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Jun. 20th, 2003 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This morning, on the way to work with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 :)
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 :)
Re: Demonstrating idiocy
Date: 2003-06-20 03:42 am (UTC)Send inAttack the Clones" - Star Wars Episode II.Totally without irony. Apologists have claimed its designed to recreate the appalling state of teenager love poetry A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
I was never like that as a teenager.
As to whether George Lucas, or the franchise, has become a laughing stock - only you can decide. However personally I only saw this one twice, after seeing Episode 1 quite a lot more times having gone to US especially...
The worst quote of the film to my mind, though it is really fanboy-cringe, is Christopher Lee (did he need *another* mansion?) to Yoda before the little green menace kicks his sorry ass with a dinky lightsaber - "This battle will not be decided by our knowledge of the Force, but by our skill with a Lightsaber". *cringe*
I'll get my coat shall I?
Re: Demonstrating idiocy
Date: 2003-06-20 06:21 am (UTC)As to whether George Lucas, or the franchise, has become a laughing stock - only you can decide. However personally I only saw this one twice
I don't think we can say he's a laughing stock as a businessman. His model is pretty sound given that someone who hates the film has "only" seen it twice.
Re: Demonstrating idiocy
Date: 2003-06-20 07:05 am (UTC)Mind you I see a number of films twice, epsecially ones I really want to like...