You Say Groovy, I Say Outmanoovie

So because every critic, reviewer, blogger, social commentator, you name it wants to coin their own phrase, I propose an absolutely idiotic one to pass the time. The word is "outmanoovie," and it is the moment in any conversation you're having when someone has alienated themselves and brought their conversation to a stand-still by naming a director, actor, film title or fact that the other person does not know and/or does not care to know.

After all, every conversation can and should be a battle of wits where the winner is the person that can flaunt their knowledge of useless trivia and lose someone's interest at the same time. Your intellectual victory over your opponent, er, companion, is a hollow one, because, in "outmanoovieing" your opponent, you are effectively claiming victory over their efforts to look sharp and witty, thrusting yourself to the lonely pinnacle of the now-defunct conversation's knowledge.

I insist that you try it with your friends. Make it a game: See how long you can go before you can crush your "friends" underneath your mammoth ego. Sneak a stopwatch into the conversation and try to beat your record (47 seconds! A new record or you're just not trying hard enough?). Break out the bubbly when you invoke Godard, Bergman or anyone else that has their films screened several times a years at the [Film Forum]. Feel a surge of guilty pleasure as you take down your lay friends with some fun facts about Michael Bay (did YOU see that [commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiHsxQJ9ZOo) he did for Verizon where he makes fun of himself? How many times, you say?!).

For your reading pleasure, a real-life "outmanoovieing" (all names are kept confidential for the sake of being facetious):

A: I almost pissed myself after watching the alternate ending to the pilot for Twin Peaks. Lynch is a madman! M: Who? A: David Lynch? Oh, he did...lessee...The Elephant Man? (pause) Mulholland Drive? (pause) Eraserhead? Blue Velvet? Inland Empire?! M: Nope. Sorry. A: VICTORY! M: What? A: What's that? I didn't say anything. And what did you do all day?

Now I kick up my heels and wait to see if anyone is insane enough to pick up on this fantastic new phrase. It's just a matter of time, I know it.