WTF is a W.A.S.P.

Factual Questions
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And, of course, the OED in 2010 will have it. I think Shapiro discovered it since the 1989 OED.

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How many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?

Two - one to call the electrician, and one to mix the martinis.

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So here’s something I find deeply perplexing: why W.A.S.P.s? Why not just A.S.P.s? Aren’t all anglo-saxons white, after all?

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Puffy, I think it’s to distinguish from Southern and Eastern Europeans. Not Anglo-Saxon, White, but White, Anglo-Saxon.

Basically distinguishing between Pepperidge Farm white and Wonder Bread white.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Like, none more white

[/Nigel Tufnel]

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WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, and is sometimes derogatory

WASP = Crappy metal hair-band of the 80’s - We Are Sexual Perverts, We Are Satan’s People, We Are Smelly Performers (I made the last one up) and you get the idea

WASP = Women Airforce Service Pilots - A cadre of female pilots, who in WWII flew cargo planes, and transported other aircraft, thus freeing up male pilots for combat missions. In thier own way, they may have been as necessary to the war effort as the Higgins Landing Craft.

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I believe whuckfistle was right. On W.A.S.P.'s debut album, “We are sexual perverts” is etched into the vinyl. (I was a huge fan.)
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I’ve often wondered how black Anglo-Saxons felt about this term.

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So two bee’s are flying along. One puts on a Yarmaluke. The other bee asks, hey why did you put that on?

“Because I don’t want to be mistaken for a wasp.”