# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/121 "2015-06-15T20:37:51Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I’m not sure I understand the concept here. Isn’t the story regarding the above line explained in the movie? [No, and it’s more than just a throwaway quote, too.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/synopsis)The IMDB synopsis: > [@](#): > > Thelma is confused when Louise tells her that she doesn’t want to go through Texas to get to Mexico, but Louise becomes furious about it and insists that Thelma find another route. > … > While driving away, Thelma recalls the incident with Harlan and asks Louise again about Texas; Thelma is sure Louise was raped there. But Louise is adamant, and icily tells Thelma that she won’t talk about it, and to never ask her about it again. > … > After leaving the state, Louise calls Slocumb again at Darryl’s house. She tells him that the whole thing was an accident, and Hal believes her, but since she is unwilling to return for questioning, he informs her that they will be charged with murder. He also makes a shocking statement to Louise: he knows what happened to her in Texas. Thelma hangs up the phone, worried that Louise has been on too long. Sure enough, the FBI has traced the call, and they try and head off without Hal to bring the women in. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/122 "2015-06-15T21:31:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > What did Billy Joe McCallister toss off the Tallahatchee Bridge? That I’m not sure of, but my mother always believed that Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge because either he was gay, or was discovered to be gay. ---
**Author:** ![bluffalobob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bluffalobob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluffalobob)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/123 "2015-06-15T23:41:14Z")
In my defense, the hair growing out of the mole really did make that tattoo look more like a monkey than it did her departed mother. ---
**Author:** ![Vandergraf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba9def/32.png) [@Vandergraf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vandergraf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/124 "2015-06-16T02:18:14Z")
I had friends on that deathstar… ---
**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 16, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/125 "2015-06-16T03:59:43Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That I’m not sure of, but my mother always believed that Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge because either he was gay, or was discovered to be gay. I thought it was the aborted baby. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/126 "2015-06-16T06:25:37Z")
“Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.” “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.” “That’s, uh, quite a dress you almost have on…What holds it up?” ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/127 "2015-06-16T07:04:12Z")
The Venture Bros. world is ridiculously full of weirdos only mentioned in passing and references to events, adventures, and mythology that the audience never sees. A couple random ones: “I have watched you pull a man’s eyes from his head and make him dance like a marionette with his own optic nerves!” “When I’m through with you, you’ll be a member of the elite agency that’s been thanklessly defending this big-ass country since the second American Revolution… the invisible one.” ---
**Author:** ![TonyRV2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TonyRV2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonyRV2)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/128 "2015-06-16T20:22:02Z")
Did we give up when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor?.. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/129 "2015-06-17T16:56:36Z")
“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.” It’s been a long time since I’ve read The Postman Always Rings Twice, but I don’t think Cain even explained just why they threw him off the truck or what he was doing on it in the first place, although I’ve always assumed he was just bumming a ride. ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/130 "2015-06-17T17:15:07Z")
In a classic case of “dammit, I should have used that quote instead”, another Venture Bros. quote. Phantom Limb explaining to King Gorilla (For the unfamiliar, both are exactly as ridiculous villains as their names imply) why the guild wouldn’t help him get out of prison: “Oh, what could we do? You eviscerated and sodomized Vince Neil on national television.” “Hey, I only sodomized half of him! They wanted The Surreal Life, K.G. GAVE it to 'em!” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/131 "2015-06-18T18:01:30Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. This is an awesome one. It’s also one that’ll never convey the same image as Gibson intended, since TVs nowadays tuned to a dead channel show (usually) a brilliant signal-generated blue instead of the grey-white static “snow” of an analog OTA tuner on a CRT raster-scan screen. There’s already a generation that needs a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhc34AZZzrM) to depict what Gibson meant, but for my generation the visual is immediate and visceral. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/132 "2015-06-19T09:06:20Z")
“The dwarf lives until we find a cock merchant.” "Did I not kill her with these hands? "Did \*I \*not kill her with _these_ hands? And any of a thousand lines from “Little, Big” by John Crowley. ---
**Author:** ![FireBrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@FireBrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FireBrand)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/133 "2015-06-19T15:54:09Z")
Chewbacca: ROOOOWER! Hans Solo: I’m sure he’s forgotten about that, Chewy. (Just after landing on Lando Calrissian’s city in the clouds.) ---
**Author:** ![Quequeeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ba9def/32.png) [@Quequeeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quequeeg)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/134 "2015-08-02T16:44:40Z")
Call me Ishmael ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/135 "2015-08-02T17:32:04Z")
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/136 "2015-08-02T19:09:57Z")
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” “Oh shit. Not again!” he said, when he woke up in the holding cell. “It wasn’t a dark and stormy night.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/137 "2015-08-02T19:50:32Z")
So shave your face with some mace in the dark, saving all your food stamps and burning down the trailer park. I imagine it as the sequel to 8 Mile. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/138 "2015-08-02T19:54:53Z")
Want to know how I got these scars? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/139 "2015-08-02T21:04:04Z")
He had carried her across a burning desert in a plastic bag filled with water and fought ifrits and genies for her. (“He” is sort of a cross between a pincushion and a voodoo doll, and “she” is a goldfish.) ---
**Author:** ![smsaks2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@smsaks2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smsaks2000)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/140 "2015-08-04T19:50:25Z")
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