SCNDLS said:

What's Mariah Carey doing at this wedding?

Dear Jesus, I just realized that the sister with the obvious boob job in the green is wearing a bra as her top to the green dress!

I want to meet these people!

They're gypsies?

wildgoldenhoney said:

i think so, i first saw this about a year or so ago and i want to say they had stated in the original story that the family was Romany.

What Is an Irish Traveler?
By Brendan I. Koerner
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002, at 1:17 PM ET
Madelyne Toogood, the woman accused of beating her 4-year-old daughter in an Indiana parking lot, is an "Irish Traveler." What's an Irish Traveler?

Irish Travelers, also known as "White Gypsies," are members of a nomadic ethnic group of uncertain origin. Scholars often speculate that they are descended from a race of pre-Celtic minstrels and that their ranks were swelled by displaced farmers during Oliver Cromwell's bloody campaigns of the mid-1600s. Travelers once roamed from town to town in horse-drawn carts, earning their keep by busking and tinsmithing; because of the latter vocation, they were nicknamed "Tinkers," a word that's now considered something of a slur.

Modern Travelers in Ireland, who number around 25,000, frequently live in ad-hoc trailer encampments, though some have settled in permanent housing. Though prejudice against Travelers has abated over the years, they are still widely stereotyped as thieves and troublemakers; according to a recent poll, 70 percent of Irish citizens wouldn't accept a Traveler as a friend. A new law which criminalizes trespassing, thus making it easier for police to shut down encampments, has been criticized by Travelers as an attempt to destroy their culture.

A few Irish Travelers emigrated to America during the Potato Famine of the mid-19th century. Their 7,000-10,000 descendants still speak the secret Traveler language, a dialect alternately known as Shelta, Gammon, or Cant, which includes elements of Irish Gaelic, English, Greek, and Hebrew. They are also devout Roman Catholics who rarely marry outside the group. Their tightknit, insular clans spend the winters in such sunny locales as White Settlement, Texas, and Murphy Village, S.C., then hit the road come spring. Many U.S.-based Irish Travelers, including Toogood's husband, work as itinerant roofers, pavers, and painters.

Police frequently warn the elderly about home-improvement scams operated by a few Irish Travelers. Wandering contractors have been known to charge gullible customers thousands for "sealants" that are nothing more than watered-down lubricant; the con artists quickly leave town once the check is cashed.

SCNDLS said:

thanks for this i didn't realize they were seperate groups.

ehuffnsd said:

YW

Travelers are pretty common in Texas. There's always a story on the news about some traveler roofer swindling some old lady out her money.

ehuffnsd said:

YW

Travelers are pretty common in Texas. There's always a story on the news about some traveler roofer swindling some old lady out her money.

SCNDLS said:

they were the Irish entry into Eurovision a couple years ago.
[Edited 4/21/09 16:07pm]

ehuffnsd said:

Cher's not good enough?

SCNDLS said:

In California they're known as Republicans

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SCNDLS said:

You aint been to the Inland Empire have you?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

What Daddy's little girl wants, Daddy's little girl gets.
So when Missy Quinn insisted on a big white wedding with her boyfriend, her father said YES. It didn't matter that she was only 16 and the groom 17.

Daddy also said yes to a $32,000 wedding dress (which looked suspiciously like a crop top an
d skirt) and yes to 150 guests at the reception. Then there were the cars, the hotels, the tiara and the $10000 bouquet!




Check out the belly-ring ... it matches her earrings! So sophisticated.




Is that mariah carey on the far left?

Damn i just noticed uptownny beat me to the punch.
[Edited 4/21/09 18:42pm]

This is just too much for me to look at before bed.

Lammastide said:

Imagine this story is about your daughter

Line beards on the dudes and and breast implants on the chicks. Classic.

just NO. Please tell me this is all staged! especially the little girl in the freakin pink bikini! :disbelief

SCNDLS said:

No damn wonder then

A bra as the top of your freaking bridesmaid dress! They put Tanya Harding to shame