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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slur but we don't have gypsies here.[/quote]

My Jewish grandfather was from Romania! We learned early on that gypped was not to be used in our family. He rocked. [/quote]

It cut too close to the bone[/quote]

Snort - I spent 3 years in Romania and Moldova.  Actually had a discussion with some host country nationals about whether it was worse to be a Jew or Gypsy in that part of the world. Both groups are hated but it seems it was better to be a Jew than a Gypsy (which by the way are both ethnicities in that area).  I felt sorry for both groups but at least I never feared losing my wallet to a Jew.

And, when my grandmother (born in 1910) heard I was going to Romania, she piped up 'that's where the Gypsies come from'.  She remembers them and their wagons coming through her Indiana farm community.  Word quickly spread in the community and all the livestock/chickens were penned up until they left.  I've also seen them around here offering to seal/topcoat driveways (it's just black paint) or cut/trim trees - pick up trucks seem to have replaced their wagons.  My whole family uses "gypped" and probably always will.[/quote]

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