This troper makes GeniusBonus IncrediblyLamePuns with his friends: mostly Shakespearean-sounding dick jokes and math-related puns on imaginary numbers.

This troper decided to put the formula for arc length in one of his {{Facebook}} status updates, in the style of one of his friends, who semi-randomly brings up the quadratic formula and de Morgan's Laws in casual conversation. Big mistake; to this troper's non-computer science, math-hating friends, it was a form of MindRape.

Hell, all the more reason to put it there!

NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE!!!

THAT'S HOW YOU FILTRATE THE BEST FRIENDS

This troper wrote out a conversation between himself and himself over the functional time loop that he claimed to have created on his Facebook status. Sadly, only one person understood it.

I would be very interested in reading that.

same!

Likewise.

Fourthed.

On a website I was on a short time ago I was giving an example of a fictional president cheating in an election. I then said that I wasn't insinuating that any president cheated to win an election (except for a certain republican we all know about). Knowing some of the dumbasses on that site this counts as a genius bonus since I doubt many of them know that Nixon was a republican.

You are my favorite person ever. It'd have been even better if you'd just said "a certain ''someone'' (I shouldn't have to tell you who)". Then let everyone who has proved the SevenYearRule throw their own political positions at you. It would be marvelous.

This troper was doing an MTS3K on a site that was seen by little kids, so she contented herself with shouting that the villain should "Go to Venus!" Ah, space nerdity...

I thought they should go to Jupiter to get more stupider...

Well, someone has Venus Envy...

Yes, but Venus is often compared to Hell.

When This troper watches MST3k or Rifftrax with friends, they'll laugh with him even if they don't get the joke under the assumption that it's a reference only he's getting, and a lot of the times it is, but sometimes it's nice to throw them off.

In a discussion about Jean Grey, this troper said something about going to her city's Challenger Center (ItMakesSenseInContext), and a friend responded with "Interesting. Jean's touched the future, now I hope she can come back and teach." This troper and her friend were the only people on the whole site who got the reference. (At the time, a character who was being teased as Jean Grey reborn had been sent to the future, and "I touch the future, I teach" was Christa McAullife's motto.)

This troper tends to throw in references to the works of Thomas Pynchon, Mark Z. Danielewski, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, Ernest Hemmingway and others into conversation and has been doing so since about grade seven. It can confuse a couple folks.

Virtually every other sentence that comes out of this troper's science teacher's mouth is either this or a TakeThat. Naturally, this troper is the only one who understands any of it.

This troper peppers his conversations with this. Analogies to Greek Literature, quantum physics, abstract math and military history are common. Most people learn to tune it out, but I get a lot of questions when I first meet people. TVTropes has not helped with this.

This troper has made some genius bonuses and made one when the Manuel on her vacuum cleaner said, "Thank you for choosing Hoover". Which I replied with, "I'm pretty sure nobody was saying that in the late 1920's". Also she made one when she was looking in a teen vogue with Emma Watson in it in a room with moths and said, "It looks like they infiltrated Vladamir Nobokov's house". Her friends didn't get it.

This troper has referenced {{Hyperion}}, SuzumiyaHaruhi, and {{Freelancer}} in his short stories. He even spent a paragraph on a ChekhovsGun, by describing a banner, with an AK-47 on it, with the words "This belongs to Chekhov!" under it. Dammit, nobody recognized it. Ah, it's like The Smart Man's Burden. (For all you tropers, it's a reference to Rudyard Kipling. Feel free to use that one.)

This troper has had teachers who do this, bouncing {{Stealth Insult}}s, {{Genius Bonus}}es, and sometimes, basic jokes that anyone who had been paying attention in class would understand. You could count the number of people who would consistently understand them on one hand.

Come to This Troper's family's Thanksgiving/Christmukkah dinners. Just be sure you can keep up with a several-person, several hour-long conversation that will span politics, history, philosophy, linguistics (ever have a screaming argument about the subjunctive mood in non-Latinate languages?), economics, and the various merits of bechemel vs. ricotta in lasagne.

This troper's friend actually bought a gun, and then I said "I hope you didn't buy it from that Chekhov guy." Nobody got it. Another time, this troper did the old "You changed it by measuring it!" gag. Nobody got it. But if a guy goes back in time and charms his mother, they get it.

This troper has occationally thrown comments from books to people, only for most people to stare at him blankly. One he pulled of recently is when a guy placed the back of a chair between his legs, he said, "Thinks he's quite a lover, but there's not much there." No one was particularly paying attention to me, but I suspect some people who had seen Les Miserable would have been amused. Also, he is planning a 40k Blood Angels army in which EVERY unit has a name related to blood. Some are fairly obvious (Captain Plasma stands out, but his favourite is Honour Guard Hemoglobin, which was the first name he wanted to include), but some are really subtle (Honour Guard Kupffer will not make sense to most without using the internet...or, presumably, having a diploma in Biology).

The various jokes at this troper's D&D sessions span the range from lowbrow "That's what she said!" jokes to "It's not a blue car, it's white. He just drives fast."

This troper has a very perverted character who also happens to be a med. student, so this trope gets invoked sometimes. (And hey, if you got any ideas, tell me in case I need new material *shot*)

This troper's D&D group had an interesting problem once, involving a lot of pitchblende, a bag of holding, and contention over the behavior of neutrons in space-warping containers.

This troper has been very into philosophy and metaphysics as a hobby since around 9th grade, leading to the utter bemusement of classmates (and often the teacher/professor) whenever I would mention Kant or Solipsism in a class discussion.

This troper once made one on accident: "I don't really understand imaginary numbers; they're too complex." "*groan* Har, har." "Wait, what did I say?"

This troper was talking to a friend about a very boring movie, and said "even Samuel Beckett is saying 'damn, when is something going to happen?!'" When he laughed (genuinely), I said "ah, I know that I've found a true friend when they laugh at my Samuel Beckett jokes."

This troper, probably more than he intends, or is healthy. The most recent example was a spur of the moment decision to throw in a reference to Rilke's ''The Panther'' in a fanfic...a GI Joe-crossover fanfic. Which was a comedy. After already making an A.E. Housman joke. (That one was probably a bit much.)

This troper's entire ''school'' is like that. For example (admittedly, this was just before a biology examination): #QUOTE#Friend: I LOST MY CALCULATOR AND WE HAVE MATH EXAM LATER. *flails* #QUOTE#Other friend: Tryptophan. (Otherwise known as the UGG codon.)

Also: #QUOTE#Friend: This exam was GG. Therefore I know the next one will be CC. (ATGC nucleotides in DNA, if you really must know.)