Comments on: The Evolution of the Hallway Greeting http://www.faithandgeekery.com/2008/03/18/the-evolution-of-the-hallway-greeting/ Geekish News, Reviews, and Commentary Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Philip Norris http://www.faithandgeekery.com/2008/03/18/the-evolution-of-the-hallway-greeting/comment-page-1/#comment-231 David Philip Norris Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:31:40 +0000 http://knightowl73.wordpress.com/?p=228#comment-231 Nope, you weren't the only one. I wish it were the case that I was just in the know about the Holy Week pre-emption, but alas, no. For whatever reason, I chose to celebrate it early on Saturday with friends who probably did know about it. Sometimes following the crowd isn't such a bad thing. The main body of your post reminds me of the opening of Margaret Edson's "Wit," in which the main character Vivian, a professor of seventeenth-century poetry (specialising in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne), tells the audience that she tends toward a standard greeting that's a little more formal, "a little less inquisitive, such as, say, 'Hello'." Personally, I can't stand false familiarity, a state this country is ripe with! Nope, you weren’t the only one. I wish it were the case that I was just in the know about the Holy Week pre-emption, but alas, no. For whatever reason, I chose to celebrate it early on Saturday with friends who probably did know about it. Sometimes following the crowd isn’t such a bad thing.

The main body of your post reminds me of the opening of Margaret Edson’s “Wit,” in which the main character Vivian, a professor of seventeenth-century poetry (specialising in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne), tells the audience that she tends toward a standard greeting that’s a little more formal, “a little less inquisitive, such as, say, ‘Hello’.”

Personally, I can’t stand false familiarity, a state this country is ripe with!

]]> By: Chris White http://www.faithandgeekery.com/2008/03/18/the-evolution-of-the-hallway-greeting/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Chris White Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:28:20 +0000 http://knightowl73.wordpress.com/?p=228#comment-230 Anything is better than the casual "hey, how's it going" as they keep walking past. I hate the ambiguity of questions that I'm never sure are supposed to be answered or are just a (awkward) greeting. On your other note, St. Patrick's day may not have been yesterday, but I'm pretty sure green and Guinness day remained the same. Judging from the crowd in the Irish pub I visited over lunch I'm guessing they weren't letting anything change their holiday. Anything is better than the casual “hey, how’s it going” as they keep walking past. I hate the ambiguity of questions that I’m never sure are supposed to be answered or are just a (awkward) greeting.

On your other note, St. Patrick’s day may not have been yesterday, but I’m pretty sure green and Guinness day remained the same. Judging from the crowd in the Irish pub I visited over lunch I’m guessing they weren’t letting anything change their holiday.

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