Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs

[Marc Velasco]

if anyone's still tracking this...
tonight on the simpsons, someone (moe?) told homer to _jack bauer_ someone,
ie, to interrogate/torture for information.


> >
> > A sentence one of my fellow bartenders uttered last night while we
> > were breaking down the bars, and packing up all the stuff to take back
> > to the MIT Faculty club where it goes:
> >
> > "I think I can MacGyver the rest of the liquor onto the Queen Mary."
> >
> > A "Queen Mary", by the way, is a big wire-rack rolling cart. Imagine a
> > set of aluminum-tube-and wire-rack shelves, and put wheels on it.
> > That's all it is, and you stack everything on it, and then wrap it all
> > in pallet wrap, which is just somewhat-thicker clingfilm/Saran wrap,
> > which keeps everything from falling off.
> >
> > But are there other television shows or television characters which
> > have become verbs?
> >
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