Cut to the chase.
It took me much more time that I expected, but after searching my Google search
history, and my desktop search without any success, a more plodding (some might
call it systematic) search through my browser history brought me to the article
I'd been reading that caused me to want to know just what "more cowbell"
is. It turned out that the article in question, The
death of the double entendre, in the Toronto Star web site, referred to the
topic in the context of bemoaning that: Advertising
has forgotten how to be subtle. Worst of all, it requires no cultural competencies
to decode.
The author of that piece mentioned "more cowbell"
as an example of an in-joke of the undergraduate college crowd - not subtle, but
demanding a particular cultural competence.
From there it was simply a
good guess that I'd found that article via Arts and
Letter Daily - a guess that was easily confirmed by running a search for the
word "double" on that site's main (and almost only) page.
And
there I had it. I'd gained cultural knowledge from well outside my sphere of experience,
and I'd even searched for, and found how I'd learned about all this in the first
place. Yet another example of having fun.
Go to: More (than I ever wanted to know about) cowbell,
or
Go to: Having fun