Bill Cosby Quotes
Fred Shapiro
Can anyone suggest to me what are the most famous quotes by Bill Cosby?
Other than the Fat Albert catchphrase "hey hey hey," I am having trouble
coming up with any. Please respond to me at fred.s...@yale.edu as well
as to the newsgroup.
Fred Shapiro
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Frank Lynch
resembling Cicero, Fred Shapiro <sha...@pantheon.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>Can anyone suggest to me what are the most famous quotes by Bill Cosby?
>Other than the Fat Albert catchphrase "hey hey hey," I am having trouble
>coming up with any. Please respond to me at fred.s...@yale.edu as well
>as to the newsgroup.
>
>Fred Shapiro
Why is there air?
* * * *
(from memory:)
God: Noah, I want you to build me an ark.
Noah: Right, Lord. (Pause.) What's an ark?
* * * *
(from memory:)
Shop Instructor: You know, if you put a bullet in the furnace, it
reflects badly on your mother.
You'd have to have a pretty lousy mother to put a bullet in the
furnace.
Student, bawling: I didn't put no bullet in the furnace, and stop
talking about my mother that way.
Frank Lynch
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page is at:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/
pyotr filipivich
<sha...@pantheon.yale.edu> wrote back on Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:55:49 -0400
in alt.quotations :
>
>Can anyone suggest to me what are the most famous quotes by Bill Cosby?
>Other than the Fat Albert catchphrase "hey hey hey," I am having trouble
>coming up with any. Please respond to me at fred.s...@yale.edu as well
>as to the newsgroup.
"Noah!" (ding!) has been done.
"How long can you tread water?"
As Noah, "I've got a better idea. Have it rain for forty days and
forty nights, and wait for the sewers to back up." (pause) as God: "Right!"
"It was nine o clock, time for the monsters to come out."
"Who died and left you jello Sheriff of the house?"
"Hey Albert, Herbs's getting a beating..."
"I forgot I was standing behind him."
"They put me in a hospital room next to a drunk, who'd been run over,
and we agreed that scared little kids were dangerous."
The problem you have is that Cos didn't do "punch lines" so much as
tell stories. You can give a "Line" and people who know will recall the
rest of the story. "What about me?" "You go long. I'll throw it over the
water tower."
"Here are the keys. I want you to take this car, and give it to George
Wallace." (Finishing his story of when his friend Mr Shelby (of Shelby
Cobras, etc fame) gave him a car which would do "200, miles per hour".
"I brought you into this world, I'll take you out!"
"No Dad, I'm Jesus Christ, he's Godammit!"
--
Sometimes fate hits you with the Clown Hammer of Circumstance
and there's nothing to do but sit there and watch the little
birds fly around your head." - Tara Calishain, ResearchBuzz
Frank Lynch
resembling Cicero, pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> "It was nine o clock, time for the monsters to come out."
It's time for Lights. Out.
...thump thump. thump thump. 4th floor AAAAAAHHHH!"!"!
It was the chicken heart. The chicken heart that ate New York.
--- very badly remembered, "Lights Out"
"Your bed has been surrounded by 600 black, poisonous snakes. So stay
in bed."
"Snakes? I don't see no snakes!"
"They're invisible."
--- Also from "Lights Out" a little more confidently remembered
pyotr filipivich
<frank....@DELETEverizon.net> wrote back on Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:33:42
GMT in alt.quotations :
>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:48:49 GMT, in a clarity of expression
>resembling Cicero, pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> "It was nine o clock, time for the monsters to come out."
>
>It's time for Lights. Out.
>
>...thump thump. thump thump. 4th floor AAAAAAHHHH!"!"!
>It was the chicken heart. The chicken heart that ate New York.
>
> --- very badly remembered, "Lights Out"
>
>"Your bed has been surrounded by 600 black, poisonous snakes. So stay
>in bed."
>"Snakes? I don't see no snakes!"
>"They're invisible."
>
> --- Also from "Lights Out" a little more confidently remembered
"Nobody in the van, Hannibal. I even checked for invisible people, but
I didn't see any." Howling Mad Murdock, "A-Team".