Thursday, June 21, 2007

Turn my headphones up

Most days, from 8-5, the conversation around me is a continual stream of quotes from television and moving pictures. I work with a bunch of boys in their early 20s, and there's something about particular boys at that particular age that seems to promote super-retention of lines from movies and TV--it's like their superpower.

A somewhat imaginary conversation might go something like this:

Girl: So, how's your article going?

20s Boy Coworker: "Ain't going platinum, it's going double uranium, son."*

Girl: That's pretty cool.

20s Boy Coworker: "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal."

Girl: You're so awesome.

20sBC: "Simma down now."

Girl: I'm cool.

20sBC: "Say WORD!"

Girl: Word.

20sBC: Mmmm, that sounds good. I'll have that.

Girl: Yeah, that's cool.

20sBC: "Why don't you take off that green jumpsuit and show me that fat ass."

(I should clarify: that last line is not directed at anyone--it's just thrown out there. Today the guy who said it quickly looked around for the high school girl who was visiting our office this afternoon. "The
shadow's not still here, is she?" Fortunately, she wasn't).

And so it goes. Every day. Scraps and bits of dialogue, random lines. I can quote things that I have no idea where they come from. Eventually I think I'll be talking entirely in movie and TV quotes. If I can retain them all. I don't have that as a superpower.

*Super Bonus if you can tell me where all these lines are from.

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posted by Melanie at 11:02 PM

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  • I'm thirty & living in Amish Country, PA. I'm a marketing writer for a non-profit.
  • I'm Mennonite, but not in a head-covered, dress-wearing kind of way. More in a hippy-liberal, peace-loving kind of way.
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