# One-liners that suggest a great story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606 "2015-06-04T03:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/61 "2015-06-05T14:21:45Z")
“It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/62 "2015-06-05T14:52:17Z")
Okay, I’ll admit that pushing the yellow button was probably a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/63 "2015-06-05T14:56:39Z")
“That’s the banjo player’s Porsche.” Was cited by Johnny Carson as being the least-spoken sentence in the English language, but also works for this thread. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/64 "2015-06-05T15:08:03Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > 55 posts, and nobody done this one yet? > > “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” It was the best of times; it was the _blurst_ of times! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/65 "2015-06-05T15:46:34Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > “That’s the banjo player’s Porsche.” > > Was cited by Johnny Carson as being the least-spoken sentence in the English language, but also works for this thread. You know, if I were[Steve Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Martin#Steve_Martin_Prize_for_Excellence_in_Banjo_and_Bluegrass), I’d buy a Porsche just to put the lie to this sentence. Of course, for all I know, he owns a few. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/66 "2015-06-05T16:43:29Z")
There is no such thing as a Gnomish pygmy war rhino. This is one of more than 2,000 “Things Mr. Welch is No Longer Allowed to Do in a Role Playing Game.” > **[2550 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG](https://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html)** > > 1. Cannot base characters off the Whos drummer Keith Moon. 2. A one man band is not an appropriate bard instrument. 3. There is no Gnomish god of heavy artillery. 4. My 7th Sea character Boudreaux is not Southern Montaigne. 5. Not allowed to blow all... Note: This link is only to the first 500. ---
**Author:** ![Enigma42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/87869e/32.png) [@Enigma42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enigma42)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/67 "2015-06-05T16:55:08Z")
“He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead.” -from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/68 "2015-06-05T17:16:50Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > There is no such thing as a Gnomish pygmy war rhino. Being goofy in an RPG is one thing. Being goofy in the army is taking it to [another level](http://skippyslist.com/list/). Some choice samples include : 1. Not allowed to threaten anyone with black magic. 2. Not allowed to challenge anyone’s disbelief of black magic by asking for hair. … 3. Rodents are not entitled to burial with full military honors, even if they are “casualties of war”. … 4. My chain of command has neither the time, nor the inclination to hear about what I did with six boxes of Fruit Roll-Ups. ® and my personal fave : 198. Not allowed to lead a “Coup” during training missions. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/69 "2015-06-05T18:12:42Z")
“I too once passed the Dimrill Gate,” said Aragorn quietly; “but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time.”’ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/70 "2015-06-05T18:42:33Z")
Louise to Thelma: “You know how I feel about Texas. We’re not going that way.” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/71 "2015-06-05T19:18:47Z")
Just think Lucretia, he could be the second poor schlub you reverse impregnate and force to have an abortion. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/72 "2015-06-05T19:26:14Z")
Let’s not forget: It was a dark and stormy night! ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/73 "2015-06-05T19:39:04Z")
“Poor Albert floated when he died.” (From a short story what is pretty much the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/74 "2015-06-05T19:59:55Z")
“Every time I wake up I think I’m gonna be back in the jungle.” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/75 "2015-06-05T21:19:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. (Listening to a classic yesterday, my mind took a weird turn: ) I’ve got pieces of April… …stuck in my teeth? …in my freezer? …buried in the backyard? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/76 "2015-06-06T17:28:37Z")
“She thinks about a boy she knew at school”–Lying Eyes Obviously a throw away line, needing something to rhyme with “fool.” But what is the story there? Did she reject him because he was poor? Was he a struggling artist, and is now extremely wealthy? Is he the “boy” she just had sex with? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/77 "2015-06-06T17:43:05Z")
Roy Batty in _Blade Runner_: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.” OK, it’s three lines, but it suggests a fascinating back-story. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/78 "2015-06-06T17:46:41Z")
I once heard a guy on a public phone scream “I got a tattoo by myself, I bought a gun by myself, I can certainly go to the movies by myself.” That line cries out for a story. ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/79 "2015-06-06T21:56:55Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “My father fought in the Clone Wars?” [Ahem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ_mjtTCdcg&t=2m57s) > [@](#): > > Luke: No, my father didn’t fight in the wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter. > > Ben: That’s what your uncle told you. He didn’t hold with your father’s ideals, thought he should’ve stayed here and not gotten involved. > > Luke: You fought in the Clone Wars? > > Ben: Yes. I was once a Jedi Knight, the same as your father. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/80 "2015-06-07T13:07:57Z")
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