Dear Reader (Particularly the geniuses at Tide who have come out with so many new and exciting flavors of laundry pods. I hear they even help wash clothes),
The other day on the Twitters, Danielle Sepulveres asked:
What’s a movie quote you still say whether or not people will get the reference
I proceeded to list a lot of mine, but they were still only a small fraction of the ones I use in everyday conversation. It’s a funny topic for me because in high school one of the longest-running jokes among me and my reprobate friends was how odd we must seem to people who weren’t saturated in ’70s and ’80s pop culture. We’d speak in a kind of Blade Runner patois of TV- and movie-quote fragments. To an ...
Dear Reader (Particularly the geniuses at Tide who have come out with so many new and exciting flavors of laundry pods. I hear they even help wash clothes),
The other day on the Twitters, Danielle Sepulveres asked:
What’s a movie quote you still say whether or not people will get the reference
I proceeded to list a lot of mine, but they were still only a small fraction of the ones I use in everyday conversation. It’s a funny topic for me because in high school one of the longest-running jokes among me and my reprobate friends was how odd we must seem to people who weren’t saturated in ’70s and ’80s pop culture. We’d speak in a kind of Blade Runner patois of TV- and movie-quote fragments. To an ...
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