Did you not see the recent Newbie thread(s) with the subject line "Please allow me to introduce myself"? A man of wealth and taste indeed... I saw another recent one I think went "Please let me introduce myself" but I decided that one wasn't quite close enogh to bother with.
But anyone who doesn't recognize THIS just ain't kewl.
"Woo woo."
Got it. I was born in 1980, but I've got a penchant for classic rock and karaoke.
I agree with rugcat that it's not terribly important to have all your readers "get" your references. I find it fun to run across an obscure pop culture reference in a book... something that takes me a minute to figure out, or something that I know not all the other readers are grabbing onto. And what's even more fun is when you see an iconic movie / read an iconic book / hear an iconic song for the first time and recognize all the other things you've watched / read / heard over the years that referred to it.
There was a popular song my sister was trying to describe to me (during one of my many periods of not listening to top 40 stations), she kept saying "you MUST have heard it," that I finally heard for the first time about a year later. I immediately recognized it from the description, "Oh, that's that song she was telling me about". perhaps even before the singing started, but WELL before the chorus/title line which goes: "Walk Like An Egyptian."
I dropped out of pop culture pretty much from the '80's on, and I'm still trying to figure out where "Bad Hair Day" originated.
You might also read the "using snippets..." thread.
