I think he’s mentioned the Good Ol’ Days before and that he said it was borderline racist or something. I don’t know if there’s a real-life equivalent.
I have read (Yahoo! news) that the IRS will continue to receive payments during a shutdown but will not send out any refunds until after the shutdown ends.
Because, obviously, we needed another reason to dislike them :P
We dissected little squids in middle school, and then the teacher fried them up for us to eat. Mostly tasted like the garlic she put on them.