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

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

1. Etaoin shrdlu This is in my brain somewhere... but I cannot retrieve the data!
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto! Necktie!
4. Poisoning pigeons in the park ROTFL!
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! more than one source for this
8. I went to be with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair...
9. Some are boojums. again, multiple references available
10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

With #7, I'm thinking of Anna Russell, although you're right, there are probably multiples. But with #9, all roads should lead to one place...

As I said to someone else above, I bet you know some that I don't know!

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Anna Russell! Of course! :D *forehead slap*