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Originally posted by Memnoch:
I'm an OZ and so call a spade a spade and ...
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BTW, Memnoch, do you know that the term "spade" is seen by some as vile insult? Admittedly, it's a rather outdated insult, but it still was an nsult against black people.
Just a bit of "insult trivia". I couldn't resist when I say you use the phrase "call a spade a spade".
And here's a sort of local one.
Ever hear of a paddy wagon? It's a slang term for a police prisoner van, if you didn't know. But the roots of the term "paddy" date back to a slang term for the Irish in the US when they were often refered to as "paddies". To this day, there are some Irish-Americans who take considerable offense to the term paddy wagon and equate "paddy" to the N word.