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Who, as a small child thought the guy's name was Frank O'Harris?

Well, he does look Irish!





Seriously, though, you're not the only one.

I knew people who thought that when I was growing up!

Mebbe. But I used to think the guy filling in for Larry King on the Mutual Broadcasting System was Jimbo Hannon.

And what jazz lover hasn't enjoyed the music of Big Spider Beck?

I asked my dad how a black man could be Irish - made no sense to me.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:Who, as a small child thought the guy's name was Frank O'Harris?

i did as well

peacock2121 wrote:I asked my dad how a black man could be Irish - made no sense to me.

I'm Black Irish. Also Russian, so toss some vodka into me and you get a Black Russian. Ha!

But, seriously, Phil Lynott was a black Irishman. I wonder if Larry Fitzgerald is Irish? Now you're going to have me spending all day thinking of black people with Irish names.

Sisyphean Fan wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I asked my dad how a black man could be Irish - made no sense to me.

I'm Black Irish. Also Russian, so toss some vodka into me and you get a Black Russian. Ha!

But, seriously, Phil Lynott was a black Irishman. I wonder if Larry Fitzgerald is Irish? Now you're going to have me spending all day thinking of black people with Irish names.

I am doomed!

peacock2121 wrote:I asked my dad how a black man could be Irish - made no sense to me.

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.*




*Seriously! Click on the YouTube link and enjoy the song!

Sisyphean Fan wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:
But, seriously, Phil Lynott was a black Irishman.

Ah yes, Thin Lizzy. I will now have "Jailbreak" running through my head all day.

Which really is not so bad.


Bomp. Bomp. Ba-domp.
Ba-da-da-da-da, Bomp. Bomp. Ba-domp.

Bert Convy remarked, more than once, that he was black Irish. I called the library to ask what that meant. The librarian called back a day later and told me.

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If you want to get the inside scoop on Franco, Frenchy and that whole group, I recommend the book:
A Few Bricks Shy Of A Load. It gives you an inside look of that years Steelers and is quite entertaining. Reading it made me the semi-Steelers fan that I am today.

lilclyde54 wrote:If you want to get the inside scoop on Franco, Frenchy and that whole group, I recommend the book:
A Few Bricks Shy Of A Load. It gives you an inside look of that years Steelers and is quite entertaining. Reading it made me the semi-Steelers fan that I am today.

One of the best football books ever.

And I'm not just saying that because I'm a Steeler fan.

We have a teacher at school who is Chinese, first-generation born in the USA -- Miss Liu.

She married last summer -- Mrs. McLendon.

She teachers Spanish.

hermillion wrote:We have a teacher at school who is Chinese, first-generation born in the USA -- Miss Liu.

She married last summer -- Mrs. McLendon.

She teachers Spanish.

She alone must teach something about our assumptions.

Is this newer generation not so surprised by these 'inconsistencies'?

One of my favorite former coworkers was a gentleman named Henry, who was a sports copy editor. A twinkly little sprite, with a sweet wife. Just an adorable couple.

Henry was very Irish.

Some of my coworkers who'd worked with Henry for a long time loved to tell this story:

Calvin Murphy played for Niagara College and was leading the nation in scoring. Henry just loved Calvin Murphy.

Niagara was going to play one of the Philadelphia teams at the Palestra so Henry was looking forward to getting a Calvin Murphy picture in the paper.

A terrific picture comes over the wire services.

Henry was stunned to to find out that Calvin Murphy was black.

peacock2121 wrote:

hermillion wrote:We have a teacher at school who is Chinese, first-generation born in the USA -- Miss Liu.

She married last summer -- Mrs. McLendon.

She teachers Spanish.

She alone must teach something about our assumptions.

Is this newer generation not so surprised by these 'inconsistencies'?

The "newer generation" is not the first. I had a French teacher of Chinese heritage. Her major in college had been Spanish. Her name was Mrs. Abercrombie.

mellytu74 wrote:One of my favorite former coworkers was a gentleman named Henry, who was a sports copy editor. A twinkly little sprite, with a sweet wife. Just an adorable couple.

Henry was very Irish.

Some of my coworkers who'd worked with Henry for a long time loved to tell this story:

Calvin Murphy played for Niagara College and was leading the nation in scoring. Henry just loved Calvin Murphy.

Niagara was going to play one of the Philadelphia teams at the Palestra so Henry was looking forward to getting a Calvin Murphy picture in the paper.

A terrific picture comes over the wire services.

Henry was stunned to to find out that Calvin Murphy was black.

I hope he wasn't surprised to find out that Calvin was short.

silvercamaro wrote:

mellytu74 wrote:One of my favorite former coworkers was a gentleman named Henry, who was a sports copy editor. A twinkly little sprite, with a sweet wife. Just an adorable couple.

Henry was very Irish.

Some of my coworkers who'd worked with Henry for a long time loved to tell this story:

Calvin Murphy played for Niagara College and was leading the nation in scoring. Henry just loved Calvin Murphy.

Niagara was going to play one of the Philadelphia teams at the Palestra so Henry was looking forward to getting a Calvin Murphy picture in the paper.

A terrific picture comes over the wire services.

Henry was stunned to to find out that Calvin Murphy was black.

I hope he wasn't surprised to find out that Calvin was short.

Actually, Calvin Murphy's being short was one of the things Henry loved best about him!

If you ever saw (or get a chance to see it then you must see it IMO) Judy Gold's show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother one of the people she interviewed was a caucasian jewish woman who married a chinese man so her last name was stereotypical chinese - and many people would do a double take on meeting her after knowing her name. She once met a woman living in NJ who was chinese but had married a jewish man and her name was stereotypically jewish, who ran into the exact same situations. She described it as meeting her social twin, IIRC.

frogman042 wrote:If you ever saw (or get a chance to see it then you must see it IMO) Judy Gold's show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother one of the people she interviewed was a caucasian jewish woman who married a chinese man so her last name was stereotypical chinese - and many people would do a double take on meeting her after knowing her name. She once met a woman living in NJ who was chinese but had married a jewish man and her name was stereotypically jewish, who ran into the exact same situations. She described it as meeting her social twin, IIRC.

I used to work with Judy Chang who wore a Star of David on her necklace.