# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2164 "2023-03-01T19:20:54Z")
_It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2165 "2023-03-01T20:47:15Z")
Fast and correct. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2166 "2023-03-04T10:56:42Z")
“Stay away from Peggy or I’ll break your neck.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2167 "2023-03-04T23:20:02Z")
“Remember when you booked us in a Hawaiian band? We wore grass skirts.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2168 "2023-03-05T02:26:02Z")
“I never asked the time of day from a clock, did I?” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2169 "2023-03-05T02:38:26Z")
Some Like It Hot ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2170 "2023-03-05T02:40:22Z")
Yep, it was just on TCM. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2171 "2023-03-05T03:13:41Z")
I love that movie! It’s a family favorite. I may have posted this before, but I have a picture of my late great uncle George when he was in the navy on the deck of a battleship (the USS _Texas_) with Joe E Brown in boxing gear. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2172 "2023-03-05T03:23:13Z")
I first saw it in 1959 because my mother hated going to movies alone. I was four years old at the time, and incredibly turned on by Marilyn Monroe. When people told my mom “You shouldn’t let him watch movies like that!” she’d reply “Oh, he doesn’t know what he’s looking at.” Uh, yes I did, Mom. And I was hoping the entire time you wouldn’t … notice. 😳 I wish my daughter had been here to watch it with me. She would have loved it! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2173 "2023-03-05T03:25:31Z")
Marilyn was something else wasn’t she. Just like Jello on springs. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2174 "2023-03-05T03:26:26Z")
Hope you don’t mind if I ask. Why didn’t your daughter get to see it? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2175 "2023-03-05T03:33:34Z")
Oh, yeah. She’s right near the top of my list of the most beautiful women ever. 🥰 In 1960, my mother took me with her to another movie that didn’t really interest me, and the only thing I remembered was the part where a woman was parading around a hotel room in her bra and slip. For years, I wondered what movie that was. I finally found out a quarter of a century later when I saw it from the beginning on TV. _ **Psycho** _. 😲 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2176 "2023-03-05T03:36:27Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Hope you don’t mind if I ask. Why didn’t your daughter get to see it? She had to work today. She’ll be 28 next week, and she lives with her boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2177 "2023-03-05T03:38:48Z")
I love Marilyn singing Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend in _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2178 "2023-03-05T03:39:33Z")
She likes old movies? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2179 "2023-03-05T03:47:02Z")
I’d watch Marilyn singing anything. 🥰 Yep, she (my daughter) loves movies. She did a double major (English and Film) in college. We started watching movies together as soon as she was able to talk. I think we started with _ **The Wizard of Oz** _, and I introduced her to Disney, Aardman, Burton, Tarantino, and _Noir_ over the years. She _loooooves_ the Harry Potter and Hunger Games movies and can describe every … single … detail of them. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2180 "2023-03-05T03:56:48Z")
That’s great about your daughter. My dad got us hooked on _Some Like It Hot_ when we were very young. He is a big Marilyn fan too. My sister and I have been quoting lines from that movie most of our lives. “Nobody’s perfect” is favorite and can be used often. I love this too… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VN2RxSlB1Nk/hqdefault.jpg "Some Like It Hot - Marilyn Monroe - I'm Through With Love") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2RxSlB1Nk) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2181 "2023-03-05T04:00:56Z")
Sorry for the hijack. I forgot which thread I was in. “Doesn’t anybody f\*\*\*\*\*g knock anymore?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2182 "2023-03-05T04:02:43Z")
Oh … my … God! 🤪 _ **SLIH** _ has one of the greatest casts ever. All of them (even George Raft and Nehemiah Persoff) were brilliant comic actors! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2183 "2023-03-05T04:18:16Z")
I know George Raft was Spats, who was Nehemiah? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=110)