Does no one read anymore?

I walked in on a couple of co-workers kvetching about someone else. "I'd like to strangle him," was the precise quote.

Laughing, I suggested that since there were so many people who currently want to do the same, we could go all Murder on the Orient Express on him, and all take a hand in the strangling.

They didn't understand the reference.

Good heavens. It's a classic in mystery fiction. Even if they hadn't read it, both were old enough to have at least seen the movie.