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Garrett Bucks's avatar

Just need to take one more moment for House of Pain here, for making what historians to this day still consider one of the most innovative contributions to the field of cultural appropriation of all time (being legitimately Irish American**, but pretending to be Irish American from another city thousands of miles away).

**Also Latvian, according to Wikipedia, but the point holds!

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Katie's avatar

“the guest of honor almost didn’t come because he had previous plans to watch the Bruins game on tv“

This cracked me up for some reason. I’m just imagining his girlfriend and/or mom yelling at him, “YOU ARE NOT WATCHING HOCKEY YOU ARE GOING TO THE KOWLOON, DAMMIT!” I’ve driven by the Kowloon but have never actually been there- I need to remedy that!

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