Dave Van Domelen said, on March 29, 2010 at 6:41 pm
It’s from last century. An Oreo is “Black on the outside, white on the inside,” so this guy never heard of rapper Mos Def (who played Ford Prefect in the recent Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie), but he’s all up on suburban pop stars.
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I’m sorry. Popular culture references from this century all go right over my head.
It’s from last century. An Oreo is “Black on the outside, white on the inside,” so this guy never heard of rapper Mos Def (who played Ford Prefect in the recent Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie), but he’s all up on suburban pop stars.
So this “oreo” of which you speak is a biracial biscuit of some sort?
If you’re from Britain, then that’s one way to put it.
As always, Wikipedia provides more information than anyone really cares enough to learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo
What’s next? A banana saying, “I never heard of Yunjin Kim, but Evangeline Lilly’s a hottie!”