name droppers

Recently, a friend was on a date made tedious, by the other's propensity for name dropping. Yes, sometimes name dropping is relevant or accidental, but when taken to the extreme, it nearly always becomes annoying. The best way to deal with this annoyance is of course to join in. We here at FunBox suggest the following:

First try the "Many Richards Counterattack," this is when you too drop many names, but restrict yourself to only those obtained from a matching subset, thus making the drops more annoyingly identifiable. The maneuver was first pioneered under the subset "Richard," for which it is named. In this scenario, Richard Gere, Richard Grieco, Little Richard, and King Richard the Lion-Hearted, all become powerful arrows in your quiver fixed upon oneupmanship.

Truly the this counter is a powerful tool. In fact, it's even attributed to coining the old axiom "many Richards make light work." If, however, your dropper persists. There is only one option: "the Richard Gere Gambit," or, as it's called by others: "The Great End Game." In this scenario, one drops all the lesser Richards to focus upon the single Richard, must annoying and B-listy of all: Richard Gere himself.

A single combination of: "So I took a meeting at Richard Gere's production company, I met Richard Gere's dad yesterday at a book signing, and you know who's a pretty woman? That gal I saw Richard Gere with on New Year's," is incredibly devastating. It'll end your opponent's name dropping and let you resume focus on life's great bounty of non Richard pleasures.