Friday, October 30, 2009

Prepare to Die

For Halloween I took a "Hello, My Name Is:" name tag and wrote "Inigo Montoya", slapped it on and went to work. So far about 98% of my coworkers have not understood the reference. I have spent much of my day explaining that "there's this movie with this character that says this line...". I've also had some fun interactions with the few people who've heard of Inigo. Some of the conversations so far:

"But, you don't have the boots... or the sword... or the puffy shirt and vest... and you don't really look like him at all."

(Coworker looks at name tag, without getting any explanation about costume):
"Oh, you're a Spanish guy? Are you going to speak Spanish all day?"

"He wears a name tag in the movie?"

Dave: "Maybe you should have referenced a more popular movie."
Ben: "The Princess Bride actually is a pretty popular movie."
Dave: "Well, maybe you should've done something from Star Wars. I've heard of Star Wars. Like, you could have a name tag that says 'Hello, my name is Chewbacca.'"

1 comment:

  1. this one is right up there with the arby's costume. ben, you're the undisputed king of halloween costumes! next year i'm going as whatever your second best idea is.

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