# It's a BORE! A BOOOOOORE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063 "2006-04-24T22:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/21 "2006-04-24T23:36:39Z")
“Pardon me boy–is this the Transylvania station?” “Ya. Ya. Track 29.” [Pause] “Shine your shoes, Mister?” “Um. No, thanks.” * * * “Give him a sedagive!” * * * “Come back! I was going to make cappucino.” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/22 "2006-04-24T23:41:08Z")
Could be worse… …could be raining. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/23 "2006-04-24T23:42:15Z")
> [@usar\_jag](#): > > “Pardon me boy–is this the Transylvania station?” > > “Ya. Ya. Track 29.” [Pause] _“Shine your shoes, Mister?”_ (1) > > “Um. No, thanks.” > > * * * > > “Give him a sedagive!” > > * * * > > “Come back! I was going to make _cappucino_ (2).” Actually it’s (1) “Would you like a shine?” (a take off on Glenn Miller’s _Chattanooga Choo-choo_) and (2) espresso. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/24 "2006-04-24T23:44:11Z")
I still find it one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen, over 20 years and 20+ viewings later. “A _ **sedagive** _???” De gustibus non est diputandum. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/25 "2006-04-24T23:46:53Z")
Did you also know that per the script, Dr. Frankenstein was lecturing at _my_ alma mater? And yes, the med students there are _that_ snotty. I sure was. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/26 "2006-04-24T23:47:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Actually it’s (1) “Would you like a shine?” (a take off on Glenn Miller’s _Chattanooga Choo-choo_) and (2) espresso. 😃 Looks like it’s been too long since my last viewing… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/27 "2006-04-24T23:55:38Z")
I like Mel Brooks movies. But not this one. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/28 "2006-04-24T23:56:58Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Interesting. So far, all the posters from California love the movie. Yep, me too. And I don’t care for much of Brooks’s other films, except of course for the great **The Producers**. ---
**Author:** ![Farmwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8dc957/32.png) [@Farmwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmwoman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/29 "2006-04-24T23:57:17Z")
Another vote for funny. And it’s possible that some first-time viewers don’t find it hilarious because the jokes are…well, so good they’ve been fried from overuse. Trying those nasty looking switches over there has become the normal way we troubleshoot machinery around here. Damn your eyes! Too late! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/30 "2006-04-24T23:59:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Actually it’s (1) “Would you like a shine?” (a take off on Glenn Miller’s _Chattanooga Choo-choo_) and (2) espresso. 😃 I think you’ll find it’s “Say, can I give you a shine?”; the line in the actual song being “Boy, you can give me a shine.” ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/31 "2006-04-25T00:01:13Z")
I can’t freakin’ believe this thread. No one has come in here to offer the correct pronunciation of “Frankenstein?” \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/32 "2006-04-25T00:02:15Z")
I was going to watch my newly purchased DVD of _Twelfth Night_ (not the recent abomination. I found the BBC production with the delectible Felicity Kendal!) tonight, but instead I am going to dig out my copy of _YF_ and ogle Teri Garr’s knockers instead. “Nice grouping!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/33 "2006-04-25T00:05:58Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I think you’ll find it’s “Say, can I give you a shine?”; the line in the actual song being “Boy, you can give me a shine.” Actually, we’re both wrong. It’s “Oh, can I give you a shine?” I just checked the DVD. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/34 "2006-04-25T00:10:05Z")
“…where fashion sits.” “Puhng ahg a Rizzzz!” 🙂🙂🙂🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/35 "2006-04-25T00:14:20Z")
“Taffeta, darling!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/36 "2006-04-25T00:17:20Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I too have always found Mel Brooks overrated. And he hasn’t aged well, his movies get more and more lame. (Although I will see the producers on DVD) I love Young Frankenstein, but I agree that he hasn’t aged well and his movies have not been getting better. All the ones I’ve seen have a few good bits, but I hope the rumors of a Spaceballs 2 aren’t true. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/37 "2006-04-25T00:17:42Z")
Otto, were you watching a chopped, err ah edited for television version of Young Frankenstein? I know when I’ve watched an edited for television movie that earlier had me in hysterics, it just left me cold. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/38 "2006-04-25T00:26:08Z")
“Who’s brain was it?” “A B” “A B who?” “A B Normal” 😃 “Even his Schwanstuker?” “Oh, he going to be popular with the ladies” 😃 “Roll, Roll, Roll in the Hay” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/39 "2006-04-25T00:28:15Z")
**Otto** , I can only hope zat your children do not vollow in zeir vather’s vootschtops. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063/40 "2006-04-25T00:29:28Z")
Some people like things. Some people don’t. It’s all good. **Otto** , next time you hang out at my place, we’ll skip Young Frankenstein and put on some Monty Python, eh? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-bore-a-boooooore/354063.md?page=3)