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.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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