# LOTR and other lines you think to your little self

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-and-other-lines-you-think-to-your-little-self/479093 "2008-12-29T18:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-and-other-lines-you-think-to-your-little-self/479093/41 "2008-12-30T17:35:17Z")

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“It is a silly place.”

“I got better.”

“Nuke it from orbit.”

“Ah’ll be bahk.”

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-and-other-lines-you-think-to-your-little-self/479093/42 "2008-12-30T17:38:33Z")

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There’s a line spoken by Sheriff Pat Garrett (William Petersen) in \*\*Young Guns II \*\*that I find myself using a lot in real life:

“Encumbered by idjits, we pressed on.”

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-and-other-lines-you-think-to-your-little-self/479093/43 "2008-12-30T17:52:10Z")

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If I’m attempting to demonstrate something for someone, and it just doesn’t work, I do the Heath Ledger Joker pose and go “Ta-Dah!”

ETA: Oh, and there’s a scene on Babylon 5, where two characters are having to spend several weeks alone together riding in a cargo transport to Mars, and one of them just won’t stop annoying the other. Finally, the annoyed guy declares “And that’s when I shot him, your honor!”

So I rework that slightly, and when someone is about to do something remarkably stupid in my presence, I say “And that’s when the dorm caught fire, Sergeant.”

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-and-other-lines-you-think-to-your-little-self/479093/44 "2008-12-30T18:16:22Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> …Finally, the annoyed guy declares “And that’s when I shot him, your honor!”…

I remember that. Thank you - you just made my day. Great line.

“It goes to eleven.”

"Visiting? _Visiting?"_

“Eh, he’s drunk.”

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