On 03 Dec, 2004, at 12:04, Cheryl Shipman wrote:
At 11:02 AM 12/3/2004, Stephen Fisher wrote:, and a patty (sp?) wagon
It's "paddy wagon." An anti-Irish slur ("Paddy" from "Padriag" and "Patrick") from the days when it was assumed the cities needed big vans to round up the drunken Irish.
In those days, most help wanted "ads" contained the line:
"Irish need not apply"
From another thread, "Philistine" is an anti-Palestinian slur.
Only in todays PC culture.
It was the name used by the Greeks to identify the war-like peoples from "Philista" or what is today called "Palestine." But in more "contemporary English usage" has always meant -- one who is opposed to the arts and culture.
The term dates from at least the 12 Century BC (as in Samson and Delilah).
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