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!

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[serai1.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 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...
11. Five is right out!

My own Catchword That Needs Explaining is: "Brain and brain! What is BRAIN??!!"

Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!
So follow me, follow
Down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in
Glo-o-o-o-rious mud!

You know the weird thing? I have no idea where I'm remembering that from. They say the easiest way to remember something is to set it to music. Guess they're right.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I don't know the brain one. I mean "Eat brains!" I know, but now I am all curious.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Mwa-ha-ha. *rubs hands gleefully*

Wait a minute. Some are boojums. If that's KV, then I do know it. Just took a while for it to surface.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

KV? ... er.. no, although it may have gone through them from my source.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Ah. I thought I was remembering it from Kurt Vonnegut.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You might be. It's been used plenty of times in various places.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh, and "Brain and brain! What is BRAIN??!!" is a quote from the immortal Spock's Brain, the Plan 9 of science fiction TV.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, lordy, no wonder I'd forgotten it. I had blissfully erased that episode from my memory.

But the quote is great...