# Grow Up, Mike Myers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 3, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916 "2005-09-03T18:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/41 "2005-09-04T03:47:52Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So… > > What made you decide to become white? Dude, it worked for Michael Jackson… sorta. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/42 "2005-09-04T03:49:52Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > So a celebrity flicked off the camera, big fucking deal. Well, actually, as you might have noticed, even the OP realized that… oh, forget it. I doubt you’ll read this either. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/43 "2005-09-04T03:54:23Z")
He was born a poor black child, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/44 "2005-09-04T04:05:34Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So… > > What made you decide to become white? Probably wanted Bush to care about him. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/45 "2005-09-04T04:07:43Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Probably wanted Bush to care about him. > Daniel That hardly seems worth having to have your penis shortened. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/46 "2005-09-04T04:08:41Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > That hardly seems worth having to have your penis shortened. They told me in health class that the bush don’t care. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/47 "2005-09-04T04:30:53Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > Well, actually, as you might have noticed, even the OP realized that… oh, forget it. I doubt you’ll read this either. Well even if he had flicked off the camera, big fucking deal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/48 "2005-09-04T05:41:37Z")
> [@](#): > > I am a work in process. I justify my (ir)rationality because it’s part of me, my past, my present, my mistakes, my triumphs. For better or worse. For worse. For far worse. Anyway, to the OP: I finally just caught the film. This OP is just bizarre. It was so incredibly obvious that Myers scratched his eye with his index finger. You seriously have to be half blind to think he was flipping the bird. Give me a break. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/49 "2005-09-04T07:27:26Z")
The version on [IFilm](http://www.ifilm.com/?htv=12) is a few seconds longer than the other and man… Kanye seems three times as crazed in the extended few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/50 "2005-09-04T13:09:36Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So… > > What made you decide to become white? If you don’t get that my point is that it isn’t blackness, but poverty, that puts these people under the radar of the Powers That Be, then perhaps you ought to mouse on over to a board where less thought is encouraged. It’s class, not race, that is the factor here. If I still lived where I used to, my non-black ass would be ignored just as thoroughly as other people’s black ones. The point? Kanye’s making it about race, when it ought to be about class. Because Kanye is a loon. Maybe you knew that. But I cannot see how you could possibly have known that and still come to the ridiculous conclusion that you did. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/51 "2005-09-04T13:12:44Z")
I think Scylla was making joke based on the linguistic ambiguity of the expression you typed. That expression had _black_ as the apparent, being the closer than _poor_, antecedent for _one_. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/52 "2005-09-04T13:25:52Z")
Besides it being mean to suggest Bush doesn’t care about black people, what evidence do you have that he does? ---
**Author:** ![Shutterbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Shutterbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shutterbug)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/53 "2005-09-04T15:12:49Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Anyway, to the OP: I finally just caught the film. This OP is just bizarre. It was so incredibly obvious that Myers scratched his eye with his index finger. You seriously have to be half blind to think he was flipping the bird. Give me a break. Yeah, when I saw the clip on the computer with my face two feet from the screen, it was very clear I was wrong and blind as a donkey with its eyes closed. :smack: 🆒 I also agree there are other causes to pit that are more worthy…like when are we going to get another Austin Powers movie, or some silly :wally getting angry about some celeb flipping the bird who can’t tell the difference between “your” and “you’re” and who has poor vision and typing skills (the putz, not the celeb). Your jagoff :wally, Shutterbug ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/54 "2005-09-04T19:26:45Z")
Point taken. Forgive my jumpiness. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/55 "2005-09-05T10:49:51Z")
After West said, “George Bush does not care about black people,” Myers should have recalled Wayne Cambell and said, “NOT!” except that there was already a “not” in that sentence, in which case adding another one might have looked like agreement… ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/56 "2005-09-05T13:23:36Z")
> [@Shutterbug](#): > > I don’t really know what Kanye said because I started to tune him out. I didn’t even know who he was. I never said he was the aggrieved party. I was just pissed that Mike Myers flipped the bird. He is a lot older than Kanye, he has been in the entertainment business (SNL) since I was in high school, and he should know better. He should have had the decency to flip Kanye off after the cameras stopped rolling is all I’m saying…not on air during a telethon. [Another video of the finger…](http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kanye.html) DEFINITELY THE INDEX FINGER\_ NOT THE MIDDLE!! ---
**Author:** ![Shutterbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Shutterbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shutterbug)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916/57 "2005-09-05T14:28:46Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > [Another video of the finger…](http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kanye.html) > > DEFINITELY THE INDEX FINGER\_ NOT THE MIDDLE!! Duh, read message 53. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-mike-myers/319916.md?page=2)