# Geeky quote help needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286 "2013-05-02T03:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CastleAnthrax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CastleAnthrax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastleAnthrax)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/1 "2013-05-02T03:36:17Z")
A friend today said something about having a plan, and a quote came to me, something like “It’s a good plan, and I’m proud to be a part of it”. I swear it was Wash from Firefly, but the Internet doesn’t seem to think so. Help! My nerd cred is at stake! ---
**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:** [May 2, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/2 "2013-05-02T03:40:44Z")
I think it’s Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in _Ghostbusters_ when Egon suggests crossing the streams from their guns to send Gozer back to her home dimension. It’s something like: “I love this plan. I’m excited to be a part of it.” ---
**Author:** ![CastleAnthrax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CastleAnthrax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastleAnthrax)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/3 "2013-05-02T03:41:32Z")
THANK YOU!!! Seriously, you just saved the brains of my entire gaming group. Whew. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/4 "2013-05-02T03:49:27Z")
> [@HennaDancer](#): > > THANK YOU!!! Seriously, you just saved the brains of my entire gaming group. Whew. That’s sort of what we do here. I’ve actually used this quote myself at the curling club, when the skip calls an impossible shot. No one ever gets 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:** [May 2, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/5 "2013-05-02T03:53:30Z")
Sounds kind of like Jimmy Carter defending Operation Eagle Claw, actually. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/6 "2013-05-02T04:01:19Z")
And the actual _Firefly_ quote that you were probably conflating this with: > [@](#): > > “The captain has a plan.” > > “That’s good, right?” > > “It’s possible you’re not remembering the captain’s other plans.” Which is really sort of the opposite sentiment from this quote. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/7 "2013-05-03T00:17:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Sounds kind of like Jimmy Carter defending Operation Eagle Claw, actually. :rolleyes: Keep political jabs in GD or the Pit, if you have to post them at all. - Gukumatz, CS Moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/8 "2013-05-03T00:30:28Z")
I use that quote (Venkman’s _Ghostbusters_ one) so often that I’ve mentally disconnected it form its source. I once saw Ghostbusters and was momentarily taken back to hear him say it. ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/9 "2013-05-03T16:18:41Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I use that quote (Venkman’s _Ghostbusters_ one) so often that I’ve mentally disconnected it form its source. I once saw Ghostbusters and was momentarily taken back to hear him say it. I do that all the time. My husband and I are always telling each other, “We don’t have time for your shenanigans.” I heard it while watching O Brother Where Art Thou last week and thought, “Oh, that’s where we got that.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-quote-help-needed/657286/10 "2013-05-03T17:48:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Which is really sort of the opposite sentiment from this quote. Taken literally, yes, but Venkman wasn’t being literal. The plan in question was to cross the streams, which he had previously been told was Bad, for values of Bad in the general area of “die in a nuclear explosion”. It was a _terrible_ plan, with only “definitely a very slim chance we’ll survive”, but it was the only plan they had. He was terrified and trying to cover it with sarcasm. It’s a pretty common catchphrase in my gaming group, and we invariably use it to mean, “This plan is [bad/crazy/nonexistent], but we’re going to go with it, anyway.”