# I Pit Those Who Think Quoting Passes for Wit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711 "2005-04-29T14:15:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [April 29, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/61 "2005-04-29T21:34:05Z")
> [@Eleusis](#): > > I’m Squishing Your Head!!! I’m _crushing_ your head, you silly man. Though the character did once run into his nemesis, whose line was “I squish your face!” An epic battle ensued. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/62 "2005-04-29T21:35:31Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Well, Scumpup, I’m glad you opened this Pit thread because now I can comfortably say what I wanted to in the 1938 Superman thread but hesitated to: You’re acting like an asshole and that thread would be better off if you stopped contributing to it and it was left to those whose interest in the subject matter is a bit more grounded in not being a prick about it. > > And Roy Thomas is an excellent writer, _All-Star Squadron_ rocked (well, the first 60 or so issues) and you’re a dickhead. _scratches head_ I don’t get that one. Which Python movie is it from? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/63 "2005-04-29T23:13:06Z")
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/64 "2005-04-29T23:28:33Z")
“Man, **Scumpup** has got to be just about the whiniest little fuck I’ve ever seen.” - Walt Whitman ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/65 "2005-04-30T01:35:53Z")
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaannn! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/66 "2005-04-30T01:36:01Z")
“Who the fuck is Bryan Ekers?” Everyone ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/67 "2005-04-30T01:42:00Z")
> [@esquimalt](#): > > Oops - Make that Brain No. The brain in my head. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/68 "2005-04-30T01:53:39Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaannn! No, it’s [Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaannn!](http://www.khaaan.com/) ---
**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:** [April 30, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/69 "2005-04-30T02:57:46Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > “Who the fuck is Bryan Ekers?” > Everyone So start an IMHO thread. I promise to give everyone a chance to contribute before I weigh in. At the moment, though, he’s the guy who’s telling you to grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/70 "2005-04-30T03:17:58Z")
Monty Python is old and busted. When I want to bore people, I quote Spinal Tap. “We’ve got armadillos in our trousers!” ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/71 "2005-04-30T04:01:51Z")
You’re not as stupid as you look. Or sound. Or our best testing indicates. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/72 "2005-04-30T04:20:30Z")
This thread goes to 11. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/73 "2005-04-30T04:34:22Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > When 900 years old you reach, think this humor is funny too you will, mmmmm? “Could you talk forward?” [sub]A firm and respectful handshake for the whoever gets that reference.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/74 "2005-04-30T04:56:54Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Oh! Irony. We don’t get that here. > [@Lobsang](#): > > Is that like coppery and bronzy? No, it’s like raaaaaaaain on your wedding da- _[Gunshot. NDP falls over dead.]_ ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/75 "2005-04-30T05:57:09Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > “Could you talk forward?” Well, let’s face is Mr **Yax** , maybe you weren’t meant to write agricultural space tragedies. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/76 "2005-04-30T07:14:27Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > People seem to pass off “too much information” or “more than I needed to know” as wit. > > Unbelievable. > > It’s died down from a couple years ago, but it’s not-nonexistent. > > Wow, what kind of humorless fuck do you have to be to think that going, “more than I needed to know” is going to get you a laugh. Maybe so, but I get a kick out of Julian Clary saying “I don’t wish to know that.” ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/77 "2005-04-30T08:15:20Z")
Is it okay if it’s a really obscure movie quote? I (well, it wasn’t from wit, it was from the pre-op shot of something they’d given me) really cracked up the operating crew giving me “the mask of oblivion” when as they lowered it onto my face and said “breathe comfortably and start counting backward from 100” I groggily ad libbed: “No thanks, my mom told me never to breathe anything from strangers”. (which is a line from one of my fave cult classics). Apparently they’d all either seen the movie, or it just struck them as funny because the last thing I remember was them all busting up laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/78 "2005-04-30T09:32:20Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > “Could you talk forward?” > > [sub]A firm and respectful handshake for the whoever gets that reference.[/sub] **FinnAgain** beat me to it, but it’s from the gentle parody _ **George Lucas In Love.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/79 "2005-04-30T13:11:40Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > So start an IMHO thread. I promise to give everyone a chance to contribute before I weigh in. > > At the moment, though, he’s the guy who’s telling you to grow up. Why doesn’t he try being the guy who realizes I don’t give a fuck about his opinion of my maturity level? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-think-quoting-passes-for-wit/301711/80 "2005-04-30T13:38:44Z")
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