A common enough reference: We asked some friends how they had met; they were in Foreign Service orientation together, when some pompous bureaucrat started berating the class about not paying attention when he was talking and how he would blahblahblah. The male half of the pair muttered loudly enough for most of the class to hear: “Ah, lighten up, Francis.” He married the only person who laughed.
Yesterday in my Anatomy lab we were finishing up our cat dissection. All of a sudden a little voice sang out, “Soft kitty, warm kitty…”. And half the class immediately chimed in “Little ball of fur”!
I was one of the few people in the theater who laughed when, in Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum opened up his computer and it greeted him with “Good morning, Dave.”
Would I find this more or less disturbing if I knew where it was from?
It’s from the Big Bang Theory. Sheldon makes Penny sing Soft Kitty to him when he’s sick or cranky or whatever.
*Background for this: I used to help run a youth outdoors group. Once a year we took a bunch of the kids (15-17) to a sheep property in the arid zone of New South Wales. Lots of dust, kids sleep in the shearing shed etc.
We were right on the Darling River but still worked under water restrictions: part of this was short showers but twice in the 10 days we had a communal hair-wash. All the kids would line up in swimmers & t-shirts, I would hook a hose up to a gravity feed tank, the kids would take turns sitting in a plastic chair and one of the other (female) staff would help the kids with getting their hair washed out. Lots of laughs and the odd water-fight would occur.
Anyway, one day one of the girls who had quite pale skin put on her sunscreen and then got her hair washed, which, naturally washed all the sunscreen off. As she finished I suggested she put some more on.
Typical teen whining occurs
I shut off the hose, looked at her & said “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
A lot of the guys laughed but she had to have it explained to her.
Last year in a Biology class, we were doing our first absorbance lab and the instructor had driven into us the need to make sure that the cuvettes were absolutely clean before we loaded a sample. I started to pipette in a sample, noticed a smudge and said, “Can I get a cleaner cuvette? This one’s dirty.” The guy at the table who was pulling cuvettes out of the rack came right back with, “Fuck you, man, that’s the cleanest one I got!”
Friday night flight just arrived at LAX. Plane load of tired cranky business people standing in the aisle waiting for the door to open.
Gate agent boards grabs mike and makes the welcome to LA speech with where we can collect our luggage.
Damn if she does not have some type of Eastern European accent that makes her sound exactly like Natasha Fatale.
As she is finishing her spiel, I say in my best Boris Badenov voice “Moose and squirrel we have your luggage in a special area.”
Several people in the rows near me cracked up.
Resistance is useless get’s done a bit around here. laughed when those Damn Vogons stole it…
Long before Mr. Rilch was Mr. Rilch, in fact the first time he was at my apartment, I offered him some candy hearts. As he reached into the bag, he said “Great; I’ll get the one that says Forget It Kid.”
From the Charlie Brown Valentine’s Day special. CB gets that message on his heart, of course. And we’ve never missed a Valentine’s Day since then.
We had some electricians doing some cable re-wiring at the office. One was on the ground, the other - the younger, more agile of the two, was on top of a ladder with his head poking into the ceiling tiles.
The ground-level guy, who seemed to be around my age, was directing the ladder guy to find some electrical box or cable or whatever. Ladder guy didn’t see it. Ground guy says, “Look up.”. I happened to be standing there, and I immediately said, “W-a-a-a-a-a-y up.” Ground guy cracked right up; nobody else in the vicinity reacted at all.
Reference
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A couple months back, hubby and I were getting some pics printed up off his camera onto paper at a photography shop. After we had selected our sizes and all, the young lass behind the counter says “I’ll get this in back and going for you right meow.”
Hubby pauses for a sec and asks, “Did you just say meow?”
Without missing so much as a beat, she pipes up with “Do I look like a cat to you, boy?”
I thought hubby was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard, this being one of his favorite scenes of one of his favorite movies! Everyone else in the shop looked at as like we were all quite stupid. 
Heh, you’d love being in the grocery store when I’m out with the Dudeling. When he’s ‘helping’ put things in the cart, he’ll say “it puts the in the basket.” He’s a good little boy so fortunately I haven’t had to teach him the following line.
(I have all sorts of Stupid Human Tricks with him. I once taught him what to say if he ever gets stuck in a planet. Now, when he needs help getting out of something he’ll raise his fists in the air, shake them, and shout Kaaahhhhhhnnnnnnn!)
Crap – stuck in my head, now. 
We were driving with some friends somewhere and Mr. Ujest was blathering on about something and getting stuck on the point of some guy’s name that really didn’t matter to the story.
I’m sitting in the back seat with my BFF trying to egg the story to some kind of closure in my life time and Mr Ujest is stuck on " His name…John…what was his name…"
“John Big Bootee.” I threw out.
The passenger, my BFF’s husband, whips around to look at me, " John Big Bootay! TAY!"
Neither of us realized that the other were total dorkwads for Buckaroo Bonzai and my husband never finished his story and Brad and I became BFF’s forevermore.
Working a little late one evening, after the receptionist went home, I answered an incoming call. “I’d like to speak to Dave”. Me: “Dave’s not here man”. Everyone in office starts laughing. Didn’t know anyone remembered that reference.
At a jobsite with a new employee last year. Homeowner has a dog. New employee says ‘Do ye’s like dawgs, do ye?’
Which happens to be one of my most favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, Snatch. I about pissed myself laughing so hard. Homeowner thought I lost my mind.
It’s on high rotation here at Casa Scarlett.
High indeed.
More of an easter egg:
I was working with a graphics package for industrial HMI (Human Machine Interface) software development for making graphical representations of machine tools, factory layouts…maybe a sewage treatment plant, stuff like that.
The graphics objects (“clip art”) are sorted into broad categories:tanks, hoppers, pipes, valves, etc. Buried in the “ducts” category was a picture of a duck. If you opened it, the notes field said “weighs the same as a witch”.