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HelpRe: Talk me out of using Macaulay
in reply to a message by Jana46
It's a bad idea because Macaulay is *only* associated with Macaulay Culkin in the vast majority of people's minds, and I liked Home Alone too, but so what? It's a thirty-plus-year-old slapstick movie that gets shown around Xmas every year and in my own opinion is worth watching mainly for the fun of seeing the two idiot burglars get the holy bejesus beaten out of them rather than for Culkin's acting or his weird lateral lisp. "Uncle Frank, izh zhis a zhoke?"
And Mac isn't that great a nn either; it's like Buddy or Dude or Hoss, just some generic placeholder used by movie cabbies or cops to address men whose names they don't know.
Just use Cole as the full name.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
And Mac isn't that great a nn either; it's like Buddy or Dude or Hoss, just some generic placeholder used by movie cabbies or cops to address men whose names they don't know.
Just use Cole as the full name.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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If only there was another famous or semi famous macaulay to make it less weird.
I think Kevin was a cute kid but macaulay definitely got less cute looking as an adult.
I dont think buddy etc is used in Scotland where I'm from but I see what you mean.
I think Kevin was a cute kid but macaulay definitely got less cute looking as an adult.
I dont think buddy etc is used in Scotland where I'm from but I see what you mean.
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in a famous bloopers collection ...
From the early days of radio, they have a sportscaster calling a game or wrestling match or something, and some random fan walks up to him and either doesn't see his microphone or doesn't care, and asks rather loudly and abruptly "Hey, Mac, where's the can?" (Meaning the toilet.) in a very pronounced New York accent.
From the early days of radio, they have a sportscaster calling a game or wrestling match or something, and some random fan walks up to him and either doesn't see his microphone or doesn't care, and asks rather loudly and abruptly "Hey, Mac, where's the can?" (Meaning the toilet.) in a very pronounced New York accent.
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I don't like Cole. It was Coll I liked. It's an island (I've never been but it looks nice!)
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