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Alex · 07-23-2006, 09:10 PM

I guess it is just a difference. While I find reasonably appropriate quoting tolerable (though very few who do it, do it well) I don't really ever find it witty. It is just an exercise in memory and no more witty than someone mentioning a topic and being able to remember a Web site that has something interesting to say.

Saying you want to speak only in movie quotes is, to me, like saying you'd like to speak only in domain names or in words that consist of concatenations of element abbreviations (Beryllium-calcium-uranium-selenium Iodine calcium-nitrogen, Iodine americium lanthamum-molybdenum. Iodine tungsten-indium.). An exercise in cleverness perhaps, but not wit.

07-23-2006, 09:10 PM	#17
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I guess it is just a difference. While I find reasonably appropriate quoting tolerable (though very few who do it, do it well) I don't really ever find it witty. It is just an exercise in memory and no more witty than someone mentioning a topic and being able to remember a Web site that has something interesting to say. Saying you want to speak only in movie quotes is, to me, like saying you'd like to speak only in domain names or in words that consist of concatenations of element abbreviations (Beryllium-calcium-uranium-selenium Iodine calcium-nitrogen, Iodine americium lanthamum-molybdenum. Iodine tungsten-indium.). An exercise in cleverness perhaps, but not wit.
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