Popular Culture
Boat race became such a popular phrase that it was incorporated into Cockney rhyming slang, for "face".
In the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, Boat Race Night is often alluded to as a time of riotous celebration, which frequently sees the participants in trouble with the authorities. Bertie Wooster mentions several times that he was fined ten pounds for stealing a policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night. The beginning of first episode of the Jeeves and Wooster television series shows his court appearance on this occasion.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)