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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).

And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.

So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.

At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there's little chance they'll be gotten. lol

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, there we go - answered it for me, too! Thank you.

[–] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thats funny because here in Canada I knew a guy in highschool who had a clearly fake girlfriend who he said lived down south in the US

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol