# Identify the semi-obscure, out of context holiday reference **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846 "2017-12-07T22:42:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/1 "2017-12-07T22:42:52Z")
Wondering if folk would be interested in trying to identify somewhat obscure holiday references - I’m thinking about lines from songs/movies - and seeing if folk can identify them. Figured either the line or the source should have some reasonably obvious connection to the end of year holidays. Here are a couple: MOVIE - “Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.” SONG - “Snow, John - snow!” Hope those aren’t too easy or too obscure. Make a guess, and post your own. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/2 "2017-12-07T22:51:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/3 "2017-12-07T22:52:32Z")
Yeah - figured I’d do one really easy, another maybe not so. I do music far more than movies… ---
**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:** [December 7, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/4 "2017-12-07T23:04:35Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > SONG - “Snow, John - snow!” _From Westerlos With Love_? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/5 "2017-12-07T23:14:36Z")
“Send somebody to the Stop’n’Go. We need some celery and a can of fake snow, a bag of lemons and some Diet Sprite, a box of tampons, some Marlboro Lights.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/6 "2017-12-08T01:41:33Z")
The movie is obviously the first _ **Die Hard** _. The song … I dunno. Have to think about it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/7 "2017-12-08T01:49:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The movie is obviously the first _ **Die Hard** _. The song … I dunno. Have to think about it. 😕 Yeah, but that’s not really a line. It’s words on a sign. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/8 "2017-12-08T01:50:09Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > “Send somebody to the Stop’n’Go. We need some celery and a can of fake snow, a bag of lemons and some Diet Sprite, a box of tampons, some Marlboro Lights.” This sounds suspiciously like the lyrics to “Christmas with the Family” or whatever it’s called. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/9 "2017-12-08T03:25:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > _From Westerlos With Love_? Nope ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/10 "2017-12-08T03:45:54Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > “Send somebody to the Stop’n’Go. We need some celery and a can of fake snow, a bag of lemons and some Diet Sprite, a box of tampons, some Marlboro Lights.” Ah yes, gotta love them Christmas classics! That, of course, is Robert Earl Keen "Merry Christmas From the Family.’ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg) Continuing with this heart-warming theme … _The cold and empty evening hangs around me like a ghost I listen to my footsteps in the snow The sound of one man walkin’ through the snow can break your heart But stopping doesn’t help, so on I’ll go_ … ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/11 "2017-12-08T04:08:57Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Yeah, but that’s not really a line. It’s words on a sign. It’s a line as well. [Hans Gruber reads it from the sweatshirt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesIkS9a0bw) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-semi-obscure-out-of-context-holiday-reference/803846/12 "2017-12-08T13:24:14Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > SONG - “Snow, John - snow!” In case anyone is interested as this thread quickly passes, it is spoken by Nancy Griffith on John Prine’s x-mas album, following Silver Bells. One of our favorite x–mas albums - I thought one of the many John Prine fans around here would catch it.