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TsuiDF
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:43 am
Post subject: Re: Talk to your hand |
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mark wrote:
| Quote: | For a short period of time the phrase was popular with people who
tragically misbelieve they have a sense of humour. However, they soon
grew tired of the fad and the phrase now remains in sole use by those
most deserving of the term "dickheads".
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I had the impression those people picked it up from a film starring Tom
Cruise that had something to do with sports agents and filthy lucre --
but as it was all singularly uninteresting I've gone and forgotten its
name. Sounds much more macho than Oprah that way...
cheers,
Stephanie
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:08 am
Post subject: Re: Talk to your hand |
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On 5 Jul 2005 14:43:23 -0700, "TsuiDF" <stephanie.mitchell@chello.be>
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mark wrote:
For a short period of time the phrase was popular with people who
tragically misbelieve they have a sense of humour. However, they soon
grew tired of the fad and the phrase now remains in sole use by those
most deserving of the term "dickheads".
I had the impression those people picked it up from a film starring Tom
Cruise that had something to do with sports agents and filthy lucre --
but as it was all singularly uninteresting I've gone and forgotten its
name. Sounds much more macho than Oprah that way...
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The movie was "Jerry Maguire", and the saying popularized by the
movie, was "Show Me The Money". It wasn't a bad movie, and one of the
few movies that the presence of Cruise didn't spoil.
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Tony Cooper
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FRAN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:09 am
Post subject: Re: Talk to your hand |
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Steve Hayes wrote:
| Quote: | On 5 Jul 2005 08:53:58 -0700, "FRAN" <fran_beta@hotmail.com> wrote:
Please correct me if I've misconstrued your query, but weren't you
initially bemused at who "they" were (I explained it was the generic
"one") and then worried that "when" confused the meaning in
circumstances other than those in which the condition "talking to the
hand" was satisfied?
I pointed out that conversationally, "when" is sometimes used in place
of "if" and offered some scenarios to support this contention.
I was asking clarification from the original poster, who asked what "they"
mean when "they" say "talk to your hand".
As I'd never heard anyone say "talk to your hand", I asked for clarification
of the context -- in other words, *who* had the OP heard using this expression
(the identity of "they") and in what circumstances.
With more information it might be possible to answer the OP's question.
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I think he has his answer now, so it's probably moot.
Fran |
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