# Princess Bride: Why so many quoted lines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609 "2012-11-20T12:31:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/61 "2012-11-21T02:26:20Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Wanna make 14 dollars the hard way? > > Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid! These two quotes changed my life. First, I finally learned how life really worked. Second, I realized Hollywood was lying to me. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/62 "2012-11-21T05:44:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There’s also the Thagomizer on the end of a stegosaurus’s tail, and the collective noun for a “flange” of baboons. (And who knows how else that connects to this thread?) Cat fud Cow tools Tether cat Beware of Doug ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/63 "2012-11-21T06:04:05Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > They’re Nihilists, Donny. Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/64 "2012-11-21T06:13:09Z")
A “flange of baboons” is from a sketch called [Gerald the Gorilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0) on _Not the Nine O’Clock News_. You may recognize the voice of Gerald. The man sitting next to him is Mel Smith, who was the albino in _The Princess Bride_. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/65 "2012-11-21T06:24:35Z")
Okay, getting into the spirit of things (and since I’m the only one that’s mentioned The Wizard of Oz)…let’s see… Toto, too? Toto, too. Follow the yellow brick road! Ding Dong, the witch is dead! I’ll get you my pretty…and your little dog, too! We’re off to see the wizard! Auntie Em! Auntie Em! How about a little fire, Scarecrow? Well, that’s a horse of a different color. Poppies…poppies will make them sleep… Surrender, Dorothy Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain… I’m melting! Mellllltttingggg! Oh what a world, what a world! Lions and tigers and bears (oh my). There’s no place like home. Fourteen just off the top of my head… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/66 "2012-11-21T08:13:35Z")
You left out the most famous one, though. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/67 "2012-11-21T08:15:24Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > You left out the most famous one, though. I agree. I wonder if we’re thinking of the same quote, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/68 "2012-11-21T08:39:50Z")
Hmm…there’s a couple I’d have come up with pretty quickly that aren’t there - 'Put 'em up, put 'em up, put ‘em uuuuup!’ ‘I do believe in spooks!’ and a couple of the songs - but all the ones I’d call ‘the most famous’ are there… Which ones are y’all thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/69 "2012-11-21T08:46:13Z")
Back-translating from Spanish so it’s probably not correct, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more”. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/70 "2012-11-21T08:49:28Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. I hate Illinois Nihilists. (Particularly choice quotables often lend themselves to adaptation, so they can be used more broadly.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/71 "2012-11-21T08:58:48Z")
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/72 "2012-11-21T09:58:13Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Back-translating from Spanish so it’s probably not correct, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more”. Oooh, I can’t believe I forgot that one. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/73 "2012-11-21T10:32:22Z")
There, there… _pats **Kamino** ’s back_ ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/74 "2012-11-21T13:40:04Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Back-translating from Spanish so it’s probably not correct, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more”. Not bad, you did well. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/75 "2012-11-21T14:33:51Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Hmm…there’s a couple I’d have come up with pretty quickly that aren’t there - 'Put 'em up, put 'em up, put ‘em uuuuup!’ ‘I do believe in spooks!’ and a couple of the songs - but all the ones I’d call ‘the most famous’ are there… Which ones are y’all thinking of? > [@Nava](#): > > Back-translating from Spanish so it’s probably not correct, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more”. See? 😃 I knew there were a lot more than 14, heh. > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Oooh, I can’t believe I forgot that one. :smack: Yeah, me either. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/76 "2012-11-21T15:26:54Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > See? 😃 I knew there were a lot more than 14, heh. > > Yeah, me either. " I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too" ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/77 "2012-11-21T17:37:41Z")
> [@simster](#): > > " I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too" But I don’t even _have_ a little dog. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/78 "2012-11-21T18:48:03Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > Well, the exception may be the _Princess Bride_ contingent, but I don’t think the effect is absent in society as a whole. Chances are if you asked a random person off the street, if they can’t quote from _Princess Bride_, they could probably quote from some other movie favorite of theirs (unless they were not a movie fan at all). A few weeks ago at church, I ended up trading TPB quotes with several other people, including the pastor’s wife 😃 > [@Just\_Ed](#): > > “Cromulent” hasn’t (yet) made it to the OED, but [Wiktionary](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent) will define it for you.Now that just makes me sad. And that’s what makes MC Frontalot so clever. In his song _Charity Case_, he uses the word, “possibleness”, and then a couple lines later says, “I know that ‘possibleness’ is not a cromulent word.” > [@pythonzzz](#): > > Cat fud > > Cow tools > > Tether cat > > Beware of Doug PULL > [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ll get you my pretty…and your little dog, too! Heh. I used that one in this picture I put together of some of my characters from the game _City of Heroes_: > **[MisterRik User Profile | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/misterrik/gallery)** ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/79 "2012-11-21T18:48:47Z")
zug zug ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609/80 "2012-11-21T19:34:17Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > But I don’t even _have_ a little dog. Alright, tighten your shorts, pilgrim, and sing like the Duke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-bride-why-so-many-quoted-lines/641609.md?page=5)