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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:39:14 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        Lee Cremeans <lcremeans@erols.com>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pee-wee? (!) (was: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!))
Message-ID:  <37170542.ADA20EF3@uk.radan.com>
References:  <199904160212.TAA20973@implode.root.com> <XFMail.990416112923.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <199904160212.TAA20973@implode.root.com> <19990415224308.A99868@erols.com> <4.2.0.32.19990415205608.00c78d10@localhost> <19990416094124.A26629@rucus.ru.ac.za> <19990416044142.A1020@erols.com>

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Lee Cremeans wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:41:25AM +0000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > "I know you are, but what am I"?
> >
> > (perhaps it's not as international as it appears to me, but it's a
> > common argumentative tool used by 5-9 year olds when someone calls them
> > a name they don't like (and usually which fits))
> 
> International...hm. AFAIK, that's a line from Pee-Wee Herman's first movie
> in 1985 (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), a movie from here in the States.
> 

I don't think he was claiming national ownership of the phrase, but
pointing out that this is an infantile remark in S. Africa, but not
necessarily in other countries.

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