Did anyone ever throw a cultural reference at you that gave you a double-take?

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I was in the front yard this morning early, weeding my quickly fading flowers. An older neighbor rolled by in his scooter, toting a grocery bag and his oxygen tank, probably on the way home from a morning grocery run.

He asked, "How's the garden doing?"

I said, "Pretty well, but it's starting to slow down for the winter."

"Won't be long before it's covered with snow, huh?"

"Nope, but a lot of this ground cover makes it through the cold pretty well," I said, running my hand over some of it.

"Is that some kind of moss?" he asked.

"No, it's called Veronica."

"Oh... like Veronica Lake?"

The name was familiar, but I had almost no idea of who that really was. All I could think of was black-and-white films and pinup calendars, but beyond that, he might as well have been tossing out an imaginary name.

[lizziegrace]

1. It's a name you don't hear often any more

probably brought back some good memories for him. Current culture probably escapes him (much of it escapes me) and now he's home thinking about better times and the beautiful Veronica Lake.

:hug:

[InternalDialogue]

2. I assumed the same thing -- he was probably ga-ga over her.

And actually, after looking her up later this morning on Wikipedia, I am too!

I'll probably find him in the front yard later, staring at my plants.

[lizziegrace]

3. It's the little things

that make life worth it.

When I was growing up, my mother always said my bangs swept to the side made me look like Veronica Lake. ;)

[MrScorpio]

4. Who wouldn't?

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6. Indeed. Although...

it's so hard to reconcile that beautiful face with the description of her final film role:

Flesh Feast (released in 1970, though shot in 1967) is an American horror film that features Veronica Lake in her final screen performance. Lake plays Dr. Elaine Frederick, a mad scientist working on developing maggots that prefer human flesh, while her services are used to make a clone of Adolf Hitler.

She cooperates with the plan to resurrect Hitler as a way of exacting revenge for the death of her parents, political prisoners executed in a concentration camp. While convincing everyone the flesh-eating maggots are for regeneration research, she simply wants to throw them in the resurrected Hitler's face, which she does.

I guess one does not always keep the talent agent one prefers.

[Tikki]

5. The nursery here calls this:Veronica Lake...

This is the beautiful Veronica Lake

Tikki

[noonwitch]

7. I work in Children's Services

I started this one for coworkers/colleagues whose own issues get in the way of their job:

"His/her lambs are screaming really loudly today".

[raccoon]

8. I had to ask a younger co-worker where the name "Skinner" came from. nt