“Mondale’s Got the Beef”

On ads, memes, and how Seth Green got the key to New Orleans

“Is that from something?”

This week I noticed how often I hear this question in conversation. One person says something clever, another asks whether it’s a quote or a nod to a piece of culture.

It’s not that I’m around people who are more prone to cultural quotations than the average person, or who are less likely to understand them. And we’re not inheren…