A Megadeth moment:
From –what else- the movie Shocker!!!
The puns in this thread have me so mixed up I can’t think straight!
However, it’s nothing a little meditation won’t clear up …
Ohm … Ohm …
I’d quote his line about the beauty of a pun lying in the “Oy!” of the beholder, but somebody who’s probably regretting his choice of nick right now might be upset by it! 
I was only shocked, SHOCKED once. In 1960. For 20 – oh, to hell with it.
Barry’s stunned too.
(I just thought I should indicate that somebody else got the reference. Unless, of course, it was a reference to something else entirely. In which case, I have accomplished nothing here except to make myself look a twit.)
(We now return you to your regularly scheduled hijack. Where was this thread going again?)
I thought it meant that you were feigning exaggerated shock. For instance, if you murdered someone and the police came by for a random dead body search, you might say “I am shocked SHOCKED to see this body lying here.”
Most people who say “shocked, SHOCKED” aren’t really shocked. It’s a con.
Shock: a con.
Shock: a con…
Shock-a-con, lemme rock ya, lemme rock ya shock-a-con…
Just when you thought a thread couldn’t get any worse! 
High praise indeed.
I think I love you, based on that post alone.
Sounds like they’d be SPARKING a controversy! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=TrunkThe original construction (at least why I’m calling “original”, the Casablanca joke) conveyed humor by indicating Renault’s hyperbolic disbelief, followed by the line “your winnings, sir”, and Renault quietly “yes, thank you.” Renault (at least in the joke’s framework) genuinely wanted people to believe he was terrifically shocked, not that he was sarcastically acknowledging that gambling went on. [/QUOTE]
Don’t be ridiculous. Rick knows he knows there’s gambling; he lets him win at roulette. (“That is another reason.”) Renault isn’t trying to fool anyone into believing he’s actually shocked. It’s a sarcastic acknowledgement that he’s being forced by the Germans into trumping up a charge, much like “I haven’t quite figured out whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.”
If you want a case where he’s truly putting on airs which then get deflated, how about, “Here in Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am --” “Major Strasser is here.” “You were saying?” “Excuse me.”
Perhaps you’ve been reading an alternate board? Certainly you haven’t been keeping current with this one else you’d have expected such a battery of shameless puns…
THANK YOU!
I was about to express my shock, SHOCK at the absense of Rutles fans.
You forgot to add “I feel for you” and a synth chord before that.
Hrm, I just admitted I know that song perhaps a little too well. Excuse me while I hide under a rock.
A little Rowen and Marten to lighten the mood and plug you in to another shining example…
< a very luminescent Goldie Hawn >
Shock, SHOCK it to me baby!
< /avlGH >
Seems I was premature in what I called “high praise indeed.” *This * is the kind of praise I like!