My wife and I blurt out several lines (or single words) in unison when we see certain things in movies. Among these are:
“It’s only a model.” (You can guess when.)
“Toast!” (Whenever we see toast, usually in Brit productions. Not sure why…)
“Fwoosh!” (When a character sweeps everything off a desk or table in anger, or throws something.)
“But the bell rang!” (When we need to get going.)
“It was…was…soap poisoning!” (When we see someone ill or dying.)
“Something REAL nice!” (With a little click of the tongue and hand gesture like Cousin Eddie.)
We’ll happily do all of these (and more) in public, including when watching a movie or show at a theater.
“It’s kind of important , Kronk.”
Most recently used to tell my son to check his damn mail.
When it’d otherwise be appropriate to do so, I’ll stagily reply to my wife that We Have All The Time In The World — which typically prompts her to roll her eyes, and typically prompts someone in range to ask why I’m saying that and why she’s reacting that way. I then helpfully explain that it’s what James Bond said to his wife right before she was tragically murdered. I then pause, and if they’re still giving me an interested and quizzical look, I blandly add that, hey, every time I say it and my wife doesn’t die, I’m clearly doing better at this sort of thing than James Bond did.
Why my wife puts up with me remains a mystery.
My late friend and I would take a page from MST3K whenever we’d see two things separated by an Ampersand:
1st: Rest & Relaxation! They’re cops!
2nd: Dammit Rest! This is not your personal war!
1st: RELAXATION’S A GOOD COP!
“THAT don’t make NO sense!” (from O Brother Where Art Thou)
Whenever I have to do something at work I don’t really want to do I’ll say “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
Zakalwe
December 5, 2024, 1:03am
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Anytime my wife and I come home and one of the kids asks what we did, I will shout-whisper in a faux-drunk voice:
“We jumped out a window.” from Big Hero Six.
DrDeth
December 5, 2024, 1:12am
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“Even I am Impressed!” (Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum, Miles Gloriosus.
Not a movie line, but I have to pay attention to not saying ‘make it so’ too many times when I’m the charge nurse.
Also from “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum”: Pseudolus: “I shall be back in a nonce. Or at most, two nonces.”
Nyvaak
December 5, 2024, 7:22am
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“If you could [whatever I’m asking be done] that would be greaaaat !”
silenus
December 5, 2024, 2:33pm
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Which you posted back on Jan. 31! That’s more than a couple of nonces ago.
If that’s too soon, you can post in a minute and a huff.
If anything slightly positive happens to me.
So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Wouldn’t that depend on how long you think a nonce is?
silenus
December 5, 2024, 11:13pm
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Can’t be too long, or Pseudolus wouldn’t make it back for Act 2!
How many nonces in a Scaramucci?