In our semi-weekly pop culture challenge, we present the winning entry for the previous challenge and a new one below. Challenge #4 was to rival Joe Eskenazi’s comparison of the San Francisco Unified School District teachers’ enthusiasm for a strike authorization to that of Slim Pickens’ character riding the bomb in “Dr. Strangelove.”
The winning entry was, “if the strike is a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, then the vast majority of educators are ready and willing to down that bottle, Bluto style!” (Name withheld at the contestant’s request.)
Honorable mention goes to Michael LaBriola, for his litany of local references in, “If the strike is a Mission burrito, it would seem the vast, vast majority of teachers are wrapping up their demands with the precision of an El Farolito burrito, spicing up a picket line longer than the one at La Taqueria, and serving up lessons in union negotiations hotter than Papalote’s salsa.”
Congratulations to all our entrants, now onto the next one.
Challenge #5
This pop quiz challenge is to come up with a better reference than Joe’s in his article on Mayor Breed’s ballot proposals. In describing them, he wrote, “There’s plenty of incongruous stuff in both, but parsing their content feels a bit like scoffing at physics incongruities in a ‘Star Trek’ episode.”
Note: We do not need you to highlight physics incongruities in a “Star Trek” episode (though jokes about the papier-mâché rocks in the first season are fair game; knock yourself out).
Rather: Can you come up with a better and/or funnier reference? Have at it.
