I’d like to see the threads as well but I imagine it’d be just like we see here. A certain percent saying congrats with more saying “Yeah but that’s not where I remember it from” and the search will go on.
I posted it on snopes, IMDB, and sent a message to a sysop at Wikiquote. (And if you go looking, I do use a different name on each message board, but they’re all me (well, “I”). I also submitted the quote exchange to the “memorable quotes” for “Burke’s Law.”
Inside the IMDB thread, there’s a link to another message board with some more discussion. One poster basically says that this find was not any closer than some of the other sources posited. And, while I maintain that I can’t say that this is the source of the reason that everyone seems to be familiar with this *quote, nothing else has even come close.
*I still go back to the translations of The Emperor’s New Clothes which include a similar line as a possible source for cementing a version of this phrase into our collective consciousness. I have not attempted, however, to track down every filmed or taped version to verify it if it was ever said on film or tape.
Tuck - I have to doubt this as the source of our quote. Mainly, I think people have experienced *The Emperor’s New Clothes * as more of an orally passed along fairy tale than as a written document. And that particular translation would have been read by very few people, anyway. I have to think that you nailed it with the tv show. But I, as others, must remain perplexed that such an exchange could be “remembered” by so many people. And frankly, I would not be surprised if the author of that episode had it in his mind at the time he wrote that script. Fascinating. I guess we’re watching the birth of a cultural meme.
No, I didn’t mean that.
Perhaps it’s a quirky glitch in the history of cinema, but “legendarily bad” doesn’t remotely begin to do it justice.
It’s still a beautifully interesting movie to watch, with wonderful (IMHO) music, not to mention being an enjoyable artifact of the age that it came from.
If you wish to slam it, that’s one thing. Slamming my appreciation of it is simply uncalled for.
Yeah, what an odd comment. It was a box office success, the Beatles themselves liked it, and it was memorable enough that references like “the blue meanies” are still in circulation. It’s not The Greatest Animated Movie Evah but it’s charming and fun.
Congratulations to the OP, perhaps you can now help us track down a wallet that was found behind a wall 
Well, if y’all will forgive me for raising a zombie for once, I just had an interesting experience—or a psychotic lapse.
Anyway, I was just catching some TV before I got to sleep, and I happened to switch to 1967’s Casino Royale on Encore mystery…
…And the scene where Orson Wells’ Le Chiffe is torturing Peter Sellers’ 007. The latter asks what the “chair with the hole in it” is for, to which, from memory, Wells replies:
“That’s the beauty of it…it doesn’t do anything. The best torture is all in the mind.”
:eek:
So, on the off chance that no one else stumbled across this before now…iffy, but I felt like a gamble…there you go.
ok, now all we need is a cite beyond your own memory of a sleepy moment.
I don’t know if this transcript is the exact version of Casino Royale in question, but…