HUMOR Digest - 16 Nov 1997 to 17 Nov 1997

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 03:24:15 -0500
From: Jim Moore Jr
Subject: Place Dropping

The Yuppies in Columbia Maryland have yet another game to impress people. Forget all about name dropping. I mean any lowbrow with a couple of thousand dollars and a few McDonald's coupons can get into the White House. I mean, "Heavens dahling, circle the Beamers, the great unwashed are everywhere these days."

Anyway, this is a new status symbol called "Place Dropping." The object of the game is to work the name of some a foreign city very casually into the conversation. If nobody else has been there, you are given 10 points and can talk without interruption the remainder of the evening.

The trick is to slip in the fact that you've been to a place w/o actually coming right out and saying so. For example, you'd say, "I just can't get used to the speed of air travel these days. Why this time yesterday, I was having lunch in Wein-- pardon, or as you probably know it, Vienna."

See, part of the game is to also sprinkle the conversation with foreign words too; you would say Munchen instead of Munich. One lady said she had put on 7 pounds with good old German dunkles Bier.

As a rule, female droppers are subtle. At a cocktail party I was attending, a guest asked the hostess if she had gotten her tablecloth in Portugal. Getting a negative response she said with a smile, ever so condescending, "You really ought to go to Lisbon sometime. They have the most beautiful linen."

Men on the other hand prefer the direct shot. My host stood in the center of the room and said, "Pretty good stuff, huh ? Brought it back from Scotland myself." as he toasted his guests.

A discussion then broke out over whether fermented seal blubber from Iceland or Mongolian yak milk was tastier; a coconut drink from "Ind-juh" and a distilled cactus juice from "May-heeco" were also in the running, but pretty much tied for third place. The Caipirinha from Brazil seemed to be running last.

I didn't hear how the game came out. I ducked around the corner for a beer. The bartender said it wasn't like the stuff one can get in Dublin, though.

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