Not quite so famous movie quotes you use repeatedly in real life?
Kingo Gondo
"They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
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David Matthews
"Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> wrote in message
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> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
>
(Nothing personal - it's a quote not a comment).
Dave in Toronto
Kingo Gondo
"David Matthews" <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Well, even if it had been, I've been called worse.
>
Tom Amolad
wrote:
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
If you count movie titles, there's the really crappy Chinese joint
around the corner from me, which I try to make seem more appetizing by
referring to it as "La Chinoise."
I find that if ever I need to make fun of the British, I can get good
mileage out of a newspaper headline that appears in THE LION HAS
WINGS, a propaganda film produced by Korda (and co-directed by Michael
Powell) that came out a couple of months into World War II. The
headline reads:
"Frightfulness in Occupied Poland!"
Tom
Tom Amolad
Two others that get some usage:
"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass so much, follow me?"
and (when I'm driving with someone who announces that we're lost):
"Why don't you try Hare Krishna?"
And one I'd like to find an excuse to use:
"We can't stop the dancing chicken. Send an electrician."
Tom
Joe Gillis
"Believe me, I see da irony."
"Too much like work, man."
"I didn't like the Beatles -- and I don't like you!"
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Who can ID the films?
Richard Schultz
: Here, let me break the ice:
:
: "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
-----
Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience"
Jim Beaver
"Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> wrote in message
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>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
"That tears it."
"If I get any closer, I'll be in back of you."
"We ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade, neither."
(from the same movie as the last) "I'm confident the deal will fall
through."
"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've
got a nickel in my pocket."
"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
"I can just see you bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove."
"Sounds like I got a hyena in there."
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above."
"C'mon. This'll put you in solid with your boss."
"I was misinformed."
"Hey, boss, ain't we ever gonna eat anymore?"
Hmm. I apparently use more movie talk than I do original stuff.
Jim Beaver
Richard Schultz
: "I was misinformed."
That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more. "I'll be
there at ten." Now *that's* not quite so famous.
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Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
The gardener plants an evergreen whilst trampling on a flower. . .
David Matthews
"Richard Schultz" <sch...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
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> In article <iyTsj.10998$J41....@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver
> <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> : "I was misinformed."
>
> That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more. "I'll be
> there at ten." Now *that's* not quite so famous.
>
> -----
> Richard Schultz
"As it is written so it shall be done" - I used to say that to my boss after
getting a written memo of my daily chores. He didn't get it so it qualifies
as not so famous.
Dave in Toronto
mike
"Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> wrote in message
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That quote is soooo familiar. It's driving me nuts trying to think of the
film. What is it from, please?
mike
"Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> wrote in message
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That quote is soooo familiar. It's driving me nuts trying to think of the
Aldo of Pignotti
A (insert job title) spends his life getting into tense situations
Richard Schultz
:
: "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
myself saying "From what was an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues,
I bring you a cultured, sophisticated. . . man about town." Sometimes
when I recall a particularly useless bit of trivia, I will conclude by
asking "What are the 39 Steps?" but I think that that one is pretty famous.
Aldo of Pignotti
>
> That quote is soooo familiar. It's driving me nuts trying to think of the
> film. What is it from, please?
Here's a hint, it's from the most quoted movie of all time. I don't
know when someone would use it in real like though.
Aldo of Pignotti
>
> Hmm. I apparently use more movie talk than I do original stuff.
>
Sometimes I think that there is something very wrong with my life when
I find myself quoting "Pulp Fiction" several times in the same day.
calvin
"Not bloody likely".
Kingo Gondo
"Aldo of Pignotti" <aldopi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Oh, all the time--anytime people make I choice I think is just nuts. In an
election year the possibilities are almost endless just in my immediate
vicinity.
steve
On 14-Feb-2008, "Jim Beaver" <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> "That tears it."
"Double Indemnity"
> "If I get any closer, I'll be in back of you."
Groucho with a girl in the hotel room...which film was that?
> "We ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade, neither."
>
> (from the same movie as the last) "I'm confident the deal will fall
> through."
>
> "Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've
>
> got a nickel in my pocket."
"Cocoanuts"
> "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
So much Groucho. "Animal Crackers"
> "I can just see you bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove."
Ditto
> "Sounds like I got a hyena in there."
>
> "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above."
That's a great one. What's it from?
> "C'mon. This'll put you in solid with your boss."
>
> "I was misinformed."
>
> "Hey, boss, ain't we ever gonna eat anymore?"
Andy Divine in "Stagecoach"?
> Hmm. I apparently use more movie talk than I do original stuff.
>
> Jim Beaver
--
"History is a lie agreed upon." --Napoleon
EricV
"When you lie down with pigs you come up smelling like garbage."
Repeating this line almost got me thrown out of someone's car.
"You're not a man you're a boy. And a fat boy too."
moviePig
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
"[It's] not that I believe it, but that I believe it."
(...wait. Let me try that again...)
"[It's] not that I *believe* it, but that *I* believe it."
(And the surrounding two hours of dialogue's not bad either. E.g.,
"But, for *Wales*?")
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David Matthews
>
>>
>> Hmm. I apparently use more movie talk than I do original stuff.
>>
>
>
> Sometimes I think that there is something very wrong with my life when
> I find myself quoting "Pulp Fiction" several times in the same day.
I feel the same if I find myself doing W.C. Fields impressions.
Dave in Toronto
steve
"Oh. You want jam on it!" (Can anyone guess the film?)
"I cant recall." followed by "My Aunt has one."
steve
sli...@slidge.com
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
"Hey! It's got to work better than the truth!"
sli...@slidge.com
I know that this film was originally a stage play. Was this part a crack
at Eugene O'Neill?
Richard Schultz
:> "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
: I know that this film was originally a stage play. Was this part a crack
: at Eugene O'Neill?
"How did *you* get to be an Italian?"
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Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
There's something I must tell you, there's something I must say:
The only really perfect love is one that gets away.
Spark...@gmail.com
Animal Crackers.
Spark...@gmail.com
>
> Groucho with a girl in the hotel room...which film was that?
A Day at the Races.
>
> > "We ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade, neither."
>
> > (from the same movie as the last) "I'm confident the deal will fall
> > through."
>
> > "Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've
>
> > got a nickel in my pocket."
>
> "Cocoanuts"
>
> > "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
>
> So much Groucho. "Animal Crackers"
>
> > "I can just see you bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove."
Duck Soup.
David Matthews
>>
>> > "C'mon. This'll put you in solid with your boss."
The Maltese Falcon
Dave in Toronto
Aldo of Pignotti
> "Oh. You want jam on it!" (Can anyone guess the film?)
>
Blues Brothers?
David Matthews
a woman customer the price of the bed.
Woman: "Why that's ridiculous I can get a bed for half that price:
Groucho: "Not with me in it you can't"
Dave in Toronto
moviePig
> On Feb 14, 12:38 am, "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Here, let me break the ice:
>
> > "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
(Not a bad running-topic, especially if you focus on phrases that you
do, from time to time, actually use.)
"Ah, then... it was written."
calvin
Larry the Arab
calvin
>
> (...wait. Let me try that again...)
>
> "[It's] not that I *believe* it, but that *I* believe it."
>
> (And the surrounding two hours of dialogue's not bad either. E.g.,
> "But, for *Wales*?")
Tommy More said both.
calvin
> On 14-Feb-2008, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> > "That tears it."
>
> "Double Indemnity"
No, John Wayne said it to Ward Bond.
moviePig
> On Feb 14, 2:08 pm, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 14, 10:40 am, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Feb 14, 12:38 am, "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.org>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Here, let me break the ice:
>
> > > > "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
> > (Not a bad running-topic, especially if you focus on phrases that you
> > do, from time to time, actually use.)
>
> > "Ah, then... it was written."
>
(Tony, actually... but who's counting...)
Derek Janssen
>>"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
> [Animal Crackers]
>
> I know that this film was originally a stage play.
I remember one Boston production trying to revive the George S. Kaufman
play, with a trio of Marx imitators playing Capt. Spaulding and Mrs.
Rittenhouse as "written", but that was before the Marx estate started
cracking down on image copyrights.
> Was this part a crack at Eugene O'Neill?
You might've gotten a clue from "If this was a Eugene O'Neill play, I
could tell you both what I think of you! You should be lucky the
Theater Guild isn't putting this on...And so should the Guild!"
Derek Janssen (for more info, see "The Cradle Will Rock", and we
apologize in advance for Tim Robbins)
eja...@verizon.net
calvin
I meant the movie. Of course the mighty Quinn said it,
later after Lawrence had insisted that "nothing is written".
Halmyre
kingo_nos...@gmail.org says...
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
>
>
"If you get them holes a leakin', I'm gonna whomp you with a knotted plow
line."
--
Halmyre
I'll just go and get my baton...it's in Chicago.
calvin
Derek Janssen
> Animals have soul, by the way.
Nonsense!--My cat always leaves the room when I play James Brown!
Derek Janssen
ejanss!@verizon.net
Howard Brazee
(in article
<794f5338-e126-4aec...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>):
> Here's a hint, it's from the most quoted movie of all time. I don't
> know when someone would use it in real like though.
A good candidate for the "I feel lucky" button on Google.
sli...@slidge.com
>
> You might've gotten a clue from "If this was a Eugene O'Neill play, I
> could tell you both what I think of you! You should be lucky the
> Theater Guild isn't putting this on...And so should the Guild!"
It's been far too long since I've seen this movie, that must have been
what made me think it was a crack at Eugene O'Neill ;)
Wallace Dickson
Two other co-workers were always quoting lines from Pink Flamingos...
Eggs! Eggs!..
tomcervo
"Once again you see that there is nothing you can posess that I can
not take away from you."
Howard Brazee
remember one about a grafitti artist in New York Subways, when the politician
gave up, his spin man said "who me kemo sabe"?
I was thinking the politician was Robert Culp, but I'm not finding a match
that looks likely on IMDB to get the quote right.
Derek Janssen
Have you tried http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090217 ?
(And no, not "Blink 182", in case you're wondering where they came up
with the name..)
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
Jim Beaver
"Richard Schultz" <sch...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
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> In article <iyTsj.10998$J41....@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver
> <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> : "I was misinformed."
>
> That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more.
While you're out, ask the first ten people you run into at random if they
know what that line's from. If you get one correct answer, I'll delete it
from my list.
Jim Beaver
Forge
kingo_nos...@gmail.org says...
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
All from the same movie:
"I wonder if I remembered to pack the Scotch."
"He's going after his brother... with a woman-child, one elf, and a
moron robot." Whenever a piece of machinery screws up, I call it a
"moron robot."
"By the way, I'm sure glad you changed your last name... you son of a
bitch!"
Don't get to use that last one much though.
Jim Beaver
"steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote in message
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>
> On 14-Feb-2008, "Jim Beaver" <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> >
>> "Sounds like I got a hyena in there."
>>
>> "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above."
>
> That's a great one. What's it from?
THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Both of 'em.
>>
>> "Hey, boss, ain't we ever gonna eat anymore?"
>
> Andy Divine in "Stagecoach"?
Nope. Allan Jenkins in DEAD END.
Jim Beaver
Jack Lefton
"Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> wrote in message
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> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
networks?
"I'm so hungry I could eat cancer"
(from TV) "I have a cunning plan"
David Oberman
>>> "Hey, boss, ain't we ever gonna eat anymore?"
>>
>> Andy Divine in "Stagecoach"?
>
>Nope. Allan Jenkins in DEAD END.
I think I'm confusing "Dead End" with "Dead Reckoning." I have to look
up "Dead End."
____
Blessed are those brought low,
Blessed is defeat, sleep blessed, blessed death.
-- Jarrell
Opry phantom
> "Richard Schultz" <schu...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
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> news:fp12i8$4ff$1...@news.iucc.ac.il...
>
> > In article <iyTsj.10998$J41.5...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver
> > <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> > : "I was misinformed."
>
> > That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more.
>
> While you're out, ask the first ten people you run into at random if they
> know what that line's from. If you get one correct answer, I'll delete it
> from my list.
>
> Jim Beaver
<< "The calalillys are in bloom again - such a strange flower." >>
Richard Schultz
: "Richard Schultz" <sch...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
:> : "I was misinformed."
That's why I said that I guess I have to get out more -- I would have
thought that "I was misinformed" would have been the third best-known line
from the movie (after "Here's looking at you, kid" and the last line).
-----
Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
"an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience"
Derek Janssen
> In article <lP7tj.11133$J41....@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> : "Richard Schultz" <sch...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
> : news:fp12i8$4ff$1...@news.iucc.ac.il...
> :> In article <iyTsj.10998$J41....@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver
> :> <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> :> : "I was misinformed."
>
> :> That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more.
>
> : While you're out, ask the first ten people you run into at random if they
> : know what that line's from. If you get one correct answer, I'll delete it
> : from my list.
>
> That's why I said that I guess I have to get out more -- I would have
> thought that "I was misinformed" would have been the third best-known line
> from the movie (after "Here's looking at you, kid" and the last line).
Well....it's not.
(And when the AFI "100 Quotes" included "Round up the usual suspects" in
the Top 20, I was in that half of the audience saying "The who-*whaaa*?
0_o??")
Moving on to another movie, when stuck in the backseat on long car
trips, I've been occasionallyi known to annoy scenic-route seeking
drivers with "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass
are found crumbling castles of a bygone age..."
Derek Janssen (okay, try THAT one) ^_^
eja...@verizon.net
D.@home.co.uk Mr D.
>
> "We ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade, neither."
>
> (from the same movie as the last) "I'm confident the deal will fall
> through."
>
'True Grit'!
M.
moviePig
> > : "Richard Schultz" <schu...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
> > :news:fp12i8$4ff$1...@news.iucc.ac.il...
> > :> In article <iyTsj.10998$J41.5...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Jim Beaver
> > :> <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>
> > :> : "I was misinformed."
>
> > :> That's not quite so famous? I guess I have to get out more.
>
> > : While you're out, ask the first ten people you run into at random if they
> > : know what that line's from. If you get one correct answer, I'll delete it
> > : from my list.
>
> > That's why I said that I guess I have to get out more -- I would have
> > thought that "I was misinformed" would have been the third best-known line
> > from the movie (after "Here's looking at you, kid" and the last line).
>
> Well....it's not.
> (And when the AFI "100 Quotes" included "Round up the usual suspects" in
> the Top 20, I was in that half of the audience saying "The who-*whaaa*?
> 0_o??")
>
> Moving on to another movie, when stuck in the backseat on long car
> trips, I've been occasionallyi known to annoy scenic-route seeking
> drivers with "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass
> are found crumbling castles of a bygone age..."
>
That's from a movie, and not the book? If so, it must've been on a
title card...
Anim8rFSK
"I'm not arguing that with you."
"I'm not arguing that with you."
"I'm not arguing that with you."
--
Star Trek 09:
No Shat, No Show.
Anim8rFSK
Halmyre
62b6a0...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, tomc...@aol.com says...
>
> "Once again you see that there is nothing you can posess that I can
> not take away from you."
>
Raiders Of The Last Ark. Easy-peasy.
David Oberman
><< "The calalillys are in bloom again - such a strange flower." >>
"Stage Door" & "I Love Lucy" Season 5!
David Oberman
lips of everybody at Santa Anita Fashion Park:
"Oh my God."
Nowadays, I don't think anyone except us savvy movie-watchers would
place it.
Conversely, "ET phone home" is as easily placeable as ever.
David Oberman
>Moving on to another movie, when stuck in the backseat on long car
>trips, I've been occasionallyi known to annoy scenic-route seeking
>drivers with "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass
>are found crumbling castles of a bygone age..."
Isn't the Borgo Pass from "Dracula"?
Spark...@gmail.com
wrote:
> In article <0tQsj.161610$kw6.146...@fe10.news.easynews.com>,
> kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.org says...
>
> > Here, let me break the ice:
>
> > "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
> All from the same movie:
>
> "I wonder if I remembered to pack the Scotch."
>
> "He's going after his brother... with a woman-child, one elf, and a
> moron robot." Whenever a piece of machinery screws up, I call it a
> "moron robot."
>
> "By the way, I'm sure glad you changed your last name... you son of a
> bitch!"
>
> Don't get to use that last one much though.
THEY KILLED FRITZ!!!
moviePig
wrote:
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
Persisting in identifying those I actually utter, perhaps this more
than any other:
"Slo-o-owly I turned..."
(It's a way of relieving frustration at comatose drivers.)
The Mighty Favog
Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships and burnt the towerless
tops of Ilium?
But you gotta be careful who you say it to.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
Frank R.A.J. Maloney
> No, and don't call me Shirley.
>
"I'm from the Valley and you're an alien."
--
Frank in Seattle
____
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."
George Peatty
<billan...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>An obscure one I've always liked:
>
>Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships and burnt the towerless
>tops of Ilium?
I gotta know: where is that from?
Opry phantom
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:01:50 -0800 (PST), The Mighty Favog
>
> >An obscure one I've always liked:
>
> >Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships and burnt the towerless
> >tops of Ilium?
>
> I gotta know: where is that from?
<< I believe that's from Marlowe - (no,not that shamus) "S. In Love"
>>
p.s. How about that Calalilly coment from I Love Lucy 5? Sheesh!
Opry phantom
wrote:
> An obscure one I've always liked:
>
> Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships and burnt the towerless
> tops of Ilium?
>
> But you gotta be careful who you say it to.
>
<< It's "..topless towers.." Ya gotta admit, it's more titillating.
>>
George Peatty
wrote:
>> >Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships and burnt the towerless
>> >tops of Ilium?
>> I gotta know: where is that from?
><< I believe that's from Marlowe - (no,not that shamus) "S. In Love"
No, this is a spin on Marlowe. That much I know. Marlowe's quote: Is this
the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of
Ilium?
I looked it up on imdb; this clever variant is from Stagecoach ..
David Matthews
(O.K. To be honest I've only that once in real life)
Dave in Toronto
sli...@slidge.com
> "I'm not arguing that with you."
> "I'm not arguing that with you."
> "I'm not arguing that with you."
>
What a great scene. The lighting is incredible in that.
william
wrote:
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
William
www.williamahearn.com
Bill Steele
"We don't need no steenkin' [whatever].
Lord Buckeye
No Man
a pack of stranger males, I say, "You cats lookin' fer a rumble?"
--
Saint Paul certainly had once an epileptoid, if not an epileptic
seizure; George Fox was an hereditary degenerate; Carlyle was
undoubtedly auto-intoxicated by some organ or other, no matter which- -
William James; The Varieties of Religious Experience
Jim Beaver
"Opry phantom" <xanth...@att.net> wrote in message
news:c620f37e-b727-4a3f...@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
It's not "topless towers" in the line the OP is quoting. You're quoting
Christopher Marlowe. He's not.
Jim Beaver
Derek Janssen
> Opry phantom <xanth...@att.net> wrote:
>
>
>><< "The calalillys are in bloom again - such a strange flower." >>
>
> "Stage Door" & "I Love Lucy" Season 5!
And every amateur-hour imitation of Katherine Hepburn, for most of the
entire 30's and 40's.
Derek Janssen (raaaaally it is)
eja...@verizon.net
Derek Janssen
>
> Persisting in identifying those I actually utter, perhaps this more
> than any other:
>
> "Slo-o-owly I turned..."
>
> (It's a way of relieving frustration at comatose drivers.)
I've found it strikes me, too, at any mention of Niagara
Falls....NI-agra Falls!!
Derek Janssen (gent without cent)
eja...@verizon.net
Frank R.A.J. Maloney
> David Oberman wrote:
>
>> Opry phantom <xanth...@att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> << "The calalillys are in bloom again - such a strange flower." >>
>>
>> "Stage Door" & "I Love Lucy" Season 5!
>
> And every amateur-hour imitation of Katherine Hepburn, for most of the
> entire 30's and 40's.
Eleanor Powell in _Broadway Melody of 1936_ turned in an amusing and
quite good imitation of another of Hepburn's speeches, this one from
_Morning Glory_: "Hello, my name is Eva Lovelace." Etc.
David Oberman
>Eleanor Powell in _Broadway Melody of 1936_ turned in an amusing and
>quite good imitation of another of Hepburn's speeches, this one from
>_Morning Glory_: "Hello, my name is Eva Lovelace." Etc.
This would make an entertaining thread, Frank. What are the best (or
your favorite) actor imitations by other actors in old movies?
I remember Mickey Rooney doing several killer imitations in one or two
of the Busby Berkeley musicals with Judy G.
Frank R.A.J. Maloney
> "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" <fr...@blarg.net> wrote:
>
>> Eleanor Powell in _Broadway Melody of 1936_ turned in an amusing and
>> quite good imitation of another of Hepburn's speeches, this one from
>> _Morning Glory_: "Hello, my name is Eva Lovelace." Etc.
>
> This would make an entertaining thread, Frank. What are the best (or
> your favorite) actor imitations by other actors in old movies?
>
> I remember Mickey Rooney doing several killer imitations in one or two
> of the Busby Berkeley musicals with Judy G.
I don't which picture it was in, but I've seen a clip of Mickey as
Carmen Miranda.
In _Honolulu_ (1939) there's a shipboard costume party where all the
guests dress up as movie stars. Gracie Allen channels Mae West, Robert
Young makes a fairly silly Stokowski, and Eleanor Powell puts on
blackface and recreates Bill Bojangles Robinson. In addition, the King's
Men take a stable at the Marx Bros. with *two* Grouchos. It's actually a
certain amount of fun spotting the stars manque among the extras --
Gable, Laurel and Hardy, et al.
Of course, Fred Astaire did *his* Bojangles in _Broadway Melody of 1940_.
Derek Janssen
>> This would make an entertaining thread, Frank. What are the best (or
>> your favorite) actor imitations by other actors in old movies?
>>
> In _Honolulu_ (1939) there's a shipboard costume party where all the
> guests dress up as movie stars. Gracie Allen channels Mae West, Robert
> Young makes a fairly silly Stokowski, and Eleanor Powell puts on
> blackface and recreates Bill Bojangles Robinson. In addition, the King's
> Men take a stable at the Marx Bros. with *two* Grouchos. It's actually a
> certain amount of fun spotting the stars manque among the extras --
> Gable, Laurel and Hardy, et al.
And let us not forget Cary Grant by way of Tony Curtis (to Jack Lemmon's
annoyance):
"And where'd you get that phony accent?--Nobody talks loyke thet!"
(And when I showed the disk-restored Sunset Blvd. to one friend, out of
all the classic scenes, the one they oddly remembered most was Gloria
Swanson's Charlie Chaplin...)
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
Howard Brazee
(in article <3g7tj.7717$CX2.1725@trndny09>):
> Have you tried http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090217 ?
>
> (And no, not "Blink 182", in case you're wondering where they came up
> with the name..)
That looks like the movie.
Bill Anderson
> moviePig wrote:
>>
>> Persisting in identifying those I actually utter, perhaps this more
>> than any other:
>>
>> "Slo-o-owly I turned..."
>>
>> (It's a way of relieving frustration at comatose drivers.)
>
> I've found it strikes me, too, at any mention of Niagara
> Falls....NI-agra Falls!!
>
>
A few years ago was searching for the origin of "Slowly I Turned" and
found the Niagara Falls Reporter article referenced at the bottom of
this Wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_I_Turned
Wikipedia must not have been around when I was searching originally, as
I don't recall the other two possible origins.
I began my quest looking for the title of the Three Stooges short that
contained the routine. (Gents without Cents). I'd assumed the Stooges
created it, but no, it seems to have a mysterious pedigree. I've viewed
several versions -- Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Lucy -- and what
strikes me is that often great respect is paid the Ur-version, now
apparently lost in the mists of time. Proper delivery sounds much like a
recitation. PITTS-burgh! It isn't "Slowly I Turned" if you don't get
to PITTS-burgh.
Bill Anderson
It's also from my favorite Thomas Mitchell performance, and yes that
includes Uncle Billy and Gerald O'Hara. He is just brilliant in this
most wonderful movie.
Anim8rFSK
Halmyre <nos...@this.address> wrote:
> In article <777bdd6c-8d71-4908-8b70-
> 62b6a0...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, tomc...@aol.com says...
>
> >
> > "Once again you see that there is nothing you can posess that I can
> > not take away from you."
> >
>
> Raiders Of The Last Ark. Easy-peasy.
Ooo, there's a quote I hear a lot: It's not the years, it's the miles.
--
Star Trek 09:
No Shat, No Show.
Anim8rFSK
wrote:
hah!
suck
suck suck suck suck suck
Forge
8015a0...@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Spark...@gmail.com says...
> > "I wonder if I remembered to pack the Scotch."
> >
> > "He's going after his brother... with a woman-child, one elf, and a
> > moron robot." Whenever a piece of machinery screws up, I call it a
> > "moron robot."
> >
> > "By the way, I'm sure glad you changed your last name... you son of a
> > bitch!"
> >
> > Don't get to use that last one much though.
>
> THEY KILLED FRITZ!!!
Ding ding ding!
"Dirty stinking yellow fairy bastards!! You killed Fritz!!!"
"Max, I'm all right, it was just a scratch, see? I'm fine..."
Derek Janssen
>
> A few years ago was searching for the origin of "Slowly I Turned" and
> found the Niagara Falls Reporter article referenced at the bottom of
> this Wikipedia entry.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_I_Turned
>
> Wikipedia must not have been around when I was searching originally, as
> I don't recall the other two possible origins.
>
> I began my quest looking for the title of the Three Stooges short that
> contained the routine. (Gents without Cents). I'd assumed the Stooges
> created it, but no, it seems to have a mysterious pedigree. I've viewed
> several versions -- Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Lucy -- and what
> strikes me is that often great respect is paid the Ur-version, now
> apparently lost in the mists of time. Proper delivery sounds much like a
> recitation. PITTS-burgh! It isn't "Slowly I Turned" if you don't get
> to PITTS-burgh.
It was a burlesque staple, every comic (like the Stooges) did their own
variation on it--
It was Abbott & Costello who added the Susquehanna Hat Company.
Derek Janssen (<smashes hat>)
eja...@verizon.net
Film Buff
"I don't trust doctors very much. The last doctor I went to treated a guy down the street 6 months for
Yellow Jaundice and then found out he was a Jap"
Clifford Blau
<jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
>"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've
>got a nickel in my pocket."
>
>"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
>
>"I can just see you bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove."
>
>"Sounds like I got a hyena in there."
>
>"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above."
How often do you use these quotations in real life, or any other kind
of life for that matter?
Derek Janssen
> Derek Janssen <eja...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>Moving on to another movie, when stuck in the backseat on long car
>>trips, I've been occasionallyi known to annoy scenic-route seeking
>>drivers with "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass
>>are found crumbling castles of a bygone age..."
>
> Isn't the Borgo Pass from "Dracula"?
It helps if you know the context. ^_^
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
David Oberman
>It helps if you know the context. ^_^
I agree with this post.
Jim Beaver
"David Oberman" <doberman@etc.> wrote in message
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> "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" <fr...@blarg.net> wrote:
>
>>Eleanor Powell in _Broadway Melody of 1936_ turned in an amusing and
>>quite good imitation of another of Hepburn's speeches, this one from
>>_Morning Glory_: "Hello, my name is Eva Lovelace." Etc.
>
> This would make an entertaining thread, Frank. What are the best (or
> your favorite) actor imitations by other actors in old movies?
>
It's not an old movie, but maybe the best I ever saw was Ian McShane doing a
PERFECT William Sanderson in one episode of Deadwood. Of course, he was
imitating Sanderson's character and not the actor, but it was a spit-take
moment.
Jim Beaver
Jim Beaver
"Clifford Blau" <cliffo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fhhcr3ttschg07r59...@4ax.com...
I quoted them in response to this thread because I actually do use them a
lot. If my stomach growls, I'm fairly likely to Bogart "Sounds like I got a
hyena in there." I've used the hot stove line a number of times in the
early stages of new relationships. If she takes offense, she's outta there.
For some reason, these are all lines I manage to work into conversation
every now and then.
Jim Beaver
Steve Crook
> Here, let me break the ice:
>
> "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
>
"So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse
it."
"One is starved for Technicolor, up there."
[When looking in the mirror]
"Bit of a bay window, what?"
"Plank it out at Christmas"
"All this filming can't be healthy"
Steve
Stacia
> (from TV) "I have a cunning plan"
If we're including TV, I could go on for pages. But my favorite
from that same show you just quoted is "The path of my life is strewn
with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd."
I don't quote from a lot of films, but I have a couple of
repeatables:
"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."
"Cut the bleedin' heart crap, willya?" (This one is a bit obscure.)
"So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice."
Stacia
Opry phantom
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