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Rick and Morty: "butter robot" (robot with insignificant purpose):
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Rick and Morty "internet explorer robot" (robot with insignificant purpose, but modified to directly implicate internet explorer's purpose to install chrome)
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Top Gear: "a tv show about cars and sorta engineering, British and ridiculous"
- example: sending Reliant into Space, sorta
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Larry the Cable Guy
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Almost anything Star Wars or Star Trek Related
- Star Trek: "data the abstract concept vs data the android"
- Star Wars: appropriate watching order
- "only do, there is no try"
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Larry the Cable Guy:
- said, "why does this make so and so want to watch Larry the cable guy. Who is that?"
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Indiana Jones "we reached got them under the ban like Indiana Jones grabbing his hat as the door closed"
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the "the more you know star" in 1980s & 1990s Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on broadcast television. Referenced in "the more you know" star used as emoji on Slack.
- Will Smith example of 'stay in school' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjI5o0Ed9k Scott pilgram saves tge world girl with streak in
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Simpson's Homer quote, "alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life's problems" used in reference to global variables being the cause of and solution to all coding problems.
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Google's user of the name "Parsey McParseface" that references the boat name "Boaty McBoatface"
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Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken (SNL), "I've got a fever and the only prescription, is more cowbell"
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"Fat guy in a little coat" joke from "Tommy Boy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYB3Fx0a8-4
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"Portlandia's Feminist Bookstore" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcGeSmEdC4
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It isn't like he's the Fonze. Who is the Fonze? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonzie
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Monty Python search for holy Grail coconut reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqtS9xyl0f4
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Transformers: More than meets the eye, robots in disguise!
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Highlander: unsure of quote
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The Eye of the Tiger Video played at end of a job before going onto a new organization as a way to get someone excited.
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Didn't fully understand suggestion to reply with a "Wrath of Khan" gif to someone who was displeasing. This was in reference to the 1981 Star Trek movie "Wrath of Khan" and in particular a scene where Captain Kirk yells in anger with a famously unpleasant look on his face. https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/8c26ky/nasa_break_room_problems_are_different_than_most/ and https://giphy.com/gifs/star-trek-james-t-kirk-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-5U4uFSd7JDsQ
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Referring to building up a few different stacks in a balanced way as "monopoly rules"