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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by suid on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:13PM (#38032848)
Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:47PM (#38033106)
I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by sho on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:24PM (#38034372)
> A meet-cute

OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by TylerE on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:30PM (#38034400)
It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by js2 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:49AM (#38034804)
Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by lloeki on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:39AM (#38035397)
Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:12AM (#38037986)
But it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by alanfalcon on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:45PM (#38034463)
Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now go watch The Holiday (2006).
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by solsane on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:05PM (#38045536)
Ok but can someone explain what this means
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by kdwikzncba on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:40AM (#38035082)
The lunchbox, is that the movie they watch in Seinfeld, which Elaine hates?
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by actionfromafar on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:22AM (#38035282)
No but she definitely would have hated it