Okay, so it finally came in the mail today! My Green Lantern decoder ring! Excellent! So from now on I'm going to be using it to write all my posts.
That aside, I've got a horrible memory even for things I really enjoy. For example, the other day I was watching VM with some friends (get your decoder rings on kids), the Apple and her beau, and for some reason we were talking about The Big Lebowski and I said that I just recently heard someone talking about that movie to which the Apple said, "dude, it was on VM last week." Here we are watching was is supposed to be my favourite show I couldn't remember it. It was staring me right in the face.
But that's not the worst example. I was hanging out with UFC (okay, "hanging out" might not be the right words... quick, put those decoder rings back on kids!) and I said, "It's like being reject for five and then asking for twenty instead." She replied, "Isn't that a quote from High Fidelity?" I thought about if for a moment, and holy shit, she was right. I had accidentally made a reference to a movie without knowing. Even worse was I was totally trying to pass it off as my own. I'm so sad.
So, what's the moral of the story? It's really important to think before you speak otherwise you end up looking like a jackass.
2 comments:
Is that really the moral? I don't think thinking, in these instances, would have helped you. You clearly had filed these memories away too deep to recognize the reference.
New moral. . .Ryan watches too many movies and too much tv.
and I think you're silly so we're even
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