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BS: Corny lines that we love

12 Dec 01 - 10:57 AM (#608364)
Subject: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

Or love to hate. 'Spaw would Nominate "God bless us, every one." For reasons stated in the post by that name.

I would nominate "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." from "It's a Wonderful Life" I don't think it is possible to get any cornier than that. But Mudcatters are resourceful. I expect to be surprized. What is the most corny line...anywhere, and why?


12 Dec 01 - 11:04 AM (#608370)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

"We'll always have Paris"
RtS (I thought I told you never to play that)


12 Dec 01 - 11:25 AM (#608379)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST

"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"


12 Dec 01 - 11:25 AM (#608380)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Wesley S

By the way Roger - Do you know "Rick's" LAST name ??

My favorite line { also from It's A Wonderful Life } is "George Bailey - The richest man in town " It gets me every time.


12 Dec 01 - 11:35 AM (#608390)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

Let's see,Wes.,

NOT Fielding, could be Sbar (as in Rick's Bar!)
How about Blaine?
RtS (I cheated, used All-Movie Guide!)


12 Dec 01 - 12:02 PM (#608404)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Amos

"Shucks, ma'a'm -- Ah wuz jus' tryin' to do whut was rahght!'"

"Shut up and kiss me!"

"My God!! It's alive!"


12 Dec 01 - 01:02 PM (#608440)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Wesley S

Knowing Rick's last name used to win me a few beers during trivia contests.


12 Dec 01 - 01:38 PM (#608469)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

Wes, that's my fave too. :-)

My nominations:

It's made of peeeeeeeepullllllllll!!!!!!!!!

He vas..... my boyfriend!

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Goodness how delicious, eatin goober peas.

Round up the usual suspects.

These go to eleven.

He was just a hundred yards from Mary Anne.

All the lyrics to Sleigh Ride. It's much better as an instrumental.


12 Dec 01 - 01:59 PM (#608485)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Bobert

"The only time I'm sober is when your gone" from a 70's rock group, Hearts Field

"If you don't start drinking, I'm going to leave" by Bad Boy George Thorgood

Same sentiments from two different vantage points...


12 Dec 01 - 02:12 PM (#608500)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Morticia

I always loved..." Shucks, I was just doing my duty, ma'am" ( usually as blood is running down some part of the heroes body), or "But before I kill you, let me tell you......" ( usually giving the hero time to foil his dastardly plan).My all time favourite has to be " Frankly, my damn, I don't give a dear" or something like that.


12 Dec 01 - 02:18 PM (#608506)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Lady P. At Work

"What will become of me and the boys?" from Enemy of the people by Ibsen. I'd always thought this kind of line was a characature of victorian melodrama, till I had to go and see this play for school work!

"Tomorrow is another day!" Da dah da dah.......... ( this girdle's kiling me...)

"Oh, there's no place like home, there's no place like home!"

All the words to "Have yourself a merry little christmas" especially Judy Garland's version in Meet me in St. Louis. That's total kleenex mode.

TTFN M'Lady P.


12 Dec 01 - 02:27 PM (#608516)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

I have to admit Kim, I'm picturing and earnest looking young soprano trying to sing Sleighride and look like she means it........ disturbing.

"Our cheeks are nice and rosey and comfy cosy.....are we"


12 Dec 01 - 02:32 PM (#608519)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: MMario

"Where's that boy with the bugle?"


12 Dec 01 - 02:45 PM (#608525)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: catspaw49

Anyone see Gunga Din? It's not a "line" exactly, but when Sam Jaffe as Gunga Din blows that feeble little toot on the bugle as he's dying, I just bust a gut laughing. The movie stinks too, but tune in for the last 15 minutes if you need a laugh.

I'd also like to nominate ANY and EVERY line spoken by Glen Campbell in True Grit. Bad writing and even worse acting.

Hey Kim and Jack, you just need better words to "Sleigh Ride."

X-RATED "SLEIGH RIDE"

I feel my pecker tingling, balls are jingling too.
Come on and tell me whether I can link 'em together with you!
I need a hot slip mama to slip my salami into.
I must be over eager, cause even your beaver'll do!

Get it up, get it up, get it up, let's go.
Your butt is too slow.
Start hoppin' like a rabbit in the snow.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes my dear,
Hot juice in your rear.
I know it's not easy for you,
Hanging from that chandelier!!!

I need a new position for sperm worm fishin' with you.
I wanna jam my pecker and both my nuts in your shoe!
I feel my pecker tingling, balls are jingling too!
Come on and be so pleasant to pump my present in you!

There ya' go............

Spaw


12 Dec 01 - 03:33 PM (#608543)
Subject: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

Spaw

Hmmmmm

Very surreal.....

No less corny but very disturbing. With absolutely NO redeeming features. It takes a lot of talent to write such a thing. Is it your creation?


12 Dec 01 - 03:37 PM (#608546)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

Speaking of corny, every time I see the thread entitled Virginnia Lags, I want to write

Virginnia Mono-Lags


12 Dec 01 - 03:45 PM (#608548)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

(groan) Pat you just really have no shame. ;-)

I digress a bit........ Mister and I watched part of the Three Tenors Christmas on PBS the other night (it's fundraising time again - Three Mo' Tenors is better but that's another thread). Seeing Luciano Pavarotti try to sing Sleigh Ride in English is a real treat, let's just say.

And Mister eloquently pointed out that Placido Domingo looks like Waylon Jennings.


12 Dec 01 - 03:50 PM (#608552)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: catspaw49

Now if he could just sing like Waylon......

No Jack, I didn't write that one. Someone sent it to me and somewhere on the net there's a RealJukebox audio of it.

Spaw


12 Dec 01 - 04:11 PM (#608560)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,colwyn dane

Ancient and Modern

"These are modern times...1804..."
Ray Milland in 'Forever and a Day'
or
"Well,it is the 21st Century..."


CD


12 Dec 01 - 04:14 PM (#608563)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

What about that scene in The Patriot where Mel says to Joely, "Can I sit here?" and she says...

"It's a free country."

I also liked in Last of the Mohicans when uppity Duncan says to Hawkeye, "Just how is it that you are going west?" And Hawkeye says...

"Face north and turn left."


12 Dec 01 - 04:19 PM (#608565)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST

Scheider to shaw in Jaws: "You're gonna need a bigger boat!"


12 Dec 01 - 04:23 PM (#608567)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,jmrnky

"Sen-ta-ment-tal Hogwash!" Philanthopist and humanitarian, Henry Potter, in "It's a Wonderful Life"


12 Dec 01 - 04:46 PM (#608577)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

Henry Potter???

The little kid in warlock school????


12 Dec 01 - 04:47 PM (#608578)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

and another from Mr. Potter:

"Merry Christmas to you too --- in JAIL!!!"


12 Dec 01 - 06:01 PM (#608620)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Lyle

Book 'em, Dano!


12 Dec 01 - 10:07 PM (#608762)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: kendall

"Well King, looks like this case is closed." (Sgt, Preston of the RCMP)


12 Dec 01 - 10:11 PM (#608769)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Amos

Who was that gas man, anyway?


12 Dec 01 - 10:43 PM (#608783)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: heric

The time is now.


12 Dec 01 - 11:13 PM (#608798)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Gary T

By golly, Dan, I checked--and you're right!


12 Dec 01 - 11:38 PM (#608801)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Hagbardr

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!"

Hagbardr


13 Dec 01 - 12:29 AM (#608820)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Seamus Kennedy

"Sometimes the needs of the few outweigh the nedds of the many." Kirk to Spock before he dies and is ejected to the pipes playing Amazing Grace. Jimmy Doohan, a piper you ain't.

Seamus


13 Dec 01 - 08:58 AM (#608919)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: kendall

Did you screw that up on purpose?


13 Dec 01 - 09:05 AM (#608925)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: DonMeixner

Errol Flynn's last line in Northern Pursuit as he drops a bomb from Heinkle on a German cruiser, the plane is off to the sunset and he says, "Now for Australia and a crack at those japs."

Shirley Temple in "The Little Princess" "Mafeking is relieved!, Mafeking is relieved!"

John Wayne to a little Vietnamese boy in "The Green Berets." "Your what this war is all about." The true Duke fan knows that the sun is setting in the east in that seen.

Velociraptor one to Velociraptor two as they look in the kitchen door window in Jurassic Park , "Uh! UH!UH!"


13 Dec 01 - 09:15 AM (#608927)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Mr Red

here in the UK we crack up as soon as we hear "Have a Nice Day".


13 Dec 01 - 09:20 AM (#608930)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Big Mick

I am a student of body language. When I watch something, in addition to listening to the lines, I am watching the complete delivery from the soles to the hair. For that reason, I loved the movie "Harlem Nights". Now I know it got some heat, and I am well aware of why. But when you watch the interaction between Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and all the others it is hilarious. I still end up on the floor when I watch the scene around the craps table. Foxx is playing a nearly blind croupier without his glasses. He keeps calling the number wrong, and a chorus of variants of "Put on your glasses, you old blind motherfucker". After this happens 3 or 4 times, Foxx delivers this line, and if you watch him do it, it will slay you.

"I ain't gonna be too many more motherfuckers..........

I am sitting here laughing thinking about it............heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee


13 Dec 01 - 09:25 AM (#608935)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,GUEST: MikeofNorthumbria away from home

Anyone else remember "Klaatu nicto barada"? (Or was it "Klaatu barada nicto."?)

Wassail!


13 Dec 01 - 09:37 AM (#608942)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Rolfyboy6

"A man's gotta do what man's gotta do, Miss Kitty." "Be careful, Matt."

"Why---You're a girl!"


13 Dec 01 - 09:55 AM (#608953)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Amos

"BRAWWWWMMMMWWMMMPP!!!"

Pat Patterson, A Mudcat Life


13 Dec 01 - 10:24 AM (#608974)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: catspaw49

Right on Amos!!!

Mick, I just love "Harlem Nights".....There are some of the funniest scenes in that movie........The earlier crap table scene after the kid (young Quick) shoots the toothless guy on the way out the door Pryor says to him, "So you shot him huh...Want some ice cream?"....That entire opening scene is a riot.

Spaw


13 Dec 01 - 10:50 AM (#608990)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Bill D

"Just the facts, m'am"...Jack Webb, in every show they did.

"Badges!..We don' need no steenkin' badges"....

"Go get help, Lassie!"

"Arf!"


13 Dec 01 - 11:07 AM (#609001)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

What is it Lassie? Is Timmy in trouble?


13 Dec 01 - 11:15 AM (#609004)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Slesge

From skippy the bush kangeroo,

tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsktsk, usualy translated as the kids have down the old johnson diamond mine

Cheers

Sledge


13 Dec 01 - 12:25 PM (#609057)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST

"Yer awnly supposed ta blaw the bladdy DOORS off!"

and: (& I always think of it in the samr accent.....*G*)

"ZULU's! Bladdy 'faousands of 'em!"


13 Dec 01 - 12:43 PM (#609064)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Willie-O

"Knife? THIS is a knife!" (Croc Dundee)

minimalist choice: Best line in "Contact" is delivered by Rob Lowe when he sees a funny blip on his scope :
"HELL-LO!"

and a few selections from my under-quoted favourite, The African Queen: delivered by Kath Hep. "You promised, Mr Olnutt!"
"Dear--what is your first name?"

and the German captain: "I now pronounce you man and wife, proceed with the execution."


13 Dec 01 - 12:47 PM (#609068)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Lonesome EJ

The Moral from The Wizard of OZ

Glenda : So, Dorothy what did Dorothy : Well, the next time I go looking for my heart's desire, I shouldn't look any further than my own backyard, because if it's not there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that right?

Glenda : That's right!

Now, it may be right, but what in hell does it mean!?


13 Dec 01 - 12:53 PM (#609069)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Lonesome EJ

Strange. That post looked right before I submitted it. Should have read...

Glenda : So Dorothy, what did you learn?

Dorothy : Well, the next time (etc).


13 Dec 01 - 01:38 PM (#609092)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Grab

"Aren't you a bit short for a stormtrooper?"


13 Dec 01 - 01:48 PM (#609099)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: catspaw49

Stopped by a tollgate in the middle of a wide open plain, the horde of bad guys are confused as to what to do when Slom Pickens utters the immortal line, "Sombody's gonna' hafta' go back and git a shitload of dimes."

Spaw


13 Dec 01 - 06:06 PM (#609277)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Amy, sister to John

"I'm not gonna hit ya. I'm not gonna hit ya. The hell I'm not."

John Wayne


14 Dec 01 - 01:42 AM (#609483)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Mickey191

Bette Davis to Bogart: I'd kiss ya, but I just washed my hair." Anyone know the picture?


14 Dec 01 - 02:13 AM (#609487)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Amos

"You know how to whiste, doncha, Slim? Ya just pucker up your lips and blow"

You-know who to you-know-whom, You Know Where

A


14 Dec 01 - 07:17 AM (#609552)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,colwyn dane

Mickey 191,

It's from 'Cabin in the Cotton' and the line is either:

'Ah'd love to kiss yuh, but Ah just washed mah hair.'
or
'I'd like to kiss yuh, but I just washed my hair'

CD.


14 Dec 01 - 09:42 AM (#609610)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: MikeofNorthumbria

I just checked: it was "Klaatu barada nickto"

Anyone else who remembers "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - or anyone who doesn't and is curious - might care to check out this movie site.

http://www.afionline.org/wise/films/day_the_earth_stood_still/dtess.html

Wassail!


14 Dec 01 - 09:53 AM (#609615)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: guinnesschik

Fill yer hands you sonuvabitch!


14 Dec 01 - 10:51 AM (#609643)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Lyndi-loo

"Let's not ask for the moon, we already have the stars"
cue music "Lah lahlahlahlalalaaaaaaaaaah"
bette Davis in "Now Voyager"


14 Dec 01 - 11:03 AM (#609648)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

"Look at me, ma, top 'o the world"
RtS (you dirty rat)


14 Dec 01 - 11:03 AM (#609649)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Jack the Sailor

Amos!!!!!!!!

Did you just call Bogie and Bacall CORNY!!!?

I think an explaination or a retraction is in order!!!!

"Wink"

(Actually I do love that line and I don't think it is corny at all.)


14 Dec 01 - 11:04 AM (#609650)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,D_Hand

Star Trek: Bones to Spock: 'Are you out of your Vulkan mind!!'


14 Dec 01 - 11:51 AM (#609677)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Deda

I won't think about this today -- I'll think about it tomorrow -- at Tara.

and...As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!


14 Dec 01 - 12:09 PM (#609686)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST

"Ye can tak our-r-r lives, but ye'll never-r-r tak our-r fr-r-r-reedom!!! A-A-A-A-R-RGHGHGH!!!!!"


14 Dec 01 - 01:12 PM (#609735)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Kim C

I think he said, the sheriff is near...


14 Dec 01 - 01:19 PM (#609740)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Lonesome EJ

Nick - "I can't believe this! The New York Times says I was stabbed!"

Nora - "Really? They had you shot in the Tabloids."

Nick - "Nonsense! That bullet came nowhere near my tabloids."


14 Dec 01 - 01:55 PM (#609780)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Jim Krause

"I'm aulright, I'm aulright." from some Jimmy Stewart movie, either Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or It's a Wonderful Life, said by Jimmy Stewart's girlfriend's inebriated father after stumbling into something very noisy off camera. Cracks me up every time.
Jim


14 Dec 01 - 06:16 PM (#609996)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: RangerSteve

Two mentions of Gone With the Wind, but no mention of "I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies"? What's wrong with you people?

Also: "Shane, come back Shane", "Lassie, come home", "Sheba? Come back, Sheba"


14 Dec 01 - 06:34 PM (#610019)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Bill D

"Yassuh, boss"...

Stepin Fetchit and WAY too many more...


14 Dec 01 - 06:36 PM (#610022)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Lonesome EJ

JIm, that was Jimmy's drunken uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life. Jimmy hands him a hat and Billy says "which one is it?" Jimmy says "the one in the middle." Billy puts it on and Jimmy steers him in the right direction as he stumbles off camera. We then hear a trash can tumble over and Billy says "I'm alright!"


15 Dec 01 - 04:24 AM (#610270)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Rolfyboy6

All time Stra Trek Line: "He's dead, Jim."


16 Dec 01 - 02:42 AM (#610865)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Flightwing

How about great lines--some of which may also be in the corny listings--the witty and moving stuff that opened worlds for you? One of my favorites: The Grapes of Wrath, when they ask John Carradine what he did to tick off the cops: "I talked back." And in Spartacus, when Peter Ustinov asks Charles Laughton to go with him, "To make sure I don't misuse the money?" Laughton responds, "Don't be ridiculous. I'm a Senator."


16 Dec 01 - 02:55 PM (#611100)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Desdemona

"Thst's MISTER Potato Head to you, you back-stabbing murderer!"

~Toy Story


16 Dec 01 - 05:32 PM (#611186)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: RangerSteve

From The Fifth Element: You're not the president the president is an idiot and you don't sound like an idiot! (Or something like that)


16 Dec 01 - 05:57 PM (#611197)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Little Hawk

Here's a political one...

"WE ARE AT THE CROSSROADS!"

Yeah. Uh-huh. That f**king crossroads again, for the 10 millionth time. :-)

Watch for it next election...any election.

And a piece of classic Americana: "We kicked butt!!!" (optional variant: "kicked ass"...equally moronic souding in either case.)

Business lines: "He/she dropped the ball" "Take the ball and run with it" "hot to trot" "bullshit"(information that isn't true or accurate) "Money talks, bullshit walks" and a host of others, I can't remember at the moment...most of them are either sexual, scatological, or have to do with sports...or all three of those simultaneously!

These expressions are evocative of the crass and wretched social values presently running this world. God help us all. Corny? Yes. Love 'em? No.

- LH


16 Dec 01 - 06:38 PM (#611219)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Little Hawk

I also nominate any common expression with the word "balls" in it. There are plenty of them. They all have to do with toughness (presumably). The frequency of their use is generally in an inverse ratio to the IQ and/or general sensitivity of the user.

- LH


16 Dec 01 - 07:21 PM (#611236)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Donuel

Why don't you use the door? Close encounters.


17 Dec 01 - 12:12 AM (#611379)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Ebbie

Got a chuckle the other night when a mando player stumbled over a phrase, finally getting it. Afterward, he said, in frustration: Sometimes 'later' isn't better than never.


17 Dec 01 - 12:30 AM (#611385)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: CarolC

I don't know if this is corny or not, but I love it...

"Business? Mankind was my business"

--Jacob Marley


17 Dec 01 - 12:38 AM (#611388)
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From: Little Hawk

That's a good one, Carol!

- LH


17 Dec 01 - 12:52 AM (#611391)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: CarolC

I love this one, too...

"Ebenezer. When happiness shows up, always give it a comfortable seat."

--Fezziwig

(Don't know if these are in the book or not. I'm getting them from the televised version with Patrick Stewart.)


17 Dec 01 - 12:57 AM (#611393)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River

I never met a beer I didn' drink!

BDiBR


17 Dec 01 - 06:07 PM (#611917)
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From: GUEST,Chuck

"'Twas beauty killed the beast."


17 Dec 01 - 08:16 PM (#612022)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Mudlark

Freeze, turkey!!!!

We come in peace...AK AK AK AK (and then they kill everybody)

Nothing but the facts, maam...


17 Dec 01 - 10:51 PM (#612116)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: Troll

Han Solo to Luke; "Kid, I've been from one side of this galaxy to the other...." And Han to Leah; " I love you. Leah to Han; "I know."


Hard to beat Star Wars for good corny lines.

troll


18 Dec 01 - 04:28 PM (#612533)
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From: GUEST,SharonA on vacation, checkin' in

The two (related) plot devices of sooooo many Christmas movies, TV Christmas specials and Christmas episodes of regular TV shows:

(a) Santa walks into the scene and everyone assumes he's Uncle Jim or the next-door neighbor or whomever. Then, immediately after Santa walks out of the scene, in comes Uncle Jim or the next-door neighbor or whomever... and everyone gasps and/or looks up at the sky and/or wonders aloud who that other guy was: could there really be a Santa Claus?

(b) A mysterious stranger comes to town, some miraculous event occurs, and then the stranger can't be found... and everyone gasps and/or looks up at the sky and/or wonders aloud who that person was: could (s)he really be an angel?

*yawn* Could the writers really be at such a loss to think of anything original???


18 Dec 01 - 05:24 PM (#612570)
Subject: RE: BS: Corny lines that we love
From: GUEST,coyote breath

"What's all this, then?"

especially when spoken by John (it ryhmes with cheese) Cleese.

CB