, and a patty (sp?) wagon
It's "paddy wagon." An anti-Irish slur ("Paddy" from "Padriag" and "Patrick") from the days when it was assumed the cities needed big vans to round up the drunken Irish.
From another thread, "Philistine" is an anti-Palestinian slur.
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