Pop culture in WoW.

Somebody went and made a list of pop culture references in WoW character names, quest names, and dialogs. There are eleven pages of them. (Be thou forewarned... they appear to be in chronological order of submission, and by page 8, the conections get dicey.) Wikipedia also has a list, ordered by source.

Helps you understand why one name or another sounds familiar. In particular, the three bankers at every bank seem to have funny sources. Lots of Lovecraft references, which I didn't get since I have read very litte of that. Yes, we used to do this for Star Wars CCG, but nobody ever figured out that "Arliel Schous" = "Charles Louis," my first and middle names.