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She is singing on some of Simon's videos before, but I do not remember that she got credit for it. I even asked who it was on one. I was coming to ask again until I saw this credit for her....
You can't just describe "Nude and Voluptuous Native woman Riding an Armadillo and Brandishing a Tomahawk" and just leave it. Wth man? You gotta tell us how the hell that came about.
I've heard that exact version of Yankee Doodle somewhere and now it's bothering me. I'm thinking Simon or Daven did a video specifically on the song a while back with the same audio clips.
It’s fascinating hearing this version of the origin of “yankee.” I live in the Netherlands, and in Dutch, “Jantje” (Yan-tcha) would mean “little John.” However, I’ve been told by folks here that while “Jan” and “Kees” are both super common Dutch names, they were especially common amongst the poor and working-class Dutch at the time. So the story here, as I’ve learned it, has pretty much been that any person that went to colonize Nieuwe Amsterdam/New York instead of “making their fortune” in the Caribbean, Indonesia, or Bengal (aka, enslaving people in plantations in their much more profitable colonies) were seen, as you said, as backwater hicks. So basically, the Dutch elites in the the Netherlands and in the more profitable colonies considered anyone (of any nationality) who would move to a place as desolate and purposeless as New England must just be so poor, common, and desperate that there was nowhere else they would be wanted. In short, “Jan-Kees” was smooshing together two common names for poor folks at the time as a classist jab at their choice to go to New England. It isn’t too different from this version, but it’s interesting that there are so many variations on legends like this!
That is so interesting, in both this video and your description, I wish the European expansion into the U.S. stopped at the Yankees. Poor people escaping persecution and judgement to live freely, no need for government or armies or even to expand any further. But that was never possible. Europeans have enslaved, exploited, then deserted every single continent on this planet. No one gives a shit about “polite society” bs, it’s fake and meaningless. Liars and thieves pretending to be somehow superior than those that they exploit when it couldn’t be more opposite.
I do not know the old Dutch variations of diminuatives, but 'Janke' would be considered Flemish these days, rather than original Dutch. Then again, I think 'tje' is a relatively new development in the Dutch language.
I was just talking about this like an hour before you uploaded it, and wondering where the term Yankee and where Uncle Sam came from. Thanks for clarifying and keep listening to my conversations to teach me more interesting things.
I’m from Billerica, Massachusetts. The Yankee Doodle in our area is from Billerica. He was tarred and feathered by the British for some reason. We still have the “Yankee doodle” parade every homecoming Edit: his name was Thomas Ditson Jr. he was a minuteman from town. You can read the story by googling Thomas ditson jr Billerica Ma
I recall hearing a story about an American GI from the deep south who was stationed in Britian during WW2. He absolutely hated being call a Yank by the Brits.
I had to tell my British stepmother why Southern American soldiers in WWII would get into fights if you called them Yanks. She was amazed that Southerners were still angry about the Civil War.
It's actually hilarious. They've managed to fully reverse their intent for the word just by being so thin skinned about a war their ancestors started and couldn't finish.
I saw a music site years ago which said the tune was a longtime British song of derision with words adjusted for whoever was the group being ridiculed. It said macaroni was first used in a version composed to ridicule British debutants whose families sent them to Italy to immerse them in the symbols of classical European culture. Macaroni was considered a posh gourmet food then.
Once a friend found himself living in England for a while. When he came back to the US he said, "Usually the British were polite to a fault except they kept calling me a yank"
Uncle Sam and Columbia are also Superheroes from DC Comics !! On the alternate Earth of Earth-10 where the Nazi's won WW2 after a certain Kryptonian landed in Bavaria instead of Kansas...the Freedom Fighters led by Uncle Same opposed him !!
Since you detailed lists of ten things of interest, I am delighted to congratuate you on the more refined lists of today. I am an edcated man and you continue my education. Keep this up please.
That ancient cartoon you showed at the beginning with the meat shop and sugar cubes running around was really weird. Anyway, my great grandfather on my motherst side was a "Wobbly." He reportedly got chased out of the Midwest to Seattle because of his political activities. This is a point of pride in my family!
This was hilarious. Etymology of slang terms is fascinating. Definitely check out Stan Freberg’s work. He has a skit specifically on this exact topic spun as a disagreement as to how the song is to be played. The fife player and the drummer want to do it one way and the singer and director wants to do it Uncle Sam’s way. Funny as a crutch! Like listening to Saturday Night Live. Trigger Warning: Period specific biases are often lampooned or embraced because, 60’s.
@@WaddedBliss endless laughs for sure. My brother and I used to go back and forth at dinner doing the lines verbatim. “Whaddaya meeen ya cooked the turkey, Charlie!?”
To the old South mindset the term Yankee didn't just mean Northerner, it was said & meant as a slur with the most derogatory intent possible, even several magnitudes worse than they meant with the n-word towards Blacks. I couldn't hardly believe it when I lived there for four years in the 80's, but yeah.
I will agree. I lived in VA during the mid 90's and went camping several times. I actually heard the term Carpetbagger from a very elderly African American woman.
@MotoNomad350 Exactly! At the time I didn't give 2 shits about the Civil War OR the term Yankee. But they acted like it had only been a few decades since it ended. They were even doing battle reenactments frequently. Plus the phrase The South Will Rise Again was still a common phrase. I thought boy, sure are stuck in the past & still butthurt...
It’s still being used btw. My SIL casually threw it out in a conversation one day and she backpedaled very quickly when I asked her about her use of “all Yankees”. I am from Illinois, and I was surprised she didn’t give herself whiplash with her 180.
Once again you guys astound. However I feel you should know why we Australians refer to an Americas as a Seppo, or Seppos in the plural. It of course is from rhyming slang. The story goes that during WW2 while on shore leave whilst docked in our harbours the America GIs would do as many men do and "chase some skirt." As is today there would be alcohol involved and tall stories told and man would fail their quest and just get drunk. In Australia if you tell tall stories or untruths you are said to be "full of shit." Alcohol also induces courage and diminishes senses, in particular pain in this case. So drunk American soldiers were like tanks, as in they were strong and could take a beating, like tanking in computer games today. Also we're sorta lazy and just add an "O" to the first syllable to make a nickname eg Jonathan becomes Jonno. So the progression is as follows. Yank --> yank tank --> septic tank --> Seppo In effect taking it full circle back to being an insult. Keep up the great content ❤️
12:00 wearing the striped Uncle Sam hat we all remember. This style is still being sold today. Millions of people worldwide misremembering what Uncle Sam's hat looked like because of this one picture, and Apollo Creed
@@devonwoodrup 2:11 the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a tribute by France in honor of the nation’s centennial anniversary of independence from Britain.
@Irish381 Famous etiquette author Emily Post was a child when her father served as lead engineer for the erection of the statue, and Emily played inside the enormous hollow pieces before they were assembled.
@@suzbone Of this I am well aware, there are many books, articles, and documentary films about the Statue of Liberty 🗽, but the one that I found most interesting is by Ken Burns. It follows the story behind the Statue its creator and the voyage to New York, and the restoration of it in 1986.
This is a great dive in to the etymology of the word: 'dude', not just the history of the term: 'Yankee'. I wish more channels would be just as nuanced.
Yeah it was pretty popular when I was young, but now it is hardly ever used, at least in my area (upstate South Carolina), unless as a description for someone to be able to identify the person of interest by. But even then, it almost always is used without the negative connotations that went along with it in the past.
Fun fact: the last evolutionary form of the dandy macaroni was in the Urban neighborhoods circa 1980. It was now MAC Daddy. If you were a (what's now known as metrosexual) high maintenance man who was well spoken and charismatic. You were a MAC. The more you know 🌈⭐
In New York it tends to mean New Englanders. In baseball circles it means New York. To southerners it means the East, Midwest or West. To the rest of the world, it means U.S. residents.
Simon and his writers would have a chuckle at the tour de force of radio play drama that is Stan Freberg presents: The United States of America, Vol 1 & 2. The actual events and sentiments lampooned were chosen because they were rife with worthy material. Deep dive some of that with the Freberg skits as launch boards into more serious analysis.
I've been to his grave in New York. At first, he had a simple, flat grave stone. But one of his later descendants commissioned a tall stone, which tells Sam's history.
The lore goes so deep I had no idea. And I’m quite the avid armchair historian and an American. I knew the meat can ‘U. S.’ Story but I had no idea it went way deeper.
I never knew all American’s were/ are labeled Yankees. I know it would be considered an unacceptable insult for a southerner to be called a yankee, but only for being depicted as a northerner.
Whatever amount of AI you are using for the songs and stuff keep it right there no more no less. One of the best Simon videos I’ve seen across channels
The music Yankee Doodle was a British song mocking the American Colonies. We turned their song against them, when we drove Britain out of America. They called us Yankee Doodles…Yankee stuck in The War Between The States. We became the Northern Yankees and the Southern Johnny Rebs or Rebel Army.
I remember hearing about the British Regulars jweeed Americans with the song yankee Dolittle, only to be forced back to the city this time with the colonials were singing it.
I'm from the Northeast & have called myself a Yankee when abroad or in the South. It's a neutral kind of quaint term no one really thinks about beyond baseball; Southerners may get miffed by it & Westerners confused. It's funny though, calling all Americans Yankee is like calling the Netherlands Holland. We never say Yank though, not even Southerners AFAIK. My favorite use of the word is for those Japanese biker delinquents, "yanki"
Most Yanks are not familiar with this use of "thick" (as hasty pudding). It means dense, foolish, or dimwit. (From a Yank who lived in the UK many years.)
It's more often used as 'thick-headed' here, but I'm pretty sure I've heard people shorten it to 'thick' as well. I don't think I'd even think twice about it if I heard someone call someone else thick after they did or said something dumb.
@@chitlitlah I'm an old man, now, and the only way I've ever heard "thick" here in the States is when someone is talking about a person's figure. In the UK they just straight up say - either joking or serious - you're thick. And I promise it wasn't about someone's physique.
You're taking about so so many characters, items, and images, but not showing most of them. I'd have liked to have seen the images and how they are similar to others. I cba to rewatch and Google them all though.
I remember hearing years ago that the English in New Amsterdam referred to the Dutch as "John Cheese" as a prerogative because the Dutch were so well known for their cheese making. The story goes on to say that the Dutch in turn would refer to the English with the same words, only in Dutch. John becomes "Yan" and cheese becomes "Kees." Thus in the early 1600's "Yan-kees" is Dutch for John cheese.
lmao (Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving) while Simon was saying that the people of other nationalities and backgrounds in image 2 refused to eat the turkey and instead were "digging into their own national dishes", my gaze fell upon a possibly Chinese man literally about to eat what appears to be a fully intact, furry mouse - idk about that one! XD
Special thanks to Melissa Hollick ruclips.net/user/hollick64 for singing the British vocals and putting the music together for us. :-)
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Love her voice.
She is singing on some of Simon's videos before, but I do not remember that she got credit for it. I even asked who it was on one.
I was coming to ask again until I saw this credit for her....
@@abnurtharn2927
Most definitely!!!!
You can't just describe "Nude and Voluptuous Native woman Riding an Armadillo and Brandishing a Tomahawk" and just leave it.
Wth man? You gotta tell us how the hell that came about.
It sounds strangely arousing. I was hoping for a picture.
Rule 34 been around since the dawn of time we can only assume. 😋 -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut hahahaha
I was thinking the same thing. Like damn why we gotta go with an old guy? 🤣
Yes!!
Thanks for putting the music in and not just reading the lyrics out load. Adds a lot.
I've heard that exact version of Yankee Doodle somewhere and now it's bothering me. I'm thinking Simon or Daven did a video specifically on the song a while back with the same audio clips.
It’s fascinating hearing this version of the origin of “yankee.” I live in the Netherlands, and in Dutch, “Jantje” (Yan-tcha) would mean “little John.” However, I’ve been told by folks here that while “Jan” and “Kees” are both super common Dutch names, they were especially common amongst the poor and working-class Dutch at the time. So the story here, as I’ve learned it, has pretty much been that any person that went to colonize Nieuwe Amsterdam/New York instead of “making their fortune” in the Caribbean, Indonesia, or Bengal (aka, enslaving people in plantations in their much more profitable colonies) were seen, as you said, as backwater hicks. So basically, the Dutch elites in the the Netherlands and in the more profitable colonies considered anyone (of any nationality) who would move to a place as desolate and purposeless as New England must just be so poor, common, and desperate that there was nowhere else they would be wanted. In short, “Jan-Kees” was smooshing together two common names for poor folks at the time as a classist jab at their choice to go to New England.
It isn’t too different from this version, but it’s interesting that there are so many variations on legends like this!
That is so interesting, in both this video and your description, I wish the European expansion into the U.S. stopped at the Yankees. Poor people escaping persecution and judgement to live freely, no need for government or armies or even to expand any further. But that was never possible. Europeans have enslaved, exploited, then deserted every single continent on this planet. No one gives a shit about “polite society” bs, it’s fake and meaningless. Liars and thieves pretending to be somehow superior than those that they exploit when it couldn’t be more opposite.
That's also what I recall learning to be the origin of 'yankee': it referring to Dutch plebs who were 'all' called Jan and Kees.
I do not know the old Dutch variations of diminuatives, but 'Janke' would be considered Flemish these days, rather than original Dutch. Then again, I think 'tje' is a relatively new development in the Dutch language.
I'm very disappointed that Simon didn't whistle along with the tunes.
I mean, honor your name, man
My daughter heard me playing this video, when the song played she did the barney dance... never noticed the melody is the same.
I was just talking about this like an hour before you uploaded it, and wondering where the term Yankee and where Uncle Sam came from. Thanks for clarifying and keep listening to my conversations to teach me more interesting things.
I’m from Billerica, Massachusetts. The Yankee Doodle in our area is from Billerica. He was tarred and feathered by the British for some reason. We still have the “Yankee doodle” parade every homecoming
Edit: his name was Thomas Ditson Jr. he was a minuteman from town. You can read the story by googling Thomas ditson jr Billerica Ma
I recall hearing a story about an American GI from the deep south who was stationed in Britian during WW2. He absolutely hated being call a Yank by the Brits.
We still use it as a pejorative here.
I had to tell my British stepmother why Southern American soldiers in WWII would get into fights if you called them Yanks. She was amazed that Southerners were still angry about the Civil War.
I still don't like being called a Yank. 😂😂
It's actually hilarious. They've managed to fully reverse their intent for the word just by being so thin skinned about a war their ancestors started and couldn't finish.
@@jonathanbrown6034 youre no better then them, clearly you havent moved on from the war either
That must've been rich- surrendering while Yankee Doodle Dandy played in the background 😂
I saw a music site years ago which said the tune was a longtime British song of derision with words adjusted for whoever was the group being ridiculed. It said macaroni was first used in a version composed to ridicule British debutants whose families sent them to Italy to immerse them in the symbols of classical European culture. Macaroni was considered a posh gourmet food then.
The armadillo is a tactical assault opossom.
Once a friend found himself living in England for a while. When he came back to the US he said, "Usually the British were polite to a fault except they kept calling me a yank"
Better being called “Yank” rather than “wanker”
@@alfiegrace Americans don't even use that word ...
@@lloovvaalleeyeah but the English do. And the guy was living in England
I loved the Limey dig on the colonists. Which I assume they sang right up until yankee doodle shuffled out that beatdown at Yorktown.
HA!!! 100%!!
Uncle Sam and Columbia are also Superheroes from DC Comics !!
On the alternate Earth of Earth-10 where the Nazi's won WW2 after a certain Kryptonian landed in Bavaria instead of Kansas...the Freedom Fighters led by Uncle Same opposed him !!
Since you detailed lists of ten things of interest, I am delighted to congratuate you on the more refined lists of today. I am an edcated man and you continue my education. Keep this up please.
What a beautiful voice the singer has ❤
Yeth!
Brilliant video - amazing work!
That ancient cartoon you showed at the beginning with the meat shop and sugar cubes running around was really weird. Anyway, my great grandfather on my motherst side was a "Wobbly." He reportedly got chased out of the Midwest to Seattle because of his political activities. This is a point of pride in my family!
That cartoon probably refers to rationing.
This was hilarious. Etymology of slang terms is fascinating. Definitely check out Stan Freberg’s work. He has a skit specifically on this exact topic spun as a disagreement as to how the song is to be played. The fife player and the drummer want to do it one way and the singer and director wants to do it Uncle Sam’s way. Funny as a crutch! Like listening to Saturday Night Live.
Trigger Warning: Period specific biases are often lampooned or embraced because, 60’s.
Loving the Stan Freberg call out!
@@WaddedBliss endless laughs for sure. My brother and I used to go back and forth at dinner doing the lines verbatim. “Whaddaya meeen ya cooked the turkey, Charlie!?”
To the old South mindset the term Yankee didn't just mean Northerner, it was said & meant as a slur with the most derogatory intent possible, even several magnitudes worse than they meant with the n-word towards Blacks. I couldn't hardly believe it when I lived there for four years in the 80's, but yeah.
I will agree. I lived in VA during the mid 90's and went camping several times. I actually heard the term Carpetbagger from a very elderly African American woman.
And yet I don’t know a single northerner who gives one shit about being called a yankee by southerners.
@MotoNomad350 Exactly! At the time I didn't give 2 shits about the Civil War OR the term Yankee. But they acted like it had only been a few decades since it ended. They were even doing battle reenactments frequently. Plus the phrase The South Will Rise Again was still a common phrase. I thought boy, sure are stuck in the past & still butthurt...
It’s still being used btw. My SIL casually threw it out in a conversation one day and she backpedaled very quickly when I asked her about her use of “all Yankees”. I am from Illinois, and I was surprised she didn’t give herself whiplash with her 180.
@@MotoNomad350 hahahahahahahahaha
Once again you guys astound.
However I feel you should know why we Australians refer to an Americas as a Seppo, or Seppos in the plural.
It of course is from rhyming slang. The story goes that during WW2 while on shore leave whilst docked in our harbours the America GIs would do as many men do and "chase some skirt." As is today there would be alcohol involved and tall stories told and man would fail their quest and just get drunk. In Australia if you tell tall stories or untruths you are said to be "full of shit." Alcohol also induces courage and diminishes senses, in particular pain in this case. So drunk American soldiers were like tanks, as in they were strong and could take a beating, like tanking in computer games today.
Also we're sorta lazy and just add an "O" to the first syllable to make a nickname eg Jonathan becomes Jonno.
So the progression is as follows.
Yank --> yank tank --> septic tank --> Seppo
In effect taking it full circle back to being an insult.
Keep up the great content ❤️
Came here especially for this comment. Both grandfather's and an uncle (who served in Vietnam) referred to Americans as 'Seppo's'.
I was always told it was septic tank-> seppo yank lol but they’re definitely both said with more affection these days.
Sceptic tank/yank = correct.
Could take a beating when drunk=nope.
Let us not forget the USMC, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children!
Rah
were you recruited from a jail or insane asylum?
Them boys ain't right but they'll back you til their last breath.
12:00 wearing the striped Uncle Sam hat we all remember. This style is still being sold today. Millions of people worldwide misremembering what Uncle Sam's hat looked like because of this one picture, and Apollo Creed
The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the United States in 1876, but wasn’t fully assembled until 1886 in October 3rd, of the same year.
huh?
@@devonwoodrup 2:11 the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a tribute by France in honor of the nation’s centennial anniversary of independence from Britain.
@Irish381 Famous etiquette author Emily Post was a child when her father served as lead engineer for the erection of the statue, and Emily played inside the enormous hollow pieces before they were assembled.
@@suzbone Of this I am well aware, there are many books, articles, and documentary films about the Statue of Liberty 🗽, but the one that I found most interesting is by Ken Burns.
It follows the story behind the Statue its creator and the voyage to New York, and the restoration of it in 1986.
"Native Americans beware of foreign influence" There's irony for you.
You learn an awful lot from watching this channel
And a lot of awful too.
That is the point.
fun fact: Simon isn't always right.
@@tripsaplenty1227Blasphemy
I'm like Simon. By the end of the video I remember nothing.
Uncle Sam is alive and well in the Military.
To this day its still common to say US Army means Uncle Sam Aint Released Me Yet.
I live relatively near the real Uncle Sam’s grave in Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, NY
I used to as well. I loved hanging out in Oakwood
Drive past it every day!
Oakwood is a beautiful cemetery! Troy is a very fascinating city. I worked at the library downtown for almost 5 years...
Fascinating isn't a word I would use to describe troy.
I don’t live anywhere near that grave. I live near a store and another store.
Well spoken history lesson, Sir.
And a feather in your cap too, for an excellent vid 😊
This is a great dive in to the etymology of the word: 'dude', not just the history of the term: 'Yankee'. I wish more channels would be just as nuanced.
I've only heard those deep southerners say Yankee to northerners
Yeah it was pretty popular when I was young, but now it is hardly ever used, at least in my area (upstate South Carolina), unless as a description for someone to be able to identify the person of interest by. But even then, it almost always is used without the negative connotations that went along with it in the past.
I really only hear old folks say it where I live, but it's probably used a bit more upstate
Now Simon's going to do a sing-along channel 😂😂😂 16:06
Love your glasses. Where can I find a pair?
Hey Simon, 👋
I love you
this new england yankee enjoyed this entertaining and educational episode quite a bit. thank you!
2:38 John Bull looks like it was inspired by Ernest Borgnine.
My grandfather returned from the Battle of the Bulge Philadelphia USA❤
Simon I'm having a laughing attack
What the heck happen to Simon’s lip at 19:06?
The songs in this are lit. I was singing Yankee Doodle all day after this. 😂
Dude! I've always wanted to know where that term originated! 🤙
Excellent as usual.
That singer you used has a fabulous voice. She should get credit. Maybe she did get it and I missed it.
20:00 I remember coming out to my dad as macaroni
Who sang those songs? That is a great voice!
Oh my gosh! 😱 is this where we got “The Mac” like he thinks he’s The Mac. Or the song Return of the Mac? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fun fact: the last evolutionary form of the dandy macaroni was in the Urban neighborhoods circa 1980. It was now MAC Daddy. If you were a (what's now known as metrosexual) high maintenance man who was well spoken and charismatic. You were a MAC. The more you know 🌈⭐
TROY NY REPRESENT!!! We have statues of him everywhere, a huge piece of local culture
Whenever I hear "Yankee" I think immediately of the New York Yankee MLB team.
In New York it tends to mean New Englanders. In baseball circles it means New York. To southerners it means the East, Midwest or West. To the rest of the world, it means U.S. residents.
Simon and his writers would have a chuckle at the tour de force of radio play drama that is Stan Freberg presents: The United States of America, Vol 1 & 2.
The actual events and sentiments lampooned were chosen because they were rife with worthy material. Deep dive some of that with the Freberg skits as launch boards into more serious analysis.
0:49-0:58
Just a simple inquiry, but.... maybe we should try this old symbol of the New World? You know, just try it and see how it works out?
Are you alright, Simon? In your most recent videos you look slimmer and paler than usual.
Great video as always, hopefully you're doing okay.
I've been to his grave in New York. At first, he had a simple, flat grave stone. But one of his later descendants commissioned a tall stone, which tells Sam's history.
the bull dude for britain always reminded me of winston churchill
Best channel
The lore goes so deep I had no idea. And I’m quite the avid armchair historian and an American. I knew the meat can ‘U. S.’ Story but I had no idea it went way deeper.
Perhaps tigers simply prefer Frosted Flakes? (I'm dying. Lmao!!!!)
I never knew all American’s were/ are labeled Yankees. I know it would be considered an unacceptable insult for a southerner to be called a yankee, but only for being depicted as a northerner.
the poster by James Montgomery Flagg is actually a self-portrait.
I was hoping Simon will sing the song
Whatever amount of AI you are using for the songs and stuff keep it right there no more no less. One of the best Simon videos I’ve seen across channels
JOHN PAUL JONES WAS A FIGHTIN’ MAN, A FIGHTIN’ MAN WAS HE
Aw, come on, Simon! We wanted to hear YOU sing the songs!
I really like the singing in this video.
I like that singers voice. Who is she?
The music Yankee Doodle was a British song mocking the American Colonies. We turned their song against them, when we drove Britain out of America.
They called us Yankee Doodles…Yankee stuck in The War Between The States. We became the Northern Yankees and the Southern Johnny Rebs or Rebel Army.
My opa came to germany with the us army. Always nice to learn about this history
Who the hell is this singer? She's incredible!
Ayyyy lake George. My hometown
Yo but why is the one about the French and Indian war a banger?
And here I was thinking that hip hop created the diss track. Yankee Doodle dandy indeed.
Good old convincing advertising
damn i didnt even know there was a logic behind "yankee" i just thought americans were weird.
Both things can be true at the same time! 😂
Well…we are. I mean you’re not wrong. XD
Sort of how like people think "Stay Calm and Carry On" was a rallying cry, and not a plan after surrender
I remember hearing about the British Regulars jweeed Americans with the song yankee Dolittle, only to be forced back to the city this time with the colonials were singing it.
Are those new glasses?
So being hawaiian love the Lyric saying "never had an uncle named sam" thanks kapuna.....
I'm from the Northeast & have called myself a Yankee when abroad or in the South. It's a neutral kind of quaint term no one really thinks about beyond baseball; Southerners may get miffed by it & Westerners confused. It's funny though, calling all Americans Yankee is like calling the Netherlands Holland. We never say Yank though, not even Southerners AFAIK. My favorite use of the word is for those Japanese biker delinquents, "yanki"
Have wondered my whole life what that macaroni phrase means
I always thought the macaroni line was Yankee Doodle mocking British high fashion. 😊
Most Yanks are not familiar with this use of "thick" (as hasty pudding). It means dense, foolish, or dimwit.
(From a Yank who lived in the UK many years.)
Most yanks have heard of thick with unless they are thickheaded.
It's more often used as 'thick-headed' here, but I'm pretty sure I've heard people shorten it to 'thick' as well. I don't think I'd even think twice about it if I heard someone call someone else thick after they did or said something dumb.
@@chitlitlah I'm an old man, now, and the only way I've ever heard "thick" here in the States is when someone is talking about a person's figure. In the UK they just straight up say - either joking or serious - you're thick. And I promise it wasn't about someone's physique.
@@chitlitlah it is extremely common in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
@@zachester I'm a Texan, so maybe that's why I've heard it.
Nice introduction about Yankee
Vermont tries to claim Kohnny appleseed too
You're taking about so so many characters, items, and images, but not showing most of them. I'd have liked to have seen the images and how they are similar to others. I cba to rewatch and Google them all though.
In 2015, the family history company MyHeritage researched Uncle Sam's family tree and claims to have tracked down his living relatives.
Any still living in Troy?
Nice, a two for one! 🎉
Walter Bots also looks exactly like the Grinch 😂
I remember hearing years ago that the English in New Amsterdam referred to the Dutch as "John Cheese" as a prerogative because the Dutch were so well known for their cheese making. The story goes on to say that the Dutch in turn would refer to the English with the same words, only in Dutch. John becomes "Yan" and cheese becomes "Kees." Thus in the early 1600's "Yan-kees" is Dutch for John cheese.
And John Cleese’s either father or grandfather had the last name of Cheese, then changed the spelling.
lmao (Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving) while Simon was saying that the people of other nationalities and backgrounds in image 2 refused to eat the turkey and instead were "digging into their own national dishes", my gaze fell upon a possibly Chinese man literally about to eat what appears to be a fully intact, furry mouse - idk about that one! XD
My man, you need a better microphone and sound isolation.
who knew military can make an effective advertisement
Captainess America at 1:45
Most Brits are not familiar with this use of "thick" (as hasty pudding). It means dense, foolish, or dimwit.
"It wenches without passion."
This is so 18th century it hurts, lol.
Here in the South that word is "damnyankee". One word, not two.
But Simon, I say, what about Poor Richard??
so the modern Yankee Doodle Dandy equivalent is the Zoomer Instagrammer posting photos of herself eating avocado toast in a Bougie restaurant...
Bougie is French for spark plug. Or candle.
I'm from the south and here the term Yankee is reserved for those who come from the north and new england
Ive also heard Army soldiers sometimes say their Uncle paid to send them around the world.