What's 2012 for "We're not in Kansas anymore?"?

I think the more contemporary version of the point that Dorothy was so quaintly trying to make is, “Wow! Check this fucking shit out.”

if you wanna go pop reference you could say, ‘guess we’re the ones that got voted off this time.’

I think Heinlein once had a good take on this. (At least I think it was him.) In one of his stories a character opined somewhat vapidly about how “life is strange.”

“Compared to what?” was the response.

Any reference to popular culture is going to be dated before long. I think you’re better off making up your own metaphor; have your metaphor be someone else’s reference 75 years from now.

Shit just got real…..Lol…

Or, “This should be fun…”

Sadly, I am not looking for advice on how to write. Nor I am not concerned that my writing will be stale in 75 years.

What I am looking for: a bon mot, an epigram, a witticism or saying – something that relates to popular culture of our time, as “we’re not in Kansas anymore” related to Dorothy’s time.

The specific use intended (why do I bother) is not an exchange between people, or a thing requiring exclamation point for its effect.

“Where the fuck are we”?

@janbb I think that would probably be what a lot of folks would say. I’m trying to find something a little more artful, I suppose.

Like “Where the copulation are we?”

Great, this place isn’t even covered by GPS/SatNav…

I’ll assume a twilight zone reference is too dated. How about, I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe.

Well, “not your father’s Kansas” (or something along those lines) isn’t completely stale yet, at least among those of a certain age (and in the US) who recall GM’s “not your father’s Buick” ad campaign of a few years ago.

But there goes a lot of the universality of “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto,” because most of the world is at least passing familiar with the Wizard of Oz.

I think it’s an interesting quest, though. I like bon mots, too. And I did some searching for “metaphors for change” to find “time to dismount this dead horse”, for example. The trouble with that is… someone else already said it. I like it, though. I’m not above stealing it for myself.

I thought it was, ”...not your father’s Oldsmobile.” LOL I started to post that one too.

You might be right, @bkcunningham. If you are, then it’s going to be dated even sooner, since GM no longer makes the Oldsmobile. This is not my father’s GM any more.

I don’t know, @CWOTUS. I wish I hadn’t read the question. Now my mind is spinning trying to think of an answer.

“Haven’t seen this on YouTube yet!”

Change is good, but not when you started with folding money.

By gosh, there is something new under the sun!

Phew! What is that smell? Is that Hope on fire? There’s a change we can do without.

The harder I try, the worse they get.

Okay, here’s a change for a change: Strip Monopoly.

@bkcunningham Actually it was, “Not your father’s Buick”

I’m from the 1970’s.

Well, this is different.
Did I just do a Rip Van Winkle?
I must have skipped a reel.

“We’re not in Kansas anymore” will never be out dated or old. It is pure genius and will always be remembered. Of course you are having trouble coming up with an alternative. You will have to come up with something very very special to beat it. Good luck!

“Yo, this shit for real bro?”
Roughly translated into the queen’s english….“Good afternoon, one is bemused by this most unexpected turning of events….good sir”

“Dude wtf?”

“Shit just got real.”

@Blackberry YOU BEAT ME TO MY FAVORITE SAYING. I hate you. IT’S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

@rebbel, Maybe something like, “I didn’t know where we were headed, but it wasn’t any place my GPS knew about.”

“What the actual fuck?”

@augustlan I like that one too. Won’t work in the present case, but I’ll find a place for it!

Just so you know… I used this yesterday…. we were getting in the car and leaving my friend’s parents place. We saw that there were huge dark clouds coming our way. We got in the car and started driving home. (about an hour drive)

About 20 minutes into our drive… we hit a big thunderstorm… and I screamed. “SHIT JUST GOT REAL!!!!”

“Snooki, we’re not in Jersey anymore.”

We had a thing in our family, but this is maybe too local…

When we lived in SW Michigan, near Lake Michigan and the Indiana line, we would sometimes go to Indiana for shopping. If you know anything about that area, there is a large Mennonite community (like not-so-hardcore Amish) that likes things the way they were in earlier days, let’s say, and influences that part of Northern Indiana in a marked way. And that part of Indiana doesn’t do Daylight Savings Time, either.

So the joke was (if we were traveling in the summer time), that when we crossed the state line I’d tell my wife to “Set your clock back one hour… and twenty-five years.” I guess you had to be there.

If your a Doctor Who fan….. ” I don’t think I’m on Gallifrey any more.”

If you dont know the show the new season starts in August on BBC