looking for comedian who said I Love You Man

I believe the "I love you man" was used in a beer commercial some years back--Bud Light, I think.

I'm wondering why I keep seeing this I love you game thread in so many places?

How much of AW's space does this need to take up, really?

Google is your friend.

Maybe he's on IMDB?

Are you willing to share whatever it is that's making you so touchy-feely? I could use a little.

Newguy1428 said:

Hey Celia. I am sure it's catchy...I apologize if I posted it too many times, sweetheart. I think I did three different places. I'll ask for it to be taken down from writing exercises and office break, then moved to Conquering Challenges. I think it belongs there. The Office break one was really great, I learned a lot there.

Yeah, bud light. 1995. The blurb that I found didn't have the part where another character says "just say I love you back and it'll be over." Does that occur in the commercials or was it in a movie or did I make it up? You know the old writer's adage research is everything.

I love you all.

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Errrr.... no. If you're gonna call me "sweetheart", please bother to spell my name correctly.

And now that I have read enough of your posts to feel sufficiently uncomfortable with your game, I will now be removing myself from your company and wish you a good night.


-Cella

Heavy irony

To answer the question posted to qualify as research, the actor who said the line, "I love you, man" fifteen years ago was Robert Fitzgerald, playing Johnny. Johnny sits on a dock, fishing with his dad. Not that Newguy cares a fig; it was merely an attention getter.

Here's the ironic part: Just as Newguy is faking all this gratuitous love for some hidden agenda, Johnny has run out of Budweiser beer in the commercial and goes all creepy sentimental as a ruse so his dad will share is Bud with Johnny.

The whole point is the insincere approach. Dad doesn’t fall for the subterfuge then, and obviously no one here at AW is falling for it now.

Get your own Bud, bud.

Newguy1428 said:

Is the Golden Rule, love thy neighbor as you love yourself, baloney? My darling Chase, tell me that's not true.

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Read my lips: It's not true. Your definition is baloney.

What bible did you study? In both Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31, my version says the golden rule is "do unto others as you would have them do undo you." It’s a guiding principle of ethics conduct, not love of others or yourself.

See? It’s the twisting of things that galls. I cringe when I learn someone like you teaches kids. No wonder they leave school dangerously uneducated.

The plea that you and other "teachers" like you "mean well" brings to mind the paving of the road to Hell. Here’s examples of good intentions gone awry in my deaf world.

Immediately upon learning I can’t hear, lots of people panic. The term is surdophobia, unreasonable fear of the deaf. Some freeze, like people with arachnophobia freeze at spiders. Others can barely mask their revulsion with hostility.

Some begin a nervous flashing of hand signs they believe to be American Sign language (ASL).

Most common is one or two thumbs up. Showing one thumb is the word UP or the number TEN, depending on context. Both thumbs up (one chasing the other) is actually the sign for my name. Okay, we deafies also know hearies use it for "okay," "good," "right on." The point is they keep it up in reply to everything I say so that it means nothing.

By the same token, others make a circle with their thumb and forefinger (but holding the remaining three fingers up). This is either the letter F or the number 9. Generally, I have to ignore these constant bogus signals and focus on lips or I’m thoroughly confused.

Which brings me to:

The actual ASL for "I love you" is three completely different signs flowed together, but many of us put together finger-spelled I, L, and Y as a speedy shortcut. It caught on in the fast-paced hearing world, but certainly lost its real meaning.

So has your too-quickly blurted "I love you."

Darling Chase

Newguy1428 said:

Pollyanna the iconic children's book on happiness and positive thinking.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha oh my sides.

Pollyanna is all about denial. Denial is not positive thinking. Perhaps you had better read Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich for a different perspective.

Hint: "happy talk" does nothing to change the world. Realism and activism do.

When we first started Early Intervention for my son (at 2 1/2 he still wasn't speaking), we used sign language to communicate. Nothing big - cookie, more, please, match (as in pairs) - but it was amazing to finally be able to talk with him and have him respond.

He's not deaf, nor is he autistic (as we first thought) but for some reason, he just didn't speak. But, by using signs to communicate his needs, he finally moved beyond it into audible words. Now we can't shut him up.

Some day, I'd love to learn to actually speak ASL beyond the few words and phrases.

/derail