Gamers Are Funny People

I was googeling around looking for downloadible episodes of Firing Line, and what do I find? A "hardcore gamer" web site. Well that is natural enough. This particular site, however, has the following as an introduction,


Welcome to The Firing Line, where we're kind of hoping you don't really know who William F. Buckley Jr. is. If you didn't get that, all the better.


There must be a philological name for this kind of statement. It is a esoteric joke, saying that they hope it is not an esoteric joke, and no one who hears it will get it, and any one who gets it would not hear it. Hum. I wonder if WFB has a word for this kind of situation.