Who's The Biggest Yankophile on ILX?

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Apologies to our Canadian and Antipodean contingents, and everyone else. You are in our thoughts.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I would actually put myself forward for this dubious honour.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a Yankophile, but I do like "Weird" Al Yankovic.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan to thread.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete Townshend

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I like yankin' it.

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I'm really really sorry.
Really.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Wha?? The new Dan P?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nick A. - The New Dan Perry - now without the annoying subtlety or humor!"

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I am annoying! HUZZAH!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not nearly as impressive as the one time you were civilized. I am the biggest Yankophile here. I like American cigars, American booze, and American music. I was the guy who kept refusing to answer 'Taking Sides' questions on ILM because more often than not neither artist was from the States. Anglocentric threads piss me off and are a waste of my precious American time. The only holes in my yankcentricness are my German car and Hentai fetishes. Other than that I'll take the domestic cheese any day.

If Helltime were here, he'd beat me solidly, however.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yay this is now back to being a straight question. Then I again nominate Gareth.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Poison and Slayer, I win.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Of the Americans who loves America the most? Pity we aren't from a small country and can't have a small club culture like when I was in Japan.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Millar's making a stand for it. I guess I'll have to do the American thing and go kick his a**.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

It can't be Gareth. He describes himself as a socialist.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Can Gareth be the biggest yankophile and the biggest anglophile? That hardly seems right.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

It doesn't seem right, does it? But somehow he pulls it off. (He is a socialist Dawson's Creek/ Bring it On enthusiast.) Ssh!

Felicity and Bnw love America lots, but who is most interested in its arcaneness, it's unexplored fables? It's psychogeography, if you will. (Not Stewart Home, he flat out dissed us on Rivington St.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"He is a socialist Dawson's Creek / Bring it On enthusiast."

An absurd concept IMO. But then I do have a Hoggart / Blatchford streak.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 30 January 2003 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

James Blount! he started that Christgau "America First" thread because he mostly agreed with him! (and so do I, damn it!)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

plus that picture of him is (a) in a Navy uniform (b) in front of a US flag! IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

plus I like baseball

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you feel about apple pie?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it is good

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

All the classic symptoms...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

did somebody say navy uniform?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with all Americans.

― B.Rad (Brad), Thursday, 30 January 2003 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an attitude to America I don't quite understand. I have been retty scathing about it many times, and as a country it's so uber-fucked up that it makes me nauseous even to contemplate certain things.

BUT I am totally drawn to it. Having a girlfriend there helps, obviously, and hopefully may give me an excuse to experience more of it at some point. But really, I am absolutely intrigued or even seduced, by the little bits and bobs that make up American culture. Like no other country on earth, it's an astonishing collection of arcana thrown together and boiled for 100, 200, 500 years, and unique, skewed things have come out. I have a raging thirst to find these things and experience them myself.

Sorry for the vague answer.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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