Baby pole dancin'... tha' pocalypse

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

...I expect it will become received wisdom...

Like the "common knowledge" that Al Gore "said he invented the internet" ...people will bring this up, and when I don't immediately jump on board with what they're saying, they start "explaining" to me that they've "heard the quote" etc. ...They seem puzzled when I tell them I've heard the quote, I have an MP3 of the quote on my computer, and he doesn't actually say that he invented the internet. They insist they "heard him say it" ...

...But what they are actually repeating to me is what other people said about the quote, IE the interpretation, the desire to humiliate a public figure, the attempt to be funny or have some cultural trivia, or the basic say anything bad about the guy from the other party. People aren't big on details.