The boss's latest avatar

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:27 am

(If ever a thread was doomed to early obsolescence, it's this one). For all the world, Dale's most recent avatar appears to show him laughing derisively at the post immediately above in the thread. Is this some psychological ploy aimed at those who are beginning to take themselves too seriously?

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:49 am

Sorry, Steve, but are you referring to the Ed Sullivan whistle avatar?

djm

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:18 pm

(a) No need to apologise, mate! (b) I have no idea.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:22 pm

Ed Sullivan

Whistle

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:55 pm

Yeah, well some of us are not yanks and don't know who Ed Whatsisname is and, if bloody Parkinson is anything to go by, we're a damn sight better off!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:13 pm

Jeeze Steve!

Ed was so big here that Mick had to sing "Let's spend some time together" to get on the show...and he did it.

Don't even get me started on that stupid mouse...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:15 pm

I'm not a Yank either, and I don't know really who he is, but I have heard the name and do have a rough idea.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:19 pm

Cranberry wrote:I'm not a Yank either, and I don't know really who he is, but I have heard the name and do have a rough idea.

You may not be a Yank to a New Englander but you are to him.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:45 pm

Denny wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I'm not a Yank either, and I don't know really who he is, but I have heard the name and do have a rough idea.
You may not be a Yank to a New Englander but you are to him.

No I'm not.

You're stepping on ground laden with landmines there. I am not a Yank. Walden is not a Yank. Missy, however...

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:50 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Denny wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I'm not a Yank either, and I don't know really who he is, but I have heard the name and do have a rough idea.
You may not be a Yank to a New Englander but you are to him.
No I'm not.

Oh yes, you are. Sorry. You get to pick what others are to you, but not what you are to others. Social construction, schwere Sprache.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:54 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
Denny wrote: You may not be a Yank to a New Englander but you are to him.
No I'm not.
Oh yes, you are. Sorry. You get to pick what others are to you, but not what you are to others. Social construction, schwere Sprache.

I disagree.

If I told you I was born in a country other than the US, but I was simply raised here all my life. Then what? Would you still call me a yank?

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:55 pm

Cue James Cagney: "Yank my doodle. Its a dandy .... "

djm

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:56 pm

There is no way on earth I can ever be a Yank. I just don't look good in blue pinstripes

Sorry...bad joke, I know. It's just that the Sox are playing Toronto on the telly right now

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:07 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Bloomfield wrote:
Cranberry wrote: No I'm not.
Oh yes, you are. Sorry. You get to pick what others are to you, but not what you are to others. Social construction, schwere Sprache.
I disagree.

If I told you I was born in a country other than the US, but I was simply raised here all my life. Then what? Would you still call me a yank?

Where do I come into it? Why would it matter what I would call you to the question whether you are "yank" to an Englishman from Cornwall? You are so full of the garbled remains of a century-old grudge that you are mixing things up a bit, here. The meaning of words is not the same thing historical justice or group allegiance.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:09 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
Bloomfield wrote: Oh yes, you are. Sorry. You get to pick what others are to you, but not what you are to others. Social construction, schwere Sprache.
I disagree.

If I told you I was born in a country other than the US, but I was simply raised here all my life. Then what? Would you still call me a yank?
Where do I come into it? Why would it matter what I would call you to the question whether you are "yank" to an Englishman from Cornwall? You are so full of the garbled remains of a century-old grudge that you are mixing things up a bit, here. The meaning of words is not the same thing historical justice or group allegiance.

You come into it in that you're not even a native English speaker yet you attack the way I use language and how I say things and use words (like "yank") far too much.

I'm not a "yank" anymore than Steve is (or than you are).