You touch my hands for stupid reasons

On the subject of misquotation, I was recently directed, by blogger Ezra Klein, to some stupid pop-internet-culture phenomenon which he titled "You touch my hands for stupid reasons." It turns out that it's an audio stream of someone reading a badly written break-up e-mail (or myspace message or something). I am not going to link to it, because I felt betrayed by Klein's recommendation (google it if you want). He describes it as "transcendent," but it is not worth your time. It is exactly what you would expect, and mockery aimed at the poor writing skills of kids on the internet lost its comedic value way back in the 90s, when it was new. (I suppose the purpose is possibly, or additionally, to mock the dramatic tone of the note. If so, that is even less interesting.) Nor does it even contain, exactly, the words in the title, which tempted me with their admittedly compelling lyricism. Rather, the piece contains the phrase "You make me touch your hands for stupid reasons." This is not nearly as special, and here is a much better example of the phenomenon Menand describes, in which subsequent revision makes a quotable quote that much more quotable.