I might joke with an Irish person about being a mick - I wouldn't go there with wop.
I gotta say...I would probably get pretty pissy with someone who made a joke like that with me.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Kristen - Aug 18, 2004 8:29:43 pm PDT #1690 of 10001
Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2004 8:30:13 pm PDT #1691 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nor guinea, dago, ginzo, guido and goombah.
Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.
Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:39:47 pm PDT #1692 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.
They are. "Goombah" is the bastardization of the word compare, which means a close friend. Second-generation Italian-Americans who only knew certain words and phrases of Italian, as well as lacking the accent to pronounce them properly, invented their own pronunciation which transformed them into wholly Italian-American words. "Rigot'" for ricotta, and "fungool" for vafunculo are just two examples. Italians have no clue what is being said when their relatives from the States use these words.
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Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2004 8:43:58 pm PDT #1693 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.
They are.
Oh, der.
smacks forehead
I was, of course, talking about Super-fucking-Mario Brothers.
"Goombah" is the bastardization of the word compare, which means a close friend.
Huh. Do Italians make it a habit of jumping on the heads of their close friends? That's not very genial.
Gris - Aug 18, 2004 8:46:14 pm PDT #1694 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Do Italians make it a habit of jumping on the heads of their close friends?
Only on special occasions. Like when they don't have fireballs.
Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:47:10 pm PDT #1695 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I was, of course, talking about Super-fucking-Mario Brothers.
See? Compare is a word that is used for very special relationships. It should not be describing the lowest level of fiends in a video game. Especially when Goombah carries additional negative connotations.
Allyson - Aug 18, 2004 9:17:56 pm PDT #1696 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's odd where lines get drawn amongst the familiar.
During a particularly stressful time before an event a few years ago, Maya and I got a little heated at each other.
Maya said, "You're just being a bitch because I married a Black man."
I said, "Sluts like you muddy the race."
And we fell apart laughing at the stupidity of the entire argument.
I don't presume that I could have that exchange with anyone else.
I don't presume that I can touch ita's hair, though I love her and she knows I mean no harm, for example. There's a boundary. Maya says to me, "YOU can go there." Someone else can't. There's the understood.
It's an interesting thing.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 19, 2004 4:16:05 am PDT #1697 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And by a strange coincidence, in today's Boston globe, something semi-related to this discussion.
Jon B. - Aug 19, 2004 4:38:51 am PDT #1698 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I was just going to post that, Frank!
Trudy Booth - Aug 19, 2004 6:18:04 am PDT #1699 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My father still gets the racial slurs, and I get them, from friends and acquaintances who think it's "cute." It's demeaning, yet I'm being uber-sensitive when I ask them to cease and desist.
You are NOT being oversensitive, dammit.
I had a friend in HS, Italian American, one summer he fell in love with doo wop music. Fill in obvious jokes and insert additional slurs here ________. It was just goofy kid shit and bugged no one.
But if it did bug him? It would have sucked. It would have been rotten verging on evil, not kids on the dock playing in the sun and cracking each other up.
Because I wouldn't hurt that kid for the world, no one decent would do that to a friend.