In response to the “My son is an idiot thread” where the young man tried to pet a porcupine.
I think many a teenager or young person will do some pretty stupid things either as a dare, part of a drinking issue, or just plain not thinking things thru. In the redneck world often such actions are preceded by such phrases as “here hold my beer”.
What other phrases can you think of that might be uttered by someone right before a crazy action happens?
One I can think of “hey, do you dare me?”
I’ve got an idea!
“Hey, guys, watch this!”
“I used to do it all the time!”
“How much do you want to bet?”
“Of course it’s possible!”
“I saw this in a movie once…”
“We don’t need helmets!”
“What could go wrong?”
“Let me show you a little trick I learned…”
“Waddaya mean, I can’t do that?”
Low-level helicopter flight. At 0:20, as they are approaching a narrow gap between a couple of trees, you hear this exchange:
“Think I can make it in between there?”
“Nope.”
“Oh, ye of little faith - look how big that is!”
<crunch>
“Here, hold my glass of wine.”
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist-”
I double dog dare you.
I mean, how hard can it be?
Just to be pedantic, the utterer (Major General John Sedgwick, during the American Civil War), actually, according to witnesses, completed the sentence (he was trying to reassure nervous troops under long-range Confederate fire) and was riding off when he was shot.
But he did say it. And he was shot dead right after saying it. So probably the template for things you shouldn’t say.
“They did this on Jackass.”
As my son said while on skis for the first time in his life, “I’m a natural athlete.”
“I’ve seen this before.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got this.”
‘Oh shit!’
“Don’t worry. It’s not loaded.”
Terry Kath, I’m looking at you.
Cut the red wire.
Trust me. I know what I’m doing.
This stuff cleans things real good and that stuff cleans stuff real good, imagine how good they work work if we put them together!
“What’s the worst that could happen?”