Monday, September 07, 2009

Happy Labour Day – Workin’ Man – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

A very Happy Labour (Labor) Day to all those across the pond. Hat-tip thingy to Norm.

This is my first ever link to Mr Geras who I heard speaking to a Euston Manifesto meeting a few years back.

I have a RSS feed to his site but he is a very scary blogger for these reasons:-

1. He does so,so many posts – For example 9 in the past 36 hours!!!
2. He is said to be a admirer of Tony Blair despite being a Marxist (but he hates the SWP “not socialists, not workers and not a Party”)
3. He loves cricket and also blogs about it on his site.

nuff said!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey John - good to see you linking to old Norm, but his surname is Geras, not Gervas. And it's the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Not Nitty Gritty band.

And don't let anyone start accusing you of using a racist term 'nitty gritty'. This term does NOT have any connection with the slave trade, but according to some stirrers in the race field it does. There is no evidence for that at all and indeed it only appeared for the first time in print in the middle of the 20th century and was there was no evidence of a derivation from the slave trade.
Keep up the good work.
Mark

John Gray said...

Hi Mark

Whoops! - sorted.

The term "nitty gritty" is quite widely used in the UK and I was unaware that there had been such claims made. I've just googled it and see what you say is true.

Cheers

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