From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T01:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Dude?

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 17.05.2008 15:25, Phlip wrote:

>> While a "lazy time-wasting slacker" might also entirely be a "respectable
>> urbane gentleman", in this case I think the movie directors are indulging in
>> "reclaiming the language". Like calling a bald guy "curly".
>
> You raise an interesting linguistic (or philosophical) question here: can
> someone who had curly hair but went bald be correctly attributed as "curly"?

Well, the person probably best known as Curly might not have been
bald, but he also didn't have much hair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly_Howard

Make me think of the old poem:

   Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
   Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
   Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy!
   Wuzzy?

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/