Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:10 pm
Yeah, so are, like, half the people who come here.Jim North wrote:Yes, of course it is. I'm afraid I don't get your point.grabmygoblin wrote:*pst* that's a cartoon.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:57 pm
didn't mean to offend. I was in a hurry this morning and was just noting that by Jackson's presidency Americans no longer were seriously considering establishing their own monarchy.Jim North wrote:Yes, of course it is. I'm afraid I don't get your point.grabmygoblin wrote:*pst* that's a cartoon.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:00 pm
I wasn't aware that they ever were.grabmygoblin wrote:didn't mean to offend. I was in a hurry this morning and was just noting that by Jackson's presidency Americans no longer were seriously considering establishing their own monarchy.Jim North wrote:Yes, of course it is. I'm afraid I don't get your point.grabmygoblin wrote:*pst* that's a cartoon.
Anyway, the cartoon that I posted was an editorial made way back when because of Jackson's upholding of the spoils system, his disregard for constitutional rights, his general surly disposition, and various other infractions (such as threatening martial law against states who didn't follow his unreasonable demands) against both civil and political rights. It was meant, of course, to show that Andrew Jackson obviously thought of himself as King of America, able to do as he pleased regardless of how the rest of America really felt about it.
Which was, of course, the joke.
You didn't offend me, just confused me . . . I'm guessing that you thought, then, that I had just pulled the image from Google Image and was taking it seriously? Truth is, I first saw this particular editorial back in one of my elementary school history classes, already well knew that it was a joke, and went looking for it specifically to continue my own joke.
Which is now ruined because I had to explain it! Waugh!
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:50 am
Bob's Monarchy: 1 , Jim's Anarchy : 0
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:56 am
It woulda been the other way if he hadn't explained the joke.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:26 am
I'll do the stereotypes for two cities:
L.A. (where I was born and raised)
1) we're new-agey (I don't believe in Astrology)
2) we're health conscious
3) we're obsessed with pop culture
4) we say "like" every other word
5) everyone lives on the beach
6) everyone is a flake
7) everyone knows or has met a celebrity
New York City (where I live now):
1) everyone is rude
2) no one knows how to drive a car
3) everyone is aggressive
4) everyone is an elitist snob
5) no one cares about anyone but themself
I know from living in New York that a lot of New Yorkers think that Angelinos are completely spacey. Resaons for this are the following: shows like the "OC," "Laguna Beach," "Dr. 90210" and apparently this "Californian drawl" that we have in our speech.
L.A. (where I was born and raised)
1) we're new-agey (I don't believe in Astrology)
2) we're health conscious
3) we're obsessed with pop culture
4) we say "like" every other word
5) everyone lives on the beach
6) everyone is a flake
7) everyone knows or has met a celebrity
New York City (where I live now):
1) everyone is rude
2) no one knows how to drive a car
3) everyone is aggressive
4) everyone is an elitist snob
5) no one cares about anyone but themself
I know from living in New York that a lot of New Yorkers think that Angelinos are completely spacey. Resaons for this are the following: shows like the "OC," "Laguna Beach," "Dr. 90210" and apparently this "Californian drawl" that we have in our speech.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:29 am
BLAST AND DAMN!mcDuffies wrote:It woulda been the other way if he hadn't explained the joke.
*starts new revolution*