# Quotation Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 28, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/358509 "2006-05-28T01:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equuleus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c67d28/32.png) [@Equuleus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equuleus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/358509/1 "2006-05-28T01:40:46Z")
Does anyone know where the following saying originated? (Forgive the paraphrasing, I don’t know the exact quote - that’s why I’m here 😃 ): “There’s a whole lot they didn’t tell me when I signed on with this outfit!” ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/358509/2 "2006-05-28T03:51:41Z")
Best I can tell from some google-fu, it’s a caption on a piece by cowboy artist William Hampton. I don’t know if he got it from somewhere else. [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?searchtype=DISCUSS&artist=3555](http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?searchtype=DISCUSS&artist=3555) Quote: “I once had a copy of one of Bill Hampton’s pictures. I wish I could find another. The caption read " There were a helluva lot of things they didn’t tell me when I hired on with this outfit”. I have used that phrase many times in different situations." ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-question/358509/3 "2006-05-28T04:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=Equuleus] Does anyone know where the following saying originated? (Forgive the paraphrasing, I don’t know the exact quote - that’s why I’m here 😃 ): “There’s a whole lot they didn’t tell me when I signed on with this outfit!” [/QUOTE] I thought it was from a movie. But what I was thinking of was from “Aliens”: [Hudson:](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000200/) How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?