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"Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 05-04-13 at 04:16 PM
I may have just outed myself as some sort of an 80's dinosaur. I just used a pop-culture saying and it went completely over the head of someone else. I don't know whether I should be depressed over the fact that I ended up resorting to a cheap joke from nearly thirty years ago or if I've dated myself to the point that the young'uns now think I'm not long for the rocking chair.

Here's the situation...

I'm on the messenger box, wanting to place a phone call through a relay service. Normally, they reply within a few minutes so I could call somebody, but on this day it seems to be slower than usual. After about 20 minutes of no reply, I typed in "hello, checking to see if someone is there?"

Another 10-15 minutes or so passed, still without a reply. So, on a lark, I typed in, "Bueller? ... Bueller? ... Bueller?" and almost immediately, the operator replied with a "Huh?" I said that it was a line from a movie and was just wondering if anyone was around to take a call.

The operator said, "Yes I am here now, but I need the phone number for Bueller, so I can place the call for you."

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"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Snidget on 05-04-13 at 04:57 PM
I don't know whether to point and laugh or cry because I'm in the same boat.

Dinosaur's unite!

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Molaholic on 05-04-13 at 05:15 PM
If using "Bueller... Bueller... Buller..." makes you a self-described dinosaur, I have to wonder what I would be considering the point that the above referenced reference is something I saw as "kid stuff" when it debuted.

(However, I was in a college class where somebody signed in with the name Ben Dover, and the instructor called the name out three times before giving up.)

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by suzzee on 05-04-13 at 06:53 PM
Ben Dover. >snort<



I should be watched....closely.

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by cahaya on 05-04-13 at 05:55 PM
I'll take today off, tell mom I'm sick, and have some fun!
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by suzzee on 05-04-13 at 06:59 PM
Will you accept a note from Epstein's Mother?



I should be watched....closely.

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by cahaya on 05-04-13 at 07:26 PM
Sure, I'll take a note from anybody, absence excused!


Ragtop Ride by foonermints

I've gotta watch the odometer on dad's vintage car, though.

"Doing the math"
Posted by suzzee on 05-04-13 at 08:10 PM
Mr. Kotter's Sweathog math test:

Solve for Y:

Cheap car jack + (running a car in reverse to run back the odometer x 2 giant glass windows in a garage)= Y



I should be watched....closely.

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Dakota on 05-04-13 at 09:22 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-04-13 AT 09:22 PM (EST)

Schlemeil, schlamazo

Agman's Spring Fling '12


"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by kingfish on 05-05-13 at 10:25 AM
Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Dakota on 05-06-13 at 00:28 AM
Fooner motto: If it doesn't kill me, it better start running.

Agman's Spring Fling '12

"seriously?"
Posted by cqvenus on 05-08-13 at 07:47 AM
"Bueller...?" is classic.

I am 34 (yes, guys... it's been that long) and this means I was probably a toddler when this movie came out. That is no excuse.

It's like my first p0rn being Debbie Does Dallas. That movie is like 400 years old. But it's classic.

cq

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by byoffer on 05-08-13 at 01:11 PM
I had one of those a few years ago at work. We were making a slide deck, and one of the slides was to have the names and pictures of the team. The team had 9 people, so I asked the tech to arrange them in "Brady Bunch" format. And the tech looked at me and said "Huh?".
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Molaholic on 05-08-13 at 03:45 PM
"Brady Bunch" format -- for me, the preferred format would have been "Hollywood Squares", because Paul Lynde was much cooler than Alice.
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by kidflash212 on 05-08-13 at 04:32 PM
But I'd bet on Alice in a fight.
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by cahaya on 05-08-13 at 05:59 PM
I'll take Whoopi for the X and the win.
"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by Molaholic on 05-08-13 at 06:40 PM
Whoopi?? Whoopi?? We don't want no Whoopi in our game.

Charlie Weaver in the lower left, Paul Lynde as the Center Square -- that's what I'm talking about!


Best TV game show line -- when a player misses a block or win, Peter Marshall reassuringly tells them "But this may work out."

"Whooshi Whoopi!"
Posted by cahaya on 05-08-13 at 06:46 PM

She's the center square.

"RE: Pop-Culture Icons that goes Whoosh over the Head"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 05-08-13 at 09:15 PM