"A few that weren't identified". Yeah, *mine*. Surprise!
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"<Ngugi Wa Thong'io>: I Will Marry When I Like."
Ngugi Wa Thong'io is a Kenyan author and playwrite; one of his plays, the title of which roughly translates out to "I Will Marry When I Like" (or "I Will Marry When I Want"; I've seen both), landed him in jail for reputedly being subversive and critical of the ruling government. Yes, this is the sort of thing I follow a Rage Against the Machine riff with; I'm very eclectiv.
"<Snowflake>: Now I will give him the *glaring* of a *lifetime*."
Yes, this is from Buttlord GT (http://www.atomictoy.org/comics/buttlordgt/buttlordgt.html). And yes, clearly from the asterisks used to denote emphasis you know that it was mine.
"WAND: Leon Uris *hates* Arabs!"
Yeah, no kidding. I had to read his book Exodus, and while it was very well-written, it was also quite possibly the most biased piece of crap that anybody's ever tried to pass off to me as literature. Without exaggeration, all but one Palestinian (or Egyptian, or Syrian, or...) in the book is portrayed as a fearful, greedy, stupid caveman. And the one Palestinian who *isn't* -- wait for it -- is the one that grew up alongside one of our sterling, shining and flawless Jewish protagonists and was raised just like him. And then that one guy becomes embittered and spiteful and jealous of his counterpart -- why? BECAUSE HE'S NOT JEWISH, AND LEON URIS WILL HAVE NONE OF THAT. Bleargh. This is not a book I would recommend to anybody, anywhere, ever. Unless somebody wanted to write a paper on the degrading portrayal of Palestinians in mass media, of course.
"MMK: Jake Singer never left Vietnam."
Jacob's Ladder. Yes.
"WAND <Often>: "724 Broome and Park Street." I thought that part was supposed to go on the *outside* of the envelope.
[TBS mimes slipping the letter away from WAND and reading it.]
WAND <Often>: Ooookay... maybe the envelope was on the floor all along and we just didn't notice, or it fell off a cupboard... look, it's *not* a ghost."
From the webcomic Return to Sender (http://rts.lunistice.com/). Letter-based shenanigans, as were going on in the fic as well.
"<Bobby>: That woman is hitting her husband with her baby. It looks sad."
A reference to the crossover between the webcomics Superosity and Bobbins, specifically the comic making fun of Eastenders. As well one might!
"MMK <singing>: Know your rights! All three of them!"
RAARGH NOBODY BUT ME LISTENS TO THE CLASH >:(
The Clash, "Know Your Rights", from Combat Rock.
Austin was right about the Peter Gabriel one, and also about the Quarterflash one (except that I was the one who wrote it, but hey, clearly *anybody* would have).
Also, I have just realized -- I contributed almost nothing to 204. Is anybody working on it as we speak, or can I take it and frolic around amongst it as I see fit?