{"id":35031,"date":"2026-03-23T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35031"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:43:39","slug":"guess-the-allusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/23\/guess-the-allusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Allusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/419014.php\" target=\"_new\">This morning<\/a>, Pixy slugged a story thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trapped in a <strike>closet<\/strike> self-driving taxi with <strike>Vanna White<\/strike> a screaming homicidal leftist lunatic outside. (Seattle Times)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, gentle reader, was he alluding to the original song by &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9gocPZA0HLA?si=s3jlQ7UFSRosHpFM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or the recent(ish) remake by Electric Six?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAH-MEDxCac?si=uYqYwJyf75yEMFgy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Given that he has &#8220;senior&#8221; or &#8220;staff&#8221; somewhere in his title and he&#8217;s in Australia, probably &#8220;Weird Al.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it has reminded me that I am <em>way<\/em> behind on my Electric Six collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Pixy slugged a story thusly: Trapped in a closet self-driving taxi with Vanna White a screaming homicidal leftist lunatic outside. (Seattle Times) Ah, gentle reader, was he alluding to the original song by &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic? Or the recent(ish) remake by Electric Six? Given that he has &#8220;senior&#8221; or &#8220;staff&#8221; somewhere in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35033,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35031\/revisions\/35033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}