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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikedidthis" data-source="post: 1779381" data-attributes="member: 1939">While I applaud the idea of digging through the pop-cultural facade and making real, human connections with each other, it seems to me that once you suppose you understand the motivations of others and declare that you don't want to see that behavior, you have chosen to stop the conversation and sever the connection. By assuming that pop culture references can be nothing more than lightweight--that they can't be the beginnings of a deeper conversation or even of a relationship, or perhaps that they may hold a deeper meaning for the person expressing them--then you have chosen to shut yourself off from the community. You chose not to dig through the facade, not the other guy. Pity.I know a girl who loves the song "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel. Songs don't come much lighter-weight than that. She seemed pretty intelligent in all other respects, so why would she like this song so much? Seemed a bit out of place, really. I found out that her father used to sing this song to her when she was little. She was his "uptown girl". He used this song to create a connection with his young daughter. He died in a car accident while she was still young. She will always carry this shallow little piece of pop culture flotsam with her because it reminds her of her dad. And I think that's a great reason to do it.Please don't be so dismissive of things that bring a smile to other people's faces. There might be more to it than you know, and you won't know unless you ask. Even if movie-quoting is used only to fill the empty spaces between us, at least it's trying. If you really feel that strong about it, use it as an opening to make a connection instead of telling the quoter to get lost.As Wayne and Garth said, "Game on."[edit: whoops...spelling error. Sorry 'bout the overly-serious tone...was feeling in a bit of funk last night :\. Just for the record, I'm a serial quoter, so a lot of quoting has never bugged me much. Lately, I've been favoring Buffy the Vampire Slayer and M*A*S*H quotes, but I also pull a lot from comic strips. Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, and Far Side probably top my list. Anyone else do that?]</blockquote>

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