[ExI] Who is we?

[efc at swisscows.email]

Haha, had no idea! =)

I just find it annoying when it comes up in meetings at work. In my 
experience it is used in order to silence people and give the impression 
of a false consensus.

Many a times at work I've had fun scraping on the surface of "we" turning 
it into an "I". ;)

Thank you for the link!

Best regards,
Daniel


On Sat, 10 Jun 2023, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 at 18:22, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Who is "we"?
>>
>> Best regards, Daniel
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Do you know the origin of this saying?     :)
>
> There was a popular USA TV western series called 'The Lone Ranger' originally
> broadcast in 1949 to 1957 about a Texas Ranger and his faithful
> American Indian companion Tonto.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Ranger_(TV_series)>
>
> MAD magazine produced a cartoon joke around 1958 which became instantly popular.
> The joke is approximately like this -
>
> The Lone Ranger and Tonto are riding across the plains when they see a
> group of Indians in full warpaint galloping toward them, tomahawks at
> the ready. The Lone Ranger digs in his heels and says to his faithful
> companion, “Well, Tonto old friend, looks like they’ve got us
> surrounded.” Tonto replies, “What do you mean ‘we,’ paleface?”
> ---------
>
> It has become a classic riposte.   :)
>
> BillK
>
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