Fighting Mexicans and Unreliable Irish

I agree that Sweet Child is a better riff and but also that a 'riff' isn't strictly a unit comprised of notes and not chords. Upon further thought the chord/melody distinction is useless anyway. The famous opening to Smells Like Teen Spirit is four power chords, not even fully-formed chords/triads. The point is that it doesn't matter -- it's a riff if it is to you, a series of chords if you want it to be, and finally, a power chord can be considered a full-chord if you want it to be. On the flip side, arpeggio's are usally referred to by the chord that they are arpeggiating -- an argument can be made that an arpeggio of the C Maj chord, (e.g., C E G C E G or C E G E C etc., ) can be called a chord as well as a melody. A good example of this is when jazz bassists or jazz pianists referring to the left hand part, or even one talking about Bach, call a series of notes by the chord. Again, I think the distinction, which I am at fault for mentioning in the first place, is not really useful.

Anyway, I found out from my friend why she had even brought up this topic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3677965.stm
Here, you can see their horrendous list (Paradise City has a riff? Where? When?).

I am off my work's end of the year party, Mexican-themed for Cinquo de Mayo (sp?) with Mexican food, pinatas etc. This reminds me, a visiting professor at Columbia, a well-known Irish playright, Roddy Doyle, explained to his undergraduate seminar that stereotypes of the Irish are often just as offensive as any others -- he apparently told his seminar, "I find it amazing that there is a University in the States that calls their sports team the Fighting Irish. I mean, would they have a team called the Unreliable Mexicans?"
Silly man. And not to end on an uplifiting note or anything, but Mexicans are not unreliable. They're very hard workers...they just like to call you maricon.