Let's make up first drafts of famous lines

Hey, Sam, how 'bout you tickle the ivories with that song you played for us in Paris, huh?

That shark is pretty big, so maybe we ought to upgrade our watercraft.

I suggest, gentlemen, that you aim carefully so as not to botch our execution. Thank you.

(I once saw a photographic, page-by-page replica of the original MS draft of Orwell’s 1984. The first page was almost solid ink, he wrote and rewrote and re-rewrote the book’s opening so much).

Edicimoh! Edicimoh!

Look, don’t try to get around it: Pay your temple offerings AND pay your taxes.

There used to be nothing, then God put something in there, but it was kind of an ill defined mess.

Hope that thing doesn’t blow up, John Glenn!

The effects of the substances started being felt as we drove into the less inhabited parts of San Bernardino County.

I’m absolutely, l00 percent, guilty. I killed the bitch.

If the glove doesn’t fit…well, you know what they say about men with big hands.

I’m rather fond of the odor of a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps, in the early hours of the day.

I regret that I have to give my life for my country!

Don’t shoot until we get really close. We don’t have a lot of ammunition.

Give me Liberty or F off!

We better stick together on this because if we don’t we will be executed!

You can’t deal with frankness! Whoops, can I take that back?

The smell, you know that gasoline smell. Smells like… my ex-girlfriend’s underpants.

It was, like, almost ninety years ago that some old dudes decided to invent a new country that was, you know, free and where everybody was supposed to be excellent to each other.

Post #54 above:

The winter solstice festival won’t be the winter solstice festival without an exchange of trinkets in gaily wrapped boxes.

My calculations of the overall length of the shark based on the part of the dorsal fin above water suggest that we’ll require a larger vessel to complete our task.

I traversed the barren sandy wasteland on an anonymous equine.

There were plants and birds and rocks and heat…wait, that makes the line better and removes the need for The Heat Was Hot line.

“Arrest him, Daniel, and charge him with first degree homicide.”

“Well, the airplanes wouldn’t have got him if he hadn’t cracked up and gone sappy for the dame.”

“I give up. tell me the name of the guy playing First Base.”

“To tell the truth, I don’t care, Scarlett.”

The entry in the Meaning of Liff for “epworth”:

Now, whenever I hear or see the actual line, I can’t help substituting “epworth” in my mind.

“We’ll tell him he has to accept our offer or we’ll do something really bad to him.”

Post #29 above:

:rolleyes:

Been reading The Far Side?

Forget it, Jake - it’s downtown San Francisco.

Or maybe

Toodles,
Shodan