Sheep, baaaaaaah, baaah bah!
POSTED BY: AngusThermopyle
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 16:23
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"Take the mick."
http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/retort.cgi?British=ta-ta
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take the mickey expr vt :
make fun of, mock, syn. piss take, take the mick.
Giving someone shit. Yanking someone's tail. Pulling someone's leg. But, perhaps, less politely.
BTW (and this really isn't aimed at anyone in particular), I didn't introduce myself in this forum, either, but I seem to have had less problem "getting along" by personally avoiding starting threads that take the mickey out of folks I would've hoped to engage in entertaining discussions. I have a "lurk'n'post" modality that has served me well, because I find taking the measure of the milieux, then jumping in, hair on fire, to be more efficient.
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Irony tends to be entirely subjective. Telling someone to look up the definition thereof, or that one doesn't understand irony, is a bit like telling someone they don't understand the colour, "blue." One either finds something ironic, or one doesn't. Oedipus' story was more one of hubris ( and that the gods were right bastards), he tried to outwit his fate and paid for it. ;-D
"There is no grace under pressure for a cat on fire." Cosi
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So, Heather, you're an elitist. You want everyone to pass some kind of longevity test before they can be themselves. They should all be polite and only speak when spoken to. If you'd wait that long, you'd probably either say nothing at all because you weren't totally sure whether everyone in the place would completely understand what you meant or everyone would ignore you. Personally, I don't like either option. Don't be a sheep. Get it? I took no offense at all. It's a laugh, just like using a rolled up fist from time to time.
"Elitist" Whoa! Over exaggerate much?
If being yourself means insulting people in your first post then,yes, I guess I do have a problem with you being yourself straight away or at all. This doesn't mean that people can't take the mick straight away, especially when they know the people they are taking the mick of, but there is a difference between teasing and what you did...
...unless like you said, what you said was tongue in cheek but I still don't see that it was especially as you repeated what you said when asked about it.
So either you were being 'tongue in cheek' and don't believe what you said about sheep (in which case I apologise for misinterpretting your comment) or you were insulting people on this board (in which case I stand by my opinion that that is not a very nice thing to do).
Which is it?
Heather
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Originally posted by ReeQueen:
"Take the mick."
http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/retort.cgi?British=ta-taQuote:
take the mickey expr vt :
make fun of, mock, syn. piss take, take the mick.
Giving someone shit. Yanking someone's tail. Pulling someone's leg. But, perhaps, less politely.
BTW (and this really isn't aimed at anyone in particular), I didn't introduce myself in this forum, either, but I seem to have had less problem "getting along" by personally avoiding starting threads that take the mickey out of folks I would've hoped to engage in entertaining discussions. I have a "lurk'n'post" modality that has served me well, because I find taking the measure of the milieux, then jumping in, hair on fire, to be more efficient.
Welcome to the board
!This thread has turned into an unexpected opportunity to anglicize the place. We should exact some revenge for Whedon and his followers making us all talk like Americans. So if any non-Brits out there want to know the meaning of any other obscure British phrases - ask away.
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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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Just saw this - pardon my tardiness.
Quote:Anyone who answers as one of the characters is, indeed, a bit too devoted. Them as chose to use the vernacular their own selves, however
AngusThermopyle said
The fact that messages get answered in the same vernacular as the series is (like) so disturbing. Is this a cult now? Do you people have alters to Joss Whedon? I bet many of you have Starfleet uniforms, too...
are simply honoring the time-honored tradition of the American Western novel. Take any one of those and add space ships to it, and you've got yourself a Firefly format. You say "cult" like it's a bad thing - someone's been listening to the media too much, methinks. Without this "cult" there would never have been any rumors of a movie to pull you in here. Not to mention that most folks don't go to the bother of actually registering just to post their "tongue in cheek" opinions unless of course they LIKE being banished to Troll-dom. And why would JW fans have Starfleet uniforms? I ask you?
Name a fan organization out there and I guarantee you the media has painted them as cults as well - from Star Wars to LOTR. But it's the cults who get things done - who turn that squeaky wheel and cry out for more. I bet Shakespear had one or two cults in his day - he has them now, for Pete's sake.
Quote:I've apologized as many times as I can for my goofs in writing Mandarin and Cajun French as it is, thank you. I'm American, I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe in to each their own. The Chinese have fought for their rights before, they will do so again. It's a human condition, no matter what the culture.
AngusThermopyle said
How many people have learned Mandarin just so they can get the references in the show? Bet no-one tried to learn it because they thought it would be useful in helping the Chinese people who do not have the freedom to speak out or worship as they please. Oh, that got a bit more serious than intended...
Quote:This gave away your nationality, for me at least. Otherwise it would have been the Declaration of Independence or Maya Angelou. I mention her because I prefer to read Shakespear's sonnets over the plays. Hyphenating "no-one" helped too. No one over here does that.
AngusThermopyle said
It isn't the Magna Carta, or Shakespear (although the jokes are better).
For my ownself... baaaaa...
Incidentally, your alias sounds somewhat... Harry Potter-ish...and I mean that in the best sense possible. Honest
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that's tongue in cheek)Fans come and fans go...but zealots are with you until the bitter black end.
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HAHAHAHA!! That's great! I came onto this page because I thought there would be some interesting Sheep jokes. Half the enjoyment of something is getting to talk about it in Quotes.
"Now it's time to sing the doom Song, doom doom doom doom doom doom..." I make a pretty good Gir. Another great show canceled before it's time.
Back to me. Hey dude person lady man? Who wrote the Sheep, Baaaaaaaaah, Baaah, bah! If you like the show how come you are upset over the respounce it's been recieving from it's "Loyal" fans?
With Hope because love is nothing without hope.
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HEB:
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Welcome to the board !
This thread has turned into an unexpected opportunity to anglicize the place. We should exact some revenge for Whedon and his followers making us all talk like Americans. So if any non-Brits out there want to know the meaning of any other obscure British phrases - ask away.
Thank you, Heather.
I was actually raised in NZ, therefore the Anglicanized spelling habits; currently living in Utah (my accent has been described as a Utah/NZ/Valley Girl mix - I lived in LA for a while); born in Edmonton (still retain Canadian citizenship for that place to run to if/when W reinstitutes the draft. I have three sons). I'm also 1/62nd Iroquois, if that helps. Hah! I admit I'm culturally schizophrenic, and I probably need help.....
To address Channain's theory that spelling and syntax can give away someone's nationality - that is all eminently fakable. I've posted as "foreign" in my long and storied (at least, in my own mind) online career. It's fun, and keeps the straights on their toes.
Hyphenating "no one" merely means that at least one didn't spell it "noone."As a matter of fact, Noone is my Samoan lover. My husband knows about this.
"There is no grace under pressure for a cat on fire." Cosi
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Originally posted by heb:Quote:
Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
[tongue in cheek]
As far as an altar goes... I haven't got around to installing one because I'm having a hard time figuring out what the sacrifice should be. Joss is a hard deity to figure out.
[/tongue in cheek]
Goats, of course, or maybe shrimp.
Shrimp would definitely put up less of a fight.
I can't believe I forgot about the ideal animal (slaps forehead)... PENGUINS!
Thanks to Dave's Firefly FAQ for the OB reference to the whole penguin thingie: http://icehawk.dyndns.org/dave/faq/entry.php?uniquekey=54
I guess another potential animal is bunnies, but that would be more in line with Anya.
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When he fixes his spellings of Shakespeare and altar, maybe...just maaaaaybe I'll listen to him.
Oh, who am I kidding...I won't listen to him, he's a shit-stirrer!
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Lunatikat pierced us thus:
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...Also:message to EVERYONE: look up the meaning of the word irony, willya, sheesh.
Please tell me we're not going to go down that road again... Remember, in order to get proper use of a dictionary, you must be able to comprehend the definitions.
v/r,
-zed
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montanagirl asked, quite reasonably:
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Also, could someone explain the phrase "take the mick" to us non-Brits? The only British phrases I know come from Monty Python, and I don't remember that one.
While I prefer the less socially acceptable 'taking the piss' (var. '...out of you/me/us/her/him'), both the mick and the piss are like saying 'pulling my leg' or 'having me on' or my favorite, "dipping Angus'pyle's pigtails in the inkwell".
Explanatorily,
zoid
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