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

[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...