Survey: People Prefer Blacks, Women over Geezers

What is a "geezer"?

You should be able to figure it out by the survey answers but anyway:

Geezer is a British slang term, in its simplest form meaning a man.

Derived from the differently pronounced 'guiser', a name for an actor in a mime. . A similar term is used to describe male participants in the Shetland Up Helly-Aa festival. It is also possibly related to disguise. In this sense it refers to a kind of everyman.

It may be used in a number of senses; to refer to a man whose name you do not know, similar to use of the word guy. It is also used to refer to a man who is overtly manly, masculine, or heterosexual, also someone noticeably capable, reliable, plainspeaking or down-to-earth. Although essentially a masculine quality it is not synonymous with macho however, and its usage may be thought of as very similar to that of the US English word dude. Example: Joe Cole referred to Prince William as a "nice, relaxed geezer." In the British 1971 pop song by the Piglets, aka Jonathon King, 'Johnny Reggae' was described as being "a real tasty geezer".

In the United States and Canada, geezer generally refers to an old man, or more liberally, any old person, usually eccentric. This may derive from redundant use of the word old in English as in: who's that old geezer? where the subject is not necessarily an elderly person. . This is an example of etymological contamination.

Because the population is aging in America, the term is slowly being broadened to include older women as well and imply a kind of colorful eccentricity, as well. For example, The Geezer Brigade, an online humor organization for "clever old people", is split between men and women whose average age is 70.

In Australia, the term geezer is often used to refer to someone from England, due to the belief that the English say geezer a lot; however, it is not as popular as the term pommy.

Geezer = Old Big City Democrat.

They want the Government to give them everything - They feel entitled to your money.

I would vote for Condaleeza Rice. Her being Black and a woman is a non-sequitor. Her being a conservative is why I'd vote for her. Oddly, women and Blacks seem to show up most often in the Democratic Party? So, if one is conservative and there are less women and Blacks that are conservative, then any survey might just reflect a "false correlation."