# Pop culture quotes you've used IRL. Target missed it. Someone else caught it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375 "2014-07-04T23:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/41 "2014-07-09T21:33:28Z")
A couple of weeks ago I was at a wedding and delivered this toast: It’s easy to grinnnnn When your ship comes innnnnn And you’ve got the Stock Market beat. But the man worthwhillllle Is the man who can smillllle When his shorts aren’t too tight in the seat. About 20 people cracked up. But one was the groom. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/42 "2014-07-09T21:44:31Z")
I gotten some strange looks calling upon the old Billy Baroo… Oh Billy Billy Billy… If you call upon Billy Baroo and it flops, try breaking the tension by offering them a Fresca! ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/43 "2014-07-09T22:15:24Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Was that first on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In? It was on that show but I don’t know if it was there first. We also said, “one ringy dingy…two ringy dingy…” When the phone rang. I still do it today and hubby has no idea what I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/44 "2014-07-10T07:53:41Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > I suppose this was a reference to _Battleship Potemkin_? Da. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/45 "2014-07-10T11:24:42Z")
> [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](#): > > Yes, it’s probably asking a bit much to expect the general populace to have read a short story from 1853, but I still think it is a damned fine tag-line. Kind of stretching the term “pop culture” to the breaking point. ---
**Author:** ![Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/46 "2014-07-10T13:20:03Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Kind of stretching the term “pop culture” to the breaking point. I’ve always found you don’t know you need a hotel room until you’re sure you do. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/47 "2014-07-10T14:04:51Z")
I’ve got two that I use, from the same movie, on a fairly regular basis that only occasionally get caught. Someone asks what is your name. “Judy Finkel.” Someone says they have something for me. “Is it a pony?” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375/48 "2014-07-10T15:09:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Kind of stretching the term “pop culture” to the breaking point. We’ll, there is this: [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BMsDJrjZHY](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BMsDJrjZHY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-quotes-youve-used-irl-target-missed-it-someone-else-caught-it/692375.md?page=2)