# "I don't even know who Dan Fogerburp is!" - and other cultural references I missed **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751 "2008-01-16T16:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/21 "2008-01-17T02:00:25Z")
I thought “Flogging Molly” was a reference to masturbation. Apparently it’s the name of a musical group. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/22 "2008-01-17T06:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] I spent most of the 80’s living in Germany and missed most American cultural references of that time. However, it seems I didn’t miss a lot other than mullets and powder blue leisure suits. Looks like I picked a good time to get out of Dodge. [/QUOTE] Me too. I came back to the states and heard people talking about something called “Miami Vice”. And what the hell was a Run DMC? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/23 "2008-01-17T07:57:05Z")
At my local offbeat video rental store in the hipster part of town down the hill, I just found out about an apparently popular (among hipsters) film genre called mumblecore. It sounded like some kind of British dream-pop/metal hybrid, but apparently it’s an American film style that’s sweeping the (hipster) nation. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/24 "2008-01-17T09:28:47Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] I spent most of the 80’s living in Germany and missed most American cultural references of that time. However, it seems I didn’t miss a lot other than mullets and powder blue leisure suits. Looks like I picked a good time to get out of Dodge. [/QUOTE] But that means you probably did get exposed to David Hasselhoff’s “musical” career a lot more. I wonder if that was a good deal. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/25 "2008-01-17T10:21:53Z")
[QUOTE=MadPansy64] I thought “Flogging Molly” was a reference to masturbation. Apparently it’s the name of a musical group. [/QUOTE] And just FYI, they didn’t name themselves after a euphamism for masturbation (which it _really_ does sound like, doesn’t it?), but for the fact that, as a nameless band starting out, they played a club named “Molly’s” so often that they were, well, flogging Molly’s. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/26 "2008-01-17T13:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] And what the hell was a Run DMC? [/QUOTE] Does it have something to do with embroidery floss? There was a movie called ‘The Cure’. There was a band called ‘The Cure’. They were not the same. There was a band called ‘Rush’. There was a radio show host called ‘Rush’. They were really, really not the same. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/27 "2008-01-17T13:58:38Z")
But both more similar to each other than to the movie “Rush” (music by Eric Clapton.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/28 "2008-01-17T14:18:54Z")
Pop Culture seems to sneak up on me. It’s alarming to suddenly notice thousands of people all talking about something so familiarly and not have any idea what they’re on about, where it came from so suddenly, and why it is that I didn’t even hear about it as it rose to prominence. Case in point: _Emo_. When I grew up it was called Goth, but that somehow morphed into a sub-genre that needed defining, for no obvious reason that I can see. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/29 "2008-01-17T14:41:17Z")
I was reading someone’s profile on okcupid the other day and “the most personal thing they were willing to admit” on it was something to the effect that “if you’re a friend of P, you’re a friend to me.” I’m praying that’s some sort of pop culture reference I don’t get, because if it’s what it sounds like, I’m really nervous about our high match number. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/30 "2008-01-17T15:11:41Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Case in point: _Emo_. When I grew up it was called Goth, but that somehow morphed into a sub-genre that needed defining, for no obvious reason that I can see. [/QUOTE] See the [1/16 strip](http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/) for an opinion on that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/31 "2008-01-17T15:17:07Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] “if you’re a friend of P, you’re a friend to me.” I’m praying that’s some sort of pop culture reference I don’t get, because if it’s what it sounds like, I’m really nervous about our high match number. [/QUOTE] I can’t recall the band or anything, but that’s from a song that came out in the 90s. It continues: “if you’re down with P then you’re down with me”. So I wouldn’t worry much about the waterworks. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/32 "2008-01-17T15:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Case in point: _Emo_. When I grew up it was called Goth, [/QUOTE] Silly: Goth has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and the boys and girls dress in black: emo has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and high school and the boys dress in black and the girls dress in beige: hth. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/33 "2008-01-17T16:51:49Z")
Here’s something: Where the hell did Billy Bush come from? He’s apparently been on national TV for more than 5 years, and I never heard of him. Last week, I see him on TV a dozen times. Then I realized he was actually related to George Bush… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/34 "2008-01-17T16:59:41Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Silly: Goth has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and the boys and girls dress in black: emo has pretentious lyrics about rage and death and high school and the boys dress in black and the girls dress in beige: hth. In all seriousness, emo kids like to play old videogames too. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/35 "2008-01-17T17:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=bufftabby] I can’t recall the band or anything, but that’s from a song that came out in the 90s. It continues: “if you’re down with P then you’re down with me”. So I wouldn’t worry much about the waterworks. [/QUOTE] I believe you are refering to [Down with O.P.P.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.P.P._%28song%29) Yes I have my fingers on the pulse of the hip hop subculture. Can’t you tell? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/36 "2008-01-17T18:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=Einmon] But that means you probably did get exposed to David Hasselhoff’s “musical” career a lot more. I wonder if that was a good deal. [/QUOTE] : : DMark hangs his head in shame :: Yes, I actually thought David Hasselhoff was simply stopping off in Germany on his successful, grand world concert tour…I even knew people who bought tickets to go see his concerts. We didn’t know any better. And you can thank us back then for exporting German pop singer Nina’s song, “99 Luftballoons”… (BTW, I have a great story about the American friend of mine who taught her English after that song became a world-wide hit of sorts: After her next album was released, in English, one reviewer said, “when she speaks English, she sounds like Elmer Fudd”. My American teacher friend was humiliated and we got a lot of laughs from that comment for years afterwards.) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/37 "2008-01-17T19:51:06Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I believe you are refering to [Down with O.P.P.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.P.P._%28song%29) Yes I have my fingers on the pulse of the hip hop subculture. Can’t you tell? [/QUOTE] No, it’s probably "[Friends Of P.](http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/r/rentals8241/friendsofp481253.html) " by the Rentals. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/38 "2008-01-17T22:37:46Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I believe you are refering to [Down with O.P.P.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.P.P._%28song%29) Yes I have my fingers on the pulse of the hip hop subculture. Can’t you tell? [/QUOTE] **It’s Not Rocket Surgery!** is right on this one, but I did only very recently find out what “O.P.P.” actually stands for, so I contribute that in the name of missed cultural references. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/39 "2008-01-18T02:57:34Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] Me too. I came back to the states and heard people talking about something called “Miami Vice”. And what the hell was a Run DMC? [/QUOTE] A Miami Vice can be either a Cuban prostitute or an illegal cigar. Run DMC was a political campaign to get more people interested in becoming delegates to the Democratic Maneuvering Committee. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751/40 "2008-01-18T03:52:46Z")
I was in a video store last week and they were playing a DVD of _Lost_. A woman came in to return a movie and asked what was playing. When she was told she said “Lost? Is that the name of the movie?” The clerk looked at her and said “No, it’s the TV show Lost.” And the woman said “Really? What’s it about?” Now I can understand somebody not watching _Lost_. But who the hell lives in the United States and owns a television and managed to get through the last three years and not ever hear of _Lost_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-even-know-who-dan-fogerburp-is-and-other-cultural-references-i-missed/433751.md?page=3)