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"Marty" wrote in message
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KLC Lewis wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote in message
easolutions...
?? Never said waiter was. Did someone else? I'm not sure what anything
has to do with what a group calls themselves vs. what others call them
when attempting to lump them into some less than human way, but feel
free to explain. If you want to call yourself a Scottish American, go
for it. As far as wasp goes, you probably don't want to use that term
around the rich, white anglosaxon protestants at the local cpuntry club,
not if you want to have any company on the patio anyway.
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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com
Some years ago there was a push to get away from using the words "waiter"
and "waitress," presumedly because "waitress" was considered sexist. So
we instead got terms like "wait staff," "servers," and the rarely-used
but still funny, "waitron."
Like "Stewardess"? Now it has to be "Flight Attendant", which sounds to
me more like the guy in charge of the plane and attending to matters
flight related rather than my gastronomic needs .... sheesh it's getting
stupid.
Cheers
Martin
My mom used to call the male flight attendants "stews," which I thought was
pretty funny.
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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com
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