His monologue about Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith and his own past as an alcoholic is the first talk show monologue that had me crying. In fact, I have it favorited (is that a word?) on youtube and I cry everytime I see it. "Just, let me go, Tommy..."
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I never got this expression (not crop-dusting). I know that it doesn't suggest that other countries don't eat and revere apple pie because obviously they do. Apple pie is a pretty national dish of England and the Netherlands, to name a couple. I just don't understand what it IS about apple pie that Americans feel to be American at all? Is there some kind of metaphor to it?
"The expression "as American as apple pie" wasn't the product of an overzealous imagination. Apple dishes of one kind or another could be found at practically every colonial meal, especially in New England. The apple was made into pies and fritters and puddings and slumps, literally a host of dishes. The colonists had inherited some of their taste for apples from the British along with many of the British recipes, but many other dishes were the products of American invention."
---Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy, Peter Wynne [Hawthorn:New York] 1975 (p. 24)
"When you say that something is "as American as apple pie," what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
---As American as Apple Pie, John Lehndorff, American Pie Council.
Probably not the same way I discovered my talent for being able to fit my whole fist in my mouth. It's sounds like it would be racy, but no. It was when I saw it on "America's Funniest Home Videos"
@Ailatan:Also the cynic in me says: how do we know for sure? it could be two people drawing. We never saw the person doing the drawing just disembodied hands.
@Ailatan: Those are both really great portraits but I'm really inclined to believe that those two hands belong to different people. Bone structure on the hands is rather different.
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If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you pull our finger, do we not fart?
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I never got this expression (not crop-dusting). I know that it doesn't suggest that other countries don't eat and revere apple pie because obviously they do. Apple pie is a pretty national dish of England and the Netherlands, to name a couple. I just don't understand what it IS about apple pie that Americans feel to be American at all? Is there some kind of metaphor to it?
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"The expression "as American as apple pie" wasn't the product of an overzealous imagination. Apple dishes of one kind or another could be found at practically every colonial meal, especially in New England. The apple was made into pies and fritters and puddings and slumps, literally a host of dishes. The colonists had inherited some of their taste for apples from the British along with many of the British recipes, but many other dishes were the products of American invention."
---Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy, Peter Wynne [Hawthorn:New York] 1975 (p. 24)
"When you say that something is "as American as apple pie," what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
---As American as Apple Pie, John Lehndorff, American Pie Council.
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Either your mouth is huge or your hands are tiny.
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And what about left????
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I kid, I kid.
Sorta.
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And that's just usually so not my style.
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