Like a pro, I noticed this sign yesterday:
I see pros and cons in that, based on my previous profession as a copywriter. These days, my profession involves asking questions, including these: Is it possible to go back to school like a pro? If you are in school, aren’t you NOT a professional?
Back to defining terms, like a pro:
pro
prō
noun informal
1. a professional, especially in sports.
“a tennis pro”
adjective
1. (of a person or an event) professional.
“a pro golfer”pro·fes·sion·al
prəˈfeSH(ə)n(ə)l
adjective
1. relating to or connected with a profession.
“young professional people”
synonyms: white-collar, nonmanual
“people in professional occupations”
2. (of a person) engaged in a specified activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.
“a professional boxer”
synonyms: paid, salaried
“a professional rugby player”
noun
1. a person engaged or qualified in a profession.
“professionals such as lawyers and surveyors”
synonyms: white-collar worker, office worker
“affluent young professionals”
I rest my case, like a pro (even though I’m not a professional lawyer).
What does “like a pro” mean to you? As you look around, who is acting like a pro? Who needs to go back to school so they can act like a pro?
Any pros in my other photos today?
Here‘s “Like a Pro” by The Wizard, with people dancing like pros.
Thanks to all the pros and amateurs who contributed to today’s post and thanks to you — of course! — for reading like a pro.
I’d rather be a pro than a con, Ann.
Ha! You’ve earned the “Quick Quip” prize for this post. 👍
🙂
You’re both pros!
To my mind, anyone acting like a pro stands on sleazy streets wearing not very much
That is one definition of professional, Derrick.
🙂
What, me worry? Nope, you are a pro.
I’m less worried now. Thanks for commenting like a pro, Ray.
I bet that display started out as “…like a boss” until someone pointed out this was meant for students, so some committee changed the word to pro, instead of hiring a copy writing pro.
Thanks for the boss comment and for commenting like a pro.
No, never felt like a Pro at school, very much the Amateur, as we had to pay our own way through school. Probably have been a Pro plumber, but very much the Amateur poet, and now as it approaches midnight here in Geelong, I shall wander outside and look up into the universe for my soulmates celestial star, and wish her a happy 41st Anniversary……..
I appreciate all the pros and prose in your comments.
Dick DeBartolo, known as “Mad’s maddest writer” sold his first piece to Mad Magazine at the age of sixteen, while still a student, and turned professional right away. And yet my mind is also pulling up this from Bill Watterson:
Calvin: What’s a pronoun?
Hobbes: A noun that lost its amateur status.
All I can think to say is how lucky we are to have such pros at making us laugh.
All I can think to say is how lucky we are to have you, Chris.
You are an ALL-Pro
It takes one to know one, David. Thank you.
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Yeah…no PROblem eh! _へ__(‾◡◝ )>
You’re a PROper PRO!