Surprise shared culture

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What mutual response to stimulus has transformed people that you regarded as "one of them" into "one of us", even if only for a few minutes.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 10 November 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

duh, Sports is the grand uniter.

James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, good point.

I was sitting at a work going away party with D___, who divided his spare time between getting stoned in front of the telly and going raving, and M______, who is a Girl About Town, when the indie disco that we just barely hear downstairs started playing "Where's My Jumper?" by the Sultans of Ping. We all started nodding our head to the fairly disctinctive beat, and at the verse sang (shouted) as one "My! Brother! Knows Karl Marx!"

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

THE MACARENA!

Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 10 November 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew, that example would be a 'one of them' occasion for me!

One that springs to mind is when the conversation at work once turned to the Marx Brothers, and a quiet new guy to whom I'd barely spoken was the only person able to answer my trivia question about who the fifth brother was.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 11 November 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)


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