Phydeaux on 27/6/2006 at 12:41

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Thanks guys. I shoulda guessed that the booze line was Jackie Gleason.


Coincidentally, until a month or so ago, this one was baffling me too and would have been on my list, until I just happened to rent Marathon Man.

metal dawn on 27/6/2006 at 22:05

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Who is Kyle XY?
nobody cares

Parker'sSire on 28/6/2006 at 01:25

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(Sorry to respond seriously and somewhat off topic, but the question seemed a pretty important and legit one)

You are wrong.
(And any other folks from the US please correct me if you believe that I'm wrong.)
For the most part, the names of the various groups come from or are at least perpetuated by the groups themselves- not "anglo-americans" as you refer to them.
In my experience, "Anglo-Americans", or at least those I grew up with and live around, would be perfectly content if all of the other groups refered to themselves simply as "Americans". There's way too much politics involved, but the need for differentiation, separation, clarification, or sometimes

"Native-American", to my understanding, came about as a term of respect and recognition. Or, at least, that's how I hear it used. Most people in the US are very aware of the country's poor choices and treatment of indiginous peoples of this land. It's a very different term than the rest.

It's funny, but as of 2006, "Anglo-Americans" are a minority in Boston when you look at the population as a whole. The "minorities" outnumber the "Anglo-Americans". But, of course, the minorities are made up of varied, separate ethnicities, and seem to wish to remain so.

My mom considers herself Irish-American. My dad's family was from Nova Scotia... he was the first born in the US. But when the conversation turned seriously to nationality, loyalty, and home, they always thought of themselves as "Americans" as well as did my godfather (a real godfather type if there ever was one).

An aquaintance from Nigeria is more of an asset to the US than I consider myself. He lets out this huge belly laugh and doesn't understand why a group in the US would call themselves African-Americans. He says... "Im not African, I'm Nigerian. And now I'm American. Do you call yourself North American?" He started his own business, bought a house, is raising a beautiful family. He bought several used PCs that I set for him. They were sent to his very small town in Nigeria to help the kids there learn to use computers.
He considers himself American.

Check (http://www.italian-american.com/italorg.htm) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American#The_term_African_American) here,
(http://php.louisville.edu/a-s/cml/lac/lac.php) here, (http://www.fawi.net/) here, (http://www.indigenouspeople.net/tobenat.htm) here, (http://www.dank.org/) here, (http://www.polish.org/?view=home) here, (http://www.irishamhc.com/) here, .... I could go on for pages.

I sometimes think that things here inside the US are far more complex and less "black and white" than people outside the US think or have been told they are.

I have many friends who are "African-American"... I couldn't care less if they were purple. They couldn't care less if I was blue. We don't consider ourselves fundamentally different.

Then again, you can work in a office where the whole staff is "Anglo" and the lone African-American can be made to feel unwelcome or, at best, uncomfortable.
Or not...

A friend works for a large health care organization in Massachusetts; she can't understand what happens in her office. She's the lone "Anglo" (a less prejudiced or bigotted person has never existed). She doesn't get asked to lunch, her boss often does not accept her input, but will accept the same response from a non-Anglo, etc. Sounds pretty paranoid, but I've been watching it happen on a day to day basis.

The US is pretty screwed up. But, I'd bet, not in ways that most people outside the US seem to think. The debates at the (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107318) current immigrant thread illustrate it pretty well.


Back to topic:

Wayne's World 2?


[SPOILER]1. You took 3
2. 6
3. 7
4. Of course. Ther's a 5th, 6h, and 7th of July too.
5. All of them.
6. 1 hour
7. 1[/SPOILER]

Dr. Dumb_lunatic on 28/6/2006 at 11:01

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Isn't it called the world series because it was originally sponsored by 'World' magazine? Like, you know, the Benson and Hedges Cup, or the Carling Premiership.

I could be wrong..

Gorgon on 28/6/2006 at 12:01

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Thanks! Actually it WAS a serious question. It made things a bit more clear to me, as you know, in europe things work a bit diferent from there and for me all that concept is a bit alien. Anyway I got a clearer picture now.

Thanks!