Anywhere you go, I'll follow you...

[venta]

Hmmm.

This morning, on the way to work with ao_lai, I observed that there was a left-hand, leather, but sadly not laceless, boot sitting by itself on the pavement. He remarked that the Bedstead Men were probably to blame.

When I'm talking (or occasionally when I'm writing), I tend to sling in random lines of songs, poems, bits of film dialgoue. Not for any real reason, I just like playing with words. And if you do that, it's nice to know that the people you're talking to have picked them up.

Not, as some people would have you believe, because I derive a feeling of smug intellectual superiority in knowing that my friends have read the same book as me, or what have you. More because it's like the mental equivalent of snap.

But, if you hear someone quoting something, there remains the problem of how to make it known that you noticed. Now, ideally you do this by making some witty remark, which adds something to the conversation, and isn't exclusive of people who didn't pick it up. So, what if there isn't such a remark, or (more probably, in my case :) you can't think of it ?

Do you just let the thing go ? If someone's worked a reference in particularly cleverly, it seems churlish not to acknowledge it... maybe I just lack the wit for the game :)

Comments

Difficult

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

References are quite fun and are a nice way to tie bits of conversation into more specific descriptions and situations for the people who pick up on the references.

I just wish fewer references were from strange things on this TV like device. I stand no chance. A whole new conversation based on the witty remarks recongnising a buffy reference for example drives me round the bend on a regular basis..