Reply #55: I've heard it [View All]

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and mostly in connection with my grandfather. He was a carpenter/builder in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. His jobsites had a sign
"Bog-trotters, Papists & Broncos need not apply"

Bog-trotter= Irish
Papist= Catholic
Bronco= newly arrived Englishman

This grandfather was a hard line Orangeman and in addition to 3 very nice children produced my Uncle XX, he's the one who told me in 2002 that "the US should bomb the fucking sand niggers into rubble. I mean it's not like they invented the wheel or anything."

Hang on XX yes they did.

Evil and hateful and ignorant, both of them, father and son.

I've always known it was a nasty thing to say, but learned better from my father.

BTW my grandfather was troubled when my parents married because (gasp) my mother's family was IRISH.