I just had an email from someone on this board to whom I’d said “Have a virtual chocolate chip cookie on me!”
This Doper replied that they couldn’t have a cookie now, because they are on a diet.
But then they said *“But some day, and that day may never come, I will ask a service of you, *and there will be chocolate.”
Another Godfather fan!
Have you ever had something quoted to you like that, without mentioning the source?
As often as not, really most of the time, I’m the one doing the quoting. It depends on the audience as to how obscure I go.
One I use when I can is in response to somebody wanting my reason for something. It’s a marvelous Brando line from One Eyed Jacks:
“Reasons? I got reasons. I got 17 hundred and 8. That’s how many days I spent rottin’ my guts out in that pen down in Sonora, pickin’ the maggots out of my heels. Don’t talk to me about reasons.” (That’s how I remember it, anyway.)
For the actual quote go to 1:39:00 in MARLON BRANDO ONE EYED JACKS FULL MOVIE .
I just did it today at the end of one of my posts here at the Dope. I think it’s fairly common here, but I doubt anyone will notice mine. Well, OK, maybe now they will.
One has cropped up at work. We changed to another building and the partitions for the open plan seating are just too high to see the person sitting opposite. I guess it was set up for people on the phone a lot. So it is now a common event to say something to someone near by without realising they have left their desk.
After a suitable pause the next thing said is, “Beuller…”
I was having breakfast with my brother once. He was a bit quiet, and I looked up once to see him rubbing his temple.
“You okay?” I asked.
“Oh, I’ve got a headache,” he answered.
Perfect.
Set up.
“It might be a tumor,” I told him in my creepiest little kid voice.
His expression went from ‘WTF is wron-’ to ‘ooooh, wait’ to ‘what the hell is that from’ to-
“No, no, it’s nod a toomuh. It’s NOD a toomuh.”
Awesomocity.