The in-context use: Every other week, we have an early morning sales meeting (7am). These meetings are ALWAYS THE SAME. Same info. Same comments. Same EVERYTHING. I was talking to one of the salesmen right before the meeting about how much the meeting was going to suck, thus the above line.
I said that to my last roommate. I had loaned her my velvet boycut shorts to go with a short skirt and she said everyone was trying to feel them and some were succeeding. :eek: That is a great line out of context.
“All you need are some lesbian Jews, a flamethrower, bullwhips, fake poo, real poo, a used syringe, headphones, a Stradivarius viola, and a Super-Soaker 5000 filled with muskrat blood and LSD. Take these to your nearest Piggly-Wiggly parking lot, find a Ford Escort with phat rims, and, well, the next part is obvious. After you do that, you will have found Jesus or created a reasonable facsimile waiting for the crosstown K line. If it is the latter case, do not approach quickly unless you can fellate like nothing else under the sun. We reccommend a follow-up high colonic.”
–Something I read one time in a bulletin at an Episcopalian church. Gosh, without the other paragraphs, you wouldn’t even know what the bulletin was talking about!
“and then you always have to ask, like, “what voltage is your village goat?””.
This actually was delivered by the inimitable Vic Croston of the Globe Machine engineering department, trying to explain why you have to use isolated I/O modules when you’re controlling a motor control center with individual control transformers that might be off phase.
Vic’s the kind of guy who, when you ask him the time, begins with “in ancient Sumeria, there was the sundial”.
He also taught me the words to “Alice’s Restaurant”, so he’s tops in my book.
Norm MacDonald on Happy Gilmore when asked what day it was. My roommate and I utter this whenever someone asks a question that makes absolutely no sense.
Out of context? Well, there wasn’t really any context for this, unless you count The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
Back in the ol’ college days, my roommate and I had a habit of popping our heads into dorm rooms at random while walking down the hall, and screaming,
At last year’s Superbowl party, when St Loius Head Coach Dick Vermeil’s wife was close-up on on camera in the audience, I proclaimed, “She loves Dick!”.
Not everyone knew who Dick Vermeil was. They were just there for the party.
Elvis Costello, drunk, berating the locals on their ignorance of American music: “As far as you’re concerned Ray charles is just a dumb blind nigger!”
Bonnie Bramlett punched him out, the press reported it as Elvis spouting hate about an American, and to this day EC can’t sell out clubs. I think it happened in Nashville or Memphis. I believe Elvis when he says he has nothing but respect for ol’ Ray. He’s sober now. His love for American country music is unwavering.
Bigger, older out of context is Lennon saying the Beatles were bigger than Jesus (‘in the minds of the screaming fans’). There were public record burnings after that one.