The good Protestants I grew up with in a Colonial town had their ethnic days, too. They were just more demure about it. As for Jews having "ethnic" holidays, yes, those would be (to name a few):
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Passover
Rosh Hashanah
Hanukkah
Succot
Tu B'Shevat
Lag B'Omer
Furthermore, WHO IS AGAINST HOLIDAYS!? That's like saying you hate fun!
Aw, he wants a US Saint Conformity day! That's sweet. Bet we get to wear a pre-approved uniform and chant nationalistic slogans in large rallies. Huzzah!
I think there was an episode of All In The Family with this very rant, except in that one Meathead came in and verbally smacked Archie down and the audience laughed and laughed.
It's kind of amazing. It's only a minute long, but he doesn't put his foot in his mouth so much as give both feet a warm, luscious, drooly tongue bath.
With that skin, you're telling me Lou Dobbs doesn't have some Irish in him? That kind of sweaty pallor and pattern of broken blood vessels doesn't just happen, you know. It's a gift from the Celtic god.
@sarrible: Ewww!!! As an Irish lass, I reject this assertion that his pasty-ass face is the fault of Irish genes!! Clearly.. he's Scottish or British ;-).
@ADismalScience: Yeah, we were responsible for the draft riots too, in which many black people were killed as some misguided protest against the Civil War draft.
I've always been confused by the Phelps-as-nerd narrative. The guy is successful, an athlete, gets girls etc... Am I having trouble finding his Star Trek costume? His Dungeons and Dragons fetish? His collection of action figures? His predilection for intellectual pursuits over the physical?
I always thought that jock was the opposite of nerd?
Also, are there any other mixed-race pairings that we could mock? Maybe Gawker should create a whole subsite dedicated to ridiculing those who date across the tracks.
@Taren: Does he really have Marfan's? Because I would have thought that the heart defects would rule about a career in sports. Good that the treatment has advanced.
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Tu B'Shevat
Lag B'Omer
Furthermore, WHO IS AGAINST HOLIDAYS!? That's like saying you hate fun!
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IT'S CALLED "THE FOURTH OF JULY" YOU RETARDED MOTHERFUCKER!
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I celebrated the fuck out of my '' ethnicity '' today and he's just called Lou Dobbs, rhymes with sobs.
I'm sorry, my eyes are filling up with Guinness.
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Swallow THAT with your green beer, fellow Hibernian/Americans.
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I always thought that jock was the opposite of nerd?
Also, are there any other mixed-race pairings that we could mock? Maybe Gawker should create a whole subsite dedicated to ridiculing those who date across the tracks.
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