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sanj, Ten References You Expect Your Nearest and Dearest to Get:
(in addition, one assumes, to the entirety of The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the original Star Wars films.)
... This is actually a really hard meme for me. Partly because the first reference I immediately thought of was "So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you", and the second was "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" and the third was "That's no moon ... that's a space station!" And how are we defining "nearest and dearest"? There are references I expect my family to get ("Hark. I hear the cannons roar. Is it the king approaching?") and ones I expect my friends to get ("I think that's funny. Because Hitler was a mass-murdering fuckhead."), and there's some overlap but not much. "Friends" is further divided into people I knew first online or not. Gah! And then the references I make are more often identifiable by style, rather than by actual text.ellen_fremedon and I were talking about this the other day, how calling myself "needing-insurance girl" would have been a Buffy reference but calling myself "in need of insurance like an insurance-needing person" or something would have been a Sorkin reference. (She had a way to make it a Blackadder reference, as well, but I don't remember it.) And that's not even touching the number of references, family- and friend-compliant, that aren't pop-culture references at all.
So anyway. Ten? Whew. Here goes.
In approximate order of publication:
1. "When you say orphan ..."
2. "I don't mind if people talk rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot."
3. "Things would be so different if they were not as they are." (This usually goes hand-in-hand with "But if there was one thing circumstances weren't, it was different from what they were ...")
4. "You know, you got spunk. I hate spunk."
5. "It's plot exposition. It has to go in somewhere."
6. "We're not going to have enough road to get up to 88."
7. "Six thousand dollars? It's not even leather!"
8. "I said no camels! That's four camels! Can't you count?"
9. "No, just the pie, but then not heated."*
10. "I never wear shoes, because they make me fall down."
11. "Are you nuts? Are you some nutty nut-girl who's nuts?"
*Also:
Huh. Turns out it was easier than I thought.
sanj, Ten References You Expect Your Nearest and Dearest to Get:(in addition, one assumes, to the entirety of The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the original Star Wars films.)
... This is actually a really hard meme for me. Partly because the first reference I immediately thought of was "So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you", and the second was "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" and the third was "That's no moon ... that's a space station!" And how are we defining "nearest and dearest"? There are references I expect my family to get ("Hark. I hear the cannons roar. Is it the king approaching?") and ones I expect my friends to get ("I think that's funny. Because Hitler was a mass-murdering fuckhead."), and there's some overlap but not much. "Friends" is further divided into people I knew first online or not. Gah! And then the references I make are more often identifiable by style, rather than by actual text.
ellen_fremedon and I were talking about this the other day, how calling myself "needing-insurance girl" would have been a Buffy reference but calling myself "in need of insurance like an insurance-needing person" or something would have been a Sorkin reference. (She had a way to make it a Blackadder reference, as well, but I don't remember it.) And that's not even touching the number of references, family- and friend-compliant, that aren't pop-culture references at all.So anyway. Ten? Whew. Here goes.
In approximate order of publication:
1. "When you say orphan ..."
2. "I don't mind if people talk rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot."
3. "Things would be so different if they were not as they are." (This usually goes hand-in-hand with "But if there was one thing circumstances weren't, it was different from what they were ...")
4. "You know, you got spunk. I hate spunk."
5. "It's plot exposition. It has to go in somewhere."
6. "We're not going to have enough road to get up to 88."
7. "Six thousand dollars? It's not even leather!"
8. "I said no camels! That's four camels! Can't you count?"
9. "No, just the pie, but then not heated."*
10. "I never wear shoes, because they make me fall down."
11. "Are you nuts? Are you some nutty nut-girl who's nuts?"
*Also:
"You made a woman meow?"
"Look, if you ask me what a person looks like and I say she's got a good personality, that means she's not that attractive. But just because I happen to mention she's got a good personality, it could be either. She could be attractive with a good personality, or not attractive with a good personality."
"So which is it?"
"Attractive."
"But not beautiful, right?"
"Of course, when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot, she said, 'Ted Kennedy was shot?!'"
"I want you to know that I will never want that wagon-wheel coffee table."
and, of course,
"I'll have what she's having."
Huh. Turns out it was easier than I thought.
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