Re: "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."

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"You're right, you're right -- I know you're right." My bestest girlfriends usually get that one.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:46 PM
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"[Scarily out-of-touch politician] declares war on big hat nice hot soup"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:48 PM
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Oh, and I gather that Sifu wanted me to point the conversation in a direction to include Unfogged-based favorites, but given the opportunity to misrepresent Sifu's wishes, I availed myself of it.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:49 PM
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"I don't speak your crazy moon language!"

and

"Balls, baby, balls!"

and

"They made you eat your whistle?"
"No, but it's in me."

There are definitely more.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:50 PM
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3: DO AS I SAY!

No, I don't care. Be free, my people! Fly your freak flag!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:50 PM
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"Are you a dung-heap?"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:51 PM
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I sometimes find myself wanting to say CHANGEBAD.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:51 PM
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On a superficial level, a glass of beer is a cool, soothing beverage. But in reality, a glass of beer is pee-pee-dickie.

-- Dr. Alvin Weasely


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:53 PM
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Speaking of CHANGEBAD, have you-all seen that N. Korea appears to have just conducted another nuclear test and this time for reals?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:54 PM
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8: see, now that's genius. I mean, what the hell?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:55 PM
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Oh!

"Shale! The rock that burns!"

That one is obscure enough that I would be fairly shocked if anybody got it.

Also:

"You are correct! Tally-ho, future astronaut!"

That is seriously so obscure that I don't know why I remember it. Maybe two people in the world would get that, yet I say it all the damn time.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 9:59 PM
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"Your mother ate my dog!"

"Not all of it."


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:00 PM
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It goes through schools.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:02 PM
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"I don't speak your crazy moon language!"

My peer group definitely uses this one, but it wasn't until I looked it up that I realized where it came from.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:04 PM
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13: why is that movie so insanely quotable? I don't even remember it being that good.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:04 PM
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"Shale! The rock that burns!"

I would not have expected you to be such an Epcot geek.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:05 PM
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Dude I loved Epcot so much.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:06 PM
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I still don't know where the crazy moon language thing comes from.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:07 PM
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One quote that's stuck with me is "There's a certain freedom in being utterly screwed... because you know things can't get any worse."

And from the same film: "Carmine said one boy, here are two!"


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:09 PM
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If only you had some way to look things up for yourself, nosflow...


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:11 PM
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It is surprisingly difficult to google.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:11 PM
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21: What? I found it immediately when I looked it up.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:12 PM
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I was just making an observation, Josh.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:12 PM
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Um, der. Maybe this means it's time for me to go to bed.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:12 PM
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A real square little feller.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:15 PM
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It is surprisingly difficult to find someone who knows that the right response to "please, say no more" is "I can say no more".

neb
['But then, I haven't looked in the washbasin.']


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:17 PM
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Johnny Dangerously was classic, I can't believe it never achieved even a cult following. "You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny. My sister hung me on a hook once. Once."

I strongly suspect that "Wha' happen?" "I can't do my work!" and "I don't think sooooo!" are already passing through pop culture's lower intenstine.

"It's all in the reflexes." "No horseshit, Jack?" "No horseshit, Wang."

"Get you some of Mama's home cooking, Adolf!"

"So what... big deal." "It ain't my damn planet, monkeyboy!" "History is made at night! Character is who you are in the dark!" "No matter where you go... there you are."

"You... are a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie." "Can you describe the ruckus in question, sir?"

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

"Your mother mates out of season."

"Hail to the King, baby."


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:19 PM
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"Buck up, little camper." "Now that's a shame when people be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."

"It's not a buh, it's a bomb!"


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:24 PM
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Polish version for Stanley


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:25 PM
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:27 PM
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Bazz fazz, Josh.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:29 PM
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Celebrated internet personality Belle W. is down with Okefenokial slang.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:30 PM
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Why is you so wore out and frazzy-looking, Widow noseblow?


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:32 PM
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26 and 27 both contain great references.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:34 PM
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oops. twas I


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:35 PM
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My cat can eat a whoooooole watermelon.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:35 PM
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I hope "you can't cross the streams" never leaves pop cultre, though maybe it already has...


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:36 PM
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gosh darnit!! I wonder if this relates to just clearing out all my cookies.


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:37 PM
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36: now that's obscure.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:37 PM
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It's in the water. That's why it's yellow.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:39 PM
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40: a rather unexpected citation.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:40 PM
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39: Previously.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:41 PM
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"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

"Mein Fuehrer! I can WALK!"

"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:45 PM
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43.1 and 43.2 aren't exactly obscure.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:47 PM
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But 30 and 43.3 are?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:49 PM
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I can say no more.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:50 PM
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No!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:50 PM
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"Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb."

"Look kid. You're a loser. Your parents had to pay grown men to come and play with you today, because kids collectively, on a whole, think you suck. "

"Dink: I've been busy
Stenchy: Busy?
Dink: Yeah, I've been juggling n shit. "


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:54 PM
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It's the cosmic forcefield that protects our talisman.

Around fifth grade or so, this was a standard response when you didn't know the answer to a question.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:57 PM
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"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?"
"Not right now."
"A girl's gotta have her standards."


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:57 PM
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"No! I won't go to second level!"

And from the same source:

"Stay within my aura!"


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:57 PM
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We have no need of weapons, feline brother. We wear protective herbs.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 10:59 PM
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49: awesome.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:01 PM
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Sooner or later you'll have to take off the bunny suit, kid -- and then where will you be?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:01 PM
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"You're a disease, and I'm the cure." (No, not from those biting Wachowskis.)

-- "Sir, you would fight to the death a knight who is not your enemy, for a strip of land you could easily ride around!" -- "So be it! To the death!" (Also: "A dream to some... a nightmare to others!")

"We are Jolly Green Giants walking the Earth, with guns."

"To the winch, wench!"

"I'll buy that for a dollar!"

"Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash."


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:04 PM
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52: "I have a medium-sized fire axe buried in my spinal column. That sort of thing can really put a crimp on your day."


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:07 PM
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"I'll buy that for a dollar!"

Ah, a classic. Just used that one here the other day.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:08 PM
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"Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!"


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:08 PM
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58 by Josh, meet 28 by Josh.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:10 PM
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59: You'll note that they're subtly different. That's because 58 is from a different movie than 28.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:13 PM
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60: truly, the phrase of the age.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:14 PM
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It's most certainly not fallen by the wayside, but I'm fond of deploying the elliptical version, "If it's going to be that kind of a party..."

Just to find out who my peeps are at a given event—a shibboleth, as it were.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:17 PM
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"Flip you, melon farmer!"


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:24 PM
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" Duke, let's go do some crimes."
"Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay. "


Posted by: alex | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:32 PM
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"Hmm Coca-Cola, symbol of free west!"


Posted by: Martin Wisse | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:44 PM
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"Let's go do some crimes" is like my favourite quote ever. When I meet a woman who knows that one, I'll know it's love.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:45 PM
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64 is intense.

"John Valuk is dead. He fell on his head."


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:46 PM
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I occasionally use "fargin icehole" and "son of a batch" when I can't swear properly.

Also I gather that the bowdlerizers have taken to replacing "motherfucker" with "monkey fighter" which I sincerely hope is true.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:47 PM
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"Bourgeois businessmen picking up their packages."


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:50 PM
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60 reminded me about "The commie bastard gets no food!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:50 PM
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I'm told by a friend that a TV version of The Big Lebowski had the beating-up-the-new-sports-car John Goodman bit replaced by something like, "Do you see what happens, Larry? Do you see what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps?"


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:54 PM
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I like saying "Any fulfillment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness." It confuses people.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:54 PM
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Obscenity-dubbing is always awesome. I still remember Al Pacino in a broadcast version of The Untouchables telling Elliott Ness: "Thank you, and thank your family!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:56 PM
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De Niro, not Pacino.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:56 PM
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You nerd! You fuzzy nerd!


Posted by: Jeff Spicoli | Link to this comment | 05-24-09 11:56 PM
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71: true!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:02 AM
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68: true!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:04 AM
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76: Thanks, Sifu. I've shared that link with the friend, for posterity's sake.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:07 AM
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"Put on the glasses!"

"I wanna dip my balls in it!"


Posted by: Michael Vanderwheel, B.A. | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:34 AM
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"I wanna dip my balls in it!"

Well, if we're going there:

"Let's get milk-faced and hum like rabbits."


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:41 AM
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"Didn't you take me to a Leafs game?"


Posted by: Michael Vanderwheel, B.A. | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:41 AM
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81 is unrelated.


Posted by: Michael Vanderwheel, B.A. | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:42 AM
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"The swallows are returning to Capistrano."
"I didn't know the cake was loaded."


Posted by: Jesurgislac | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:44 AM
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"Pretty sneaky, Sis."

This one--from a decade later--was never widespread, but should have some currency hereabouts:

"Oh, I've been to Prague."


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:17 AM
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I was rather distressed when about two thirds of the people in my office didn't get the Princess Bride reference on this shirt.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:03 AM
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Repo Man is thick with stuff

"Laugh away fuckface!" (my sister and i still fire this at each other a lot)
"John Wayne was a fag! I installed two-way mirrors in his home in Glendale and he came to the door in a dress" (ok i'm not sure i've ever had occasion to quote this but it's an excellent line)
"_________ is always intense"
"Ev-ry-buddy-dead" *singsong style*


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:49 AM
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It's just like, it's just like a mini-mall.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 3:32 AM
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"Stay within my aura!"

This has to be said with the appropriate accent, of course. I've never even seen that movie, but it's a favorite on 'best film trailers' programs.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:23 AM
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"You're right, you're right -- I know you're right."

At some point in our late 20s, my best friend and I started ending all litanies of complaint with "And I'm gonna be 40!"


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:28 AM
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Actually, I rather like Johnny Dangerously. Marilu Henner is hott.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:37 AM
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Hey, that Newman's Dressing guy is in a movie!


Posted by: Will | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:51 AM
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"I wish you could apologize for other people."

"I love my dead, gay son."


Posted by: Criminally Bulgur | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:56 AM
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Marilu Henner is hott.

Marilu Henner wants to give you a Total Health Makeover®.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:56 AM
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"I want my TWO DOLLARS!" (I said this in class once and had 24 blank faces looking back at me and 1 enormously enthused one.)

"Did you know your last name is an adverb?" (My last name is an adjective, and I will sometimes change this to my/adjective.)


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:58 AM
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"Cry, cry, masturbate, cry."

"Fuck you, Clown."


Posted by: Will | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:13 AM
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Not anymore!

I say that all the time, in my best horrible French accent. No one seems to understand it.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:41 AM
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Also, "Sorry about that, chief."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:43 AM
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I loved Johnny Dangerously.

And BTiLC.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:44 AM
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We have a lot from MST3K, such as:

"I like it very much!" and "Why don't you h'lick me." and "It's fun when there are things!"


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:59 AM
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"Why aren't we at Dorsia?" "I have to return some videotapes." "He was into that whole Yale thing."

"Just kidding! But not really."

"Out of the way, peck!"

"I love it when a plan comes together."


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:04 AM
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Not too obscure: "Heineken? Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

Obscure: "What's haaappeeennniiiiiinnnngggg tooooooo meeeeeeeeee?"

I still don't know where that last one is from, except that its a cartoon from the '80s with a character with six arms. As that line was said the character was being zapped with a blue ray. We were watching before dawn in a dark room, so we were bathed in blue as well. The experience was, um, enhanced.


Posted by: Mo MacArbie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:11 AM
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"Kill all humans... Kill all humans... Hey, sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:48 AM
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"I was wondering... grah?"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:02 AM
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"Aristotle, was not Belgian."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:05 AM
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Repo Man is thick with stuff

"I'm glad I tortured you."
"I don't want no Commies in my car. No Christians, either." [which is the same scene as "Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia??"]
"You're a white suburban punk, just like me."
"Fuck you, Archie! You're not in the gang any more."
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

One of the most quotable movies of all time.

Rfts and I all the time say, "Fat Boy! Our minds are in unison!" which from the awful mangled English subtitles of a Tsui Hark movie.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:06 AM
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from a very ancient tom&jerry cartoon (iirc about a white rabbit wired to explode atomically), and to be spoken in a vastly deep echoey and sepulchral manner: "do-oo-oo-oo-oon't yooo-oooo-u be-lieeeeeeeeeve it"

from a droopy-the-dog cartoon, to be said monumentally glumly: "you know what? i'm happy"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:07 AM
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105: When pouty and bored I like to suggest that we "go get sushi and not pay!"

Even more nerdly, and said just this morning by CA all unknowing of this thread: "We look for things. We look for things to make us go."


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:10 AM
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"and you fell for it, like the fascists you are!"

"no, no, in the pit"

"you hum it, and i'll smash yer face in"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:11 AM
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"But what about our relaaaationship?"


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:13 AM
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"he entered the forest, and the phantoms came to meet him"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:13 AM
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"We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride. And we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man."


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:14 AM
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"I hate that lady with a passion... with a vengeance."

'We're not payin', because this guy, this guy's a fuckin' mook."

"The rest is bullshit and you know it."


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:19 AM
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"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off"

"You've GOT to be fuckin KIDDING"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:21 AM
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"That's the one song a Nazi would never sing!"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:22 AM
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Huh, I coulda sworn I'd posted 113.1 earlier in the thread. John Carpenter movies are ridiculously quotable.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:28 AM
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Oh yeah, and 86 + 71 = 63.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:29 AM
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It's totally tubendicular!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:29 AM
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"[Name of interlocutor!] You are the weakest individual I ever knowed!"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:29 AM
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"A man's got to know his limitations."


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:30 AM
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"I dialed '0' for the operator, but got ground zero instead."

I am convinced only me and six of my friends have seen the film this is from. Hint:

"So that I would understand, the bees showed me a little movie called "The Garden of Eden Cave", starring me, Jacob Maker, as Fat Boy, the world's first, and loneliest, plutonium bomb. "


Posted by: Criminally Bulgur | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:30 AM
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Julia Goolia. That's funny.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:31 AM
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"Get along, little doggie!"
"I had a long, little doggie. He was a dachsund."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:33 AM
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"Rrraaahhhhbert." Said very dreamily by Vanessa Huxtable.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:34 AM
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"This valley is just one long smorgasbord."

"Running's not a plan! Running's what you do when a plan fails!"

"I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys."

"Here's some swiss cheese and some bullets."

"Who died and made you Einstein?"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:36 AM
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From Just The Ten Of Us, when the slut sister goes on a date, and the date tries to date-rape her, and she breaks his arm. Then each time she's recounting the story, the religious sister asks the same series of questions:
"Did you order the lobster?"
"Did you cross and uncross your legs?"
"Did you go like this?" (licks lips), and of course the slut-sister answers affirmatively, but is too dumb to see that the whole fiasco is really her fault.

I always want to reproachfully ask people these questions mid-story, when they can't figure out what they did to trigger some consequence.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:38 AM
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"If he were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick."

"In Latin she would be called babia majora."


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:39 AM
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"Little deer lips."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:41 AM
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124.2: "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her."

Okay, who brought the dog?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:43 AM
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"And there you all were, listing off Gilligan's Island episodes without a hint of irony."

Also, nobody younger than me seems to know who Colonel Klink is without a detailed explanation.

And furthermore, I bet there were some people who didn't pick up on the musical reference in my most recent sonnet.

Sigh.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:48 AM
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126: If she were french, she'd be le renard, and she would be hunted with only her cunning to protect her.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:52 AM
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Is 119 Quantum & Woody?

x, y, and z, "all cooked up together to save time".

"Shall we be polite to him?"

Also, I was completely gobsmacked, beyond even the point of laughing out loud, when one of my (Lebanese) colleagues in my last job in Beirut bust out with:

"In my country there is problem. And that problem is transport."


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:53 AM
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"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:59 AM
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"How would the Civil War be different if Lincoln had octopus tentacles instead of a beard?"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:00 AM
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"Luke, I am your father."


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"Too early for flapjacks?"

"In Southeast Asia we'd call this kind of thing bad karma. "

"Where's the happy little tire swing?"


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134: "I find your lack of pants disturbing."


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"Ding-dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch!"


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"I coulda been a contender."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:04 AM
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136: No, it was from Buffy, from the episode I watched the other day. Duh.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:05 AM
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"Heebies's ruining the play thread! She's ruining the whole thread!"


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:06 AM
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Ah so, you are surprised I speak your language.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:08 AM
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"It's too bad she won't live!"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:12 AM
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"Was there not too much gristle in the blancmange?"


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:15 AM
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"Like Planty, I am a marriage of contradictions."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:19 AM
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124.all: Such a great movie for quotes.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:42 AM
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99: "I like it very much!"

Rah and I say this all the time and send one another into peals of giggles. Another favorite is, "Carry me away, tiny pants!"

Others:

"Not Ghaleon... but Magic Emperor Ghaleon!"

"Your music is bad and you should feel bad!"

"Good news, everyone!"

"She's dead... wrapped in plastic..."

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:51 AM
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"Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!"


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:53 AM
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Too recent to possibly be obscure, but I'll share anyhow. Yesterday, my roommate and I were trying to use a drain auger on a stopped-up tub, and I exclaimed, "We gotta get this motherfuckin' snake...in this motherfuckin drain!"

I don't think my roommate knew what I was on about.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:54 AM
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"Mother, they're still not sure it is a baby! "

"He put his disease in me."

"Is that your mother?"


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:56 AM
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Oh, and with one friend in particular the phrase, "Tell me about Mel Gibson's dick and balls!" remains a favorite.


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"For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!" (This is enormously useable)

"SOONER IS BETTER THAN LATER!" (you have to yell this in the manner of a demented young milla jovovovich)



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"For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!" (This is enormously useable)

I can think of two situations where you'd want to use it.

1: You have met a male witch messiah figure.
2: You want to make a reference your audience will be embarrassed to admit they recognize.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 10:44 AM
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108: I use the "You hum it..." line a fair bit as well.


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148: A colleague of mine is taking a bunch of students to Europe this summer, and was talking about dis-ease of travelling with them, and I quipped "There are motherfucking students on the motherfucking plane!"


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"The life of a repo man is always intense."


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"DON'T TOUCH IT! IT'S PURE EVIL!!!"


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:07 AM
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147: "Tsetse flies the size of eagles, coming and carrying away small children... it was terrible." (When describing a party gone awry or other social or public disaster)


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"Mum! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it," isn't it?


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:10 AM
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161: Something like that. Guess I know what I'm watching tonight.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:12 AM
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There are certainly worse fates!


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:13 AM
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also: "I am the Supreme Power of the Universe, and not entirely dim"


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161, 162: "Six hundred feet tall, bright red, and smelled terrible". Also "Nobody goes on one." And "Alexander was a leetel guy. Empire stretched from Hungary to India, and he was two inches shorter than me."

None of these are terribly useful, but they drift through my head inappropriately.


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Come to think of it, I believe that, other than Star Wars, the lines that were quoted the most in my (all too small) high school social group were from the Hitchhiker's Guide. This was of course prior to the movie, which, sad to say, was so bad that it didn't motivate a renaissance in Guide quoting.


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And the usefulness and aptness of x "is just this guy, you know?" is indubitable.


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167: MIT in the late 80s was really bad for Hitchhiker's Guide that way -- it was worse than Monty Python.


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169. I have no trouble believing that. And I don't think that I really miss the ubiquity of Hitchhiker's Guide quotes. I glanced through the books last summer, and found them rather boring and not that well designed. Funny sometimes, but boring. Oh well.


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:39 AM
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I haven't looked at them in maybe fifteen years, but I did love them truly.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:42 AM
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171: We have the CD set from the BBC radio show. I find that has held up better than the books, but that might just be because "I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis" (or not).


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:49 AM
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I was exactly the wrong age for HGtG and hated it with a passion ("... with a vengeance"), for not showing proper respect for science fiction (or something like that, I was a very earnest little teen). I actually quite enjoyed the film, but on the very low-bar grounds that I didn't (aged and mellow) dislike it as much as I had the books and the radio and TV show long ago when foolish (which probably means it was getting everything all wrong for actual-real back-in-the-day fans).


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:00 PM
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Two other faves of which I've been reminded:

"It's... the smell."

"I can't stop eating!"


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:08 PM
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I haven't heard the radio show, but I'm quite fond of the tv show even though it was cheap and horrible.


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:08 PM
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"That was was inedible muck, Mrs E, and there wasn't enough of it."


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:10 PM
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I'm late to the party, but 71 is fighting hysterical.


Posted by: adamhenne | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:11 PM
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Also, I didn't mind the movie when I first saw it, but I was in a hotel last weekend and it was on tv. After watching for several minutes i really began to hate it, but my brother was there, and he wanted to watch a movie, so we surfed. The next movie to show up? Transformers. Now I don't have a lot of love for the transformers, but it still was another reminder of the horror that Hollywood was unleashing on my childhood fantasies.


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:13 PM
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"Ya want some more cotton candy, Danger? It might sober you up!"

"It's nice out." "Yes, I think you ought to leave it out."

"Shoes for Industry!" "Shoes for Defense!"

Among the very few on this thread that AREN'T from movies or TV shows.


Posted by: Bob Munck | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:15 PM
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175: All great British TV is cheap and horrible. Especially sci-fi.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:17 PM
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84.2: Well, I haven't been to Prague been to Prague, but I know that whole Prague thing.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:20 PM
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||

The folks in the ground-floor flat -- who seem to be having a dinnerparty with their patio doors open, so the sound is bouncing up off the block opposite -- just now all broke into an impromptu version of "California Dreaming". They are quite posh, but it sounded nice.

|>


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:20 PM
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Also, I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal.


Posted by: adamhenne | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:21 PM
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172 and 183 as uttered by Barack Obama, of course.


Posted by: adamhenne | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:21 PM
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Another in the plan genre:

"PLAN? There ain't no plan!"


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:22 PM
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If we are going there.

"Please follow along as we learn 3 new words in Turkish. Towel, Bath, Border...may I see your passport please..."

"Returned for regrooving"

"Railroad coming through. Right now!"


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:28 PM
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"Jolly, we forgot the kids!"


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:34 PM
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Finally remembered what it was from.


Posted by: Mo MacArbie | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 12:41 PM
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Huh. Apparently today is Towel Day. I read those books at exactly the right ages, 10-12. They made quite an impression on me.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:01 PM
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I didn't know that. Cool!


Posted by: ninjaphilosopher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:11 PM
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"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

"You got no mercy; you got no decency; and you got no code."

"All I want is to enter my house justified."

"She's fast enough for you, old man."


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191.2-4 are examples of what I think the initial question was asking for, which is references in the form of sentences that can be used in conversation, simply as a slightly odd way of expressing a common sentiment. Rather than only working as an inside joke.

I've said "[person's name] is mean, he's a racist, and he's very, very devilish." before.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:32 PM
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"The dishes are done, man..."


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:32 PM
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186 -- "That's her trip." "I've just invented the Tom Collins." "Let's invite a bunch of immigrants and make cars."

"I'm not high on false drugs -- I'm high on the real thing: a full tank of gas, a clean windshield and a shoeshine."


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:34 PM
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"People think I got the power because I got the monkeys. No... I got the power because I'll let the monkeys loose."

If you can't use that to express a common sentiment, you're just not trying.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:36 PM
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Better yet: "I'm here to present you my proposal for [X]. But first... the whores!"


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189: AWB, all six hours of the original radio series are available on request in bite-sized form from my poor little brain.

And in that spirit, "Aw Belgium, man, Belgium!"


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:40 PM
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118: Bigbooté! Té!


Posted by: John Bigbooté | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:51 PM
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181 is funny. Where is it from?


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:54 PM
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"Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife! Doomed is-a your soul, and-a damned is-a your life!"

"He'll-a come. I know his type."

"I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.


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198: "Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy" is one I used to use in conversation all the time, but stopped, because no one got it.

Also:

Where are we going?
Planet Ten!
When?
Real soon!


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 1:58 PM
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"Good, what is a truck?"

"It is a very bad design."


Posted by: John Parker | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:01 PM
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201: Both of those are very good. Everyone should know them.


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No one gets "Laugh while you can, monkey boy?"

My personal favorite is to point, and say "Evil! Pure evil from the eighth dimension!"


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:07 PM
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That movie is one big quote.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:09 PM
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"There are monkey boys in the building!"


Posted by: John Ya Ya | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:11 PM
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I always thought it should be disqualified on grounds of trying too hard. But of course that is campy in it's own way.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:13 PM
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No one gets "Laugh while you can, monkey boy?"

Kids today [sigh].

Actually Last Chance Community College has a remarkably robust geek population. I my logic class this semester I needed an example of a true sentence with fictional reference. I opened with the first one that popped into my mind.

Me: So the sentence "Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark" is true, right?

[Pause.]

Me: Right?

Student 1: I don't know what your talking about.

Me: ok, I need another example. Umm, ummm. James Kirk is captain of the Starship Enterprise. Does that work for you?

[This was before the hype for the movie started]

Student 2: Actually, Kirk was captain of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701.

Student 3: Well, NCC 1701A and NCC 1701 B.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:16 PM
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There wasn't an NCC 1701 before 1701-A?


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Yeah, the actually serial numbers are NCC 1701 and NCC 1701A. But the last thing I wanted to do was get into an argument with my students about the correct serial numbers for the Enterprise.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:25 PM
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Like the First Battle of Bull Run (Encyclopedia Brown identified a counterfeit sword based on that one).


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:26 PM
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181: "He'd already rather be bow-hunting!"

"Cookie man!"

"Chet. Che-t. Ch-e-t."


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I was also worried that my students would catch me saying "actually" when I mean "actual."

I still haven't seen the new movie, although thanks to Nose-Flow I've been spoilered for it.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 2:59 PM
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208 is hilarious.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 3:31 PM
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"Up, up and away!"

"That's no moon; that's a space station."

"Crush your enemies; see dem driven before you; hear de lamentation of de women."


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I was also worried that my students would catch me saying "actually" when I mean "actual."

What, as in "Galactica actual"?


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 3:47 PM
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216: Ack, I thought of that as I was typing.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 3:55 PM
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"Thank you. It has not come without effort."


Posted by: Jesurgislac | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:06 PM
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"gaze into the fist of dredd"


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"Come, Hodo, Kodo!" (I don't actually remember the specific line I'm attempting to quote here; the reference is generally to the weasels or whatever they were living in the Beastmaster's pants.)


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219: I have that on a T-shirt!


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:32 PM
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I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month.

I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Also, and I'm ashamed to admit this,

"No toon can resist Shave and a Haircut."


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I always heard it as "Laugh-a while you still can monkey-boy." Which leads me to believe that I have picked up that quote second hand.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:36 PM
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There are several quotes from Metropolitan that I reference for myself, but I don't generally use them in conversation:

"Sometimes old people get up really early." (I guess they didn't get up as early as I thought).

"None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking."

"Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away. "

"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said. "


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 4:40 PM
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"No toon can resist Shave and a Haircut."

Nothing to be ashamed of.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 5:56 PM
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"You never fuck me, and I always have to drive!"


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224:
Fred: Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and...
Ted: Really?
Fred: And one of the things that keeps popping up is about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
Ted: The text.
Fred: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.


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Nothing to be ashamed of.

Thanks, neb.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:16 PM
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226: That's from a movie? Oh...


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:23 PM
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229: Barcelona! Metropolitan is #1 in Stillman's 80s trilogy, Barcelona is 2, and Last Days of Disco is 3.

If you were an UHB you would know that, Di.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:27 PM
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Barcelona!

"Every day, and in every way I am becoming a better Lt. Jr. Grade."


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:29 PM
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Speaking of pop culture references . . .

M/tch & I are going to a space-themed costume party on Saturday and need the hive brain's suggestions. We are most interested in the aren't-we-so-clever, conceptual sort of costumes, such as covering one of us in Post-It notes like the figure on the Office Space poster.

Mind you, simply awesome non-conceptual costumes are options as well. (I say that even though one such excellent idea would be for M/tch to go as Mork in a striped shirt and suspenders, but he petulantly refuses to even entertain the idea.)


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:36 PM
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Each of you should dress unobtrusively and, while at the party, behave in a way that doesn't call attention to yourselves. However, you should also always be on hand to welcome newcomers, introduce people who haven't met, pour drinks, facilitate conversations with new topics or new ideas (but never even one flashy or memorable bon mot), maybe even start a romance or two.

Ta-da: the dark matter that holds the party together.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:44 PM
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Or you could find a third party and do like this.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:45 PM
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M/tch & I are going to a space-themed costume party on Saturday

Go as Verbal Kent and Lex Luthor.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:55 PM
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Go as a white dwarf and a heavenly body. I guess you could draw straws for who has to spend the entire party on their knees.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:57 PM
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One of you could comb your hair over your eyes and wear a sign around your neck that said, "not a sheepdog."


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 6:59 PM
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Kint.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:01 PM
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Go as Audrey II and Seymour.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:01 PM
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It's not a spaz-themed party, nosflow.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:06 PM
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Go as Space Cowboy and Space Cowgirl, the Gangster and Gangsterette of Love.


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Audrey II was a mean green momma from outer space, as you might recall.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:07 PM
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Something something "I'm Uranus" something.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:09 PM
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Go as Europa and the Monolith. Have the monolith spend all night going "Hey! Hands off!"


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:12 PM
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Go as Space Invaders and spent the whole night close-talking everyone you meet.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:15 PM
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Go as Space Invaders and spend the whole night shooting people.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:17 PM
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But doing so while moving slowly from side to side in a phalanx formation.


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233 is great conceptually.

236: Maybe a Red Giant then?

237: Huh?

241 is a good idea. Which is why we ALREADY HAD IT! UR SO PWNND!!!1!!

244: We have discussed one of us going as a caveman with a bone.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:21 PM
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245 is good.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:21 PM
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We also had the idea of a costume where one attaches a bunch of starts/planets/etc to one's attire, along with numerous little singe-serving liquor bottles: a space bar!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:23 PM
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You could go as Perez and Paris Hilton, "wastes of space."


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244: We have discussed one of us going as a caveman with a bone.

And the other can go as Ida. (Or maybe that's the bone.)


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:38 PM
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If only we had practiced the right sort of projects in home ec. But no, I learned how to make an ugly and ill-fitting sweatshirt.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:39 PM
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And now I discover that my office computer is refusing ssh connections from machines outside the university. I guess some IT person decided they couldn't handle the security threat of me working from home. (I can ssh to another machine on campus, and from there to my office computer, but that's a little awkward, and there goes any hope of X forwarding.)


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254 to other thread.


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253: Too obvious anyway.

Although I guess with enough ambition along those lines, you could have gone as Will Robinson and his Robot. Then anytime Will tried to talk to a girl, you could swoop in: "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:46 PM
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"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet..."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:47 PM
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I once went out for Halloween with a sandwich board that was done up like a dishwasher with dial settings for "Light Saber / Heavy Saber" and various other Star Warsy things which I forget. I was the Rebel Appliance.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 7:58 PM
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Each of you rig up a hula hoop with suspenders and hang signs from the hula hoop saying "DO NOT APPROACH". Personal space!


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Two which I always liked but don't rise to the level of referentiability:

"That would be a neat trick." (Badguy's response to bound Axel Foley yelling "I'm gonna kill you")

"I carry a writer's tool." (When challenged by a border guard to prove that he is a writer by trade, Bill Lee produces a pen.)


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212: I had bumper stickers printed up that said "I'd Rather Be Bowhunting." I hope the USC student to whom I sold my Sentra kept her on, but I've never seen it again.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:05 PM
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Whenever anyone says something, demand justification, and always ramble on about why you're saying what you're saying until you're cut off. The logical space of reasons!


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I hope the USC student to whom I sold my Sentra kept her on, but I've never seen it again.

You refer to bumper stickers with personal pronouns?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:06 PM
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Forget to go to the party entirely: space cadets!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:06 PM
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260.3: Would've been cooler if he'd produced a severed penis.


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232: Go as Major Tom and Ground Control. You need a passable flight suit for Major Tom, but GC is just dorky pants, a white shirt, pocket protector, and headset.


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258: Sweet.


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237: Huh?

In the spirit of the thread it was an obscure reference.

In the Niven short story, "What can you say about chocolate covered manhole covers?" the primary character used that as his costume for a party.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:24 PM
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Oh. Well, if we're admitting that level of obscurity, you should obviously go as Harold Clancy Everett and Harmon C. Eventide. "Jasper!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:39 PM
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265 to pretty much any comment anywhere.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 8:49 PM
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"If I'da known it was that kind of party, I'da stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes."

Whenever someone says "That's a good idea," I follow it with "she said, she said."


Posted by: F | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:06 PM
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I should tell this thread that this thread has inspired me to find some episodes of the Tick animated series and you know what? It still totally rules!


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270 to 271.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:11 PM
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This thread appreciates being notified, Sifu. Thank you.


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It still totally rules!

Obviously. Don't you own it on dvd, you philistine? (Hey, wait a second, wedding present!) Also, this thread seems to suggest that I am oudemia.


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:18 PM
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SPOON!

We've learned all your Earth languages, except Esperanto. We could tell that one was going nowhere fast!


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275: you know, I don't. I was such a huge fan of the comic that it took me a while to realize that the animated series was actually awesome, even though it wasn't quite as awesome as the first three or whatever issues Ben Edlund put together single-handed. Yes, I was ahead of the curve being a Tick snob.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:21 PM
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if we're admitting that level of obscurity

It may be obscure, but it was quite on topic. Almost all of the story takes place at a costume party.

If LB were here, she would have recognized the reference.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:22 PM
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M/tch & I are going to a space-themed costume party on Saturday and need the hive brain's suggestions. We are most interested in the aren't-we-so-clever, conceptual sort of costumes

If you don't go, then you'll be Empty Space.


Posted by: PGD | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:26 PM
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You could cover yourself with all manner of garish adornment, embarrassing photos, and audio files that won't stop playing.

Myspace!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 9:27 PM
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Also, this thread seems to suggest that I am oudemia.

Well, I personally never would have suspected, nor made that mistake, I'm pretty certain.

Not that I personally hold any authority on anything authoritative whatsoever, of course.


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271.2: very nice.

Theme costumes: Monolith and jawbone?


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:23 PM
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"If there's nothing wrong with me, then there must be something wrong with the Universe!"


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:24 PM
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"Well, evil has been rousted and the babysitter's been paid."

So great.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:29 PM
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New favorite obscure movie quote, fresh from the cinema tonight: "Holy shit! That's my new favorite camel."


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:45 PM
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Is that movie any good? Reviews are bad, but it has good pedigree and a fun preview.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:48 PM
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285: who woulda thunk! Was Brick quotable?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:49 PM
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What, was that line in the trailer or something? I'd not heard of it, nor Brick, before today - my friend dragged me to it.

First 2/3 was fun but... I wanted to rewrite the ending. But I want to rewrite the endings of most movies these days.


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:52 PM
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It's googleable.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:53 PM
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"Remember: short, controlled bursts."

And from the other movie I saw today, and all its lineage: "Come with me if you want to live."


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 05-25-09 11:54 PM
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You saw two movies today? Now there's some dedication to leisure.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:08 AM
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Come with me if you want to live.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:16 AM
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"Iocaine. I'd bet my life on it."


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:09 AM
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Re-watching Pineapple Express:
"Ted Jones messed with the wrong melon farmers."

This is the theatrical release.

We're so uncool.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:16 AM
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"Give me your address there."


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:21 AM
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"Unemployed? In Greenland?"


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:21 AM
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Was Brick quotable?

You better be sure you wanna know what you wanna know.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:47 AM
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We're so uncool.

That's a hell of a thing to spring on a guy.

Hell of a thing.

You ever read Tolkien? You know, the Hobbit books? It's really great, the way he describes things. He makes you wanna be there.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 1:53 AM
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If I could quote Gaudy Night, I would do so now.


Posted by: Keir | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 2:01 AM
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Now you are dangerous.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 2:08 AM
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296: "When I found you, you were so slobbering drunk you couldn't buy brandy!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 2:18 AM
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"Happy as rats they are. They tap dance not, neither do they fart."


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 2:55 AM
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"Happy happy joy joy" -- I had typed this and emailed it before I even realised it fit


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These Romans are crazy.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 6:24 AM
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296, 301, Jen from Cakewrecks is also a fan (but she's already confessed to much nerdier fandom, so we're not surprised)


Posted by: Molly | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 6:31 AM
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299: Naughty classicist! Oof.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 6:37 AM
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299: "When he pulled out I felt scooped out inside" - hey, didn't we just have this conversation a few days ago?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 6:41 AM
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278: NickS knows me too well.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 7:25 AM
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There are several quotes from Metropolitan that I reference

"Good luck with your Fourierism ..."

At work I say "They just didn't care" pretty frequently. I'm also very fond of "But, Dad, I thought we were going out for Flan?"


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276: "Spoon this!"

also,
"Not in the face! Not in the face!"
"Very good, Arthur. That can be your battle cry!"

Way too much Buffy-quoting, personally, but that's because it's very recognizable to most of my friends here.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:18 AM
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"Get meta with me, Arthur!" This one comes up fairly often.

(Also, "Oh man, my microbus.")


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:24 AM
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310: I have noticed that when people say a random sentence which makes no sense if it isn't a reference to something, and they are assuming that all 20 people in earshot will know what it's a reference to, and I don't recognize it because it isn't from The Simpsons, Seinfeld, or Futurama, it turns out to be from Buffy.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:26 AM
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"Confused? You will be..."

(I'm old.)


Posted by: OFE | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:28 AM
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Hey, me too.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:30 AM
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My favorite Tick quote, from the comic:

"He stands...like some sort of...pagan god or deposed tyrant. Staring out over the city he's sworn to...to stare out over...and it's evident...just by looking at him...that he's got some pretty heavy things on his mind."

From the series:

"Egads! How many languages do you people have?"

I used to say the latter all the time to an ex-girlfriend, who spoke and read eight or nine European languages.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:33 AM
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I have noticed that when people say a random sentence which makes no sense if it isn't a reference to something, [...] it turns out to be from Buffy.

You should let them know how uninterested you are in their silly quotes, by looking distracted and saying "bored now".


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:35 AM
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I can ssh to another machine on campus, and from there to my office computer, but that's a little awkward, and there goes any hope of X forwarding.

That's where VNC and ssh tunneling are your friends....


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Also I was bewildered by the sudden appearance of people saying "[Random word] much?" in an attempt to be sarcastic and annoying, before realizing that was from Buffy too.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:37 AM
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316: Teehee.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:41 AM
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"I've got a cunning plan"


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Is there a difference between "used in the world but popularised by Buffy" and "from Buffy"?

Because "____ much" and "Bored now" both feel like they might have predated Buffy

(I speak as someone who watched every episode from 1.1 in real time and worship at the feet etc: so I'm delighted if those are Buffy-born -- but I always assumed they were at most Buffy-vectored...)


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:43 AM
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oops me^^^

1: [something lame]
2: ?????
3: profit

must have travelled WAY beyond its origins...


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:45 AM
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In fact both sound to me more like Heathers

speaking of which: "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw"


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:48 AM
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One for you oldsters:

"Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river."


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:56 AM
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I don't really say these kinds of quotes that often, so I didn't have any good examples quickly, but I just remembered I made a number of them into post titles:

"Night howls of the demon abroad! Where is my stick?"

"God love weasels, but do they really need an aqueduct?"

"We don't have a budget." "Then what have I been embezzling from all these years?"

"I am unable here to go into Moundsbarian glottalization rules as I am double-parked at the moment."

"They built spaceships and blasted off!" "They went out for cigarettes and never came back!" "Oof!" "Ow!"


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 9:00 AM
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"If we're not back by dawn, call the president."

"Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine, because I can't concentrate when you do that."

"It's all in the reflexes."

"Have you paid your dues? Yessir, the check is in the mail."


Posted by: Grumps | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 9:04 AM
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Smoke me a kipper - I'll be back for breakfast.


Posted by: OFE | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 9:10 AM
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"I'm just going to step outside. I may be sometime."

This is also a friend's family's ritual phrase when someone has to go to the loo.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 10:09 AM
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Of course, the alternative source for non-Simpsons, non-Futurama, non-Buffy references is Firefly.

See, particularly:

"Shiny."

"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal."

"I'll be in my bunk."

"Yes, sir, Cap'n Tightpants."

And finally: "Up until the punching, it was a real nice party."

I use all of those a lot, but in my circles, everyone gets the reference.


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"What's a Nubian?" "Shut the fuck up."

"A minute six seconds, you are such my bitch."

"He's dealing with being an inker." "Ohhh... you trace."



Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 11:38 AM
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"My days of not taking you seriously are coming to a middle."


Posted by: tierce de lollardie | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 11:55 AM
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327 is smegging wonderful


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I am really not the kind of person who makes film/popular culture references. There's probably only one film I quote from, and that only to my family (i.e. my brother and my parents).

"What the hell, it was fun anyway," gets regular use.
"Her? She's ugly!"
"It's a quest! A quest for fun!"
"A dead person breathed on me!"


Posted by: asilon | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:13 PM
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"My food is problematic."

We could quote the entire series here, really.


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:15 PM
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What a guy.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:17 PM
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Frak.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 12:24 PM
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"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 5:40 PM
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Relatively recent as pop-culture ephemera go, but:

"What was that word again for 'almost friend'?"


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:30 PM
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You know what's even better than the "literary criticism" reference from Metropolitan (and by "better" I mean "more likely to seriously irritate someone")? You wait until asks you some relatively innocuous question, wait two beats, and then bust out with this line from High Art: "Do you have any idea what a fucked-up thing that is to say to me right now?" I guarantee you will immediately sink several points in your interlocutor's esteem, and they may even kick you out of their car. To be deployed with caution, obviously.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:37 PM
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"until someone asks"


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 05-26-09 8:38 PM
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Of definite use in conversation: "You were not put upon this Earth to 'get it,' Mr. Burton!"


Posted by: BrianZ | Link to this comment | 05-27-09 5:40 AM
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

How can a large group of over-educated people survive in life without this line? 341 posts and I'm the first one to get here?

331 is awesome.


Posted by: NBarnes | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 1:58 PM
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I also deploy 'I don't see any method, sir' when cranky.


Posted by: NBarnes | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 1:59 PM
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Also from Big Trouble In Little China,

"I just feel kind of... feel kind of invincible. "


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 2:07 PM
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"Hey, you fucked up. You trusted us."


Posted by: Not Prince Hamlet | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 2:10 PM
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"Oh, fuck it, I don't have to talk either, man. See how you like it. (. . .) Just total fuckin' silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. We'll just see how you like it. (. . .) Total silence."


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 2:20 PM
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"I'm doing my monkey-boy."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-28-09 2:44 PM
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We think we've settled on Sir Kraab going as a Red Giant, and me going as MySpace.

So: STANLEY FOR THE WIN!!!11!!
(what's the name of your band again, Stanley? I'd like to look at your MySpace page, for inspiration).

Honorable Mention: teh apostropher, for his heroic assist that resulted in the Red Giant concept.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 7:23 AM
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what's the name of your band again, Stanley?

brokeNCYDE.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 7:45 AM
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349: Boy-band "crunk screamo electronica" from "Albucrazy." Huh. That's pretty... horrifying.

M/tch should wire himself up to actually play a repetitive loop of god-awful audio samples as he walks around the party.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 7:53 AM
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(...AND their name is abbreviated "BC13" for no apparent reason. That's a nice touch.)


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:08 AM
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But which one do you think is Stanley?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:08 AM
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349: Can't access myspace here at work, but with a name like that, I can't WAIT to get home . . .

350: My plan to mimic the gold soundz of myspace is to buy a bunch of those greetings/birthday/etc. cards that play tinny music when you open them and cut them down as small as possible so that I can flip open various ones as needed.

Boy-band "crunk screamo electronica"

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of KitschN'Sync


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:10 AM
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352: The "sex symbol," obvs.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:14 AM
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351: Maybe that's their stock market ticker symbol.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:17 AM
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The greatest tough guy line in cinematic history: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."

Sadly, never had a chance to use it. One day...


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The space space got pretty thoroughly explored, but this reminds me that I later came up with an idea so profoundly offensive that decorum prohibits posting it even here. (Hint: Godwin violation.)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:30 AM
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Jews in Space, closely pursued by Hitler in Space?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:31 AM
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357: Spill. To not do so would be even more undecorous.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:32 AM
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Lebensraum (go as a map of occupied Europe).


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:32 AM
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360: I was thinking that maybe you were thinking of Lebensraum. Either that or some kind of Gravity's Rainbow derived program activity.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:35 AM
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And sorry, neb. Your ideas were indeed untoppable, but also sadly unworkable given time, materials available, etc.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:35 AM
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361: Yeah, I did try to come up with a GR idea, but the best I had was going as a member of the Schwarzkommando (and it isn't really "space").


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:38 AM
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Thank you, M/tch. I'm sure next time things will work out more to my favor.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:40 AM
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364: Maybe it's for the best. We probably would have screwed up the execution of your ideas anyway.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:41 AM
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I'm glad this thread is still alive, because I omitted all quotes from Bring It On.

I'm pretty, I'm cool,
I dominate the school,
Who am I? Just guess,
Guys wanna touch my chest,

I'm major, I roar,
I swear I'm not a whore,
We cheer and we lead,
We act like we're on speed,
You hate us 'cause we're beautiful,
Well we don't like you either,
We're cheerleaders!
We are cheerleaders!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:44 AM
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Oh it's already been broughten.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:52 AM
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I said, BRRRRR! It's cold in here!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:53 AM
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368: Then tell Hawaiin Punch to put on a sweater.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:55 AM
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Sure, you and what universe that spells Hawaiian with one 'a'? WHAT-EV.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:57 AM
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It looks as if M/tch used two 'a's.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 8:59 AM
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YEAH!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:00 AM
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Even heebs herself doesn't use the 'okina. I'm sick of this Americanization of foreign names, Mark Krikorian.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:00 AM
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Yeah, but would he like to partner with the one-a-universe? That was the question.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:01 AM
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374: Wooden eye!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:04 AM
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376

Peg leg! Peg leg!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:11 AM
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377

Get a room already.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:15 AM
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378

I have a whole house.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 9:21 AM
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378: " He owned a valuable piece of land. True, it was a small piece, but he carried it with him wherever he went. "

"Wheat... lots of wheat... fields of wheat... a tremendous amount of wheat... "


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-29-09 11:36 AM
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