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yeah, both sides of my family started out in Ireland... my mom's maiden name was O'Shea for heaven's sake..... if you got and "O" or "Mc" in your name then there's a hard time denying the Irish ancestry.... LOL.....
Chow, you and Mr. CSD are blood brothers, his family is straight from Ireland as well.
^^ LOL !
I actually never knew he was known in the states until you guys mentioned it....... all I have to say is, we've come a long way
Lmao!! We first discovered Dame Edna, but, I swear, artemis, when we first saw this other character he did, I refused to watch it, he was so grossssss!!! lol. I couldn't even stand to look at him.
Lmao!! We first discovered Dame Edna, but, I swear, artemis, when we first saw this other character he did, I refused to watch it, he was so grossssss!!! lol. I couldn't even stand to look at him.
LOL! as a kid I hated les patterson.... I didn't get the humour and thought he was gross too.. Barry Humphries, is very funny though.
Chow, you and Mr. CSD are blood brothers, his family is straight from Ireland as well.
LOL, it's nice that people claim Irish heritage nowadays..... LOL, the Irish were definitely working class people.... under the oppression of the Brits... but who wasn't 150 yrs ago... LOL.....
We have family members that went over there to check it out... I'd love too as well.... I suppose I have a connection to the working man, the working class, the average Joe and it seems to me that's what Irish represent... at least here in America... they came over here and did a lot of jobs that no one wanted to do.... sort of the way the Mexicans are now... it seems like there is always some sort of working poor/underclass.... I don't know if that is the state of America or the state of life...... someone is always doing hard time.... now its the Mexicans/Hispanics time in the barrel.....
Every group that came over to American has had their time in the barrel.....
LOL! as a kid I hated les patterson.... I didn't get the humour and thought he was gross too.. Barry Humphries, is very funny though.
As a kid, you should not have been anywhere even close to being allowed to hear his humor, lol!!! Double entendre or not, lol... I'm not even sure I should be...
Actually, if he were popular here when I was young, I know for a fact that I would have been watching him along with my parents, lol...
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LOL, it's nice that people claim Irish heritage nowadays..... LOL, the Irish were definitely working class people.... under the oppression of the Brits... but who wasn't 150 yrs ago... LOL.....
We have family members that went over there to check it out... I'd love too as well.... I suppose I have a connection to the working man, the working class, the average Joe and it seems to me that's what Irish represent... at least here in America... they came over here and did a lot of jobs that no one wanted to do.... sort of the way the Mexicans are now... it seems like there is always some sort of working poor/underclass.... I don't know if that is the state of America or the state of life...... someone is always doing hard time.... now its the Mexicans/Hispanics time in the barrel.....
Every group that came over to American has had their time in the barrel.....
Two of his brothers have been over more than once and my Grandmother was born and raised in Germany and wasn't a citizen of the United States until right before she and my Grandfather got married.
My Grandfather comes from a long line of Cherokee so I am literally a half breed so to speak....LOL
People often ask Mr. CSD if he married a German Squaw voluntarily......LMAO
Two of his brothers have been over more than once and my Grandmother was born and raised in Germany and wasn't a citizen of the United States until right before she and my Grandfather got married.
My Grandfather comes from a long line of Cherokee so I am literally a half breed so to speak....LOL
People often ask Mr. CSD if he married a German Squaw voluntarily......LMAO
Irish and German European ancestry is obviously some of the traits of the American fabric.... One of our biggest stains that we have that a lot of people don't really acknowledged or think about and I'm not judging them for it... just merely noting.... we have a terrible history of the way we treated our Japanese country men..... I love America and I'm not baggin on it... but we didn't handle that right.. putting so many of our Japanese citizens in camps....... we didn't do that with people of German ancestory... and we as Americans don't really acknowledge that.... not a good thing....
Sorry to go off on a tangent.......
The Native American experience is similar... LOL... obviously, of course... LOl....
LOL.. I sound like a Birkenstock tree huggin liberal...
I guess the older I get, the more I see, the more I see, the more I have to comment and the more I comment the more I have to acknowledge........The more I acknowledge.. the more that I wished we had had done more in other ways in our history.....
I did it again... sorry.... ranted when I shouldn't have ranted when it wasn't appropriate........My self awareness is slipping............
The battle for self awareness.... seems to be a never ending battle..... a battle without arms, to extend the metaphor......
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