8FOLD/CONTEST: Journey Into... # 8: Brave New World, With Such Awesome In It!

[Andrew Perron]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:09:04 +0000 (UTC), Dave Van Domelen wrote:

> In article <ack3yd032bk.1n1lpy7z13ck8.dlg at 40tude.net>,
> Andrew Perron  <pwerdna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:52:47 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:
>>>    "I had assumed he was Irish," says the Gelding.
>>
>>Bwahaha!  Naturally.
> 
>      Mind you, in the 1930s, and Irish President was almost as unlikely as a
> black President.  The whole Catholic thing (part of what made JFK so
> remarkable was, in addition to his age, he was Catholic).  Irish were doing
> well on a local level by that point, but really didn't have a shot on the
> national stage.

Indeed!  And yet, it seems so odd nowadays.

>      Dave Van Domelen, working his own Anachronoid into ASH #103-104.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, heard "No Irish Need Apply" in a
musical in middle school.