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Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan |
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:05:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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Joe Zeff posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:08:51 -0700 as excerpted:
> On 04/16/2013 11:04 AM, Maurice Batey wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:41:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>>> And, I'd like to point out that the man's name is Duncan, not Shirley.
>>
>> Uh?!
>>
>>
> I take it, then, that you've never watched the movie "Airplane."
MB> Surely pan knows...
JZ> The man's name is Duncan, not Shirley
If I watched it, it's long shrouded in foggy memory, but the joke is old
and common enough that it's a matter of (USian at least) cultural
literacy now. As with any cultural literacy reference, familiarity with
the general reference, if not the specifics, is assumed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=don%27t+call+me+shirley
Sort of like "Where's the beef?", or "I've fallen and I can't get up!",
or "Read my lips, no new taxes!", or with a bit more international
flavor, any reference to "Salman Rushdie" or "Satanic Verses". Those are
all "cultural literacy" references that people of a particular culture
(and/or generation) can be assumed to have at least a passing familiarity
with the reference, even if they don't know the specifics.
A far more modern example would be Psy or Gangnam Style (youtube search
them if you need to), or his latest, Gentleman (aka "Mother Father
Gentleman!", the mv is a bit over the top in political incorrectness, but
that's rather the point!, youtube...).
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, (continued)
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Duncan, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Joe Zeff, 2013/04/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Joe Zeff, 2013/04/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan,
Duncan <=
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Steven D'Aprano, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Joe Zeff, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Ed Fletcher, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Joe Zeff, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Ed Fletcher, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Maurice Batey, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan, Joe Zeff, 2013/04/18