Yesterday as I was driving I heard an NPR story about a new "app" that analyzes why some movie catch phrases are catchier than others. It was an interesting interview and lots of famous movie clips were played("you know how to whistle, don't you?" "You can't handle the truth" and "Go ahead make my day." I don't want to go into the actual story too much because I might mislead you readers.
The one that I thought about the most was "You had me at hello" from Renee Zwellweger to Tom Cruise in the movie "Jerry Maguire". I was thinking of opening our front door the first time that I met my husband. My mother as I said before had discussed fixing us up with his mother. The idea was that I would show this 29 year old soon to be divorced guy around the town with a special detail to where the singles go. As my Mother said, "you don't have to marry him, just show him where he might meet people."
So after he called me, we agreed to go out and just kind of talk. I had no expectations: this was an almost 30 year old guy, who was getting divorced, that my Mom had never met, but his "brothers were very nice looking."
I do remember opening that door so many years ago and thinking that the guy was not bad at all. I was pleasantly surprised. When I think back on it....he did have me at hello!
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