# "Leave the gun. Take the cannollis." **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711 "2008-07-08T16:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/61 "2008-07-09T21:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] Until his very beautiful wife got blown up by a car bomb. [/QUOTE] Picky. Eyewitnesses are unreliable. I witnessed an accident. Replayed it endlessly for a long time. ( it was bad ). YEARS later I get a call at like 10:30 pm. Really weird, to get a call that late like this. " Mr. Toons? I’m Mr. Eli Teplitsky of the firm of Teplitsky, Teplitsky and O’Hara. We represent a woman who got hit in front of you back in the Plestiocene Era on Cape Cod. Remember? " I proceeded to describe the entire movie in my mind. The guy was delighted. Go to court. Testify. Turns out I had the scene spot-on. Execpt for the OTHER CAR that I never saw. Never knew it was there. Incredible. Dropping the gun made sense. And yeah, c’mon, it’s a movie script. Memorable lines like that sound good when written and play great. It’s a lovely line to repeat, and I’ve used it many a time in La Guili in Astoria. 😉 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/62 "2008-07-09T21:22:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Nitpick: Michael was a captain in the Marines, and won the Navy Cross for heroism in the Pacific. [/QUOTE] [Don Vito] “For strangers, miracles.” [/Don Vito] ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/63 "2008-07-10T01:43:27Z")
[QUOTE=butler1850] Perhaps a Pan Am flying boat? [/QUOTE] Ah yes, I momentarily blanked on the Pan Am Clippers! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/64 "2008-07-10T12:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Nitpick: Michael was a captain in the Marines, and won the Navy Cross for heroism in the Pacific. [/QUOTE] Which has always been another problem for me, since the Marines are an exceptionally combat-oriented group. Killing two people who were sitting still instead of a few hundred who’d come tearing out of the jungle at 3AM in a screaming bonsai charge would have been…cannolli. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/65 "2008-07-10T13:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Which has always been another problem for me, since the Marines are an exceptionally combat-oriented group. Killing two people who were sitting still instead of a few hundred who’d come tearing out of the jungle at 3AM in a screaming bonsai charge would have been…cannolli. [/QUOTE] I hate those screaming bonsai charges. Tiny clippers, rakes, leaf trimmers, root hooks. I shudder whenever I think of them. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/66 "2008-07-10T13:22:59Z")
Did you put tape on that dumb joke before you killed my point with it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711/67 "2008-07-10T16:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Did you put tape on that dumb joke before you killed my point with it? 🙂 [/QUOTE] No, he put the tape on his PanAm clippers so he wouldn’t leave any fingerprints. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-gun-take-the-cannollis/455711.md?page=3)