“a buck two eighty”
There’s a line in a Billy Joel tune, Close to the Borderline that runs “a buck three-eighty won’t but you much lately on the street these days.” Might be what you’re thinking of there.
But I seem to recall reading that the origin of the phrase is older than that song. May in fact have heard it here in CS, however, my abject opposition to hamster abuse prevents me from searching at this time.
“Egad… Fuck.” - What’s Up Tiger Lilly?
“Wll, it’s better than kissing your horse for breakfast” - I’ve used this for years but don’t know where it is from. Sounds like a John Wayne line.
Just remembered another good one from The Larry Sanders Show, though it may have been an homage to something else.
Bobcat Goldthwait is on the show, and goes completely mental. Lights the chair on fire, throws the furniture, jumps up on the desk and starts screaming Dance for me, monkey boy! Dance!
Basically he is decrying the injustice of being expected to perform at the beck and call of another’s whims; this is a favorite of mine when pulled out of doing something at work to look at something else. (Saying the quote; not lighting stuff on fire and dancing.)
I say “Hee haw!” whenever anybody mentions a name that’s anything close to “Wainwright.”
I repeat “New York City??!!” in an incredulous manner whenever anybody says “New York City.”
I say “sammich” instead of “sandwich,” as a tribute to Tom Servo.
I use “rever” not only when agreeing vehemently, but also as an expletive (instead of “shoot!”).
There must be dozens more. I need to start keeping a list.
Quite a few of my fiends and i are huge Kevin Smith fans, and our talk is just riddled with various quotes from his movies. But Whenever I’m not around one of them and i say something from a movie… completely blank stares. For example:
(Walking into a mall) “Oh, I love the smell of commerce in the morning!”
Or as just a general funny statement, "Mass genocide is the most physically straining things , next to soccer.
Not to mention anything thats ever from a Monty Python or Mel Brooks movie. Not to mention when the people who know the MP movies dont know the show.
Like " And now for something completely different" (and yes there was a MP movie of that name, but no one I know , except for myself, has ever seen it.
And Whenever we see a rabbit the first thing we say is usally “Run Away, Run away!”
Maybe everybody get them just fine, they just think that your use of deliberately obscure references is rather pathetic. Or maybe they don’t get them, and it’s still pathetic.
I’m rather fond of it myself.
Nice Rabelais ref, btw, too. 
I often use “Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me,” but most people around me get it, from sheer force of repetition. (Although “…went to a bawdy house not – above once in a quarter” got me funny looks ;))
(In response to “Where is everybody?”)
“Arby’s. Roast beef sale.”
Is that an SNLism? A lot of people seem to think it came from Adam Carolla (on Loveline or The Man Show), but Adam himself isn’t sure.
Ones I’ve said that have raised eyebrows:
“I am VERY DISAPPOINTED!” Gary Oldman, in The Fifth Element
“You know what we need man? Some ROPE!” courtesy of The Boondock Saints
“Chaaaaaaaaarlie!” really obscure one from the hilarious 2nd season Angel episode “Dead End”
Several more of Lindsay’s lines from “Dead End” including “I’ve got these evil hand issues…” and when accompanied by apologetic shrug, “Evil!”
I work in an office full of geeks and no one gets “Every day I check the email…” which is from Strong Bad’s song about Trogdor the Burninator.
Believe it or not, some people don’t get it when I sometimes exclaim “Trogdor!”
I’d give several more examples from the Boondock Saints except that they don’t really apply. I’ve forced all my friends to watch the movie so the references aren’t really obscure anymore.
“There’s no basement in the Alamo!”
[British accent] “Not that I KNOW of.”
I just watched the yesterday.
Getting more weird looks, I think:
‘Do you have a dream?’
<PeeWee (and me)> ‘Sometimes I have one where I’m rolling this donut and there’s a snake in a vest…’
Unfortunately I can’t quote it exactly at any point, as I can never REMEMBER the line exactly…
I do that sometimes too. I love that commercial.
I always use Joel from MST3K’s “Do What I Do,” using the voice and everything. I bet that’s a reference to something else, but I don’t know what it is. Other favorites from MST3K are “You know you only rent waters of forgetfulness” and “Watch out for snakes!”
A friend of mine really impressed me with one of these; she’s usually not one for the references. But she was showing me some jewelry she’d made and I asked where she’d learned to do that. Without missing a beat, she said: “From you, all right? I learned it from watching you!” (from an anti-pot PSA aired in the mid-80’s)
“Soup from dried beans in twenty minutes? Phbbt… that’s CRAZY talk!” One of my absolute favorite TV moments ever.
Within my family:
“Flash, look!” whenever something exciting happens.
“Princess Aura has been kidnapped!” whenever something bad, but minor happens, and has been blown out of proportion.
The Clay People Salute, which is going down on one knee, leaning back, and raising your open hands to your shoulders gets used usually when meeting one another in a public place. For shock value, of course.
All from the 1930s Flash Gordon movies. Never ever has anyone gotten the references.
“YES! YES! FUCK YOU TOO!”
“I have a date with Lisa!”
“She’s your… QUEEEEEEEN tooohoo BEEEE…”
“Imagine a land so free, that people can throw glass on the streets!”
“Sexual Chocolate!” (this one especially gets strange looks)
I completely forgot… Only one person (the one who introduced me) ever gets these.
‘Je suis une tres grande pomme de terre!’
‘Say it with me and wiggle! Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! David Hasselhoff CAN fly!’
And a couple other Noodleboy ramblings.
Whenever someones asks me a question, I answer, then they ask if I’m sure, I’ll look at them wearily, and in my best slow, uncertain drawl say, “Maybe it was Utah.”
Then walk away.
Sir Rhosis
Okay… Can you tell me where this is from? It’s frighteningly similar to a line we used to use (that was original, not from a media source) and still do, on occasion-
“Il est midi parce ce que je suis une pomme de terre!”
(Trans: It is noon because I am a potato!)