:50 PM PST
by
Puckster
To: Oratam
Beginning to think the man has Alzheimers
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:41:59 PM PST
by
Carley
(ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)
To: Pining_4_TX
I’m married to an Irish man, too, and no one comes up with better Irish jokes than my husband! And his Grandfather, I’m told, could tell the best Irish jokes but I never could understand a word he said!
To: mewykwistmas
Absolutely; Irish aren’t “special” enough.
To: Oratam
As I always say in drinking with the boyos, “I’m not Irish, but the people who carry me home are...”
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posted on
02/11/2011 4:39:30 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Puckster
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02/12/2011 4:11:24 PM PST
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Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
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