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Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

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What's the meaning of the underlined part in the following dialog:

Whitney: Coach said a scout from Kansas state is coming to the game on Saturday.

Lana: That's great.

Whitney: Yeah. I don't want be a "remember him." Smallville's got enough of those guys.
  

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He doesn't want to be a person who did great things once, but who in the future is only remembered occasionally. For example, someone might be looking through their high school yearbook and say, "Oh yeah, Robert Milling! Remember him?

— Delmobile

  • He doesn't want to be a person who did great things once, but who in the future is only remembered occasionally.
  • For example, someone might be looking through their high school yearbook and say, "Oh yeah, Robert Milling!
  • Remember him?
  • Boy, he was a great quarterback.
  • We were all so sure he was going to go pro.
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He doesn't want to be a person who did great things once, but who in the future is only remembered occasionally.

For example, someone might be looking through their high school yearbook and say, "Oh yeah, Robert Milling! Remember him? Boy, he was a great quarterback. We were all so sure he was going to go pro. Whatever happened to him?"
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