@dlowan,
You sure?
Someone once wrote an article about meeting strangers, or something. One low class option was to walk into a group and say "Hey, how about them Cowboys?", which is a football team. You heard that a lot for a half year or more, before it started sounding kind of lame. Everybody jumping into a discussion they knew nothing about. I thought you were trying the same, with a different team of somethingorother.