On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:16:55PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Hey Russell, in case it wasn’t clear, please understand that I was > making a joke with a (probably overly obscured) compliment. I very > much admire folks who use manual tools like LaTeX and Emacs, and also > like a lot of what I know of Australian culture. Although “Crocodile > Dundee” was an absurd stereotype of that culture, a lot of us > Americans relate to the brash, no-BS character of that stereotype. And > in case you didn’t see the movie, my comment referred to a scene where > some American gang punk pulls a switchblade knife and threatens Dundee > with it. Dundee says “Knife?”, pulls out a huge Bowie knife, holds it > up, and says in that stereotyped accent, “Now, *that’s* a knife!”. >
Sure I was aware of the scene. It was a fun movie. And Hoges's accent was genuine, even though he doesn't normally talk that way, you do get characters who talk like that. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
