What is a reference only you get? - It's the same chocolate biscuit.

"Excellent salad" is my family's running joke about something normally mediocre becoming elevated to greatness due to everything else being so bad.
My parents were at a wedding reception waiting for their food and were seated with a man already almost done with his, he kept commenting "Excellent salad". Parents recived their salad. It was fine. Parents later recive their main course. It was fucking terrible. That man's struggle to find something nice to say left him heartily praising a salad that probably came out of a bag.
This phrase can also be used to describe one small minor highlight in an otherwise abysmal situation (in this case the bride and groom of the wedding both plastered drunk and making fools of themselves and my mom almost had a steak knife dropped into her foot. But at least the Salad was "excellent".)
 
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A girl I dated a couple years ago told me "you look like someone who puts ketchup on everything" when we first met and I've been baffled by that phrase ever since. I'm convinced that's a cryptic reference to something I have yet to figure out.

Anyway, here's one I constantly abuse, especially when I have a nasty cold or something:
 
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MerriedxReldnahc said:
"Excellent salad" is my family's running joke about something normally mediocre becoming elevated to greatness due to everything else being so bad.
My parents were at a wedding reception waiting for their food and were seated with a man already almost done with his, he kept commenting "Excellent salad". Parents recived their salad. It was fine. Parents later recive their main course. It was fucking terrible. That man's struggle to find something nice to say left him heartily praising a salad that probably came out of a bag.
This phrase can also be used to describe one small minor highlight in an otherwise abysmal situation (in this case the bride and groom of the wedding both plastered drunk and making fools of themselves and my mom almost had a steak knife dropped into her foot. But at least the Salad was "excellent".)
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I know it's pure coincidence but that's pretty close to the Ashens "Chef Excellence/An Excellent X" meme.

 
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I don't get it.
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Classic.
Niall Meanwhile said:
A girl I dated a couple years ago told me "you look like someone who puts ketchup on everything" when we first met and I've been baffled by that phrase ever since. I'm convinced that's a cryptic reference to something I have yet to figure out.

Anyway, here's one I constantly abuse, especially when I have a nasty cold or something:
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That takes me back, Misfits was hilarious and a good show in general, haven't seen or heard anyone mention it for years. Never forgot that scene either :story:
 
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One time I said to someone, "you should never make an assumption because it makes an ass out of you and umption", which is a line from the long kiss goodnight.

As a reference, maybe it's a reach for me to expect them to know that I was referencing something but at the very least I expected the person I was talking to to be able to tell I was saying it as a joke. Instead, they corrected me, letting me know that the real saying is "never assume because it makes an ass out of you and me". I just said okay, rather than try to explain I was making a joke/referencing a movie.

I do wonder what they think I think an 'umption' is.
 
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no-exit said:
I have a secret codephrase that I made up like 10 years ago. I have never told anyone, I don't think I have ever uttered it aloud. Why? So if I time travel, or have to send a message back to past/future @no-exit, I can use the phrase to verify that it came from me. it's a shibboleth.
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I have one of those too. Never thought anyone else did that but me. Mine is a string of a few words and names attached to specific memories, so even if someone somehow knew the codewords, they would have to know why I picked them.
 
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I spent like 20 years watching nothing but obscure flash videos and YouTube Poops, so I think almost entirely in references to things maybe a couple thousand people on earth have seen and probably 10% of those, at most, even remember. Many of them are so out there that I'm fairly certain I could be identified were I to list even a few of them.

You know that episode of Star Trek TNG with the aliens who speak entirely in references? Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, etc? That's me, except it's more like "Mama Luigi and Gutsman's Ass at Pico's School".
 
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Though I've been known to emit a "Vae victis" upon completing any tedious chore, anyone liable to place it as a reference would be familiar only with Simon Templeman's mispronunciation of it.
 
Living in the United States, having an innate memory for British comedy of the 90s comes in exceeding unwell. Especially things like Alan Partridge which is meant to be out of date in the first place.
 
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There was a short on the MAD CN show with a crocodile that said “Look at ‘eem go” in a funny voice. No one outside my family ever got it.
 
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Living in the United States, having an innate memory for British comedy of the 90s comes in exceeding unwell. Especially things like Alan Partridge which is meant to be out of date in the first place.
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As an American Peep Show fan, every time I hear the word “math” I mentally go “S. maths.” but only mentally, because no one will get it.
 
Asking someone if they have stairs in their house.
 
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