Misquotation and You

"Any persons attempting to find a plot, theme, or moral in this narrative will be shot and hanged."
-Mark Twain.

Misquoting is a common problem in large crowds. People attempting to sound cool or knowledgeable, will often, out of the blue, grasp for the nearest piece of media-related intellectual stimuli that may be excepted in the current company, and quote it.

The problem with this is that it, while still sounding perfectly fine to the untrained ear, comes out wrong. For example, "All the rum's gone! WHY?" sounds fine, yet is still wrong. In the context it is, it retains a completely different thematic value, if you will, than the actual correct phrase.

Most people, however, really don't seem to mind this, and go on doing it themselves. Some even do it on purpose.
This, then, leads to a fantastically quaint little theory:

Misquotation is actually a sign of a larger intellect.

The pleasant mat of the factor is that some people are just so widely-read, brains constantly buzzing with interesting conversation, obviously mixing itself and becoming so confusing that they can't help but misquote someone! And company is simply forced to accept whatever they say, no matter how foolish, from a social disease commonly called "peer pressure," which is believed to be a symptom of "highschoolitis." Due to which, no one ever asks if the quote is right or wrong or not, or what movie it's from, for fear of not being as simply well-versed as the benefactor.

So there you have it.

"I am your humble servant and I refuse."

-Buttercup.