Word: whiteboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divided into parishes. He came from Blessed Sacrament. On weekends, the Buchanan boys and other warriors from Gonzaga would load up someone's father's car with six-packs (the Buchanans wrecked half a dozen of their dad's Oldsmobiles, until his insurance was canceled) and go marauding, like whiteboy Crips and Bloods, but armed with only their fists and a fierce Hibernian truculence. In their cars, they would slowly circle the Hot Shoppe on Connecticut Avenue, hoping for girls, settling for a fight...
...name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner" and "William Shatner." (And no, those Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed a shy whiteboy coyness with the tricks and glides he'd learned from American Motown records, were hardly the most "masculine" singing to be heard north of Hadrian's Wall...
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