Occasionally I’ll reread an old thread and suddenly think of the PERFECT comment- years after it’s too late. So I’ll post one here and maybe others can add their own contributions.
From Things I Have Learnt From Cop Movies…
To which I wish I’d said:
The most perfect summation of the premise of “Dirty Harry” I’ve ever seen.
Emo Phillips ( http://www.emophilips.com/ ) has a great “What I wish I had said” quote…
He tells a story about being pulled over by a cop, and wishng he had said, you know, afterwards, you always thnk of the perfect thing, so what he wishes he had sad, what he really wishes he had said was:
“Hello, Officer, how can help you?”…
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Last summer I was buying a laptop, and the supposedly non-commissioned salesperson was really pushing the extended warranty hard. When he finally gave up, he had one parting shot:
“You’re living on the edge, Rysto; you’re living on the edge.”
“That,” I should have said, “is how I roll.”