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Well, I've never seen the movie Princess Bride, which is apparently a very offensive thing to say, one of the most offensive things a human being could say.

And I don't know why, it wasn't a conscious decision, it just wasn't part of my childhood

experience.

And then got to a place where it just kind of became fun to see how people

would react when I told them.

So I've sort of actively resisted, but it's one of the most quotable movies out there, right?

So when people say things like, mowage, or you killed my father, prepare to die,

is that it?

Is that one of them?

I have no idea what people are talking about.

It makes no sense to me.

I've never seen the movie and so out of context

it doesn't make sense because we need stories to construct meaning. So there's a philosopher

by the name of Alistair McIntyre and he said, imagine yourself standing at a bus stop and a young man who you've never met

walks up to you and he says the name for the common wild duck is hysterenecus hysterenecus hysteremicus

hysteremicus how do you respond? I don't know, right? Because you need to know the story in order to

formulate a proper response. And so he says there's a couple of different scenarios

in which that might have played out. Number one, the kid, the young man, might have been crazy, which is a little bit sad, right? He's a little bit off his rocker. Number two, he may have mistaken your identity for someone else. There's someone else that looks exactly like you

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