On 17-7-2009 21:06, Tim Cook wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> On 17-7-2009 11:13, Tim Cook wrote:
>>> m'boy.  ^_^;
>>
>> Interesting phrase. Normally only used if the one who says it is 
>> either much older (and you clearly aren't) or if there is another big 
>> status difference like between slave and slaveholder. So I'll file 
>> this as a humorous instance of the latter.
> 
> See also:  "Dang whippersnappers!" and "Kids these days.  Why, when *I* 
> was your age, *mumble mumble* through six feet of snow!  Uphill!  Both 
> ways!"
> 
> ...so more of a humourous, plainly wildly innacurate instance of the 
> former, poking fun at the curmudgeonly attitude of a stereotypical old 
> person.

Ok that leaves the quite inaccurate age problem. If I was a woman I 
might be honoured.

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