If you want to understand the subtle jokes, I suggest you:
1. See every Stanley Kubrick movie. 2. Read every edition of the New York Times for the last 40 years. They are on microfilm at your local library. 3. Build a time machine, travel back to Shakespeare's time, invent a "Fountain of Youth", and live up to the present. As soon as the New York Times comes into existence, start reading it every day. As soon as Stanley Kubrick comes into existence, see all his movies!
Then you won't ask questions like "when the Union President was killed, I didn't get the football stadium reference".
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