For those who aren't aware, "Drink more Ovaltine" is a reference to the movie A ...

philwebster on Sept 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Send Secret Messages over Twitter as Publ...

For those who aren't aware, "Drink more Ovaltine" is a reference to the movie A Christmas Story [1]. The boy in the story is excited to decode a message from the Ovaltine fan club using his decoder ring and is let down when the message is just "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." [2]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_decoder_ring#Messages

zeckalpha on Sept 22, 2013 [–]

Actually, it predates the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_decoder_ring