If you're blue...

[Guardian]

 

[Gimpy]

 

[Alana]

I don't get it....

Is it a cultural (North American) kind of joke?

 

[Beau]

I don't get it....

Is it a cultural (North American) kind of joke?

I don't think so, cuz I didn't get it either...

 

[pete02]

Putin on the Ritz like the song. ;)

 

[SeekinTruth]

 

[Gawan]

I don't get it....

Is it a cultural (North American) kind of joke?

I don't think so, cuz I didn't get it either...

Lol. I didn't get it either.

 

[Devar]

Hahaha. For those that don't get it, the biscuit is a "ritz" cracker (full of eevil glutens), and well, Putin is on the Ritz.


There are a few covers of the song, but this is my favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ID7cPE2FEs

 

[Alana]

Hahaha. For those that don't get it, the biscuit is a "ritz" cracker (full of eevil glutens), and well, Putin is on the Ritz.


There are a few covers of the song, but this is my favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ID7cPE2FEs

And all I saw was Putin on a biscuit.... :P

 

[Guardian]

And all I saw was Putin on a biscuit.... :P

ROFL Sorry...it was one of those puns that's so incredibly stupid it made me laugh.

 

[herondancer]

Chalk up another cross-cultural reference explained! :P

 

[Guardian]

Chalk up another cross-cultural reference explained! :P

LOL,, yeah, and I think a few of us might have given away our ages? I don't think anyone under 30-40 recognized "Putting on the Ritz"

 

[Beau]

Chalk up another cross-cultural reference explained!

LOL,, yeah, and I think a few of us might have given away our ages? I don't think anyone under 30-40 recognized "Putting on the Ritz"

Yeah, my awareness of that song only extends as far as its use in Young Frankenstein... ;D

 

[Guardian]

Yeah, my awareness of that song only extends as far as its use in Young Frankenstein... ;D

OMG that's horrible....poor monster, I'd never seen that before

Of course the Fred Astaire version is the most famous, but it's a remake by a one hit wonder group that I remember dancing to in the early 80's. There was a big fuss because it used "black face" make-up.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY

 

[Gawan]

Chalk up another cross-cultural reference explained! :P

LOL,, yeah, and I think a few of us might have given away our ages? I don't think anyone under 30-40 recognized "Putting on the Ritz"

So it was an age, cultural and movie thing… :P