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I have a long-standing tradition of inserting bad puns and silly references into my games. I think they're more for my benefit than the players' but I'm ok with that.

Almost every Dog Boy in my games is named Ruby. This gives me a chance to use my Scooby Doo laugh. There's a CS talk radio personality named Rush Limborg. Victor Lazlo travels under the assumed name of Lando Lakes. All the names of stores are terrible puns, but I'll save those for a potential Rifter article.

I plan to have a partial conversion cyborg named H'Ani Bell, after Hannibal Buress and his METAL ARMS routine. Dung Xiticix may make an appearance someday. I'm also considering introducing DBees from the planet Kardashia.

At some point the PCs will run into Earnest Mining Corp. They have a number of full-conversion cyborgs specially fitted for mining. They refer to each other by their company-assigned numbers, "Number Three" "Number Twelve" etc. Recently these miners discovered a cache of Jim Varney (Ernest) movies and love them, so now they refer to all non-miners as "Vern." The icing on the cake, if you haven't already figured it out, will be the party meeting Earnest Borg 9.

I can't be the only one who does this, right?

Thats a brilliant play on names, and sadly witht he younger community alot of them will be missed lol

My group shouldn't miss the references, they're all 25+.

Once of my favorite names for a weapon/armor shop is "Dressed to Kill"

One group I was in someone always tried to sneak in a Monty Python quote. We got XP for it, but the quote had to go with the flow (i.e. having to retreat from battle and someone says "Run away, run away!").

I drop in all manner of references from geekdom. Everything from Star Trek to Doctor Who. I award XP to the players who can identify the references.

Depends if your group thought it was funny!

In some armor shops, in addition to Ghillie suits, they will also offer Gigli suits. Basically it's really comfortable, overpriced armor that offers little protection and makes your butt look huge. And nobody wants to buy it.