Useless bits of cultural knowledge.

[rabidsamfan]

I think I'm getting old. Stuff I never had to explain to grownups I am now explaining to grownups.

*sigh*

Which of these do you recognize?

1. Etaoin shrdlu
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto!
4. Poisoning pigeons in the park
5. Once there was a shaggy dog, and one day he entered into the block shaggy dog contest...
6. Beans in your ears!
7. I'm not making this up, you know!
8. I went to sleep with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair...
9. Some are boojums.
10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...

ETA:
11: Five is right out! (courtesy of blackbird_song)

Double ETA, corrected number 8. Gah! Sometimes my fingers type faster than my brain works!

If you want to memify? (memeify?) the list, feel free. Do the "bold I know it, italic I've heard it but I don't understand it, and strikethrough I've never even heard of it" routine. And add your own "why am I the only one getting this joke?" lines too!

Comments

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

1. Etaoin shrdlu
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto!
4. Poisoning pigeons in the park
5. Once there was a shaggy dog, and one day he entered into the block shaggy dog contest...
6. Beans in your ears!
7. I'm not making this up, you know!
8. I went to bed with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair...
9. Some are boojums.
10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...

Oh, so close! I'm sure my daughter could tell me #6, it's vaguely familiar. It's got to be from a song she learned at school.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It's more likely to be a song you learned when you were in school, if you're anywhere near as old as I am. But ask her anyway, she may know it!

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I imagine I'm a bit older than you. (forty-mumblemumble) LOL! Miranda's been coming home singing a lot of the songs I learned when I was a kid. They must be coming back in fashion or something. But, it's fun to be able to sing along with her. And she thinks it's cool that her old mom knows the "new" songs she's learning.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm forty-mumble too. I just never did the married-with-kids routine so people think of me as younger.

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

You do it very well, too! I had you pegged for no older than mid-30s. Don't you just love when people think you're younger than you are? Would've driven me nuts earlier in life. LOL!