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#1

do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty, but no one gets it

Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:18pm

so 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?
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#3

re: 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.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

Updated On: 6/9/07 at 07:23 PM

#4

re: 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?
....but the world goes 'round
#6

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:32pm

oh, 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.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...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
#7

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:34pm

Paris has herpes.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
#8

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:35pm

and anal abscesses.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...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
#11

re: 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.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#15

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/9/07 at 10:51pm

I 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.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music "Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70 "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#19

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/9/07 at 11:23pm

Yeah 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.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#20

re: 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.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Updated On: 6/10/07 at 09:48 AM

#22

re: 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.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley
#23

re: do you ever make a pop culture reference that you think is really witty

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:59pm

I 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.
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#25

re: 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!
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music "Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70 "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba

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