If I were to have a conversation with someone I know to be a sports fan, I might include references to anything sportsy I'd heard recently. (How about those Wings?) Or, if someone was wearing a hand knit sweater, I might mention that I spin yarn.
However, if I didn't know anything about a person, yet I wanted to converse with them or be friendly, there is not as much to go on. Sometimes, all there is to know (especially for the less observant) is the painfully obvious stuff.
You could always ask them about Richard Nixon, Sting, or or Aldous Huxley.
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Date: 2008-06-22 10:05 pm (UTC)However, if I didn't know anything about a person, yet I wanted to converse with them or be friendly, there is not as much to go on. Sometimes, all there is to know (especially for the less observant) is the painfully obvious stuff.
You could always ask them about Richard Nixon, Sting, or or Aldous Huxley.