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Old 06-07-1999, 09:32 PM
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This was done on the Original SDMB, but it's been some time and we have many additions to our crazy and dysfuntional family of Dopers. So I thought it time to start it up again.

" You owe me two dollars." - From one of John Cusacks Movies.

When someone asks me how long (the repair or whateve) will take, I respond
." "Two weeks."
From the Money Pit.

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Old 06-07-1999, 10:04 PM
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Actually it's
I want my two dollars.
from Better Off Dead
one of my favorites
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Old 06-07-1999, 10:47 PM
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My most common quote is one of the following pair:

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure."

or the short form (much more repeatable):

"I saw we nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure."


This is usually said when involving stupid computer problems. At these times, I would very much like to nuke the site from orbit. Often, the "site" is Redmond.
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Old 06-07-1999, 10:50 PM
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Every morning when I find there is no coffee in the coffee pot i like to say

"Bunch of savages in this town" a la Clerks

I also like

"I'd horsewhip you If I had a horse"
and
"A child of 5 could understand this, now fetch me a child of 5"
from groucho marx (in Duck Soup I believe)

and anytime someone is complaining sayin "i don't want this and I don't want that" I like to say
"I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors"
Jimmy Stewart It's a wonderful life.

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Old 06-08-1999, 12:39 AM
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Oh wow... I'm a movie quote junkie, and of course, so are a good majority of my friends, and we just spout random quotes out WHENEVER... some of the favorite ones are:

"You'f been stealing vater... take off your clothes" --Tank Girl

"Bub?" "Nuh, not Bub, BUB!" "Oh BOB!" "Oui BAAAAAB" --French Kiss

"Men are bastards.....do you know him, oh of course you know him, all you bastards know each other -- bastard!" --also from FK

"Oh, I hated the colonel, with his wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face..'Oh you're gonna buy my chicken, ooohh'" --So I Married an Axe Murderer

"I will simply deny you the crown and--LIVE FOREVER!" --Ever After

"The pen is BLUE! The GODDAMN pen is BLUE!!" --Liar Liar

"This is a job for WEENIE-MAN!! Into the Weenie-mobile...WEENIE-MAN AWAY!!" --Mystery Science Theatre 3000 the movie

ETC...

(I have to go watch one MST3K now...)
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Old 06-08-1999, 12:49 AM
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"What we have here, is failure to communicate!" - from Cool Hand Luke.

"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." - 2001

"You can't fight in here! This is the war room!" - Dr. Strangelove
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Old 06-08-1999, 08:12 AM
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I've been using this lately, since I'm reaching a certain age, mentioned below:

King Arthur: Old woman...
Peasant: Man
KA: Sorry, old man..
P: I'm 37.
KA: What?
P: I'm 37, I'm not old!

Also, since the commercial must have damaged my brain, I've been saying "Do I make you horny?" in the style of Austin Powers. Guess you have to be there (or here).

"What a tah-rah-rah-goon-deay! What a nin-cow-poop! What an ultra-maroon! What an im-bessle!" And so on....
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Old 06-08-1999, 08:52 AM
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"Tim Stratton, rush chairman, damn glad to meet ya"--Animal House

"You better watch your p's and q's mister"--Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"That's going to leave a mark", "Holy Snikeys"--Tommy Boy

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges"--Blazing Saddles

"Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour,...hell no"--Animal House

"See your future, be your future, make, make your future", "Be the ball Betty"--Caddyshack

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal"--2001

"Concentrate on what you are doing" Yoda, Empire Strikes Back (I'm a H.S. tennis coach)

"Crying! There's no crying in baseball" Tom Hanks movie w/ women baseball players...Geena Davis, Madonna...?

Between movie quotes and corporate buzzwords, I don't think I say anything else.



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Old 06-08-1999, 09:35 AM
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" No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai

When asked my name, " Joan Just Joan." from Jewel of the Nile.

"The Doobie Brothers broke up?" Romancing the Stone. (Whenever I heard of another "tragic" breakup of a rock band.)

" I never had any friends since like I did when I was 12. Christ, does anyone?" Stand by me.

" I mean it, sincerely." Stand by me.

" You'll shoot your eye out." Christmas Story. ( whenever some one is trying something new.)

This is, IMHO, one of the best quotes of the last 10 years. When asked if she went to her class reunion, Joan Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blank) replies: " Yeah, everyone looked the same, only bloated."

When asked to spell and prounce my last name, I say, " It's spelled Such and Such, but it's pronounced, Luxury-Yacht." (Monty Pyton)

More later as the mood hits
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Old 06-08-1999, 10:25 AM
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Quote:
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges"--Blazing Saddles
...which Mel Brooks stole from John Houston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
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Old 06-08-1999, 10:29 AM
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" Monty Python, Life of Brian



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"I think it would be a great idea" Mohandas Ghandi's answer when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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Old 06-08-1999, 10:53 AM
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Well, it's stupid, but my friends and I (over-thirty, normally intelligent females) make a "W" with our hands and say "whatever!" if we think something is stupid -- that's from Clueless.

"Wanna breed?" "Tempting, but no." -- Willow.

"Are you trying to tell me coconuts migrate?" Monty Python's Holy Grail.

"Yes, yes, say it! He vas my BOYFRIEND!" -- Young Frankenstein.

The Tom Hanks baseball movie, BTW, was A League Of Their Own.
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Old 06-08-1999, 11:19 AM
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Old 06-08-1999, 11:20 AM
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I like to throw the following out non-sequitur style; most of my fellow employees just don't get it...

"You can't let them in here--they'll see the Big Board!"
-Gen. "Buck" Turgeson, "Dr. Strangelove";

"I have one word for you--plastics!"
-"Goodbye Columbus"

"Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"
-Geo. C. Scott as "Patton"

"220, 240, whatever it takes"
-electrical advice from Tom Hanks in "Mr. Mom"

"I find your lack of faith disturbing"
-Darth Vader (try saying it into a bucket, or large container)

"I have to go into Tashe Station and pick up some power converters"
-whiny Luke Skywalker (I say this to nosey co-workers asking what I'm doing. No-one has understood the reference yet, or asked to see the power converters.)

"A fella--a quick fella--might have a weapon under there"
-Snake Guy in "Road Warrior"

"Last of the V8 Interceptors!"
-Mechanic Guy in "Road Warrior"

"What a puny plan!"
"There has been too much killing--just walk away!"
-The Humungous ("the Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla") in "Road Warrior"

"They had heavy metal in the First World War, only they called it shrapnel then"
-Alexi Sayle, TV show "Stuff"




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Old 06-08-1999, 11:26 AM
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Quote:
"I have one word for you--plastics!"
-"Goodbye Columbus"
I always thought this was from "The Graduate".

and

Quote:
220, 240, whatever it takes"
-electrical advice from Tom Hanks in "Mr. Mom"
...I'm pretty sure this was from Michael Keaton.

Don't you hate nitpickers?
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Old 06-08-1999, 11:48 AM
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Thanks, Papabear!

I was going to say "The Graduate," but some inner vision of Richard Benjamin being addressed changed my mind!

You're also right about Michael Keaton--well, they did look similar, and it was about 15 years ago!!

Here's a couple of obscure ones: can you name the films?

"If you dare speak to an officer like that again, I shall scream the house down!"

"For God's sake, Barrow, are you a man or a book?"



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Old 06-08-1999, 01:22 PM
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Quote:
quote:
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges"--Blazing Saddles

...which Mel Brooks stole from John Houston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
Of course there is the more obscure "Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" from Wierd Al's fabulous "VHF". Rent it this weekend if you haven't seen it!
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Old 06-08-1999, 01:53 PM
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A few others i just thought of:

Whenever my wife is being particularily demanding i like to say:
"Yes Love, whatever love wants love gets"
See Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe, you'll understand

I also had a Doctor who's last name was Jones and every time I saw him i'd whip out:
"It's a pleasure to see you again Doctor Jones" in an evil type accent a la the Indiana Jones movies

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Old 06-08-1999, 04:41 PM
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The only thing we Romans don't have a god for is premature ejaculation. But I hear that's coming quickly!

-- History of the World, Part 1
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Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise.

-- Ibid.
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And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic

-- Ibid, too.
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I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this.

-- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!

-- Ibid.
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Old 06-08-1999, 04:43 PM
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"Over to you, red leader one." --- The Magic Christian

"I watched from the helicopter while Jim wrestled the python. Watch out Jim!" --- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

"Yoiks! And away!" --- Robin Hood Daffy

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" --- Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century

...and, of course...

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." --- Gone With the Wind
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Old 06-08-1999, 05:08 PM
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Quote:

quote:

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges"--Blazing Saddles


...which Mel Brooks stole from John Houston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
Actually, as any good movie buff will tell you, the original goes
Quote:
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Right up there with "Play it again, Sam!"

"Nice knockers!" - Young Frankenstein

"You want ice water? Cut up an onion, that'll make your eyes water!" - Duck Soup?

"'Scuse me while I whip this out!" - Blazing Saddles

And, a friend of mine, a 6' 8", 300 lb irish cop, his favorite line in any movie
"Alright, we'll take the niggers and the chinks, but we don't want no irish!" - Blazing Saddles

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Old 06-08-1999, 05:20 PM
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Some people have posted some good quotes, but they don't really tell when they use them (not that that was part of the OP or anything). I just love using quotes to tell someone something specific:

"Luke, why have you switched off your targetting computer?" - Star Wars - said to anyone whenever they are taking matters into their own hands

"You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means." - The Princes Bride - applicable to anyone who has some term/definition screwed up

"You done smoke yourself retarded." - Half-Baked - think this one should be obvious

(more later)
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Old 06-08-1999, 05:49 PM
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"...like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there!"
Stand and Deliver

I'm drawing a blank on movie quotes, can I use Simpsons' quotes??

Grandpa Simpson: "Dogs wag their tails for hours after they die!"

Grandpa: "If grandpa says the dog is dead, it must be alive!"

Beekeeper #1: "To the bee-mobile!"
Beekeeper #2: "You mean your Chevy?"
Beekeeper #1: "...Yes."

Grandpa: "Death stalks you at every turn... DEATH!"
Lisa: "Grandpa, that's Maggie."
Grandpa: "Oh, you're right. At my age, the mind starts to play tricks on you...DEATH!"
Lisa: "Grandpa, that's the cat."
Grandpa: "Oh... DEATH!"
Lisa: "That's Maggie again."

Homer: "Less artsy, more fartsy!"

And from Ralphie Wiggums:
My cat's name is Mittens.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Hi, Lisa, we're going to be a pie!
Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!
When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
I bent my Wookie.
The doctor says I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I just keep my finger out of there.

Oh, can I do Blackadder, too?

Captain Blackadder, from Blackadder Goes Forth: "While I, on the other hand, being a well-rounded individual, have received a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and 3 gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me." My all time favorite

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Old 06-08-1999, 07:29 PM
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
--Inigo Montoya, from The Princess Bride.

"Have Fun. Stay Single."
--from Singles.

"I was just nowhere near your neighborhood."
--ibid.

"You know, in a parallel universe, we're probably a scorching couple."
--ibid. (what does that stand for, anyway?)

"You killed Ted, you medieval dickweed!"
--from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

"Dodge THIS!"
--from The Matrix.

I'm sure there are more, and I'm sure this thread will still be here when I think of them.
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Old 06-08-1999, 07:50 PM
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From "Army of Darkness":
"Groovy!"
"You ain't leading nothing now but Jack and shit. And Jack left town."

From "Billy Madison":
"If peeing your pants is cool, just call me Miles Davis."
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Old 06-08-1999, 09:51 PM
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Quote:
Some people have posted some good quotes, but they don't really tell when they use them (not that that was part of the OP or anything).
OK...

"Over to you, red leader one." --- The Magic Christian
(Whenever I hand off a project or problem to another of our analysts.)

"I watched from the helicopter while Jim wrestled the python. Watch out Jim!" --- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
(While watching someone else struggle with a problem in lieu of actually doing anything helpful)

"Yoiks! And away!" --- Robin Hood Daffy
(When kicking off the latest run of a program that I have just compiled for the 18th time and expecting to hit problem number 19)

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" --- Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
(When said program doesn't blow up on the 19th run.)

...and, of course...
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." --- Gone With the Wind
(All the time...)
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Old 06-08-1999, 10:27 PM
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Ahh i'm at home now so I can think of more by looking at my movie boxes

"Direct descendant of God? You just want to slip her the pork!"
-Forbidden Zone

"The queen said she was gonna ream us out with 18 inch cattle prods and I'm still waiting!"
-Forbidden Zone

"Your buns smell like lox honey i can smell em from here"
- Forbidden Zone

"Sometimes life is painful
Pain makes man think
Thinking makes man wise
Wisdom makes life bearable"
- Teahouse of the August Moon

<groucho Marx reaching into his pocket to tip a bellboy> "Do you have change for a 10?"
Bellboy "Yes sir!"
Groucho "Then you won't need this nickle I was going to give you."
- A night at the opera

just a few more for the list... maybe I will add more later

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Old 06-08-1999, 10:59 PM
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"I will simply deny you the crown and--LIVE FOREVER!" --Ever After

Stolen from The Lion in Winter, BTW. I can't find the original, just flipping through it, but I believe it is "Let's deny them both and live forever." It's said by Eleanor to Henry. They have been arguing about whether John (Henry's choice) or Richard (Eleanor's choice) will inherit the throne.

I don't quote too many films-- but The Lion in Winter-- I love to toss off "It's 1183, and we're barbarians." OK, no one gets it, and I look weird. Sue me.


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Old 06-08-1999, 11:03 PM
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"Crying! There's no crying in baseball" Tom Hanks movie w/ women baseball players...Geena Davis, Madonna...?

My vet's favorite movie. A League of Their Own. When it first came out, I could never get it right. I kept calling it A League of One's Own....


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Old 06-08-1999, 11:48 PM
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"We can't stop here! This is bat country!" Used when in a bad part of the nation (so it's a book quote, so sue me).



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Old 06-09-1999, 01:37 AM
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"Now I'll never be a teen model!" --The Brady Bunch Movie (after suffering some personal injury)

"Do you like the Wizard of Oz?" --Christmas Story (in forced get-to-know-ya situations)

"Want to touch the hiney!" --Billy Madison (when viewing an attractive woman)

"I claim this swamp in the name of Poland" --The Ninth Configuration (when marking territory)

"Anything is peaceful from one thousand, three hundred and fifty-three feet." --Ferris Bueller's Day Off (when viewing the city from my rooftop)

"My nuts are halfway up my ass, but other than that, I'm perfect!" --Weird Science (when driving too fast)

"Get me a chunky." --Throw Momma from the Train (when someone's going somewhere)

"When I get angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset... people die!" --Austin Powers (when I get angry...)



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Old 06-09-1999, 08:05 AM
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Drain, ibid. is short for ibidem, which is Latin for "in the same place." The other commonly used phrase is op. cit., short for operr citato ("in the work cited").

Shirly, considering your name, I can't believe you didn't mention the most obivious quote of all:

"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
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Old 06-09-1999, 01:13 PM
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Oh, well, if we're going to do Blackadder quotes:
They do say, Mrs Miggins, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain, they are of course wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork in your head.

You know, Blackadder, for me socks are like sex. Lots of it about and I never seem to get any.

I'm as happy as a Frenchman who has just invented a pair of self removing trousers!
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Old 06-09-1999, 01:50 PM
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"...like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there!"
Stand and Deliver--when observing someone who's groping for the obvious.

Grandpa Simpson: "Dogs wag their tails for hours after they die!" Just a good non-sequitor I like to toss out.

Grandpa: "If grandpa says the dog is dead, it must be alive!" Some days it just seems like you're never right...

Beekeeper #1: "To the bee-mobile!"
Beekeeper #2: "You mean your Chevy?"
Beekeeper #1: "...Yes." This one is fun on your way out to the car if someone will do the Beekeeper #2 line for you.

Grandpa: "Death stalks you at every turn... DEATH!"
Lisa: "Grandpa, that's Maggie."
Grandpa: "Oh, you're right. At my age, the mind starts to play tricks on you...DEATH!"
Lisa: "Grandpa, that's the cat."
Grandpa: "Oh... DEATH!"
Lisa: "That's Maggie again." -- My sister and I used to love to do multiple part quotes, one of us would just utter a line at random and the other would run with it, but we've fallen out of the habit since we haven't lived under the same roof in about 4 years. Even then, we didn't do the DEATH! one line for line, we'd usually just point to random objects and screech DEATH! for no apparent reason. It's always fun to point at housepets and shriek DEATH! because, a.) you look like an idiot for being scared of your own dog, and 2.) pointing and shrieking at them excites them I don't do multiple part quotes with my husband, though, because he never gets it.

One from Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, that I've attempted to train my husband to do when we part for work each morning:
Ben: "I bid you adieu."
Dr. Katz: "I'll see that 'dieu' and raise you a toodle-loo." -- As I said, he doesn't get it.

Homer: "Less artsy, more fartsy!" When impatient.

And from Ralphie Wiggums (these are all good non-sequitors):
My cat's name is Mittens.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Hi, Lisa, we're going to be a pie!
Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!
When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
I bent my Wookie.
The doctor says I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I just keep my finger out of there.

And, of course, this is perfect when it's necessary to demonstrate that there's more to education than fancy-schmancy book learnin' (except I can never get through it without ruining it by giggling):

Captain Blackadder, from Blackadder Goes Forth: "While I, on the other hand, being a well-rounded individual, have received a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and 3 gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me."

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Old 06-09-1999, 02:15 PM
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my sister and I are movie line junkies, and often play off each others references (which makes for great looks in public!)

"Were you out on the lake today kissing your brain?"- The Man With Two Brains- used when inquiring of each others whereabouts

"He'll keep calling, and calling...OK, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go"- Ferris B. Day Off - our usual answering maching message for each other.

"Vegas! Vegas! Vegas!"- Vegas Vacation- used when discussing a casino trip

"Oooohhh..big bet, for a big man!"- also Vegas Vacation- used loudsy by my sister when I'm playing a higher stakes game

"I shagged her rotton baby, yeah!"- Austin Powers- used by my husband when discussing our decision to start a family..
More to come..
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Old 06-09-1999, 03:31 PM
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"Asps. Very dangerous. You go first."
Raiders of the lost Ark. ( Whenever I am trying to get out of going first.)

" I stick my neck out for no one." Humphrey Bogart...Casablanca?

" I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies, Miss Scarlet!" GWTW - (Whenever the question falls to me if I know how to fix something or do something of which I haven't a clue of how to do it.)

More later...please stand by....
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Old 06-09-1999, 05:12 PM
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With two Ferris Bueller quotes, I'm suprised that I didn't see Ben Stein's:
"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"

Seems like everyone uses that one

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"We can't stop here! This is bat country!" Used when in a bad part of the nation (so it's a book quote, so sue me). -- TMR
I love that quote. They made it into a movie, so you are in the clear.

"Where are we going?"
"Planet 10!"
"When are we going?"
"Real soon!" -- Buckaroo Bonzai
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Old 06-09-1999, 05:22 PM
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John: My God, if I went up in flames, there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!
Richard: Let's strike a flint and see.

"The Lion in Winter"
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I carry twenty-three great wounds all got in battle. Seventy-five men
have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden tresure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!

Auda Abu Tayi, "Lawrence of Arabia"
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[In jail]
Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
David Huxley: When they find out who *you* are they'll pad the cell.

"Bringing Up Baby"
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Max: War, murder, death -- all the same to you as bottles of beer, and the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensation of time and space into split seconds, instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virile madness, and everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure and pain... and love.

"Network"
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Old 06-09-1999, 05:38 PM
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Rodd, "If you dare speak to an officer like that again, I shall scream the house down!" sounds like Privates On Parade to me, do I get the prize?

My favourite quote, used pretty much anywhere, is "Oh yes, its a very nice" with a French accent, from the Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.

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Old 06-09-1999, 06:07 PM
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My three favorite Holy Grail quotes that I do work into conversation whenever appropriate (or inappropriate, whichever is funnier):

"It's just a flesh wound!"
"I'm not dead yet!"
"I fart in your general direction!"

I just thought of another quote that I use on my husband whenever he's dumb enough to suggest I rise and shine:
"I'll rise, but I damn well won't shine," spoken by John Malkovich in The Glass Menagerie.

Another of Malkovich's lines from that movie that I've used to describe Ichabod Crane-looking guys (though I can't remember exactly how it's phrased):
"What he lacks in a chin, he makes up for in a nose."

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Old 06-09-1999, 06:12 PM
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Congrats, Moonshine! You have won my undying admiration (that and $1.50 will buy a cup of coffee).

"Privates" is one of my favorite obscure movies. Every old British Army joke, a few songs, and lots of profanity. All in all, a good night out. And how about that John Cleese singing bit over the final credits?!?

I also quote Professor Lizardo (Buckaroo Banzai):

"Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!"

and Oddball (Kelly's Heroes):

"Always with the negative waves, Moriarity."

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Old 06-09-1999, 06:15 PM
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Ok, fine... I can't help it. I hafta join in on the Blackadder quotes!

The "toasting fork" quote was my sig for awhile on the AOL board.

M: Grey, I suspect Majesty.
Q: I think you'll find it was orange Lord Melchett.
M: Grey is more usual mam.
Q: Who's queen ?
M: As you say Majesty, there were these magnificent orange elephants which were coming.....
-- Black Adder II "Head"

"Who knows, or dares to dream!" -- Percey in Black Adder II "Money"

"Disease and depravation stalk our land like.. two giant.. stalking things." -- Black Adder III "Sense and Senility"
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Old 06-09-1999, 06:18 PM
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Obscure quotes? That's an idea too.

Who can guess this one?

"I suggest we kill it quickly before it tries to make friends with us!"
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Old 06-09-1999, 06:20 PM
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Not a movie quote, but while in university back in the '80s, I used to play "Risk", and if anyone was too slow or indecisive about moving troops, one of us would quote Bugs Bunny:

"Pssst, Nappy! Put the artillery over here!"
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Old 06-09-1999, 06:30 PM
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Not really a movie, but sorta --

My favorite line from "Mystery Science Theater 3000" is when this barbarian guy dramatically draws his sword and holds it up and the light is reflecting off it and the "commentator" goes -- "It's a letter opener; I made it in shop class." This is what I habitually say to anyone who asks "what's that?" No one ever gets the reference, and without the reference it's pretty much a non-sequitir.
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Old 06-09-1999, 06:32 PM
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Ooh, and I love the line in "Fools Rush In" where Matthew Perry's character is carrying a big stuffed swordfish through his office and some guy asks, "what's that?" "It's a keychain."
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Old 06-09-1999, 07:39 PM
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When I explain something to someone, and they still don't understand:
"and get some 30 weight ball bearings; hell, it's all ball bearings these days" -Fletch

actually, there are many from Fletch I and II
Did she feel ok last night?
Well, she felt pretty good to me

and my favorite "What's your job, Fletch?"
"I'm a shepherd"

plus about anything Yoda ever said
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Old 06-09-1999, 08:55 PM
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"You call him Dr. Jones." --Temple of Doom
When someone gets someone else's name wrong.

"My *name* is *Muerte*!" --Undercover Blues
When someone gets *your* name wrong.

"Two dollars!" --Better Off Dead (not the whole sentence, just the freaky way the kid says "Two dollars.")
When speaking of money owed.

"It's great to be young and insane." --The Dream Team
Whenever appropriate

"I love it when a plan comes together." Tyhe A Team (TV)
Whenever appropriate

"Laugh it up, fuzzball."
"Great, Chewy, great. Always thinking with your stomach."
"Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way."
"Let the wookie win."
And various other Chewbacca-related quotes.

"Group hug, group hug. Mind if I kiss the monkey? Ach, hairball." --Aladdin

"You know who that was? Clint Eastwood." --Crocodile Dundee II

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Old 06-09-1999, 10:09 PM
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"A flute with no holes is not a flute...a donut without a hole is a danish....."

---Caddyshack

always good when teaching computer skills...especially if you add the Kung Fu sounds...

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"When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmmm?" -- Yoda
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Old 06-10-1999, 12:24 AM
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I don't remember what movie this is from, but I have used this on occasion whenever I'm in the mood to insult somebody (usually for something they did or said that was just completely stupid)

"Did your parents have any children that lived?"

There are others, but they've already been mentioned above (namely, the "Where's my two dollars?" and "It's just a flesh wound")

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