What did Brad Steele and Brad Kent have in common?
What did Katherine Mortenhoe do to make her a (fictional) celebrity?
“Anyone can call himself a writer. But when someone else calls you a writer, THEN you’re a writer.” (One of my favorite movie quotes).
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!”
“life is the way we audition for God;
Let us pray that we all get the job.”
I decided this one would be unfair to use in the “Name that TV theme song” thread:
Lightning flashed, and something missed,
A poor old crazy scientist
Had dropped a bag of jellybeans…
Google won’t help you.
I think I know these, but they won’t come to the forefront of my brain. I keep thinking Jeremiah Johnson for the 2nd, and John Wayne (True Grit or The Searchers?) for the first.
HA! I got it immediately without looking it up. Kate Bush said it to Delia Smith on “Delia Smith’s Cookery Course” back in 1980 (ok, I had to look up the year).
Another great line from that: “I can’t believe people make them [fruit salads] from tins. It’s just so wrong.”
Here’s one:
He looked pretty rich
And I was down on m’ luck
So I charged him a fortune
For a flying f… (gets cut off)
RealityChuck writes:
> “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!”
Hardware Wars.
pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment
The Pushcart War
“What the hell do you know, you’re an albino.”
RealityChuck writes:
> What did Katherine Mortenhoe do to make her a (fictional) celebrity?
She was dying (in D. G. Compton’s The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, also known as The Unsleeping Eye and Deathwatch).
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Jerimiah Johnson, I think Will Geer to Robert Redford after the former has run a live bear into a cabin where Redford is waiting after bragging about his bear killing skills.
Jerimiah Johnson again, I think, toward the end.
Not sure, but I want to say Finding Forrester.
Hardware Wars
Ishtar
I don’t even think that’s obscure. It’s Victor Hugo’s query to his publisher as to the sales of Les Miserables and his publisher’s reply.
I don’t have one to give, though.
pulls pistol from his cloak
BANG…
Well I knew YOU’D get it; I almost added that caveat. But I THOUGHT you’d be CLEVER enough to let it lie, and see if ANYONE ELSE got it. You gave it away, Eq!
OK, here’s another:
“Lots of carbolic soap, and just leave it messy.”
I did not know that. I was quoting the first two pages of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of Lies, which pushes it back into the realm of obscurity. I’ve no inkling if Crowley was referencing your cite
Bakshi’s Wizards – one of the great funny moments on film.
Mine’s Literary:
When I talk about a situation degenerating nothing sums it up better than the following – and no one has any clue as to what I’m talking about:
“First he refused to prostrate himself in the Persian fashion, then Alexander refused to kiss his ring and things just went from bad to worse.”
“Bryan is a dog.
Gina is an iguana.
John is an aphid.”
“Velveeta, it’s like cheese with the perfect disguise.”
The Games
3 minutes, not bad.
Now, what was the context of the quote?
Nuts. You caught me. I didn’t see that episode, but when I brought up the Games several months ago you quoted that.
“…It all started with this condom factory…”