# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/101 "2015-06-10T23:47:04Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I see what you did there. > > Maurice did it. > > 😃 I most certainly did not. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/102 "2015-06-11T03:54:56Z")
Technically three lines. From _Ocean’s 11_: Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I’ll never forget it. Danny: That was our pleasure. Rusty: I’d never been to Belize. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/103 "2015-06-11T04:25:31Z")
Planescape: Torment has a lot of references to the past lives the protagonist has lived, none of which he directly remembers. Only a few of those lives are even remotely fleshed out, and most of them seem to be real dicks. When you’ve died and come back to life as much as the protagonist has, you have potential for a lot of interesting stories. Of course, part of the game’s charm is that you don’t know everything you’ve done in past lives, nor should you. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/104 "2015-06-11T06:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > “Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.” God, I love that line. And that story. “The Last Camel Died at Noon” ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/105 "2015-06-11T07:25:21Z")
Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/106 "2015-06-11T07:42:51Z")
You weren’t there, in the final days of the War. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock’s broken, then everything’s coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres; the War turned into Hell! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/107 "2015-06-11T11:12:23Z")
Many Shuzs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/108 "2015-06-11T15:45:46Z")
“Have you ever seen someone object to a wedding?” “Once, in Barcelona. There was gunfire.” > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > “The senator, while insisting that he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity” I once wrote a song called, “Take Off Your Pants, Senator” based on a line from a story. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/109 "2015-06-12T01:21:40Z")
“Solely,” said Linley, “in order to get an appetite.” Fill your hand, you son of a bitch! You wore blue, the Germans wore gray. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/110 "2015-06-12T01:56:40Z")
Not a one liner, but the Q vs Guinan back story should be interesting ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/111 "2015-06-12T03:24:14Z")
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Oops, I may have misunderstood! I believe that line _is_ the entirety of the story. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/112 "2015-06-12T04:03:15Z")
From the recent headlines - here on the SDMB. “It was either a dead girl or a live boy.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/113 "2015-06-13T02:40:11Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Interestingly, there were (at least) _two_ fictional characters who said this – the more recent being an obvious allusion to the earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/114 "2015-06-13T04:27:08Z")
“You know some time you’re bound to leave her, but for now you’re going to stay…” Huh? Such a fantastic, inscrutable affair, and you’re thinking that you’re going to get bored soon enough? I want to hear more about what you do for living! ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/115 "2015-06-13T05:07:51Z")
First time I heard this song I wondered why a murder had been committed: _“Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.”_ With the 3rd of June being just a little over a week ago I’m surprised that no one has mentioned this song: _“Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”_ And also: _“And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”_ And from the last verse of the folk song “Casey Jones”: _“Hush up children, and quit your crying’, For you’ve got another poppa on the Salt Lake Line.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/116 "2015-06-13T17:18:21Z")
Keeping with the OP’s Steely Dan… “Just when I say, “Boy we can’t miss, you are golden,” then you do this.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/117 "2015-06-14T15:34:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Louise to Thelma: “You know how I feel about Texas. We’re not going that way.” I’m not sure I understand the concept here. Isn’t the story regarding the above line explained in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/118 "2015-06-15T15:28:04Z")
Not exactly a one-liner, but what exactly did you, me, and Julio do down by the schoolyard? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/119 "2015-06-15T19:25:39Z")
What did Billy Joe McCallister toss off the Tallahatchee Bridge? ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/120 "2015-06-15T19:35:20Z")
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Paul Auster, City of Glass [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606.md?page=7)