# Explain this Quote from "Aliens"- "Assholes and Elbows" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268 "2008-07-12T21:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/21 "2008-07-14T01:32:54Z")
There was a movie or book, I can’t remember which, where somebody told the soldiers to line up “asshole to belly button.” Clearly that means squashed together in a very tight line, though the holes and the buttons wouldn’t necessarily be at the same level. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/22 "2008-07-14T01:37:09Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] There was a movie or book, I can’t remember which, where somebody told the soldiers to line up “asshole to belly button.” Clearly that means squashed together in a very tight line, though the holes and the buttons wouldn’t necessarily be at the same level. 😃 [/QUOTE] The current Army version of this is line up “nuts to butts.” These parts tend to line up uncomfortably so. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/23 "2008-07-14T02:29:36Z")
And since this thread has already wandered to Bangkok and back, if you watch closely you may notice that Apone is wearing a Masonic ring. I don’t know why that would be significant to anyone but a few Masons, but there you go… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/24 "2008-07-15T07:54:16Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] I remember, many moons ago, sitting at the bar in Super Girls in PatPong, Bangkok. I held a balloon over my head, while the naked girl on stage shot darts from her vagina to pop the balloon (and that over a distance of about 10-15 feet, at least)! :eek: 😕🆒 So, yeah. The short answer is that a girl can blow! [/QUOTE] Been there, done that in many a bar. The best I’ve ever seen was one girl who could actually hit a moving target with a vaginally propelled dart. Midnite Bar in Soi Cowboy, their grand opening. I don’t know where they found this talented lass, but you could pat the balloon across the room, and she’d nail it _every time._ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/25 "2008-07-15T07:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Oy!] Actually I saw a comparatively soft porn movie in the 70s (something like The _Story of O_), and they were in an Oriental nightclub, where one of the featured performances was a woman smoking a cigarette with her, er, nether regions. So apparently at least _some_ women can suck wind. [/QUOTE] Seen that, too. 😃 I’ve also seen a girl blow out the candles on a birthday cake with her vagina. All manner of other things, too. Write their names. Use chopsticks. It’s a remarkably versatile organ. But the scary ones to me are the ones who can open bottles and pull razor blades out. One mamasan was kind enough to draw me a little diagram showing how the girl fits the bottle opener and the sheath holding the razor blades up there, but really, would YOU want to chance taking that girl back to your room? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/26 "2008-07-15T15:32:20Z")
There are many such phrases in the military. In the British Army of the 60s the cry that often roused us from our beds was “_Off cocks on socks!_”, ie hands off cocks and on socks. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/27 "2008-07-15T17:51:58Z")
It’s said a lot within the landscaping world. All you see is “assholes and elbows” when everyone is doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Bent over working. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/28 "2008-07-15T17:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Seen that, too. 😃 I’ve also seen a girl blow out the candles on a birthday cake with her vagina. All manner of other things, too. Write their names. Use chopsticks. It’s a remarkably versatile organ. But the scary ones to me are the ones who can open bottles and pull razor blades out. One mamasan was kind enough to draw me a little diagram showing how the girl fits the bottle opener and the sheath holding the razor blades up there, but really, would YOU want to chance taking that girl back to your room? :eek: [/QUOTE] Jeez… Remind me how we got here? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/29 "2008-07-16T03:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] I have a feeling this thread will now descend into another Aliens quote thread. We should nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. [/QUOTE] We’re in the thread, five by five. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/30 "2008-07-16T05:08:36Z")
Well, this thread is good as any to hijack. Why, when someone says “it’s hot,” someone else will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat.” Then they laugh like that’s really funny. What’s the joke? It was Bill Paxton’s smart-ass character in Aliens who said it, but I’ve heard it many, many times elsewhere. What’s so damn funny about that? Yeah, I know a hot dry climate is considered a bit more bearable than a humid hot climate. But where’s the funny joke? Is it something sexual? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/31 "2008-07-16T06:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Well, this thread is good as any to hijack. Why, when someone says “it’s hot,” someone else will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat.” Then they laugh like that’s really funny. What’s the joke? It was Bill Paxton’s smart-ass character in Aliens who said it, but I’ve heard it many, many times elsewhere. What’s so damn funny about that? Yeah, I know a hot dry climate is considered a bit more bearable than a humid hot climate. But where’s the funny joke? Is it something sexual? [/QUOTE] I always figured the real humour (for the audience) in that bit was how quickly and impatiently the other marines tell him to shut up. There was a lot of hostility directed at Hudson and his stupid jokes, actually: [ul][li]The knife bit[/li][li]“Look into my eye!”[/li][li]“No, have you?”[/li][li]“Quit fuckin’ around!” (after one of the marines mock-shoves him toward a hole made by spilled alien blood)[/li][li]“Why don’t we build a campfire, sing some songs?!”[/li][li]“Hey, fuck you!” (after Hudson’s ‘illegal aliens’ remark)[/ul][/li] I get the distinct impression that they were all pretty sick of him. I’m sure when his time was up (“And I was gettin’ short, four weeks and out. Now I’m gonna buy it on this rock.”) none of them were going to particularly miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/32 "2008-07-16T16:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Well, this thread is good as any to hijack. Why, when someone says “it’s hot,” someone else will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat.” Then they laugh like that’s really funny. What’s the joke? It was Bill Paxton’s smart-ass character in Aliens who said it, but I’ve heard it many, many times elsewhere. What’s so damn funny about that? Yeah, I know a hot dry climate is considered a bit more bearable than a humid hot climate. But where’s the funny joke? Is it something sexual? [/QUOTE] IIRC, when Hudson said it there was water (or Alien slime) dripping off everything so it was not a dry heat after all. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/33 "2008-07-16T22:13:24Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] IIRC, when Hudson said it there was water (or Alien slime) dripping off everything so it was not a dry heat after all. [/QUOTE] Which contributes to my confusion about the joke. Whether humid or dry, someone will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat!” Yuk, yuk, yuk. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/34 "2008-07-16T23:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Which contributes to my confusion about the joke. Whether humid or dry, someone will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat!” Yuk, yuk, yuk. [/QUOTE] I think that’s just one of those things that people repeat _because_ it’s so cliche. Up here it’s, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” (Groan.) Someone’s always gotta say it. Just like everytime I’m sitting at someone else’s desk (which is pretty frequently, since I provide network support) _someone_ will walk past and say “Hi, Bob.” (Or whoever’s desk I happen to be sitting at.) Haw haw haw, never gets old, that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/35 "2008-07-16T23:09:50Z")
I myself never tire asking those of above-average height for remote weather reports. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/36 "2008-07-16T23:33:05Z")
Okay, as long as we’re here…can somebody explain the “Look into my eye” thing? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/37 "2008-07-16T23:44:34Z")
[QUOTE=PeskiPiksi] Okay, as long as we’re here…can somebody explain the “Look into my eye” thing? [/QUOTE] Sarge is pointing to his eye with his middle finger. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/38 "2008-07-18T02:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Which contributes to my confusion about the joke. Whether humid or dry, someone will say “yeah, but it’s a dry heat!” Yuk, yuk, yuk. [/QUOTE] The only time I ever found that funny was in a cartoon showing two guys in Hell and one of them saying it. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/39 "2008-07-18T13:23:55Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Sarge is pointing to his eye with his middle finger. [/QUOTE] Ah, okay. Duh. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268/40 "2008-07-18T16:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Just like everytime I’m sitting at someone else’s desk (which is pretty frequently, since I provide network support) _someone_ will walk past and say “Hi, Bob.” (Or whoever’s desk I happen to be sitting at.) Haw haw haw, never gets old, that. [/QUOTE] And the hilarious variant: “Hi Bob! Wow, you’ve changed!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-quote-from-aliens-assholes-and-elbows/456268.md?page=3)