Cheryl Shipman wrote:
At 11:02 AM 12/3/2004, Stephen Fisher wrote:
, 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.
It also derives from the high incidence of Irish among the police and fire brigades in NYC.
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