Not sure exactly the book or movie, but I’m guessing you’re talking about the Cilician pirates that kidnapped Julius Caesar?
Any time I drink too much coffee or caffeine and get all hopped up, I quote the SNL sketch with Jim Carrey about Jimmy Tango’s Fat Busters- “I realized… I’M THE DEVIL!” I find it drives the point home about just how jittery I am, but those who get it are few and far between.
Yes! I’ve always admired how old Gaius took it all in good humor, even joshing with the pirates how after his ransom was paid he’d come back and crucify the lot of them. They laughed along, har de har har. Then JC’s ransom was paid, he raised an army, came back and DID. EXACTLY. THAT.
On reflection, maybe it’s better that my coworkers don’t know what I’m thinking at those times.
OK. I give up. Vhy a duck? Vhy-a no chicken?
You could combine two references and say “Laugh it up, laughing boy. The Cicilian pirates laughed at me once. Once!”
Nobody ever gets it when I say “…and what about Naomi?”
Sometimes I talk about how I brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack, or on a windy day, that the place about to blow. Plenty of people do know what I’m talking about, but Ke$ha lyrics are something that EVERYBODY needs to know.
In a bad storm, I’ll sometimes choke out: “LIGHT – NING!”
My son and I riff on the hipster douches in everyday things…
e.g. “Dad, you know I am only sitting down to eat dinner wth you ironically.” <pantomimes pushing his hipster glasses back on the bridge of his nose>.
or “Son, take out the garbage. I bought new bags for the can, but they are from a company you’ve probably never heard of, so they are much better than your usual brand.” <pantomimes pushing my hipster glasses back on the bridge of my nose>.
This generally gets blank stares from everyone else in the house.
I will sometimes try to reference **Giotto’s Circle **(Wiki link) as a statement of “you either get that I/we have the skills to do this, or you don’t” and it falls flat.
A couple for me:
Whenever someone is trying to do something with an object and it’s not working I’ll say “It doesn’t like you” in my best Evanzan voice. I’ve been doing that for years and only ONCE did someone get the reference.
Also if someone trumps someone else in conversation I’ll say “Oop he’s got ya there Rock!” (Ten points to whomever knows THAT reference, and no it’s not the Rocky movies)
ETA: Oops forgot one…if ever I have to make a decision between to things I’ll always add “…or a hanging, either way it should be a lot of fun” and do the little dance thing that goes with it.
“Yeah, but THIS is my shooting hand!” (with the appropriate silly gesture)
Most of mine recently are things like “…like my fourth wife. She pretty though… pretty and smelly, weird combo”, or “a drink that requires a mature parrot”, and “Tastes like fermented herring dipped in cat piss”.
More commonly there’s “You never did the Kenosha, kid”, and, in my house, the phrase “I’ve got a theory” is usually met with “it must be bunnies”. Occasionally some comment about Joe Biden eating a sandwich.
My GF and I, when contemplating something we don’t want to do, will often say, “There may come a day when …<forbidden activity>… will come to pass. But it is not THIS day!”
(ROTK, if you must know)
What *are *birds? We just don’t know.
My circle of friends only get the reference because I’ve forced them to watch the video series.
Somebody around here mentioned an SEP shield recently, and I had a “D’oh!” moment thinking of this thread. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to explain that concept to someone.
Side note, the search function refuses to admit that any such word ahs been used here, ever. So maybe I dreamed it, or maybe it works on itself. . .
This happens to me all the time, such that I can only think off the top of my head of two occasions where I thought it would happen and it didn’t.
I told my roommate yesterday that I was going to take the 55 bus, except I said the schfifty-five. Her response was “WHAT YOU SAY?” Which is how I know I chose the right people to live with.
And I really know I chose the right guy for my boyfriend when I responded to a mention of the word spleens by muttering “Spleens? You’re not spleens!” and he said “Whoever you are, make me a pizza!”
Good one.
I’m always the only one in the theater who laughs when the bandito in Blazing Saddles says "Badges?!? We don’ need no steenkin’ badges!"
Finally found the reference. SEP shield comment: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15121898&postcount=49
I suspect most people here would get it, but nobody outside my family in real life gets “Caaaan youuuu dig it!?!?”
*I *would have said “You deserve something that I could never give you…a man with a SPLEEN!” Thus marking myself forever as the wrong guy for you, and bewildering everyone who is not familiar with that long-forgotten Ambush Bug comic book.