We already do this, even when the original reference is forgotten.
We use idioms that refer to Greek mythology (hanging over your head, as with the Sword or Damocles, or Achilles heel), or Bible stories (Judas meaning betrayal, shibboleth meaning some kind of identifier of membership in a group), or Shakespeare (pound of flesh), or horse racing (frontrunner, hands down, across the board) or other sports (bullseye, slam dunk, par).
And in terms of our technology, we use all sorts of things that harken back to some obsolete technology. We use a save icon that is a floppy disk, a database icon that uses cylinder drum memory. We refer to the smartphone interface that enters phone numbers as a “dialer” from the “dial” in the days of rotary phones.
Picard, his face in palm. Riker, his grin wide.
Barclay, his dick out on the holodeck.
Mischievous girl, her house burning.
Kombucha lady, her face disgusted. Kombucha lady, her face intrigued.
I heard brittany brokski be referred to as the kombucha lady before but it never clicked what meme they were referring to
Pikachu, his mouth open
Girlfriend, her eyes uncomfortably wide and unsettling.
🧑🍳🤌💋
Gowron’s eye appears in hole; pleading for glory.
This is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in weeks. Thank you for creating disturbing content.
funhole is leaking
Leonardo DiCaprio, pointing at the television!
Serious little boy, his upturned fist presented!
https://lemmy.world/post/26543640
Marty McFly, having seen this one before
Geordie in the Briefing room, impossible to say.
Miles O’Brien, on an average day.
Morty, his hands making finger guns.
Eric Andre, his mag dumped behind him; his face filled with confusion.
Image searching returned too many really tone deaf or just plain stupid ones made by far right American mouth breathers.
Colbert, his finger extended.
The fox in fuckin wimd.
