do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
#1do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:18pmso you sorta pretend that it was just a non sequitur rather than take the time to explain it and show what a geek ya really are about whatever the subject matter happened to be?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:21pmGot an example?
#2re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:23pm
Yes, kinda.
I was doing the lotto for a certain number of orchestra tickets for a certain show in a certain city.
Peoples names were in a big bowl. I would draw the names, call them out; they would go to the box office and get their tickets.
Well, I drew one that was blank that had somehow gotten in there. And I called out, "H.G. Wells, you've won two tickets!"
The crowd looks around, waiting for H.G. to claim his tickets, a few of them yelling "H.G. Wells!"
I, not knowing what to do, merely told them at that point that it looked like H.G. left, and I proceeded to draw the rest of the names.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#3re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:27pm
Did you ever read a post that you thought maybe had some sort of meaning, but you didn't know what it was really saying b/c what you know may not be what the person who knows knows and therefore you realize that what you think you may or may not know is really only somthing that is totaly ambiguous?
You know?
#4re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:31pmCome again?
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#5re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:32pmoh, that's a huge problem around here taz where everyone has to know what the real story is. fortunately, i prefer whatever reality i happen to assign to threads and posts over whatever their posters' intentions might have been.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:34pmParis has herpes.
#7re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:35pmand anal abscesses.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#8re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:36pmWay to go papa!
#9re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 8:08pmPINK SOCK
#10re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 8:25pm
I would certainly not consider H.G. Wells a pop-culture reference.
And for those young ones who have not read him, or anyone not into literature or science fiction, I doubt they would get it.
#11re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:25pm
I've read 90% of H G Wells stuff and I still have no idea what's being referenced.
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#12re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:40pmPapa like Dennis Miller wearing Ankhnatan's Anorak, your post is out of place, idecipherable and odious! I feel like Bono on a manatee hunt, Cha Cha. Try again, Mr. Sprinkles!
#13re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:53pmThe Invisible Man by H.G. Wells? Not quite pop culture...
#14re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 10:51pmI was directing a show starring a couple of twenty-somethings in "Don't Drink the Water". In the scene where the tourist's daughter and the ambassador's son are saying goodbye, I told them to be more heartbroken at their parting. I told them "Give me Rick and Ilsa at the airport." They had no idea what I was talking about.
#15re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 10:54pm
Now they will.
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#16re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:00pm
i made a reference to lawrence welk the other day.
no one got it.
#17re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:08pmGeez, even I know who Lawrence Welk is.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#18re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:23pmYeah Raviolisun, but you've got a wellspring of cultural knowledge compared to most people MY age. People at work wonder why I don't have that many personal conversations with them.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 9:48am
I made a reference to "egg paranoia" the other day, without considering the folks around me. Nobody knew what I was talking about.
I remember once at a job I had just started, a woman made a reference to "go to the wwwwwwwwwwindow." I picked up on the reference to HELP!, and started repeating it like Leo McKern does in the film. She started laughing and said that nobody had ever gotten that reference before. I really started to fit in at that place when I made a reference to "fizzy lifting drinks." We used to have extensive morning-after dissections of the latest episode of THE SOPRANOS.
Alas, at my current job, my boss and my main co-worker never watch TV or go to the movies. I am bored stiff.
#20re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 10:00amThe problem is many people don't keep up with pop culture trends, so they have no idea what a pop culture reference really is when they try to make one.
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#21re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:03pm
I can't tell you how many times my best friend and I reference bizarre musical theatre and movie things and make fun of someone using them and just laugh at them because they don't know who they are.
We're bitches, good times.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#22re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:59pmI don't actually expect anyone to get some of my more vague references, but when someone does, it's a sign of someone who might be on a compatible wavelength.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#23re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 1:11pmIt's like Flaubert said in his letters: Cows have ovaries.
#24re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty
Posted: 6/10/07 at 2:30pm
I found out later that the twenty-somethings in the show I directed didn't understand many of my references.
I always knew that some of my references were obscure, but it turns out that what I really am is arcane!
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