…in about 15 minutes. if you ask me any embarrassing questions i’m going to embarrass you right back. in fact, i might have to point out a few of you by (screen) name, and make some examples. you have it coming… “we all having it coming, kid.”
Where do I ask questions???
=)
I know what I would ask, but it would seem very selfish except to a few of us…
well, now, i’m not precisely sure, except that i’m fairly confident that if you go to active.com there will be a prompt on the home page. maybe you need a something player, i don’t know.
Dan’s funny… Excellent presidential candidate. He doesn’t really answer a single question- his brain works so fast and so sideways he just veers of into “Dandom”
No doubt though, he is a guru. I really enjoy listening to his thoughts.
“He doesn’t really answer a single question”
there isn’t TIME to answer a question. i’m too busy talking.
That’s huge.
I assume this isn’t live at the moment (1:10pm west coast time). Can we not call in and try to embarrass/harrass him?
Well Tom, I’d say you hit the nail on tha head. Henceforth Slowman=Sagacious D.
Dan, I’m interested in your tagline spelling - you use the Anglophonic ‘Arse’ rather than the American ‘Ass’. This is intriguing for me because whenever I want to use that word here I am conscious of my audience which is largely North American in nature, and yet all through my upbringing and education, when we wanted to call a group a ‘pack of bastards’, we would use the aforementioned ‘arseholes’, and not ‘assholes’.
Would you care to comment, or am I just being a pedantic arsehole by asking? ;
We use “arse” in the states to make fun of all of those wierd foreigners who talk funny. 
We use “arse” in the states to make fun of all of those wierd foreigners who talk funny.
…in much the same we, we use ‘pack of pricks’ to describe anyone who comes from over the water, especially Aussies, but we 'aint too picky!!!
;)))
Dan’s use of “arse” is a tip of the hat to common decency. Like saying frickin’ instead of, … well, you know. Plus, if he starts using rough language in his Subject Lines it will be harder to control “the kids”–no moral authority.
Now that is fascinating, because to us ‘Arse’ is rude - not dreadful, but rude. You wouldn’t use it around the Queen, or your mother.
But in the NA usage, Arse is a downgrade from Ass. We don’t use Ass, really, except to refer to four legged beasts of burden.
Very, very interesting.
How about a weekly slowman podcast ?
Dirt
“Now that is fascinating, because to us ‘Arse’ is rude - not dreadful, but rude.”
there’s, what, 3 million of you? that would be like offending, oh, the population of vladivostok? is that about right? i’m just trying to assign some proportion to this.
Hey - 4.1 million, at last count, I believe, but we have many more sheep than Vladivostok. ;
And just so we’re straight on this, I am not in the slightest offended at the title - but my curiosity is piqued.
So - is Monk correct to say that you would use Arse rather than Ass to tone down the flavour of that title?
The reason for the peculiar interest is that I am forever explaining (or trying to) the subtle differences between British/American and Antipodean English, to name but three varieties to erstwhile students of the language from more exotic locales.
cheers - thanks for the site. For Chrissakes don’t ban me!! :))
So - is Monk correct to say that you would use Arse rather than Ass to tone down the flavour of that title?
Also, I think, to reflect his pseudo-love for us. A real buddy, you just go ahead and call an asshole. Like “Hey Asshole! Come here and look at this.” But you might say “arsehole” if there were ladies present.
“is Monk correct to say that you would use Arse rather than Ass to tone down the flavour of that title?”
yes. and even knowing what i now do about you guys down there, i’d do the same thing, because it’s appearing 300 million against offending 4 million. plus, when you guys take offense it’s with a little “o”, as opposed to north americans, who have sharply honed the skill of melodromatic offense-taking.