BS: Entrance Lines

Subject: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Padre
Date: 15 May 03 - 11:07 PM

OK, we've had famous exit lines, so how about Entrance Lines - as in:

'Madam, I'm Adam'

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 15 May 03 - 11:40 PM

"You rang?"
    ~ Lurch


"I have arrived! Let loose the pigeons!"
    ~ one of the Malachi brothers


"I'm the Devil! The Devil always shaves his head!"
    ~ Charles Manson


"What the hell are you lookin' at?"
    ~ Louie Anderson

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 May 03 - 12:24 AM

Here I come to save the day! Mighty Mouse(?)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 16 May 03 - 03:14 AM

"Hello, Good evening and welcome" David Frost
"I've emptied bigger rooms than this/been thrown out of better pubs than this" RtS
"Don't clap too loud , it's a very old building" Archie Rice in The Entertainer"
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick
Date: 16 May 03 - 03:31 AM

How about Sheridan Whiteside's opening line in "The Man Who Came To Dinner", "I may vomit!"
Or, better still, Sean Connery's first three words in DR. NO, "Bond, James Bond." Others have said that since, but nobody did it better.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 03 - 05:09 AM

Bugs Bunny : "What's up doc ?" Then, of course, from my all time favourite Elmer Fudd cartoon, "Good morning John. Great day to be alive, isn't it ? Think you can staaaay that way ?"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Micca
Date: 16 May 03 - 08:31 AM

" Helooo" Joh9n from Hull
" ....Gin" Dead Horse

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: JennyO
Date: 16 May 03 - 10:42 AM

Hello, I'm Mr Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 May 03 - 11:03 AM

"Welcome to my neighborhood.."--Fred Rogers
Why are we all here? Because we're not all there.
I know you are all wondering why I called this meeting......

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 May 03 - 11:05 AM

'Ello my darlin's ... Charlie Drake

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 03 - 11:28 AM

" 'Madam, I'm Adam'"...to which Eve is said to have replied--
"Name no one man"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 16 May 03 - 12:26 PM

.... way back when everyone spoke in Palindrome, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 03 - 12:31 PM

Anyone for Tennis?

Dr. Livinngstone, I presume?

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 May 03 - 03:01 PM

"Cough"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 16 May 03 - 04:09 PM

"Hi Everybody, I'm Glen Campbell!"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 03 - 04:12 PM

Goooood Eeeeeeeeevening!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 16 May 03 - 04:26 PM

"Drink!   Feck!   Arse!   Gerls!!!"
    ~ Father Jack

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Peter T.
Date: 16 May 03 - 06:58 PM

"Who's there?"

"Nay, answer me!Stand and unfold yourself."

"Marcellus?"

"A piece of him."


Hamlet -- a perfect opening, mystery, threats, identity crises, guards, sets the whole play up. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 17 May 03 - 12:12 AM

"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Amos
Date: 17 May 03 - 12:30 PM

"Lafayette --- we are here."

A classic line reaching across some two hundred years.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick
Date: 17 May 03 - 07:13 PM

Amos, I think that line is from Wold War One. probably from Black Jack Pershing. It might be from WW2. The USA has liberated France on more than one occasion.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: The Walrus
Date: 17 May 03 - 08:58 PM

musicmic,

I think when the Allied forces returned to France during WWII, everyone was a *little* too busy to try thinking up recordable one liners.
The quote is from the Great War, but IIRC it wasn't Pershing but one of his Generals (or a Staff wallah), spoken over Lafayette's grave or in his home town (something of that ilk).

Walrus.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 03 - 08:59 PM

And now for the Prologue - Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Hrothgar
Date: 18 May 03 - 02:02 AM

Colonel Charles E. Stanton, as deputy for Pershing, 04 July 1917, at the tomb of LaFayette in Paris.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 18 May 03 - 05:09 PM

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick
Date: 19 May 03 - 01:43 AM

I thank The Walrus and Hrothgar for the information. I may start a Charles E. Stanton fan club. (I've just got to get a life)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 May 03 - 09:14 PM

"Hang onto your hats. This is going to be a bumpy ride." Bette Davis in "All About Eve". Note a very young and buxom Marilyn Monroe.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,jennifer
Date: 20 May 03 - 01:36 PM

"Good Evening, this is the Leicester Phoenix, and you're welcome to it" John Tams

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 21 May 03 - 12:13 AM

"Good evening. I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. And now, the news..."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Teribus
Date: 21 May 03 - 03:30 AM

"The Navy's Here" - shouted by the Leading Seaman of the boarding party from HMS Cossack when it boarded the German Supply Ship Altmark in Jossingfjord in Norway to rescue 300 British Merchant Seamen transfered onboard the ship as prisoners of war from Graf Spee.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 01:25 AM

"Luuuuuuuuucy! I'm Home!"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:22 AM

Heeeeeerrrrrrre's Johnny!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Kaleea
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:27 AM

"Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon!"   Groucho Marx


       "             . . . !"    Harpo Marx

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:53 AM

First words heard at many Les Barker concerts I have attended....

'Oh bloody 'ell, not you again!'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 07:06 AM

I Come to Bury St Edmunds , not to praise it !


My Name is Terry and I am a banjo player (or should it be alcoholic)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:57 AM

Billy Connolly, tuning banjo:


Ach, good enough for fuckin Boston.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:47 PM

Door sill
Door jamb

something to adore?

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:59 PM

Come with me if you want to live....

or...

This is it... This is where Forrestal cashed in...

Or...

*with hands 'steepled' so that thumb tips touch to form a 'triangle*
"One..." (Just to see who reaches, and who is Herbert)

Or...

Welcome... to the desert... of the real

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:17 PM

let there be light...

Amos, I think that line is from Wold War One. probably from Black Jack Pershing. It might be from WW2. The USA has liberated France on more than one occasion.

Eveybody has had a go at liberating France a few times. Some of us (Britian, Germany, others) were trying to liberate France from the French, but that's a minor point....

bunnahabhain

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:59 AM

"The Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 07:13 AM

"The BS Threads of Mudcat are not to be traveled lightly."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: CStrong
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 07:48 AM

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Chris Green
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:50 PM

Heard at a mediaeval banquet - "Sorry I'm late. My horse had a flat tyre."

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM

Texas Guinan, the Prohibition Era saloon queen:

Helloooooo, Suckers!!!!

Dave Oesterreucg

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bert
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:21 PM

You Lucky People - Tommy Trinder
Hello Playmates - Arthur Askey

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:31 PM

And of course Liz, the other one from Les Barker concerts. The man himself:-




"Ello"




DT

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:52 PM

I'm here. I'm here. Let the bells ring and the banners fly. I'm here. More cartoons.

It's great to be here in... (where are we tonight?)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 12:02 AM

You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna get out of the harbor alive.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 04:54 AM

And now for something completely different.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 04:55 AM

Is this the right room for an argument ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 05:46 AM

Sorry I'm late, but they took the lid off the swimming pool, and the champagne went flat.
Planter's Peanut advert.

My name is Bond, James Bond....

Also,
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond, I have letters after my name...
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond, as you can see, I'm stationery...

(Back when people wrote letters, "Basildon Bonnd" was a popular writing paper.)

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 05:54 AM

Answer:

If it's Mudcat, it is...

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 09:15 AM

Honey! I'm hooome!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM

Welcome to Sherwood!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 05:59 PM

Noooorm!



Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:15 PM

Call me Ishmael...Moby Dick


It was the Best of times: It was the Worst of times. It was the Age of Wisdom: It was the age of Foolishness. It was the Spring of Hope: It was the Winter of Despair.
....A Tale of Two Cities, which also had perhaps the greatest exit lines in literature...
It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. It is a far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.

Then there's always...
We were somewhere just outside of Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:52 PM

"Good Morning Campers !"

Uncle Ernie

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:56 PM

"Arf, arf!"

"That's my dog, Tige, he lives in a shoe!"

Buster Brown

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp... bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger's ass! And you are molesting my hunt!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: number 6
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:10 PM

"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there"

Opening line to the movie "The Go Between"


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:17 PM

Where's my piratin' outfit?

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:55 PM

Gooood Moorrningg, Vietnaaaaam!    --Robin Williams as Adrian Kronauer

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:13 PM

"You're surprised to see me sir?"
Sherlock Holmes "The Empty House"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:13 PM

"SING OUT LOUISE!!!".........Argued by the people who played Mama Rose in "Gypsy" to be the greatest opening line a character ever had.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: autolycus
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

"Hello, well it's certainly a great thrill for you to see me tonight."

Opening of Jackie Mason's cabaret act, as heard on his first record entitled "I'm the Greatest Comedian in the World Only Nobody Knows it Yet".

My fave. comedy record.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:18 PM

"Hi there, buckaroos. Scamp Walker time again; tryin' to slide one by you once more..." - Jerry Jeff Walker

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 09:42 PM

As he sat down to begin his set, Michael Truax said, I imagine those of you who haven't heard me before are pretty nervous right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 01:06 AM

Bring out your dead!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 01:40 AM

"It was a dark and stormy night..." -- Bullwer-Lytton, after whom a worst opening sentence contest is named

"Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" — Mae West

"Now is the winter of our discontent." -- obviously not the bloke greeting Mae West

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 04:13 AM

"Hier spricht Schorsch Hiese" = "This is (Sgt) George Hiese speaking" when opening fire with his machine gun on the beach of Tanga, Dec 4, 1914.
A British attack with one Irish and three Indian regiments was repelled by eight companies of German regulars and volunteers in German South West (now Tanganyika).

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: John J
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 05:03 AM

In comes I....

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 05:17 AM

"My name's Wall,my father was a Brick"-Max Wall

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 02:48 PM

F__k, it's cold outside!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Joybell
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 08:16 PM

When Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams, he discovered that he had been transformed into a gigantic insect.

OOOOOOOOH! AHHHHHHHH! That's my favourite. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM

Hello, I am announcing myself, just in case Dick Cheney is around.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 08:30 PM

I dreamed I was in Manderlay again...

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 03:31 AM

Error in my post of Feb 25: Tanga was in German EAST Africa (Tanganyika). Beg your pardon for the lapse.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: leftydee
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:49 PM

Who? It's me, my name is Pinky Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
                            —Rafael Sabatini (the opening line of Scaramouche)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:03 PM

Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it!The night of nights.
No more rehearsing or nursing a part;
We know every part by heart!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Joybell
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 12:28 AM

Once upon a time....

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 03:56 AM

Hi there gang! I feel like talking a lot tonight, cos I ain't seen anyone all day.....

Derek Brimstone

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 10:57 AM

I'm glad to know there are some of us left, LeftyDee--

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 11:18 AM

Except that it's:

'ooHoo! It's Me!

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:15 AM

The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and remembering where he was.

Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:40 AM

Gimme a whiskey, ginger-ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:46 AM

I may vomit.

          --The Man Who Came To Dinner

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:24 AM

Hello there!

Sir Alec Guinness as Obiwan Kenobe in Star Wars.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:40 PM

Are you an athathin?

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: jimmyt
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:04 PM

I seem to open many a gig by saying, "drink up, we're not that good"

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:03 AM

Be quiet, now! You didn't come here to enjoy yourselves. You came here to listen to folk music!
Toole, opening folk club nights.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 12:54 PM

NORM!

What's shakin', Mr Peterson?

All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Woody. Gimme a beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: cool hand Tom
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:01 PM

Mayor of Negasaki.

WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT.......

apologies to any japaneese catters

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:10 PM

That's an exit line, Tom.

Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: cool hand Tom
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:01 PM

well its a good exit line eh.

Regards Tom