So my Facebook status quoting Madeleine Kahn in Clue apparently didn't go over well.
Writing "flames FLAMES on the side of my face..." earned me several emails and messages asking if I had been burned. Was it acid? Was it an accident? Had I stayed in the sun too long?
While trying for the umpteenth time this morning to fix our satellite, I walked back to my office after receiving a signal only to find it had gone out again when I got back. A coworker and I had a good laugh, and I said "I'm so angry. SO angry..." And the thus the quoting begin. So I posted that as my status, as that was indeed my feeling at the time.
What's more when I clarified that I had not been burned, but was quoting the film, I was rebuked and chastised. How dare I worry them and cry fire when I had not been burnt.
I believe I have seen presidential death threats on status messages that received less attention. I have written "has a gran coat on and a cake on her head" and no one assumed that I was suddenly senile wearing a large coat and pastries.
Oddly enough, I've written this same message on my status before and received "haha, love that movie" and "I was so angry SO angry...breath...heaving breaths..."
Am I honest to God the only person in the world who has seen this movie?????
I have seen that movie. I loved that movie in junior high. Though it's been so long since I watched it that I couldn't quote it. It reminds me of this one time I posted a quote from Wicked as my status on Yahoo Messenger: "Don't wish; don't start. Wishing only wounds the heart." I got this huge lecture from a friend on how I should never give up hope, etc. and I had to explain that it was JUST a quote from a song I was listening to at work that day. And yet no one ever comments when I post things like: "Talking to a man is like trying to saddle a cow. You work like hell, but what's the point?" - Gladys Upham
ReplyDeleteAlso, you shouldn't have been rebuked. Anyone who did is a total ninny.
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