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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can't quote AN because its overexposed. To be good, a quote or reference must be obscure to at least a portion of a the audience. I doubt there is a single breathing male alive in the United States who is not familar with AN. Worse, I used AN occasionally in the past when referring to your posts ("I... see... no... method... at all...).
If you were to quote Satisfaction, no one would respond. But quoting the fifth line in the third verse of Before They Make Me Run would probably get a few chuckles. That said, you can't pull a Dennis Miller and get too obscure or too faux-high-brow with your references because then you just sound pompous. Unless you are the Flower, who for some reason can pull that shit off. So be forwarned - if you go googling for quotes from The Stranger or Yeats' Noh Plays, you've gone too far in the other direction.
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I wonder how you would feel about your posts if someone else posted them.
How could anyone take what you're saying about overly-used movie quotes seriously when you can't write a single sentence without putting some trite, overly-used saying in it?
I thought Hank's quote was funny because it actually worked. He took a funny quote and turned it around and made fun of me with it. It's even funnier because it's not too far off from his drunken-monkey-style posts.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Properly utilizing the good comedic reference is a studied art. I stuggle with it constantly.
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Yep. You are a true student of comedy.
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