Well this isn’t meant to be a straight up challenge but I heard this quote and using Google the best I could come up with is I think it is a Bogart quote but I know not where it comes from.
“Well skin me alive and call me luggage.”
Any help?
Slight hijack, but could you also answer this one?
Someone is about to point out a mistake, and the other person interupts, saying something like:
“Your life (or something) depends on you not finishing that sentence”
What’s the correct quote and what movie?
Can’t help with the OP itself. Have ye tried searching the IMDB for it?
HubZilla: I don’t know about the origins of that one (I’ve been using it for years, no idea where I first heard it) but IIRC, Jeff Goldblum says something to that effect to his character’s daughter in the second Jurassic Park flick. Only recent occurance of it that I’m aware of, in the mainstream, anyway.
“Your future well being depends greatly on you not finishing that sentence.” Summat like that. 'Zat help?
[sub]The Lost World, that was the title.[/sub]
I’ve got to say that “Well, skin me alive and call me luggage,” doesn’t sound anything like a sentence that would have come out of Bogart’s mouth. To my ear it seems much more recent than that.
And the only places it appears to come up, after using several search engines, is in a couple of rants by what sound like young folk (compared to my advanced years). Hard to believe that if this phrase were 50 years old that it wouldn’t show up elsewhere.
The effeminate prince guy on Blackadder said things like that. So did Kryton, the effeminate robot, on Red Dwarf
I like to say, “Well, paint me blue and call me a Smurf”.
Skeezix, PERFECT on the Lost World!! Thanks a lot!!
Jon Lovitz on Friends: “Well, slap my ass and call me Judy!”
HubZilla: De nada. If someone uttered it in a movie made after about 1965, it’s probably lurking in my head, somewhere. My home phone number, my wife’s cell phone number, my zipcode, and every once in a while my Social Security number… Gone. Couldn’t remember if my life depended on it.
But some walk on part with one line, in a movie from 1973 that three people besides me ever saw? Oh, yeah, that I remember. I think Darwin might have given up and become a short order cook if he’d ever met me.
[sub]Worst part is, I seem to recall now that the line is actually closer to “It is so important to your future well being that you don’t finish that sentence.”[/sub]
Now that you told me the title, here’s what I found at IMDB:
Dr. Sarah Harding: You know, I have made a career out of waiting for you to show up.
Kelly Malcolm: You know, she does have a pretty good–
Dr. Ian Malcolm: It’s so important to your future that you don’t finish that sentence.