# do you have catch phrases, song lyrics, movie quotes you cannot not say when certain things happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974 "2020-01-26T01:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/21 "2020-01-26T06:46:41Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Anytime I hear someone say “So I have that going for me” I involuntarily respond with “Which is nice.” Carl rules. I’m fond of this quote but I always get uncomfortable silence whenever I announce innocuously “I blame society.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/22 "2020-01-26T11:46:43Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Waiting for this one. I am at the printer at work and a tech guy walks by - “PC Load letter, what the fuck does that mean?” And I can tell him, if he doesn’t know. I am compelled to say this every time the printer needs to be refilled. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/23 "2020-01-26T12:39:28Z")
Obscure one: When my wife asks me if I wasn’t eggs for breakfast, I’ll often lisp “Eggth? I like eggth!”. I picked this habit up secondhand, from a summer job co-worker who would say this back when I was in college, in 1990. I didn’t know what it was from until about a year ago, when I could look it up on this new thingy called the Internet. Turns out it was from a Billy Crystal routine, where he imitated famous boxers (this one was Thomas Hearns, I believe). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/24 "2020-01-26T12:43:00Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > When I’m doing a presentation with slides, or showing someone an image of any kind, and it’s illegible, I always, _always_ quote _Fletch_: “And, if this were legible, you’d see what I mean.” No one ever finds this as funny as I do. Ha! My second contribution to this thread was going to be from Fletch. Whenever we visit a lovely location, especially a fancy hotel, by wife and I will always say “_Nices places_”. Even my mother has started to pick up on it. One more: I’ll sometimes say “I’m not so sure about your police work there, Lou” from _Fargo_. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/25 "2020-01-26T15:12:46Z")
When my wife says something I don’t like: “Why do you say these things to me when you know I will kill you for it?” - Zod Or if she says something self-defeating: “Be more confident, stupid!” That’s from The Simpsons’ Troy McClure. Or if someone is bitching about things: “Lighten up, Francis.” - Stripes Actually, much of my life is movie quotes. Same with my kids, although I’m sure i don’t know where they got that. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/26 "2020-01-26T15:28:34Z")
When my wife tells me something iffy: “No way! You lie!” in my best Homer Simpson voice. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/27 "2020-01-26T19:37:26Z")
If someone orders (or even mentions) a BLT sandwich, I feel compelled to repeat Miracle Max’s line from _The Princess Bride_: “…a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe…they’re so perky, I love that.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/28 "2020-01-26T20:23:03Z")
I frequently quote Bollo and say,\* “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…” \*Or John Cleese. _“Yes, Well, predictable, really…”_ ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/29 "2020-01-26T20:33:53Z")
I have often used “nuke them from orbit, it is the only way to be sure” when asked to get rid of something. I do the whole “bunnies” song from Buffy – Once more with feeling when rabbits are discussed Brian ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/30 "2020-01-26T20:38:50Z")
“D’oh!” works in real life, too. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/31 "2020-01-26T22:01:12Z")
Possibly the finest catch phrase from a _written_ one-panel cartoon: If someone accidentally pushes on a door marked ‘Pull’ (or vice-versa), someone - if not everyone present - will immediately chant ‘School For The Gifted’. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/32 "2020-01-26T22:04:33Z")
Oh! - just remembered another one - and it’s so timely (unfortunate in a way, but worth remembering now). If my group is trying to talk one of the guys into staying for one more beer, the line ‘It’s only waffer thin’ in an appalling french accent will be trotted out. Can be used for drinks, coffees, nachos, horsey-doovers or whatever. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/33 "2020-01-26T22:09:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Whenever something kinetically disassembles itself in my presence (and that happens more often than one might think) I have to comment “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” I’ve used that occasionally at the curling club, after a particularly aggressive takeout shot. No one has recognized it. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/34 "2020-01-26T22:21:35Z")
Speaking of catchphrases: when watching movies or TV (and occasionally in real life) when a really ominous event is occurring (car crashes, F5 tornados, someone entering a house where a deranged serial killer is waiting with a chainsaw etc.), I’ll say, “Well, that can’t be good.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/35 "2020-01-26T22:29:25Z")
I am also fond of presenting positive information with “Good news, everyone!” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/36 "2020-01-26T22:34:52Z")
It’s old as the hills, but it still gets a laugh from my wife: “This is why we can’t have nice things!” (I used that in, “The Matrix,” when the lobby got shot up, and sometime in, “Jupiter Ascending,” near the end, I think.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/37 "2020-01-26T22:53:26Z")
Thanks to that idiot Kanye West, I have never since been able to hear/read the word “gold-digger” without thinking of a racial slur. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/38 "2020-01-26T22:54:59Z")
old SNL skit years ago - “The question is moot!” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/39 "2020-01-26T23:12:51Z")
Whenever I am asked a question to which I have no way of possibly knowing the answer, it’s: “Mongo not know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.” My grandson, having just finished watching The Mandalorian series, has taken to finish his speeches with: “I have spoken.” ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/40 "2020-01-27T01:01:29Z")
Whenever I begin a sentence with “I wonder”, I find it difficult not to pause and add, “yes, I wonder…is this the way life’s meant to be?” (From the eponymous ELO song.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974.md?page=3)