Expanding my Horizon

[Smartboy]

For quite some time, there have been ten shows on this page whose pages I have been in the habit of visiting. I have posted quite a bit on all ten pages. In the recent past, I have not had much success in stimulating any conversion. One of the shows that I have posted messages on has been "Friends". There is one thing that pertains to "Friends" that I have started several threads about that nobody seems too interested in giving their ideas and beliefs about. Because this issue pertains specifically to Joey, I have decided to try writing about it here. You see, very early in the game, it was made clear that Joey's family was Italian in ethnicity and Roman Catholic in religion. However, one thing that Joey said in one episode really caught my attention. The episode that I am referring to is the one in which Rachel insisted that, during her time in college, there was an evening in which she got drunk and had a make-out session with anyone female. Phoebe refused to believe that Rachel had ever done any such thing. During this episode, Monica was working out the seating arrangement for the reception of the wedding of her and Candler. Joey felt that his parents deserved to be invited. In Joey's dialog with Monica, he mentions that the two groups of people that his parents especially dislike are the people who work for the postal service and the Irish. I found it interesting that Joey's parents' prejudice against the Irish was never mentioned before or since. Joey could have said something about how his parents would not like somebody like Dr. Burke who Monica had dated early on. None of the other posters ever seemed too interested in corresponding about this topic. Well, now I am giving this subject a a second life. Once Joey got his own show, I do not remember the Irish ever getting mentioned by his sister, his nephew or Joey himself. What does anyone here think of any of this?