Perhaps it's an even larger number than those, though.

Patient and persistent counting could put that number much higher.

(There are two P posts, so I'll go ahead and use Q.)

Quietly now, or we'll wake the tribbles.

Right, raucous behavior could startle them.

Startling a tribble could get us in trouble.

Truthfully, I don't know what a tribble is.

Uninformed people might not know that the trouble with tribbles is that they come from some Star Trek episode.

Valuable information if you want to understand a lot of pop culture references though.

Who wouldn't want to know that, right?

Xenophobia about other places and worlds may stop people from wanting to understand pop cultures.

You really think so?

Zero or more pop culture references are made every day.

After all, many pop culture references do make their way into common speech.

Beautiful observations, everyone.

Centuries of pop culture have come into our media.