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John Frier

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Oct 9, 1994, 1:29:27 PM10/9/94
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OK, all you movie trivia buffs, which movie(s) did Clint say,

"A man's gotta know his limitations..."

It's either one of the spagetti-westerns or Dirty Harry series.

The winner will receive his/her very own stuffed EberSisk. ;-)

Thanks.

JF

Ronald Snelgrove

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Oct 9, 1994, 2:48:18 PM10/9/94
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: OK, all you movie trivia buffs, which movie(s) did Clint say,

: "A man's gotta know his limitations..."
: It's either one of the spagetti-westerns or Dirty Harry series.
: The winner will receive his/her very own stuffed EberSisk. ;-)
I'll take that EberSisk (whatever the hell that is!). Harry Callahan said
that in 'Magnum Force'. It was said once or twice early in the movie and
then again at the end after Harry blows up his crooked commander with a
bomb that was in Harry's mailbox.

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John Frier

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Oct 10, 1994, 7:05:30 PM10/10/94
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In <1994Oct9.1...@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> ron...@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ronald Snelgrove) writes:

>
>: OK, all you movie trivia buffs, which movie(s) did Clint say,
>: "A man's gotta know his limitations..."
>: It's either one of the spagetti-westerns or Dirty Harry series.
>: The winner will receive his/her very own stuffed EberSisk. ;-)
>I'll take that EberSisk (whatever the hell that is!). Harry Callahan said
>that in 'Magnum Force'. It was said once or twice early in the movie and
>then again at the end after Harry blows up his crooked commander with a
>bomb that was in Harry's mailbox.

Thanks. That's what I thought. BTW, an EberSisk is a two-headed monster
in a certain film. Name the film and what the writer had in mind when
he came up with the name... <g>

JF

Stargazer

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Oct 11, 1994, 11:34:04 AM10/11/94
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In article 9...@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com, jlf...@ix.netcom.com (John Frier) writes:
>
> Thanks. That's what I thought. BTW, an EberSisk is a two-headed monster
> in a certain film. Name the film and what the writer had in mind when
> he came up with the name... <g>
>
> JF
>

Wasn't that the dragon in Willow?
As for the name, not very challenging... Siskel and Ebert ring a bell?

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Ronald Snelgrove

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Oct 11, 1994, 8:16:19 AM10/11/94
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: Thanks. That's what I thought. BTW, an EberSisk is a two-headed monster

: in a certain film. Name the film and what the writer had in mind when
: he came up with the name... <g>
The 'EberSisk' is obviously making fun of Siskel & Ebert but I have no idea
what movie it is from.

Colin McFadyen

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Oct 12, 1994, 12:29:53 AM10/12/94
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How about,

"Well. Are you boys gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?"

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STALPERS C.P.

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Oct 11, 1994, 2:13:00 AM10/11/94
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In Article <37999n$m...@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> "jlf...@ix.netcom.com (John Frier)" says:
> OK, all you movie trivia buffs, which movie(s) did Clint say,
>
> "A man's gotta know his limitations..."
>
It's from MAGNUM FORCE, the second Dirty Harry film.

Cedric
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Mark Brader

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Oct 14, 1994, 9:15:26 PM10/14/94
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> > The winner will receive his/her very own stuffed EberSisk. ;-)

> BTW, an EberSisk is a two-headed monster


> in a certain film. Name the film and what the writer had in mind when
> he came up with the name... <g>

The film is "Willow" (1988), and the monster in it had *no* name.
However, the press kits distributed to reviewers called it a Siskbert
(not EberSisk, unless I am sadly mistaken), and the name naturally
made it into print after that.
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Sharon J Choi

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Oct 18, 1994, 3:43:15 PM10/18/94
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Dan Braithwaite (da...@hwr.arizona.edu) wrote:
: In article <ez048994-1...@modem74.ucdavis.edu>,
: Glenn Mitchell <ez04...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
: >"You see, there's two kind of people in this world - those with guns, and
: >those who dig."

: From the good, the bad and the ugly.

: From the same movie:

: When Tuco is about to try and hang clint there's alot of noise in the
: background and Tuco says:
: "When Judas was hanged there was a storm too"
: Clint responds:
: "That might be cannon fire"

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"Those who don't wanna get shot...better head on out the back."

"You forgot your fortune cookie; it says...you're shit outta luck."


Glenn Mitchell

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Oct 15, 1994, 8:26:05 PM10/15/94
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Dan Braithwaite

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Oct 17, 1994, 1:36:13 PM10/17/94
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In article <ez048994-1...@modem74.ucdavis.edu>,
Glenn Mitchell <ez04...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>"You see, there's two kind of people in this world - those with guns, and
>those who dig."

From the good, the bad and the ugly.

Cathy Ribbeck

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Oct 25, 1994, 9:35:37 AM10/25/94
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In a previous article, li...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Shirney Lane) says:

>Sharon J Choi (sc...@uoguelph.ca) wrote:
>: Dan Braithwaite (da...@hwr.arizona.edu) wrote:
>: : In article <ez048994-1...@modem74.ucdavis.edu>,
>: : Glenn Mitchell <ez04...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>
>: "Those who don't wanna get shot...better head on out the back."


>
>: "You forgot your fortune cookie; it says...you're shit outta luck."
>

>Any more?
>
>
>
"I'm a proponent of gun control. If there's a gun around I want to
be in control of it!"

Tami LaFrank

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Oct 27, 1994, 1:30:10 AM10/27/94
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Hmmm....I do like tater tots.

The Dominator

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Oct 30, 1994, 10:17:47 AM10/30/94
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In article <38hras$n...@nntp.Stanford.EDU>

li...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Shirney Lane) writes:
>Sharon J Choi (sc...@uoguelph.ca) wrote:
>: Dan Braithwaite (da...@hwr.arizona.edu) wrote:
>: : In article <ez048994-1...@modem74.ucdavis.edu>,

>: : Glenn Mitchell <ez04...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>
>: "Those who don't wanna get shot...better head on out the back."
>
>: "You forgot your fortune cookie; it says...you're shit outta luck."
>
>Any more?

In the line of Fire, discussing whether to refer to John Malkovich as "Booth",
Clint is in a meeting with Fred Dalton Thompson and Rene Russo, and following
on from what JM said about Booth having "panache" :

Clint : He has "panache".
Rene : "Panache??"
Clint : Yes, (proceeds to give dictionary definition of "panache")
Rene : I *know* what it means.
Clint : Really? I had to look it up (!)

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Richard Matthew Schoenfeld

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Nov 1, 1994, 12:32:22 PM11/1/94
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" You gonna pull those pistles or whistle dixie."

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Brett Richard Papineau

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Nov 1, 1994, 1:46:49 PM11/1/94
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In <tcl58-2610942130100001@ara_mac_59.remote.amdahl.com> tc...@aol.com
(Tami LaFrank) writes sss
>Hmmm....I do like tater tots. Deserve's got nothin' to do with

Sojic Sacha

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Nov 1, 1994, 8:45:08 PM11/1/94
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"Now the next turkey who tries that,
I'll shoot him, stuff him and stick
an apple in his ass."
- The Gauntlet
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Luis DelValle

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Nov 1, 1994, 11:02:40 PM11/1/94
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yeah I think it is a good one liner: it conjoins action and imagery in to a congent message. Good call.

Regards,

Luis

Todd Vaziri

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Nov 2, 1994, 12:35:09 AM11/2/94
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"You have a rendezvous with my ass, motherfucker!"

*In the Line of Fire*

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Dan Braithwaite

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Nov 2, 1994, 11:38:47 AM11/2/94
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In article <CyMA7...@cc.umontreal.ca>,

Sojic Sacha <soj...@ERE.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> "Now the next turkey who tries that,
> I'll shoot him, stuff him and stick
> an apple in his ass."
> - The Gauntlet

Same movie:
Biker: "Hey that's my bike, jack"
Clint: Sticking his gun in the guys face "And this is my gun, clyde"

Simon Trasler

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Nov 7, 1994, 12:20:02 PM11/7/94
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Near the end of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", in the bar:

The scene: an assassin has come to kill Clint, but leaves after Clint rebuffs him with
that line,
"Dyin' aint much of a living".
Having thought about this for a bit, the young assassin returns, saying...
Assassin: I had to come back.
Josey Wales: I know. [blows the kid away]
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Nov 8, 1994, 2:25:03 PM11/8/94
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How about the end to IN THE LINE OF FIRE. Pompous Clint has been telling people
through the film that he has hunches, and that those hunches are usually right,
because 'I know things about people'. At the end he's sat on the Lincoln
monument, having been proved correct, to everyone's surprise, and he mentions
to Rene Russo that one pigeon will certainly move before another one. 'Why?'
she says.
'Because I know things about pigeons.'

Goodnight, Vienna

Glenn Archibald
University of Oxford Language Centre


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