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To: BenLurkin

Oy.

Paddy wagon

From what? 1913?

This is why conservatives have trouble carving out a spot in legitimate or pop culture

Irish can take it - one because victimhood is not how the story turned out so far. But it is not a nice depiction

And two because there was truth in it

No mention that most of the cops doing the rounding up we’re Irish

Ijuts, as the Irish say


47 posted on 05/02/2015 7:20:01 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne; BenLurkin

Take what”

The most common theory is that it was named for the policemen, because so many of the big city authorities were Irish.

That isn’t so insulting.


52 posted on 05/02/2015 7:38:44 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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