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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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