How you doin?

On any given day, I kid you not, I receive a message from someone that contains those exact words.  Here it is everyone, the message that is least likely to get a response.  Here's one I just got five minutes ago.

        From: Motorhead88

        Subject: Hey

        Message: How you doin?

Yep, it's Joey's quote from Friends.  Sometimes there's variations, like "u" instead of "you", or maybe just no punctuation, but it comes up SO OFTEN.

Do you think these guys know it's Joey's famous pick-up line?  Typically the men are in the right age range to have watched the show, and certainly most have grown up in North America.  I definitely get the sense that these guys are not using the phrase to elicit TV nostalgia.  So... I guess I'm expected to take that email seriously.

Let me clear something up.  My profile definitely contains enough material for an interesting conversation starter.  Ask me about music, and singing in a band!  Ask me why my dog bites everyone!  Hell, just ask me where I'm from!  (It's a safe question, since almost everyone you meet in Toronto has grown up somewhere else.)  All I'm saying is, if you want a response from me, maybe prove that you've read my profile and not just clicked through my pictures.