Thanks, elelle.
I think the reason I love that one so much is this: the logic of the statement is absurd, but the sentiment behind it is appealing. To me, anyway.
still chuckling,
TN*hippie
(who, at 42, still doesn’t much care for responsibility)
I beg to differ RTA
- Fargo
- Raising Arizona
- The Big Lebowski
I loved the creepy giant on the motor-cycle AND his fight with Cage.
It’s a close call, but yes. I’d rank them in that order, too.
my .02,
TN*hippie
“Six hundred fifty-two Mississippi, six hundred fifty-three Mississippi, six hundred fifty-four Mississippi…aw…BULLSHIT!”
“I brought the instructions.”
“Your beloved…Herbert.”
Sublight: What was the fourth “Don’t forget the XXXX”? I remember “Don’t forget his profile, Ed,” “Don’t forget his fangers, Ed,” and “Don’t forget the bokay, Ed,” but what was the fourth one?
Also, I just have to speak up, because two people have shortchanged the “crawdad” exchange.
“When there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.”
“Y’ate what?”
“We ate sand.”
“Y’ate sand?”
“'At’s right.”
“Don’t forget the flowers, Ed.”
Or maybe it wasn’t. Dang. And I just watched that movie last night.
“Come on down to Unpainted Arizona! We’ve got everything for your BATHROOM, BEDROOM, BOUDWAAAAAR! Or my name’s not Nathan Arizona!”
I’ve been known to tell the SO to on back to the BOUDWAAAAR (you have to get the inflection and accent just right) when I’m feeling particularly affectionate. She usually tells me my name isn’t Nathan Arizona.
(And, yes, I know that you spell it boudoir - it is just that he sure doesn’t say it that way).
Dot an’ me, we’re swingers.
…and I suggest YOU PAY IT!
I’ll be takin’ these here Huggies and any cash you got in that drawer.
Dot says these’ns here are gettin’ too big to cuddle.
Some of my unmentioned favorites.
"Me and Dot went in to adopt on account of somethin went wrong with my semen and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby I said healthy white baby, five years, OK what else ya got. Said they got two Koreans and a Negro born with his heart on the outside … it’s a crazy world. " - Glen
“Anyone found bi-pedal in five wears his ass for a hat!” - Gale
“Awful good cereal flakes Mrs. McDonnough.” - Evelle
Evelle: Cover them hayseeds while we go in there and get that cash.
Gale: You understand HI if this works out, it-it’s just the beginning of a spree to cover the entire southwest proper and we keep going until we can retire or we get caught.
Evelle: Either way we’re fixed for life.
“… and mama would throw the live crawdad in a pan of boiling water and one day I decided to make my own crawdad and I threw it in a pot without the water, you see, and it was just like making popcorn.” - Cellmate
“You tell him I think he’s a dang fool Ed. You tell him I said so, H I McDonnough, and if he wants to discuss it he knows where to find me…in the Maracopa County Maximum Security Correctional facility for men, State Farm Road #31 Tempe Arizona, I’ll be waitin’!” - H.I.
“Ray! Ya take that diaper off you head you put it back onto your sister!” - Dot
Gale: Everybody freeze! Everybody down on the ground!
Old Guy: Well which is it young feller. You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say if’n I freeze I can’t rightly drop and if’n I drop I’ma gonna be in motion. You see …
Gale: Shut Up!
Old Guy: Okay then.
“I’m talkin’ about sex boy, what the hell are you talking about. I’m talking about l’amore, I’m talkin’ that me and Dot are swingers … as in to swing. I’m talkin’ about wife swapping. I’m talkin’ about what they call nowadays open marriage!” - Glen
“I’m crappin’ ya negative!” - Glen
“… but the doctor explain that her insides were a rocky place where my seeds could find no purchase.” - H.I.
Ed: Which one you get?
H.I.: I don’t know, Nathan Jr. I think.
Ed: Gimmie here.
H.I.: Here’s the instructions.
Cop: What did the pajamas look like sir?
Nathan Arizona: I don’t know, they were jammies, they had Yodas an’ shit on 'em!
- Steve
“Uh sir. You might want to wash your hands first”
This film had 3 future Best Actor/Actress winners.
We have a small blank area on a wall in our house where my wife insists on photographing our children whenever they put on some cute outfit or something silly. Every time she does that I say “Turn to the riiiiite”.
It makes us smile.
I always crack up when one of Glen and Dots hellion kids write the word “Fart” on the wall with marker or spray paint or whatever!
Okay, I’m dense. What’s the connection? What are the other references?
Buford’s a sly one. He already knows his ABCs! Hit the deck, boy!
O.P.E. were the initials of the code words that would recall the bombers that were about to bomb the Soviet Union in Dr. Strangelove.