“But I’m a mother. Shouldn’t it be '* Matron* of Evil ’ ?”
Jeez, I didn’t think anyone around here even read my posts.
Half credit. I’l leave it open in case anyone can come up with the full explanation.
“Go out into your garden. There’s a great Darsh face hanging over the wall.”
“Absotively posilutely!”
That’s very silly. The only people who are going to get these things are people who have been in our living room watching them or hard hard HARD core fans who got the tapes in some other way. All those fans are in the Kate forums, having orgasms about Aerial, not here on the Straight Dope, where only a few people have even heard of her.
What’s the point of posting something if someone who knows the answer isn’t supposed to give the answer?
Ru-Paul, on the Sonny and Cher Happy Hour special.
Well, it’s usually credited to Gallagher and Shean (no, not that Gallagher; the original), and it was a common expression in the 1920s.
Right with the others (I was only warming up), but this one was wrong.
Some more:
“I knew something was wrong when I woke up insde the coffin.”
In this film about (among other things) religion and miracles, all the actors playing Catholic priests or nuns were Jewish.
“He’d kill us if he got the chance.”
Sitcom whose theme song was written and performed by John Prine.
One of his archenemies was Bushwack’r (though he never knew it).
Where was the pellet with the poison? (the reference is easy, the answer is not).
In the flagon with the dragon. “The Court Jester” (Danny Kaye).
Stop saying “The Mighty Hercules.”
“You can’t expect me to choose a boyfriend right away-that’s like eating the first pancake off the stove. You have to give at least one to the dog.”
Oh man, I just heard this the other day, but the context won’t come to me.
“This is ponderous, man. Really ponderous.”
This is one of the overlapping mantras chanted by the Monkees during their song, “Zilch”. It is also shouted by Mickey Dolenz during the song “No Time”, which follows it on the same album.
Mr Doublina, Mr. Bob Doublina
Zilch!
Right?
A kiss is a terrible thing to waste.
scotandrsn and Bricker, you’re both right about it being repeated in “Zilch” and as a line in “No Time.”
But where did Micky Dolenz hear it?
From “the Conversation.” It’s the disturbing bit of dialogue that Gene Hackman’s wiretapping character picks up between Cindy Williams (of “Laverne & Shirley” fame) and her paramour (NOT her husband.)
I’ll toss out a couple…
From popular music:
“Your mother needs you now,
She’s getting old.
Her face was pretty,
But you let her go.”
From film:
“This is a lock of his hair! This is a tooth he lost! And this bottle, it’s the smell of him…This is the smell of him. Oh God! THE SMELL OF HIM!”
The World According to Garp?
Try this:
“Life’s just a game/you fly a paper plane/there is no end.”
No one’s got mine yet, here’s three more :
“Kesho !!”
“I am Dionisio Vega. Welcome…to my domain.”
“I have seen just one of these weapons destroy a whole company of giant robot spiders”
A description of VIP from “Lover Come Back,” a 1961 Doris Day movie.
Mine: “And that would mean something if your hands were made of metal.”
“I’ll kill the Captain if it’s his time my boy, I’ll take the Admiral too and if you’re not cool -** I’ll take you!**”
Just thought of another. From literature, but based on a popular song:
“Woke up.
Fell out of bed.
Rolled on the floor.
Tried to get up.
Couldn’t.
So I stayed on the floor all day long.”