Current mood:	Mildly Amused
Entry tags:	vandalism

When my people are gone and all that's left is an adjective, will you defend my people?
Granted most of the wank at Daily Kos is patently unfunny these pre-primary days. (Which candidate sucks more, ~~is Hillary a whore~~, is Daily Kos more homophobic or racist, who is the most oppressed of all? *blergh*)

But the following brought the funny and has not even anything to do with politics pre se, so it goes here.

Mike Erwin posts a Diary complaining about being troll-rated/piled on for complaining over an ethnic slur in another Diary.

Doesn't sound funny yet?

Turns out the "ethnic slur" that offended the OP so much is "vandalize".

Commenters fall all over each other with snark and bad puns.

I LoLed.

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	nam_jai 2007-11-10 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	Um...refering to Irish cops, right? Isn't that a good* thing to show them in a position of authority?* I once knew someone who took offense at the term, and she said it referred to disorderly Irish drunks being carted away. For what it's worth, Wikipedia says its origins are disputed and includes both the Irish cop interpretation and the drunk one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-11-10 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm...Wonder what her reaction to "Black Maria" would have been. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nam_jai 2007-11-10 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	If she could construed as somehow being insulting to the Irish, I'm sure she would have. Sometimes I think she was sad that "No Irish need apply" signs were an artifact of the past and she couldn't claim such things as personally oppressing her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-11-10 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	My inner Troll wants to go all ghetto-scholar on her ass and claim that "Oh, yeah, biyatch, well, BLACK MARIA..." But, I just can't. I love this sandbox more. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2007-11-12 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Who's black Maria? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2007-11-12 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Maria More a what than a who. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_mouse 2007-11-12 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	I know I once heard Bill O'Reilly defend the "disorderly drunks" version of it (when talking about the joke on Desperate Housewives about Filipino doctors). (Reply to this)(Parent)

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