Ron Burgundy: Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diago, which of course in German means "a whale's vagina".
Veronica Corningstone: [pause] No, there's no way that's correct.
Our fine philologue Umumuntamku has talked a lot (though not necessarily on this blog) about how the Greek comic hero tends to combine two qualities that might seem contradictory:
- he is utterly vile in almost every conceivable way
- he nevertheless carries the play's moral message, by doing something the author wants everyone else to imitate
Umu tends to present this dichotomy as being a curious product of old Greek "shame culture", not necessarily comprehensible to a modern Western audience. I REFUTE HIM THUS.
At the start of the movie Ron Burgundy is obnoxious and stupid*. By the end of the movie he is still obnoxious and stupid, but he has also reversed his initial sexism and accepted a lady as co-anchor, giving the film its moral message.
Uh... so there!
* And hilarious!
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OR, gris, have you just proven by implicational necessity that ours, too, is a shame culture? Eh? Eh?
Dunno! What's a shame culture?
Are you wearing clothes -right now-? Therefore, ours is a shame culture. (Because, y'know, I assume you're either a) at work, or b) at school, as you read this... and I know* they don't allow nekkidness at work or school)
*don't ask.
let's not get too carried away -- the temperature is below zero right now. It's like, stuff white people like: Scarves! Well yeah sure but when the choice is not acting "white" or freezing, hmm.
Anyway, yes, we are a shame culture. Maybe not as much as japan, though.
I'm still hoping for a definition form the horse's mouth, as it seems to me the term was invented to describe an important difference between Greek culture and our own.
Also, I can never spell the word "from" right for some reason.
horses mouths are typically full of balls,*
this horse is no exception
*well, all the horses /I've/ seen, anyway
Tezzie, you really shouldn't be stuffing your balls into every horsemouth you see. That's how they created AIDS.
here!
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