If someone is classified as a “professional” because they get paid to do something: ie. athlete, photographer, musician, …
then is an unemployed person who gets paid to do nothing by the government called an “unprofessional”?
note: How can people call themselves ”professional gamblers“ when the majority of them lose money?
double note: How do I join the “professional bingo” circuit?
triple note: one banana, two banana, three banana, four!
6 responses so far ↓
S. Le // September 20, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
I want to be a professional coffee drinker. Or a professional blogger/Internet surfer! The combination of the two would be fab!
pannonica // September 20, 2008 at 2:24 pm |
-Robert Littell, The Amateur (1981, Simon and Schuster)
pannonica: I think Meatloaf said, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” I’m not sure if that was before or after collapsing backstage.
jimsmuse // September 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm |
Professional or unprofessional, the important thing is that everyone who loves that picture go immediately to youtube and watch the Dickies cover the Banana Splits theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0&feature=related
It always makes me smile
pannonica // September 20, 2008 at 7:22 pm |
planetross: Ernie Kovacs’ personal motto was “Nothing in Moderation.”
nathaliewithanh // September 20, 2008 at 9:09 pm |
Exactly right! You either are a Yuppy (Young Urban Professional) or a Yucky (Young Unemployment Collector) – in the US anyway. In Belgium, collecting unemployment has become somewhat of a profession for some – they have jobs on the side.
I think that professional gamblers have the same right to call themselves professional as professional stockbrokers (oh wait – it’s my money they are losing, not theirs!) I’m not bitter.
Tony // September 20, 2008 at 10:09 pm |
If you can’t do something worth doing right, do it anyway, worry about the consequences later