Oh, yeah, and yes we can, tommyrot.

I kinda wish there'd been a mildly optimistic option between "save us all" and "not much" but I chose "not much" anyway.

I'm wearing black and grey, with bluejeans.

So, I'm reading a mystery book that takes places in Olden Tymes New York, and includes several families where the fathers are Chinese and the mothers are Irish -- from the time when Chinese women were not allowed to immigrate. I wonder about the real history there. (I mean, I'm sure it happened, but wonder about the details and how common it was.) But maybe not enough to actually do the research!

There was a PBS program on the history of the Chinese in America and they talked about just such a demographic bubble in Boston. The couples tended to take the Irish name.

So other people can see the poll results, right?

Yeah, interesting.

Because you know I'm not waking up in time to eat my breakfast east coast time. So the only possible solution is for me to eat lunch early. Right?

Clearly. Of course, that will lead to me eating my lunch at 10:30 east coast, when I start getting hungry, and all will be madness!

Jesse, re: Chinese/Irish perhaps enough to justify this shirt? But I doubt it. My kids, btw, have these shirts.

A google of "irish chinese boston marriage" gave me this [link]

There was a PBS program on the history of the Chinese in America and they talked about just such a demographic bubble in Boston. The couples tended to take the Irish name.

Oh, that's interesting. These fictional people didn't do that. The point we're getting through the book is that many of the Irish were living in squalor, and the Chinese men who got these Irish wives were the business owners who could provide a nice life for their families. Also, the wives were not the prettiest girls on the block, so had bad choices of husbands within their own community.

So, I'm reading a mystery book that takes places in Olden Tymes New York, and includes several families where the fathers are Chinese and the mothers are Irish -- from the time when Chinese women were not allowed to immigrate

Oh, I totally know what book you're reading, though I can't remember the author's name, and all the books start with "Mystery on..." which is not very specific.

But anyway. Have you read the rest of the series? What do you think of them?

Yeah, it's the Gaslight series. I think I've read one other and found them engaging enough. And it does feel like you're getting a real sense of people's lives back then.

Jesse, re: Chinese/Irish perhaps enough to justify this shirt? But I doubt it. My kids, btw, have these shirts.

Heh. My coworker was commenting this morning how people here aren't wearing green, and I said, I guess we're not Irish... She was like, Well, I'm not, for sure! She's Japanese. I should show her that shirt.

Victoria Thompson. That's her name.