Whenever I’m at work and I’m helping someone deal with an issue involving a customer living in Fresno, I say “Nobody goes to Fresno anymore”.
It’s a quote (based on memory) from the movie “Airplane!”. It’s said by Johnny, the talkative and not particularly clued in member of the air traffic control team.
Nobody has ever recognized this.
Same goes for “I file this under “H”, for toy”, which is Val Kilmer’s character in “Real Genius”.
What unrecognizable quotes have worked their way into your brains?
Mendicant.
While I’m sure that with the number of obscure, cheesey movies that I watch, I’ve got a couple, I’m drawing a blank at the moment. I quote so many movie lines that I don’t think I use more than one or two with any regularity.
However, Mrs. Skeezix, just from reading over my shoulder whilst I’m cruising the boards, has picked up the habit of saying “T M I” to her co-workers/customers when they launch into a story that’s, well, TMI.
It’s not a phenomenon unique the the Dope, but nobody ever seems to get it, until she spells it out for them. Err, well, so to speak.
Not that people are always asking me if I have any hobbies, but on a few occasions when I was asked that very question I was very proud of myself for being so quick to answer:
[sub]Well, that ain’t the line, I’m just riffing off bienville.[/sub]
This one draws mildly puzzled looks from those who know me well; specifically, those who know both that I’m not religious, and I usually try not offend the sensibilities of those who are.
“Goddamn praise the lord!” Tremors: When Val and Earl are on the way out of town. For some reason the incongruity of this line tickles me, and like Earl, who managed to say no to free beer, I use it when I’ve beaten some steep odds, at one thing or another.
It’s from a commercial for big trucks that ran some years ago, in which various old farmer-type guys were being interviewed for their opinions on a particular V-10. One of them remarked “I could tow a 16’ boat with that truck”, leading Hubby to speculate on a version of Name That Tune in which old guys challenge each other’s boat-towing capabilities.
“Yoiks, and away!” (From Robin Hood Daffy. OK, it’s a cartoon, not a movie. So sue me.)
We used to use this at a company I used to work for whenever we launched another test run of our latest production build. (Used because our typical pattern was launch, crash, bugfix, launch, crash, bugfix…) I still use it but no one else seems to have heard it.
“Over to you, Red Leader One!” (From The Magic Christian.)
Used when I am handing off some task to someone else.
And, of course…
“Have fun storming the castle!” (You know this one.)
Used whenever someone is starting on what I consider to be a hopeless course of action.
I know most people on this board would get these “Simpson” references, but I’m amazed how clueless the people I come across in day to day life have no idea what I’m talking about.
“If this place gets any livelier, a funeral might break out!”
“Your ideas intrigue me. I’d like to subscribe to your newsletters.”
And I have various quotes from “The Pod People” episode of “Mystery Science Theater 3000”.
If someone asks me to identify an object, picture, etc. and after I tell them they ask,
“Are you sure?”
I always respond in my best Harrison Ford “Pretty sure.”
(from indiana jones and the last crusade).
No one ever gets that one.