# Demanding cites for things that would take you 2 second to look up is lazy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281 "2025-06-30T01:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/101 "2025-06-30T20:06:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I believe that Australian wipe with wallabys. They might say “Pardon me, gov, can you spare a wallaby or two? I need to make a didgeridoo.” It’s called Down Under for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/102 "2025-06-30T20:21:14Z")
Well, that cracked me up. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/103 "2025-06-30T21:33:30Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > Most of which would sail over our heads like an Aaron Judge home run. > > Who’s that guy? And what’s a home run anyway? Perfect. Thank you. I dropped that little reference in there as a trap for the Americans. Would they catch that it was a US-specific reference? Seems they did. After you reminded them. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/104 "2025-06-30T21:34:43Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > I believe that Australian wipe with wallabys. They might say “Pardon me, gov, can you spare a wallaby or two? I need to make a didgeridoo.” > > It’s called Down Under for a reason. I figured the local legit term was “LP” for “loo paper”, and there’s probably some more … colorful … slang as well. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/105 "2025-06-30T22:53:19Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > it’s not effective communication to post initialisms that most people aren’t likely to know… > > But there’s always going to be a grey area in between. In that case, why not just be a nice person and explain what you mean? “Because I don’t have to be a nice person and you can’t make me be one!” - Too many people What’s always disappointing to me is the large numbers of humans who just don’t care what others are inconvenienced by. My Bitchin’ BMW’s taking up the last two spaces in a small parking lot? So what, Miss Toyota-That’s-Cheap-To-Repair? Nobody gets my Burning Monkey Solitaire song references? Well, you’re… conventional. You grannies can’t hear James Taylor’s acoustic songs because me and Biff and Boomer are laughing uproariously? Chill out, oldies! … (my current peeve from the other night) ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/106 "2025-06-30T23:44:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Some days are like that. Even in Australia. (Now, how many people will get _that_ reference?) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/107 "2025-07-01T02:25:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I figured the local legit term was “LP” for “loo paper”, and there’s probably some more … colorful … slang as well. I recently ran across the term “bog roll” and it took a few moments to figure it out from context. I think it was UK, but might be used in Australia, too. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/108 "2025-07-01T02:28:06Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My Bitchin’ BMW’s taking up the last two spaces in a small parking lot? I believe you mean that your Bavarian Motor Works is taking up two spaces, you insensitive clod. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/109 "2025-07-01T02:59:11Z")
Um, AkTuAlLy Bayerische Motoren Werke, though it happens to translate neatly to Bavarian Motor Works in English, preserving the acronym. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/110 "2025-07-01T03:14:23Z")
AkTuAlLy “BMW” is an initialism. Acronyms are pronounced as words. (At this point someone steps in to insist that they and everyone they know has always pronounced it as “Bemwa”.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/111 "2025-07-01T03:25:29Z")
Bem Em Vay, bitte. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/112 "2025-07-01T03:31:47Z")
While I know that, who the heck actually uses the word “initialism”? Plus the dictionary now has “initialism” as the second definition for “acronym,” anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/113 "2025-07-01T03:33:45Z")
ACRONYM? You mean, “Aroused Citizens Representing Oppressed New York Minorities”? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/114 "2025-07-01T03:34:14Z")
KFC is an example. It no longer means Kentucky Fried Chicken. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/115 "2025-07-01T04:08:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > If you don’t know who Boomhauer is, you probably don’t know what King of the Hill is, and you definitely don’t know what he sounds like Not true. I am aware of the show. Watched a few eps even. But didn’t watch enough to know a character’s name out of context. In context “oh that guy. I just experienced someone who talked like that!” > [@LSLGuy](#): > > reminding the OP to _think_ when posting and consider that the context in his head is not the same as that in all of his audience’s head. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > is a message board where you can ask esoteric questions understood by a very few and get esoteric answers known by a very few, or a casual chat amongst a few dozen people where everything is required to be understandable to everybody. I stand by my assertion (made in a seperate pit thread I started) that if you don’t understand the question then the question wasn’t for you and you have nothing useful to contribute @LSLGuy makes the point of knowing your target audience. And for most cases on this board the answer is not always a casual chat open to all (although is almost always in IMHO), and is rarely an esoteric narrow focus discussion with aimed only at a very few. Oh it is definitely for esoteric subjects! But the nature of the board, the predominant common thread of those who participate here, is that it attracts those curious to hear and learn about esoteric things that they up to that moment knew little about. They may just lurk in that thread but they read with interest. And may ask an intelligent question or two even. Unless the OP misses the mark of who the crowd is. A link to how the character talks would have taken the OP a couple of seconds to provide and allowed a wide audience to participate. @Snarky_Kong would rather dozens of others do that work multiple times than the OP baking the effort realizing that a sizable fraction do not know who the character is out of context anyway. That is idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/116 "2025-07-01T04:37:19Z")
Because we know _Flippin’ like a pancake, poppin’ like a cork_ _Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork_ Do you recognize that? If not, congratulations, you’re under 60 (or over 70). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/117 "2025-07-01T04:41:21Z")
Tra la la, la la la la ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/118 "2025-07-01T04:42:27Z")
ETA: Dsmmit @Little_Nemo for sneakin’ in. Trying to reply to @Johanna 2 posts up. FTR I’m 66. Do not recognize. Though admittedly I’m not good at pop culture or entertainment of any era So FWIW I invalidate your assertion. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/119 "2025-07-01T07:11:59Z")
I thought it was Arcane Capturing Rod of Never Yielding Mystery (let’s see who gets _that_ reference) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/120 "2025-07-01T07:13:54Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > baking the effort Truer than you know. I have bialys in the oven right now. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > FTR I’m 66. I am too. Rather, I will be in a few months. Back in 1968 or '69 we had the Banana Splits record album. The blurb on the back said, “If you’ve never heard of the Banana Splits, welcome back from the Arctic Circle.” How long ago those days seem now… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281.md?page=7)