Doo Wop

Culture A quite niggardly (for me) discourse

“ I'm not making this up.  I'm around 10 years-old, walking down the street with best friends Timmy Hill (aka Mick), Tony Siciliano (Wop), and Joey Schmidt (Kraut).  Had we known any black guys, they'd be Spade.  Anyway. this old geezer guy stops us out of the blue and points - "How do you like my Dago shoes? ............  Wherever I go, Dago!  Get it?  Dago!"  He did a geezer chuckle  and walked away in a geezer shuffle.  We laughed our collective asses off,  and told that joke to everyone we knew. Even the Wop..  So when I read stuff like this ESPN editor getting fired Sunday for using "chink in the armor," in a headline about Knicks player Jeremy Lin, whose being a Chink was entirely incidental to said usage, I knee-jerk.  Remember the stink about using "niggardly?"  I've been through all this before.  It makes not a whit what I call someone.  It's HOW, and under what circumstances that count.  You know what I mean.  If you're a regular Chinese guy, you can be a chink.  If you're a Chinese Red Army guy, you're a MFCS chink bastid.  Pasty-face assholes be damned.  ”