2006-12-31 04:49:01 · 20 answers · asked by Alicat 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
A great American Guy. One day in the UK a similar question will be asked of Yanky Poodle Tony Blair!
2007-01-04 11:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The music and words go back to 15th century Holland, as a harvesting song that began, "Yanker dudel doodle down." In England, the tune was used for a nursery rhyme -- "Lucy Locket". Later, the song poked fun of Puritan church leader Oliver Cromwell, because "Yankee" was a mispronunciation of the word "English" in the Dutch language, and "doodle" refers to a dumb person. But it was a British surgeon, Richard Schuckburgh, who wrote the words we know today that ridiculed the ragtag colonists fighting in the French and Indian War.
Soon after, the British troops used the song to make fun of the American colonists during the Revolutionary War. Yet it became the American colonists' rallying anthem for that war. At the time the Revolutionary War began, Americans were proud to be called yankees and "Yankee Doodle" became the colonists most stirring anthem of defiance and liberty.
During Pre-Revolutionary America when the song "Yankee Doodle" first became popular, the word macaroni in the line that reads "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" didn't refer to the pasta. Instead, "Macaroni" was a fancy and overdressed ("dandy") style of Italian clothing widely imitated in England at the time. So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni", Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin (an awkward and unsophisticated person), because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
2006-12-31 12:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by Gordon M 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I prefer the Gay American who likes drawing!
A much more fun image.
--That Cheeky Lad
2007-01-01 03:32:42 · answer #3 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG, you're too funny. Thanks for the two points. The song Yankie Doodle was originally sung by the Brits to make fun of the "Yankees" who they viewed as simpletons. Sorry, sexuality wasn't an issue my friend...LOL
2006-12-31 12:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by Nuseed 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
lmao! It was actually a mickey take out the simple Yanks. Like the ones you see on their talk shows, oh and Britney Spears!
2007-01-04 12:10:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's a real live nephew of his Uncle Sam. Born on the 4th of July.
2006-12-31 12:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
An all-American person.
2006-12-31 13:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's also a dog:
Have a look:
http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/grand-danois/323867
2007-01-04 18:49:14 · answer #8 · answered by Monika S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "Pretty Boy"! LOL.
Happy New Year!
2007-01-03 18:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is a foppish dresser who plays with himself while sitting on the can. lol
2006-12-31 12:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by abbeyroad54321 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋