(Feel free to add a Brooklyn accent in your head, if you’ve heard it that way before. I thought about writing it that way, but it looked ridiculous.)
Please reply with the following information: your approximate age or generation (boomer, gen-x, millenial, etc) and whether you know what this cultural reference is about. No need to say what it is for those who do know. If you want to put in spoilers, please tag them accordingly so as not to spoil the inquiry for later respondents.
I had an email today from a 20-something acquaintance who told me she was moving to Albuquerque, and I made the obligatory reference for anyone my age (boomer) and she was all Wha??? So I sent her this link: Bugs Bunny Albuquerque - YouTube (spoiler!)
Born in '65, and I absolutely know this reference; and I think you’re misquoting it slightly.
And I wouldn’t say it to a person moving to Albuquerque. She only needs to get to Albuquerque. The left turn reference is only for people travelling through Albuquerque, on their way to someplace left of it.
It’s said both ways in the video (there are several different instances in different, um, productions.) And I didn’t quote the whole thing, I just made a reference. I tried to edit my title to reflect this way of saying it, but it didn’t work.
I didn’t quote the whole thing, I just made a reference. And how often does Albuquerque come up in your daily correspondence? I could not resist the opportunity.
Born in 1964, have probably known it since I could talk. Ms. P born in 1967, knows it. Number 1 son born in 1998, has known it since he was three or four. Same with number 2 son, born in 2000.
1977, and of course I know the reference, and am surprised that any adult wouldn’t.
I guess maybe they don’t show those any more, but even so, I’d expect someone to have stumbled across it on YouTube or somewhere. Or at least references to it.