I'm Giving up on Hyphenated People

[DoggyDaddy]

Sidetrack, but since Klaatu was brought up...

[video=youtube;9URM_5R-vWk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URM_5R-vWk[/video]

 

[BugI02]

IIRC it was the womens libbers who started this nonsense decades ago. The thinking was that they didn't want to give up their identity. Back then I thought it was stupid, now I just don't care.

PS: My boxer was schoerner graf Franz aus Nord. A German lady I worked with got a laugh out of it when I told her. Not quite a hyphen, but he was a dog blue blood, so.

It goes back quite a bit farther than that. In Britain it was originally common among the peerage and had to do with retaining claim to family titles and properties. Something similar was common in other parts of old Europe but quite often with the proliferation of names but w/o the hyphenation

 

[Mikey1911]

Klaatu, barada, nikto. (Sorry - didn't mean to go all intergalactic grammar Nazi on ya)

It sounded better when Patricia Neal said it.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

It sounded better when Patricia Neal said it.

Well, you always lose so much in the printed version...

 

[2A_Tom]

[video=youtube;sIaxSxEqKtA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaxSxEqKtA[/video]

 

[Cameramonkey]

Pansy ass hipster? You’re being redundant.

 

[churchmouse]

[video=youtube;sIaxSxEqKtA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaxSxEqKtA[/video]

When I saw this movie at the drive in as a youngster it scared the crap out of me...

 

[2A_Tom]

You should see the remake it will make you go green.

 

[NHT3]

I had completely forgotten about Klaatu, you made my day.. I always thought "anus of Uranus" was such a catchy tune.

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

 

[churchmouse]

You should see the remake it will make you go green.

Yeah I have seen it......MEH

 

[Dead Duck]

You should see the remake it will make you go green.

Is it an all girl cast and the robot's gay?

 

[Sigblitz]

IIRC it was the womens-libbers who started this nonsense decades ago. The thinking was that they didn't want to give up their identity. Back then I thought it was stupid, now I just don't care.

PS: My boxer was schoerner-graf-Franz-aus-Nord. A German lady I worked with got a laugh out of it when I told her. Not quite a hyphen, but he was a dog blue-blood, so.

FIFY

 

[2A_Tom]

Yeah I have seen it......MEH

I really don't it was as good a Meh.

 

[NKBJ]

And then there's stealth hyper-hyphenated people, with dual citizenship and unavoidably divided loyalties.

 

[fjw2]

I work with a woman from Trinidad. She finds it offensive to be called African.

She would prefer that I call her Christine.

When I read a news story,I almost always replace the descriptive offering of the author with "a person". There are some that will write a news story from that perspective. I have more respect for that journalist because that shifts the focus of the story from racial to factual(who,what,when and how) After all, it's a person that does something. Just a person.

 

[AtTheMurph]

A friend of mine is a true African-American. Born in Africa, emigrated legally to the USA. Looks like and talks just like Gary Player. He wants reparations too!

 

[2A_Tom]

Your friend? Migrated and wants reparations?

 

[NKBJ]

Are people really concerned about hyphenated Americans when there are dual citizenship people in the upper reaches of our government?

 

[cobber]

Here's what happened to one of those hyphenated guys. Nothing good comes of this...

https://www.ketv.com/article/body-f...LJgazdH1dLDm8TYl1VE1TPlos9vpPoU6ydgLafe4LdzA#

 

[Crittersdad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuzLTrwVbc