I often find myself thinking of situations in terms of books I’ve read or movies I’ve watched that others around me probably haven’t, or if they have then they wouldn’t make the same connection you do. The following are some my most frequent mutterings to myself – can you identify them?
Grumbling to myself after a meeting with a manager: “Still haven’t tracked down that quart of strawberries, have you Cappy?”
After some management nitwits insist on knowing the pages and word counts of our department’s reports as opposed to the quality of what those reports are actually saying: “Well, I suppose we could just get out a cheese scale.”
After having to suffer some indignities at work: “Laugh it up, laughing boy. The Cilician pirates were laughing too, for a while.”
When I see a business closed for remodeling, I yell in an incredulous tone, “Remodeling?!?” It’s said by Tim Thomerson’s character in “The Wrong Guys”.
When I drive over train tracks or a very bumpy road, I say, “Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay!” like the character Ramada said when she fell down the stairs in “Hot Shots!”
When I see an abandoned shoe or sandal I point at it and say, “We must follow the shoe/sandal!” (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
There are others, but those are all I can think of for now.
online, everyone gets it. Kind of lame by now. IRL, not but ONE person has caught on. I thought MP was pretty well accepted by the losers I call friends.
I’ve given up saying Oom Beroofen if anyone sneezes. It’s from Right Ho Jeeves, and no one else seems to have found it funny enough to have it in their heads. IRL that is. The dope, of course, had a thread on it
When I hear that someone has cancer, I think to myself “Ohhhh cancer… Sad… cancer… sad…” in my best sad-sack middle-aged lady voice.
It’s from one of the more obscure Kids in the Hall sketches with Bruce as teenager Rusty who has a way with older women, and some sort of mind-control over his mother. I think it was Dave Foley that says the Cancer line early in the sketch.
When I have to correct myself about the number of something I am talking about, like, “two, no, three of my cultural references” (for example) I then immediately say, “amongst my cultural references are…”
Some pick up the Python reference but, because I don’t do the voice, it goes over the heads of most.
I’m sorry I caused all that cancer.
Several years ago (and I do not recall how the subject came up) I said “the pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle”, and people looked at me funny.
Someone online said she was looking for a Greg to her Dharma, I asked if she’d settle for a Godfrey Parke to her Irene Bullock. No response.
One night at my job-before-last, a guest called to ask for a wakeup call. It was ultra important - early flight or such - so I told him I’d also call his room at the appropriate time, just to be sure he was up. At 5:30 am, I’m a little punchy and silly, so I asked “Are we awake?” I was tickled when he responded appropriately! Almost no one ever asks me whether I’m black.
