Obscure references?
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Not too long ago, I was in a gas station and the woman ahead of me in line adamantly refused to accept a one dollar coin from the clerk (it was one of the new Presidential Dollar coins).
She accused the clerk of trying to give her a fake coin because, according to her, there is no such thing as a dollar coin.
"Poor old Lou Gehrig. Died of Lou Gehrig's Disease. How the hell did he not see that one coming?"
Kudos to you if you know where that joke is from.
You know, I remember that one so well. The Carol Channing-version of Clint Eastwood just did me in---and still does.
I was explaining sentencing arguments to our paralegal, and mentioned that a defendant might seek a lower sentence because of a tough childhood. I said, Usually, that's not enough - I mean, unless you're, like, Sybill, ... And the kid just looked at me blankly. No idea. I had slightly better luck with, ...Or raised by a whackadoo like Carrie. I think he finally figured it out when I mentioned going berserk at the prom.
But does the Canadian two dollar coin have two loons on it, since it's nicknamed the toonie?
*Pulls out pocket change, checks*
No, it has a polar bear on it.
I'm pretty sure it's called a "toonie" just because it's two dollars (two-nie), and it was introduced after the term "loonie" was already well-established.
I kind of preferred the term "doubloonie" myself.
A lot of these references are pretty obscure. I've seen The Breakfast Club within the last year, and I still didn't get the "better hallway vision" reference. If you want to be understood, either tailor your references to your audience or be prepared to explain yourself immediately after making the reference.
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I can make references even Dennis Miller wouldn't get.
In college my use of "Look behind you a three headed monkey" and "that's the second biggest.... I've ever seen" meant that even people who hadn’t played the games were quoting them, more so the first, the second doesn't come up all that often surprisingly
I was the victim of an obscure reference:
This one obnoxious (trying to be funny, quick-to-him wit, lauging at half the things he said), short (5'2), fat guy happened to be taking a class that I was taking. He, for some reason, would gravitate to me (taller at 5'10). Teacher of the class (in his 60's) one day says to us "You two are like Mutt and Jeff"
Had to Wikipedia that old comic strip to get the refference.
This one obnoxious (trying to be funny, quick-to-him wit, lauging at half the things he said), short (5'2), fat guy happened to be taking a class that I was taking. He, for some reason, would gravitate to me (taller at 5'10). Teacher of the class (in his 60's) one day says to us "You two are like Mutt and Jeff"
Had to Wikipedia that old comic strip to get the refference.
Children. Can't educate them, can't have them executed. What's a guy to do?
I'm SO cross-stitching this on a sampler!
My 13-year-old daughter used the "3 snaps in Z-formation" from In Living Color while talking to a friend this morning, forgetting that this show has never been shown in England. We own the series on DVD, which is how she knows it.
Better yet, "I'm the goddamn Batman."
I'm not familiar with either of those games, but “That's the second-biggest (whatever) I've ever seen!” was a running joke on the old Get Smart series with Don Adams.
Better yet, "I'm the goddamn Batman."
nah, the '89 film quote's older.
'sides, really, you'd have to use "what? are you DENSE? are you RETARDED or something? I'm the GODDAMN Batman!"
Glad someone else remembered that.
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