During the Veronica Mars kickstarter campaign, Kristen Bell referred to the fans as “marshmallows”. I had never heard this before and thought it was just a random silly endearment. And then I saw it used in a couple of other places and was confused. And then it finally clicked: Veronica Mars/marshmallows.
I would never have gotten that.
It’s a little more specific than that:
http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/veronica_mars_movie_why_are_fans_called_marshmallows-2014-02
Well not strictly speaking, since AUDI is just an acronym for Auto Union Deutsche Industrie.
So your AUDI is an indirect descendent of those silver Auto Union racing cars so beloved of Hitler in the 1930’s…
What a thread. Mine is from Star Trek as well. The episode “Doomsday Machine”. Saw the show many, many times during the syndication run and a few since. I’d also seen “The Caine Mutiny” any number of times as well. But I never made the connection between the ball-bearing thing that Queeg did with the fiddling with the “floppy disks” that Decker did until fairly recently.
Although Auto Union is definitely involved, I can’t find much support online for the “Auto Union Decusche Industrie” acronym. According to Wikipedia the name was in use well before Auto Union was formed in 1932. In fact, the four companies which joined forces to form Auto Union (and led to its four-ring logo) were Zschopauer Motorenwerke J. S. Rasmussen (which sold cars under the brand “DKW”), Wanderer, Horch, and Audi.
Wikipedia also goes on the say that the Audi name faded from use for some time, but came back rather surreptitiously when Auto Union tried to preserve some of their independence and history after being bought by Volkswagen.
In Groundhog Day, after Bill Murray’s character bottoms out and goes through the suicide montage, there’s a scene where he’s in the diner, and convinces Andie McDowell that he’s been living the same day over and over for, at this point, must by hundreds or thousands of times, by demonstrating his in-depth knowledge of every single person in the diner - and by implication, the entire town. At the end of that day, McDowell convinces him to use his situation to make himself a better person. He starts off the next day by bringing coffee and donuts to the Groundhog celebration for Andie McDowell and Chris Elliot, and helping carry the camera bags. As he walks off camera, he puts his arm around Chris Elliot’s shoulder, and says something like, “We never talk. Do you have kids?”
All those times he’s gone through that day, almost certainly years worth, and this is the first time, ever, he’s talked to his cameraman. 
I should have gotten the “Blackjack” reference a lot sooner than I did. It’s right there in the opening of the group’s debut video:
(check the hood ornament on the Rolls)I had been playing the video game “Nier” and had nearly completed it before I finally realized that"Nier" was the name of the main character. :smack:
OMG! Kramer’s movie script was called “The Keys” because he left NY for LA because Jerry took away his keys! I always wondered why it was called The Keys!
After a bit of research, I finally get the joke in the title of The Mekons first album, “The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen”…I really need to read more Shakespeare.
Heh! Not so long ago, I was watching “The Naked Time” for the umpteenth time. Knowing what I know now about George Takei, I found it more than just amusing when the infected Sulu approaches (or, more accurately, comes onto) the guy on the bridge and asks if he’d like to join him for a good workout in the gym (where, no doubt, they’d both get all hot and sweaty…)! 
This bit was parodied by Stewie and Olivia on Family Guy. Never having seen the full movie, I had no idea it was from Annie Hall. :smack:
In that video, they repeatedly say “We’re twenny one”, so yeah, it should be obvious from that.
But “2NE1” is not twenty one to me. The NE is superfluous, and thus sticking it in makes me want to pronounce it in addition to the 2 and 1. “21” is twenty one. No NE required.
Well it’s “Marjorine” really.
Well, like I said, the name was meant to have a dual pronunciation. both “Twenty-One” and “To Anyone”, and a simple “21” wouldn’t reflect that. The group’s second album was titled “To Anyone”. Nevertheless, the “Twenty-One” pronunciation seems to have won out and been embraced by the fans.
I’m reminded somewhat of a now-defunct Japanese all-girl rock band called “ZONE”. It was pronounced exactly like it looks, but the meaning of the name was more “Z-One” or “Z to One”. With “Z” being the last letter of the English alphabet, and “One” being #1 on the charts. It was supposed to reflect going from the bottom to the top.
On The Simpsons episode “Marge vs. the Monorail,” at a town meeting called to determine how to spend the money given to them when Mr. Burns was fined for dumping toxic waste in a park, A character named, “Mr. Snrub” stood and suggested they invest the money in the power plant. It took many viewing before I recognized that “Snrub” is “Burns” reversed. Not sure why I suddenly recognized it after a dozen misses.
If you look at movies from the '30s and '40s, Hawaii popped up fairly often as an exotic locale (hell, Charlie Chan, created in 1919, was from Honolulu). I suspect it became embedded in the American consciousness (along with Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines) after it became a territory in 1898; certainly after James Dole launched his pineapple cannery in the early part of the 20th century, and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in '41.
BTW, I remember when Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in '59. It was a big deal at the time. I had the Dennis the Menace in Hawaii special edition comic when I was in kindergarten or first grade ('60–'61).
I didn’t realize that until just now. :smack:
I was just reading Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World by Sam Howe Verhovek and he pointed out that travel to Hawaii exploded with the first commercial jet flights to the islands in 1959. Jets reduced the travel time between Hawaii and the continental United States from five days to five hours. Tourism to Hawaii increased tenfold within a decade.