![]() ![]() I have already started a grassroots (or is it grasscourt?) campaign on Twitter, but I would like to reiterate it right here, right now. Use the phrase liberally every year, for one day: with your spouse, with your boss, in the car, even to yourself (you could make an argument, in fact, that most of McEnroe’s tantrums were actually self-directed). A Stamp Act? You cannot be serious! That’s why I would like to propose that June 22nd become, for now and forever, You Cannot Be Serious Day. And he was constitutionally unable to hold his tongue. John McEnroe You Cannot Be Serious Hardcover Jby John McEnroe (Author), James Kaplan (Author) 424 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 14.06 Other new, used and collectible from 1.25 Paperback 19.69 Other new, used and collectible from 1. ![]() He was brilliant but callow, like the nation sometimes was. But he was also importantly American for other reasons. McEnroe, as the recent HBO documentary “McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice” explained, shocked England precisely because he was a stereotypical Ugly American: brash, arrogant, indecorous. It’s time for dinner? You cannot be serious! I have to clean my room? You cannot be serious! But there’s a broader application. It was tremendously cathartic to march around the house for a few days saying, “You cannot be serious” to anything I was told. I was eleven, a fan of tennis but a bigger fan of anger. “You Cannot Be Serious” became the title of his memoir, and the phrase has surfaced in a variety of contexts, mostly comic he reused it when he appeared as a guest star on “30 Rock.” But today, on the anniversary of the original offense, I would like to propose a more auspicious use for it. It was not his first or his last or his most violent. ![]()
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