# And for God's sake, whatever you do, don't, under any circumstances **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375 "2004-10-03T22:20:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/1 "2004-10-03T22:20:46Z")
**Ocean’s 11** Rusty Ryan is giving The Speech to Lionel: > [@](#): > > **Rusty** :You look down, they know you’re lying and up, they know you don’t know the truth. Don’t use seven words when four will do. Don’t shift your weight, look always at your mark but don’t stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don’t make him laugh. He’s got to like you then forget you the moment you’ve left his side. \* And for God’s sake, whatever you do, don’t, under any circumstances… \* \*\* > **Livingston :** Rus? > **Rusty** : Yeah? > \*\*Livingston \*\*: Come look at this? > \*\*Rusty \*\*: Sure. WHAT fercrying out loud don’t under any circumstance do WHAT! What could it possibly be? The floor is open to all Dopers who dream of doing a Big Con ( and not Star Trek, you dorks. :p) ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/2 "2004-10-03T22:36:01Z")
“Break character.” But it’s so much funnier to leave him hanging. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/3 "2004-10-03T23:00:16Z")
_Futurama_: The Planet Express delivery ship gets accidentally catapulted back through time from the year 3000 to 1947, crashing near Roswell, New Mexico. Fry: Hey, and while we’re on the base I’ll visit my grandfather Enos. He was stationed at Roswell. Farnsworth: Your grandfather?! Stay away from him, you dimwitted monkey. You mustn’t interefere with the past. Don’t do anything that affects _anything_, unless it turns you were supposed to do it, in which case, for the love of God, don’t not do it! Fry: Got it. Farnsworth: If, for example, you were to kill your grandfather, _you’d_ cease to exist. Fry: [Gasp] But existing is basically all I do! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/4 "2004-10-03T23:28:05Z")
“Poke a skunk in the butt.” ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/5 "2004-10-04T00:14:39Z")
\*\*And for God’s sake, whatever you do, don’t, under any circumstances… \*\* “Make ‘Jersey Girl!’” Matt Damon should have listened. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/6 "2004-10-04T00:17:27Z")
Course, I should have double-checked IMDB. Affleck bombed in JG. Damon had a bit role. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![GigaGerard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@GigaGerard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GigaGerard)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/7 "2011-03-23T19:16:29Z")
Today was a quiet day, not much going on. Thoughts passing through my head, nothing special. I remembered a saying by Brad Pitt as Rusty from the movie Ocean’s 11 giving instruction to Matt Damon for a scam, how to behave. quote: Rusty: “You look down, they know you’re lying and up, they know you don’t know the truth. Don’t use seven words when four will do. Don’t shift your weight, look always at your mark but don’t stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don’t make him laugh. He’s got to like you then forget you the moment you’ve left his side. And for God’s sake, whatever you do, don’t, under any circumstances…” Livingston: Rus? Rusty: Yeah? Livingston: Come look at this? Rusty: Sure. So Rusty was called away, and the viewer was left with a big question mark, namely what he shouldn’t under any circumstance do. So I was thinking about what might have been said, and I came up with an answer: “And for God’s sake, whatever you do, don’t, under any circumstance… **speak (say anything) about (the size of) your dick!**” Because later in the scam scene where Matt Damon as Linus imposes as an agent of the gaming commission as he tries to convince the casino owner that one of his employees has a criminal record, nearly has a slip of his tongue: Linus: “Apparently, he’s got a record longer than my… well, it’s long.” So that solves the earlier question I think. I thought I’d post it here. Yours truly genie G. discusses his quote of the day ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/8 "2011-03-23T19:22:46Z")
…push the giant, shiny, red, candy-like button! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/9 "2011-03-23T19:26:18Z")
“…feed them after midnight.” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/10 "2011-03-23T19:34:00Z")
“… shit your pants!” ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/11 "2011-03-23T19:43:20Z")
“… cross the streams!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/12 "2011-03-23T19:52:01Z")
“…add subscription!” dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/13 "2011-03-23T20:11:04Z")
“… get involved in a land war in Asia” ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/14 "2011-03-23T20:16:00Z")
“… go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” HAHAHAHAHA [pause] [choke] ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/15 "2011-03-23T20:20:45Z")
…tell him that you and ten other guys are robbing the place. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/16 "2011-03-23T21:48:27Z")
“install toolbars.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/17 "2011-03-23T22:17:08Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > “install toolbars.” Were it up to me, you’d have won the thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/18 "2011-03-23T22:35:35Z")
“… dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/19 "2011-03-23T22:44:20Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > …push the giant, shiny, red, candy-like button! “I can’t 'elp it, I’m a born button-pusher.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375/20 "2011-03-23T23:02:54Z")
“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-for-gods-sake-whatever-you-do-dont-under-any-circumstances/267375.md?page=2)