Pirate Kitty said:No, no.
Does the fact it took me a few reads to get the joke say something about my intelligence or perceptiveness?
Now, the question is does the fact you didn't get that say something about YOU?
I think it says something about both of you in this case.
For one, it's obviously your goof for not getting the reference in the first place even though it seems you know what it is a reference to. But it's not something that speaks about your intelligence as much as it does your perceptiveness. Often times you need to be in the right mindset to catch a reference the first time around. But the more you read it the more likely you are to catch it coming around again. Nothing really to worry about as it happens to everyone.
It also says something about the one who makes the reference and their inability to read their audience. Yes, I could go read off a joke from Dresden Codak about exorcising Leplace's Demon by placing the subject in between the positive Phlogiston and the negative Noble Savage to a group of 16 year olds who appreciate Dane Cook's drivel over a joke of higher intellectual nature and not find a person who understands. But that's more my fault, not theirs as I made a joke that might have been over their head. Not to say you're a Cooktard though.
