"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 18 Mar 2006 12:42:27 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


Patty O'Furniture wrote:
On 17 Mar 2006 11:54:16 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


JimH wrote:
Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an
important
meeting and couldn't find a parking place.

Looking up to heaven he said, Lord take pity on me. If you find me a
parking
place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give
up me
Irish Whiskey."

Miraculously, a parking place appeared!

Paddy looked up again and said, "No need for you to bother now Lord,
I just
found one." ;-)

bigot.

Why?

If you don't know why, I'd guess it would be a difficult proposition
for someone to get you to understand.....

That's a cop out Bassy and you know it. In other words, you don't
have an explanation.

So I'll ask again - specifically - why is that a bigoted comment?

From the Yahoo! dictionary:
Bigot: One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or
politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

I'm not sure that bigot was the best word choice. Maybe insensitive would
have been a better word choice. Just my $0.02 'cause I'm surprised (not
really) that this discussion is still progressing.

As an American with a bit of Irish blood in me veins, I did recognize the
use of a negative stereotype, alcohol, still I did find the joke mildly
amusing. It would have been funny, but it's such a played out predictable
story line that it only rates a mildly amusing.

This group is full of bigots, and by the definition I offered, I am one, but
I don't see the joke supportive of the claim that the OP is a bigot.