Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Feb 02, 2010 3:26:47 pm PST #5765 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Absolutely. I think "urban" just means black.


Jesse - Feb 02, 2010 3:27:51 pm PST #5766 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

BTW, Lea Michele [Sarfati] is a two-fer, Italian AND Jewish! [link]


Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2010 3:32:32 pm PST #5767 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The thing that confuses me is that Irish Americans have similar stereotype plus "drunkards", but they are not "ethnic"


javachik - Feb 02, 2010 3:34:09 pm PST #5768 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

"Ethnic" according to answers.com, is anyone who isn't Christian or Jewish.


Jesse - Feb 02, 2010 3:34:13 pm PST #5769 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's because they're whiter.


Steph L. - Feb 02, 2010 3:35:53 pm PST #5770 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

"drunkards",

I originally read this as "drunkTards," and thought, dang, that's harsh.

Yes, I get paid to edit.


Hil R. - Feb 02, 2010 3:37:08 pm PST #5771 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

"Ethnic" according to answers.com, is anyone who isn't Christian or Jewish.

I don't think I've ever heard that definition before.


Daisy Jane - Feb 02, 2010 3:41:00 pm PST #5772 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Me either, considering the term "ethnic Jew."


Jesse - Feb 02, 2010 3:41:51 pm PST #5773 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Reading that page, it looks like a former usage.


Trudy Booth - Feb 02, 2010 3:45:56 pm PST #5774 of 30001
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

The thing that confuses me is that Irish Americans have similar stereotype plus "drunkards", but they are not "ethnic"

It's because they're whiter.

See also German Americans and Polish Americans.