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

[surgicalsteel.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 be 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...

But then, I'm getting old, too. And I adore Tom Lehrer. Odd how appropriate some of his lyrics seem these days, isn't it?

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrressed to admit that I've never heard of any of these, at least as far as I can remember. MAybe number 6, though;it rings a bell. Are these from children's books?

[shirebound]

I only recognize 3 and 4!

:(

[oliviaramirez]

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 be 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...

[mariole.livejournal.com]

I just know

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...
10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...

*is ignorant*

[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.

[blackbird-song.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 be 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...

My addition:
11. Five is right out!

Catherine

[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...

[cara-chapel.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 be 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!

[unhobbityhobbit.livejournal.com]

1. Etaoin shrdlu though my dad is always wandering around saying "chomp chomp, little shrdlu!"
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto!
4. Poisoning pigeons in the park it just takes a smidgin...
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 be 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...

Ooh, I just noticed.
11. Five is right out!

and on that note: always look on the bright side of life...

[dreamflower]

1. Etaoin shrdlu but *very* familiar; it's on the tip of my brain...
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud...nothing quite like it for cooling the blood...
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto!...'spose they'll ever do a remake?
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!...ROTFL! Anna Russell rocks...
8. I went to be 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... Yay for G & S!

[trilliah.livejournal.com]

The only one I recognize (and blackbird_song can back me on this) is "Five is right out!" Are the rest Monty Python too?

[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.

[siouxieq.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of these, but I am blaming it on growing up in Australia rather than my age

[fictualities.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...

And in the spirit of (9), I will now softly and suddenly vanish away. :D

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

I only recognize #2

Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So follow me, follow,
down to the hollow
Where we can wallow in
Mud, Glo-o-rious Mud!

Flanders and Swan, I believe. :)

[qinfinity.livejournal.com]

"Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the best movie I think they ever made. If that is the movie you're quoting. I'm not exactly sure.