Name drop?
Today’s question is: what’s up with name dropping??
Background: It seems that I live in a world of name droppers. Well that’s not entirely true, only a select few people I encounter are name droppers. But it’s something I don’t quite understand, at all.
What’s with name dropping anyway? Why is the name of a person or product so incredibly important that anyone would need to use it?
ie: I went to this great party the other day and I hung out all night with <>.
I suppose people want to make themselves feel better about spending a small fortune on their name dropped item so they need to tell everyone about it. That’s it right? It’s all incredibly lost on me.
One day someone I know was carrying a purse. I said I liked it, because it was cute (I know you guys don’t quite understand the cute purse thing, but for women purses can be cute). She told me it was a <> and that she was lucky enough to get it on sale for somewhere around $1400. I about choked.
$1400 for a purse? A purse? OMG (think of all the stuff you could buy with that money.)
I assume name dropping happens everywhere. Anyone have any good stories??
*OMG, recovering from fainting from someone having spent $1400 on a freaking purse…*
Well, its hardly “interesting”, but as an art major in college, I think that’s Name Drop Central.
Ridiculous. In fact, I think if you don’t “join in” with all the schmaltzy namedropping, you’re automatically penalized a grade (I’m totally serious).
Comment by Laura — April 22, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Laura, I felt about the same when I heard her say how much it cost. Although she assumed I should have known that, because of the designers name (which totally escapes me, not that I’d ever heard of him/her before anyway). She got it for a good price and was pretty proud of the fact, I was about to faint.
I didn’t know that about art majors. Did you ever get penalized a grade because you didn’t name drop. Surely you didn’t conform to that?? LOL
Comment by colette — April 22, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
No good stories, although I live with a golf pro and they are notorious name droppers LOL (fortunately Jay is not). $1400 on a purse is insane. I could never spend that kind of money on myself, let alone a purse?? Yikes!
Jenni
Comment by 2J3K&P — April 22, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
You know I didn’t conform to that. LOL.
I actually did get penalized once for “being naive of my own subject matter” (yes, those were his exact words) and basically, its because I wasn’t familiar with the names he was dropping of other artists who did similar work to my end-of-semester project (which was a sort of journalistic-y approach to documenting a little girl in my preschool class – ahem, who happened to be black .)
Because my instructor “saw” (ie, MADE UP) a lot of black-white issues in the project – which was not my intent – he called it “naive” not to have stressed them more.
LOL.
Comment by Laura — April 23, 2008 @ 7:56 am
Hahaha, you read my mind. I was thinking about this a couple of days ago, actually. Great story. In my American Lit class the other day, my teacher asked if anyone who had a laptop could look up the title of a specific movie he was referencing. Some girl raises her hand immediately and bursts out with a, “I can look it up on my MacBook Pro!!”
…..AWESOME.
Comment by Marta — April 23, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
…Yes, $1400 for a purse is insane! I just read recently where Tom Cruise’s wife spent $30,000 for her purse!
…It’s sad actually that people have become so shallow and that it is “in” to be shallow…(*sigh*)
…Blessings…
)
Comment by tj — April 25, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
No way, $30,000 on a purse? My goodness, why not buy a much cheaper one and give the rest of the money to some of the people in our country that could use it for food and clothing? yikes
Comment by colette — April 26, 2008 @ 10:32 am