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I just realized there's a new one floating around my family.
Hubby: What are you making us for dinner?
Me: You're gonna love my nuts! (I had no intentions of cooking dinner, see)
Much later the same evening--
Son (speaking about the honey/soy sauce/ginger chicken he baked): You're gonna love my nuts!
Poor hubby. He thinks we're all nuts.
WTF did I just say?
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I used to say that too!Originally posted by HelloNinja
When my nephew was little, he would try to quote the "I love you, man" beer commercials, but it came out "me wuvoo man", so the rest of the family would say his version to each other too.
Here's a more obscure commercial: the state lottery had a series of commercials featuring things that the lottery was "funner than".
Announcer: Funner than a talking mime.
Mime: I'm in a box!
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I really shouldn't say "do not want" (from LOLcats) so much.
I didn't make the world this way, it was like this when I got here
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Vince from ShamWow?
Joe
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Thanks, baby!It's true, he does. The answer to "Where do you want to go for dinner?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
"Where's that stuff we just bought?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
"When do you want to go?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
It's a good thing I love him. :mrgreen:
Another one I've been using a lot in the recent past is a quote from Evel Knievel on Jim Rome's radio show a couple years ago. Rome had asked Evel why he decided to attempt the Snake River jump when he figured his odds of survival were only about 50-50. Evel responded by simply saying, "Do you know who the hell I am?" That has now become my standard answer for most questions regarding something I'm about to do (although usually related to me eating something).
Person A: "Are you gonna finish that?"
Me: "Do you know who the hell I am?"
Wife: "Do you want some more chilli?"
Me: "Do you know who the hell I am?"
Boss: "Will you have that report finished for me today?"
Me: "Do you know who the hell I am?"
And so on.
Hell is other people.
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Definitely Vince. Many hate him but I love me some Shamwowy Vince. Do you know he used to be a Scientologist, left and threatened them with a defamation lawsuit-- and they left him alone?
Other people he's sued: The Farrelly Brothers, 20th Century Fox and Anna Nicole Smith. It should be noted that he is a comedian, writer and film producer when he's not shilling crap on TV.
WTF did I just say?
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Just tonight I used "it is a moral imperative" - it got cricket chirps...
Something witty and just obscure enough to make you think I'm cool.
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Too many to count, especially since my family plays a game we call Quote - quote some line from something and everyone else has to figure out what it is. So, pretty much any line we use is recognized within the family, but once you go outside . . . not so much.
"Put ze [insert object] BEK!" (from Young Frankenstein, used whenever someone is messing with something they shouldn't be)
"I feel awful." (Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, just after he's been tortured)
"It's a perfectly cromulent word/idea/plan!" (from The Simpsons, whenever someone gives an objection to anything)
"I grovel in mortification." (From Death on the Nile, movie of the Agatha Christie book)
Oh, there are many, many more, and they usually result in funny stares from the people around me.
The panther is like the leopard, except it hasn't been peppered.
If you see a panther crouch, prepare to say "ouch!".
Better yet, if called by a panther, don't anther.
- Ogden Nash
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Ha! If we're thinking about the same episode of Letterman, my best bud and I liked a couple of the other entries, like "A dozen pizzas? It's those damn kids!" and the "winner" of the contest: "They pelted us with rocks and garbage".
In fact, I use a few of those ancient Letterman lines on a somewhat regular basis.
If I finish watching a particularly bad TV show or movie, or if something really odd, inexplicable or uncomfortable happens when we're hanging out with friends, I'll turn to my missus and say (in my best deadpan voice)... "This has been a Melman... production". She doesn't get it all.
She also doesn't get it when she's rummaging through the pantry looking for a snack and I'll sneak up behind her and say "Now here's a snack that won't make you sick, it's new Mr. Larry's Toast-On-Stick!"
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"You are evil, and you must be destroyed."
More people should know their Steel Magnolias.
The poster formerly known as Jenaroph
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Is it soup yet?
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
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But, and I'm only saying this because I care, there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Also from Real Genius.
And
Why am I the only person who has that dream?
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Diana, I say this too.That's way harsh, Tai.
Also: "Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about?"
They weren't singing....they were just honking.
Glee 2009
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My Mom (who died 30 years ago) and I used to break each other up with: "It ain't Vendell Vilkie!!!!" when confronted with a who/what is/was that?
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Gremlins!
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Ahhh! You knew!!!! I am not alone!!!Gremlins!
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Is Real Genius the most missed pop culture referent there is?
I've used
"Thinks a big guy like that can fit into his clothes."
and even
"This is ice. It's what happens to water when it gets too cold." Sometimes I continue with "This is <name>." and no one ever seems insulted for being sexually frustrated.
Some others :
"My goal is to serve ... the Puppetmaster." <Spider-man & Friends>
"What am I going to do with all these bags?" <Mr. Show>
(at a place I worked we actually had a box set aside to keep anti-static bags for re-use. We eventually labeled it "Bag Hutch" - though most of the people there did know what that was.)
"No, these are just props." <Chris Elliott on Letterman>
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I just thought of another one: in the movie Bright Lights Big City, Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) is visited at his NYC apartment by his younger brother. Jamie has been ducking his brother for weeks, as he is in the middle of a massive "coke and liquor" binge. At one point, the brother finally "catches" him at home, and Jamie invites him inside. Jamie gets busy chopping up some coke on a mirror, and his brother asks if he can take a shower. Jamie, who could care less and just wants a line, says "Would ya? That'd be greeeeaaatt."
So now, every time the missus or myself tells the other that we're gonna take a shower, the other one says "Would ya? That'd be greeeeaaatt."
I've never met anyone that knew that line, even my friend Chris who has seen the movie and read the novel 15 or 20 times.
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Somebody at the Snicker-Snack factory slipped up. Nobody, nobody ever catches it.
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"What a coincidence; I have a husband Dean Wormer at Faber." <Animal House>
"So, in the tip of my little finger there might be?....a little tiny universe. Can I buy some pot from you?" <Animal House>
"Gooood Idea!" <Never cry wolf>
"Fuck, Fuck, Fuckitty-Fuck" <SDMB>
This is the most beautiful place on Earth; there are many such places.
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Actually, I think it's "Fuck, Fuck, Fuckitty-Fuck, Fuck, Fuck-a-Doodle-Doo!!!" and it's Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Why yes, I AM frequently running late as a result of oversleeping, how did you guess? :mrgreen:
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From when he taste-tested the dog food, right?
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"Double-sigh"
(Must be spoken a la Tress MacNeille)
I do not bite my thumb at you, but I bite my thumb.
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