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So what event was this taken at again? It'll help me judge how classy it was or wasn't to make the hand guesture of a university with 50,000 students (main campus).
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It is that dippy "Texas Longhorn" sign that he's always flashing, in hopes that his constituency will mistake him for one of the common folk. He seems to be unaware of the other implications of the sign.
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Heh, you'd probably be surprised at how many black tie affairs and fund-raisers UT manages to hold / sponsor every year. I would have thought this rang true with many universities, but maybe not the one you attend. Calling pictures without context classless is well... You probably get the point.
The picture is fairly funny though, because a vast majority of the students and faculty at that university, as well as much of the city it is in, really wish the pretzel had at least incapacitated him a couple of years ago.
And yes, it is the Hook 'em Horns gesture. Yes it has other contexts, but you could look at the picture address and get a glimmering of what it was. At least he wasn't doing the Texas Tech Guns Up, y'all would have had a field day with that.
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Yeah, you're right. That second link fits you to a tee. Sorry, but saying "I thought this was not very classy" and posting a link is shaming the definition of satire. Even if it is a Wikipedia definition.
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Tante, precisely. It's a useful gesture, particularly in sporting events where Tech simply has to find a way to lose.
And since I'm off for the night, I'll justify the points I was trying to set up in my last post. Satire would have been inserting a tail, or pitch fork, or electric guitar into the picture. Or at least something that ranked as decent satire would have done. It's all in the effort.
And the irony part. It's always fun finding the exact definition, but I think railing against something like Pandora (as seen here) and then exalting the ship's computer in Star Treks ability to choose music based on loose definitions (as seen here)... That comes pretty close.
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quote:Originally posted by Architraz Warden: And the irony part. It's always fun finding the exact definition, but I think railing against something like Pandora (as seen here) and then exalting the ship's computer in Star Treks ability to choose music based on loose definitions (as seen here)... That comes pretty close.
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Now I know they mean it when they say: Don't mess with Texas. And what was that line in Full Metal Jacket? (Now that's class )
edit: It just ocurred to me that you'd never get the sarcasm part of the Star Trek rant. It wasn't ALL sarcasm, but think about this, I recall writing that the music always fits the SCENE, not the MOOD. If I had said mood, it would have been as if I was imagining actually living in that world. As I put it though, I was clearly pointing out the unrealistic conveniences that the computer provides to the DIRECTORS of the show, not to the people in Star Trek. As a fan of me, I am dissapointed that you didn't pick up on my somewhat mockish sense of humor...
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