There's also the job of "chick sexer" ... less fun than it sounds - it's trying to figure out which gender baby chicks are.

So, my "letter of application" for a job was FIVE single-spaced pages. I included my resume (CV) in addition.

Academic?? So your CV is 40 pages?

I asked him what ethnicity macaroni and cheese is from, and he said, "American."

I think I'm going to have to agree with him here. "American," when it's used to include mac and cheese but not include tacos or knishes, is an ethnicity. It's not necessarily an ethnicity in the sense that you can say that specific people are part of it and other people aren't, but it's definitely a culture in the sense of having food, music, social norms, and so on.

Mike Rowe worked as a chick sexer on his show once...he thought it was funnier than the boss did.

All other things being equal, "chick sexer" looks way better on a business card.

I asked him what ethnicity macaroni and cheese is from, and he said, "American."

I think I'm going to have to agree with him here. "American," when it's used to include mac and cheese but not include tacos or knishes, is an ethnicity. It's not necessarily an ethnicity in the sense that you can say that specific people are part of it and other people aren't, but it's definitely a culture in the sense of having food, music, social norms, and so on.

I think maybe I don't understand the difference between ethnicity and nationality, then. I thought ethnicity was more than just shared geographical boundaries. And not all people who live in the US have a shared cultural and ancestral heritage of Kraft dinner.

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I think maybe I don't understand the difference between ethnicity and nationality, then. I thought ethnicity was more than just shared geographical boundaries. And not all people who live in the US have a shared cultural and ancestral heritage of Kraft dinner.

That's what I'm saying -- that the group of people who do have a cultural heritage of mac and cheese (and hamburgers, etc.) ARE a cultural group. "American" might not be the best name for them, since it also means a bunch of other things, but it is a culture just as much as any other culture.

I don't know that culture is the same as ethnicity, though.

All other things being equal, "chick sexer" looks way better on a business card.

Now I'm wondering if Young MC was actually referring to this job. "A chick walks by and you wish you could sex her/But you're standing on the wall like you was Poindexter."

FYI - if the racehorses on Keen Eddie were supposed to be thoroughbreds than they were wrong, wrong, wrong: the General Studbook (like the US Jockey Club) doesn't allow ai.