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TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:45 pm

Batman wrote:Car's a car

Said Batman casually....

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:32 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
americantrotter wrote:It's a Ford. James Bond doesn't drive Fords!
So the renault in View to A Kill was ok?

Yes. Ford is a crap domestic brand of America. renault isnt.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:42 pm

americantrotter wrote:
communistworkethic wrote:
americantrotter wrote:It's a Ford. James Bond doesn't drive Fords!
So the renault in View to A Kill was ok?
Yes. Ford is a crap domestic brand of America. renault isnt.

no it's just the claggy ring-piece of european car makers instead

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:48 pm

exactly. Bond is European correct?

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:01 pm

americantrotter wrote:exactly. Bond is European correct?

No, he's British!!!!!

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:04 pm

americantrotter wrote:exactly. Bond is European correct?

No, he comes from somewhere down the long evolutionary line that started with Neaderthal man and descended eventually to Scotsmen.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:06 pm

americantrotter wrote:exactly. Bond is European correct?

Correct in a sense, though his nationality is English/British. Small minded types get very uppity over such definitions.

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:09 pm

Go figure

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:12 pm

I can accept most generic American terms, but I truly hate

'go figure'

.

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:14 pm

Go figure!

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · Post by **Soldier_Of_The_White_Army** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:18 pm

americantrotter wrote:

Go figure!

As the witch said to my wife!!

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:23 pm

Batman wrote:I can accept most generic American terms, but I truly hate
'go figure'
.

I could be wrong, but I think the use of 'figure' as a verb in this sense is purely American as in the philosophical "It figures" or the rather more clever "Figures lie and liars figure". "Go figure" expresses a sort of

fairly expeditiously so I have no problem with it.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:27 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
Batman wrote:I can accept most generic American terms, but I truly hate
'go figure'
.
I could be wrong, but I think the use of 'figure' as a verb in this sense is purely American as in the philosophical "It figures" or the rather more clever "Figures lie and liars figure". "Go figure" expresses a sort of fairly expeditiously so I have no problem with it.

eh?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:36 pm

Just a lazy way of saying "Go and figure it out for yourself". Probably a little more polite than " art thick or wat?"

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:41 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Just a lazy way of saying "Go and figure it out for yourself". Probably a little more polite than " art thick or wat?"

Err far be it from me to translate American slang but doesn't it mean, "go figure that one out", as in "doesn't that seem to defy logic"?

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:42 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Just a lazy way of saying "Go and figure it out for yourself". Probably a little more polite than " art thick or wat?"

I don't think so, TD. It has more the sense of - in relation to some happening - "this doesn't make any sense".

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:46 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Just a lazy way of saying "Go and figure it out for yourself". Probably a little more polite than " art thick or wat?"
Err far be it from me to translate American slang but doesn't it mean, "go figure that one out", as in "doesn't that seem to defy logic"?

Well, not being American or having been there, I have to put a Westhoughton slant on it.

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:48 pm

LOL...what happened to Bond?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:51 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Just a lazy way of saying "Go and figure it out for yourself". Probably a little more polite than " art thick or wat?"
Err far be it from me to translate American slang but doesn't it mean, "go figure that one out", as in "doesn't that seem to defy logic"?

now it makes sense... I always thought it was an order to go skating... (which always seemed unreasonable to me)

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:51 pm

Go figure!

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