BS: What if they had said it this way

20 Aug 02 - 09:09 PM (#768832)
Subject: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Jeep Man

I am talking about some of the famous lines that have lasted for decades. Movies, novels, TV and even songs.

Example,

"FRANKLY MY DEAR, I DON'T CARE"

"GET OUT OF TOWN BEFORE BRUNCH".

"THIS CITY ISN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US'

"WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PITTSBURGH".

Anyone Else? Jeep

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20 Aug 02 - 09:12 PM (#768833)
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From: Bill D

"Call me Izzy......"

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20 Aug 02 - 09:15 PM (#768834)
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From: Susanne (skw)

To be or not to be ???

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20 Aug 02 - 09:15 PM (#768835)
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From: Bill D

"Hi, Yo, Mister Ed...Awaaaaayyy"

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20 Aug 02 - 09:18 PM (#768836)
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From: Bill D

"You know, I heard a horse sing like that, once"

Big Bill Broonzy

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20 Aug 02 - 10:20 PM (#768867)
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From: MMario

We're off to see the humbug?

Your mission - whether you like it or not...

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20 Aug 02 - 10:24 PM (#768869)
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From: michaelr

The answer, my friend, is blowing like an empty paper bag on the sidewalk...

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20 Aug 02 - 10:48 PM (#768880)
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From: katlaughing

I left my heart in that hilly town with cable cars

The sun will come out the next day

Singing in the precipitation

It's another day in the approximately ten block square

And, awaaaaay we leave

Fiddle dee dee, I'll think about that on the upcoming day

I'm ready for my up close and personal, Mr. de Mille!

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20 Aug 02 - 11:21 PM (#768894)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Chip2447

Looking for Mr. Snickers.

They may take our lives, but they will never take our desire to live unoppressed and with equality for all.

Alas, poor Bobbit. I knew him, Lorena.

Call me Ishtar.

I never drink....fermented grape juice.

Chip2447(quitting now before this gets waaaay outta control)

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20 Aug 02 - 11:25 PM (#768896)
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From: Sorcha

Oh, funny Jim. Good one!

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20 Aug 02 - 11:33 PM (#768899)
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From: GUEST,Kaleb

Who was that man with that mask thing covering his eyes?

Kaleb

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20 Aug 02 - 11:35 PM (#768900)
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From: Wincing Devil

• Me Tarzan, You Phil(*)
• Here's lookin at me kid
• Lions and tigers and chipmunks, Oh My!
• Writ of Habeus Corpus? We don' need no stinkin' writ of habeus corpus!
• A double mocha latte! A double mocha latte! My Kingdom for a double mocha latte!
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of Hoboken.
• Use the Spatula, Luke!

*(Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

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20 Aug 02 - 11:46 PM (#768903)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST

I made him an offer and he liked it ok.

Go ahead punk, make my lunch.

If you build it, people will come from all over and stand in line and pay you money to see it and they will like it and tell all their friends about it.

Kaleb

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21 Aug 02 - 12:14 AM (#768910)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Bardford

Of all the Tim Horton's in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into mine.

(It's a coffee/donut franchise in Canada.)

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21 Aug 02 - 12:18 AM (#768912)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: DonMeixner

"I am a cheese danish!"

"Well, OKay there , Puritan."

"On second thought I'll have a beer, Draft, not bottled."

"All right Buddy, where's the Fire?, "In your eyes officer, in your eyes."

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21 Aug 02 - 12:18 AM (#768913)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

"As God is my witness, I'll never be sober again!"

"I'm as angry as H - E - double hockey sticks, and I do not intend to continue abiding this in the future!"

"And, as Tiny Tim observed, 'Bah, humbug!'"

"Cher! Cher! Come back, Cher!"

"Elvis has eaten the building."

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21 Aug 02 - 12:33 AM (#768916)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: katlaughing

Dddddat's everything, folks!

Yabba *Dippity Do!

Heigh'o Nickel, Get Going!

Say goodnight, Don Juan..



*a hair gel

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21 Aug 02 - 01:33 AM (#768933)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Souter

Propel, propel, propel your craft
Gently down the silusion
Extaticly, extaticly, extaticly, extaticly,
Existence is but a delusion.

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21 Aug 02 - 02:32 AM (#768953)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Benjamin

I'd really enjoy being under a salty body of water not big enough to be called an ocean in a place where eight legged freaks grow their plants!

Doesn't have the same comercial appeal (though it might have back then, I wasn't yet born)!

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21 Aug 02 - 04:10 AM (#768975)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie

Is that a pin in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

We will fight them amongst the sand-castles....

Frankie & Johnny: He was her man, and not only was he always faithful; he was unfailingly kind, considerate, and sensitive.

Your mission Jim, whether you like it or not....

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21 Aug 02 - 04:49 AM (#768982)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Skipper Jack

Holy Indians! Look at all them mackeral.

Heard at the "Battle of The Big Little Horn"

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21 Aug 02 - 05:00 AM (#768984)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Trevor

"Well Tonto, we're surrounded by Commanches, we're out of bullets - it looks like we've come to the end of the line old friend"

'Whaddya mean 'we' ya pale faced bastard.."

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21 Aug 02 - 06:24 AM (#768999)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Chip2447

Yes, yes I did have sexual relations with that woman, and by the way, I did inhale...

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21 Aug 02 - 06:36 AM (#769005)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: kendall

"Oh dear, looks like you are horse fucked man" Wilfred Hyde White to Joseph Cotton in The Third Man. For you non fans of this classic film, Cotton, (Holly Martin) was in Vienna for a job, and when he arrived, his mentor, Harry Lime was reported dead. W.H. White said, "Oh, that is awkward."

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21 Aug 02 - 10:39 AM (#769091)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: SharonA

"Smith. John Smith." – Agent 007

"I always met a man I liked." – Will Rogers

"87 years ago, our people of an earlier period and common heritage produced on this continuous mass of land a novel and unfamiliar community of people composed of several nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government, impregnated in the power to do as one pleases, and devoted to the offer for consideration that all males (and possible females, but let's not push it because I want to be re-elected) are designed and produced identically in value." – Abraham Lincoln

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21 Aug 02 - 10:54 AM (#769097)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Fred Miller

My mother used to have students fill in the blanks of lines from plays they'd read, the favorite response was Hamlet to Gertrude: Go not to mine uncle's bed. Assume a headache if you have one not.

And a favorite Lenny Bruce line--There is no free brunch.

The best things in life are fried.

A good man is hard to define.

Mama always said life is like a box of "assorted" cookies, differnt shapes and colors but they all taste the same.

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21 Aug 02 - 11:05 AM (#769100)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Trevor

An inclination of the cranium is equal to the spasmodic movement of a single optic to an equine quadruped that is devoid of its visionary capacity.

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21 Aug 02 - 12:00 PM (#769133)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Trevor

Indicate the way to my abode
I'm fatigued and I wish to retire
Had alcoholic beverage sixty minutes ago, and it's gone directly to my cranium
No matter where I perambulate
Over terra, ocean or liquid effervescence
You will always hear me crooning this melody
Indicate the way to my abode

And it fits the tune - just!

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21 Aug 02 - 12:16 PM (#769140)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: MMario

'to kill a parakeet'

'A long distance traveled under the ocean'

'Ad Luna,Alice, ad Luna!'

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21 Aug 02 - 12:24 PM (#769146)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Morticia

"We'll always have Milton Keynes
" "I'll be back....probably around lunchtime, so if you'd pop the kettle on , that would be very nice"

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21 Aug 02 - 12:31 PM (#769152)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: kendall

There will aleays be an Old Blighty.

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21 Aug 02 - 01:28 PM (#769184)
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From: Micca

" I am probably not going to follow agricultural employment with Margaret again"

" The answer, Comrade, is wafting on the breeze"

" Friends, Romans, Hipsters, let me clue you in, we come to put Caeser down ,Not to groove him"

" since my love departed,
I found a new abode,
its round the corner from Kings Cross
on Seven Sisters Road"

" Last night I dreamed I went to Manchester again"

" Well I woke up this morning
What a lovely day
Well I woke up this morning
What a lovely day
the little birds were singing
and the folks were making hay"

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21 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM (#769187)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: MMario

Romeo- Romeo - Where the HECK are you hiding?

Hey - what's that light coming through the glass?

A large shaped portion of heat-coagulated fermented paste of powder made from the embryos of various vegatative organisms; a container of the alcoholic juices derived from vinous fruit, and you.

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21 Aug 02 - 01:43 PM (#769189)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Uncle_DaveO

"A trio of rodents with defective ocular perception
A trio of rodents with defective ocular perception
Observe the manner in which they perambulate
Observe the manner in which they perambulate
The group pursued the agriculturist's spouse
Who severed their caudal appendages with an instrument of household cutlery
Did you at any prior time perceive an equivalent view in your temporal, earthly existence?
A trio of rodents with defective ocular perception.

Dave Oesterreich

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21 Aug 02 - 01:47 PM (#769193)
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From: Uncle_DaveO

"Scintillate, scintillate, apparently Lilliputian orb
Interrogatively, I question your constituent elements.
Elevated greatly vertically from the Terrestrial sphere
Similar to a carbonaceous, isometric, octahedral specimen in the celestial firmament."

Dave Oesterreich

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21 Aug 02 - 01:55 PM (#769199)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

"Here's looking at you, Spaw."

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21 Aug 02 - 02:15 PM (#769204)
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From: MMario

"I don't give the ignited posterior of a rodent!"

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21 Aug 02 - 03:03 PM (#769227)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: SharonA

"Crest has been shown to keep teeth from rotting, which is good when you brush your teeth with it and go to the dentist too."

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21 Aug 02 - 03:11 PM (#769231)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

"In clinical tests, Crest was unsurpassed in preventing new cavities--no better and no worse than any of the other 200 brands tested."

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21 Aug 02 - 03:14 PM (#769232)
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From: SharonA

"He's kicked the bucket, Jim."

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21 Aug 02 - 03:33 PM (#769237)
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From: MMario

Gol'darn it Jim! I'm a physician. I should be out playing golf somewhere.

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21 Aug 02 - 03:36 PM (#769240)
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From: GUEST,Don Meixner at work

Today is the last day of the first part of your life.

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21 Aug 02 - 03:39 PM (#769244)
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From: Hippie Chick

"We can rebuild him, we have the baling wire, glue, worry beads and spit."

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21 Aug 02 - 03:55 PM (#769258)
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From: Genie

Or how about
"Here's looking at you, bi-otch!"

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21 Aug 02 - 04:09 PM (#769268)
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From: katlaughing

Ding-dong the bitch is dead...

At an as yet undetermined point over the multi-hued, spectrumly-correct, all-inclusive curvature in the atmosphere

Hello, pitch-black, my old friend

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21 Aug 02 - 05:54 PM (#769302)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: The Walrus

Never, in the history of hostile military encounters, has such a moral debt been accrued by such a large number of people toward so small a force - W.S. Churchill

"Oh bugger!" - G.A.Custer - Little Big Horn

Walrus

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21 Aug 02 - 06:00 PM (#769304)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Bill D

"alimentary, my dear Watson"
Dr. Holmes, internal medicine

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy god's back"
dyslexic lexicographer

"Nosuh!"
Steppin Fetchit

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21 Aug 02 - 06:21 PM (#769315)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Just Amy

These are great!!

My poor contributions:

Sunshine Keeps Fallin' on my Head

I'm a doctor, Jim. Not a transcendental artist.

I see a blonde whore and I want to paint her black.

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21 Aug 02 - 06:32 PM (#769319)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Jim Dixon

A chain-link fence has come down on Europe.
--Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but various bodily fluids.
--Winston Churchill

We have nothing to be afraid of but being afraid of stuff.
--Franklin Roosevelt

Ich bin ein Hamburger!
--John F. Kennedy

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21 Aug 02 - 07:16 PM (#769340)
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From: Genie

Or, "Ich bin ein Weiner!"
or
"Ich bin ein Frankfurter!"

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21 Aug 02 - 08:08 PM (#769360)
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From: Benjamin

London Bridges weren't built very well!

To thy own self, lying isn't the best way to go!

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21 Aug 02 - 09:02 PM (#769397)
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From: Micca

Genie!! you know the next bit!!!!:o)))))))

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21 Aug 02 - 11:16 PM (#769437)
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From: Chip2447

Defecate, or evacuate the fecal collection recpticle.

If the foo shits.

COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU..."BUBBLES THE BARBARIAN"

My bologna has a first name it's R-A-L-P-H.

Hey mister bodhran man, play a tune for me.

Sunscreen on my shoulders makes me happy.

I'll get you yet, you wascally wombat.

I went down to the four way intersection.

O, brother, you be around heres?

Sixteen tongues and whatta get?

I'm as mad as heck and I'm not going to take it anymore.

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of pina colada mix

Chip2447(trying to stop...)

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22 Aug 02 - 12:02 AM (#769447)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

Actually, Micca, I remember well the Mad Magazine piece those lines came from, but danged if I can remember the next line! (What year was that? About 1956 or 1957?)

And do you happen to have the whole speech?

Genie

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22 Aug 02 - 02:28 AM (#769484)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: John O'L

"Don't play that crap again Sam" - Rick in Casablanca

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22 Aug 02 - 02:35 AM (#769486)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

How do I spell "relief?" "Q-u-a-a-l-u-d-e-s."

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22 Aug 02 - 03:01 AM (#769490)
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From: JohnnyBGoode

Hip, hip, WAHOO!

"No, kid, if you really want to record something for your mother you're better off investing in a home tape recorder and doing it yourself...this is a professional recording studio. We're busy with the likes of Carl Perkins and others you probably haven't heard of."

Na na na na, na na na na, hey, hey, hiya

Listen, do you want to know something I won't tell anybody else?

Jesus left.

Watson, you're fired. Pack your things and go. -- A. Grahm Bell

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22 Aug 02 - 04:31 AM (#769504)
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From: Trevor

'You're kidding!' - Hardy to Nelson at his big moment during the battle of Trafalgar.

'Anybody seen the tar remover?' - Lady Macbeth

Once Upon a Time Somewhere Over There

'If you don't put that arrow down Harold, you'll have someone's eye out!'

and, most famously...

'Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?'

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22 Aug 02 - 09:15 AM (#769578)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: The Walrus at work

"Alright lads, one more try at that hole in the wall" - Henry V at Harfleur

"Agincouurt? What kind of name is that for a battle?" - Henry V

"If it must be done then better to get a move on" - Macbeth

" You ba*ds might have made a token effort to look for me" Capt Oates, Scott Expedition 1912

Walrus

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22 Aug 02 - 11:58 AM (#769665)
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From: Bill D

tsk...we are slipping from variations on famous quotes to some totally made up lines that might have been said...

Bill D, resident pedant

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22 Aug 02 - 12:03 PM (#769669)
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From: Skipper Jack

"Do sit under the apple tree with everybody else but me!"

"There'll be pigeons over the black tips of Rhondda, tomorrow, just you wait and see!

"There'll be swearing, fighting, damaged street lighting, and supermarket trollies in the stream!"

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22 Aug 02 - 02:20 PM (#769741)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

"What silly ninnies these beings who are destined to die are!"

"If banjo solos be the food of love, ...oh, what the heck! Go ahead and pick!"

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22 Aug 02 - 02:39 PM (#769749)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: RangerSteve

...and in the name of the Lollipip Guild, we're going on strike for more vacation and sick days, better working conditions, shorter hours, a cost-of-living raise...

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22 Aug 02 - 05:40 PM (#769825)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: The Walrus

OK Bill, just for you:

"..There I was, after the action, beaten to the wide and coming in on my chinstrap, when up strolls this total ponce, clean as a whistle, dressed to the nines and smelling like a bleedin' knocking shop and with a pomander up his nose.
Anyhow, some squaddies were cleaning up the battlefield and this oik has a go at them because he ended up downwind of a stiff..."
Harry Hotspur - Henry IV Pt I Act 1 Scene III - W. Shakespere

(if you want the original:

"...But I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose and took't away again;
Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility...")

Walrus

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22 Aug 02 - 06:25 PM (#769850)
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From: GUEST,Just Amy

We always call "Toys R Us" - We be dolls & stuff

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22 Aug 02 - 10:47 PM (#769927)
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From: bob jr

citzen kanes dying words "roast beef"

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22 Aug 02 - 11:52 PM (#769951)
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From: Bill D

wow, Walrus!...*grin*

now, "War & Peace"?

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23 Aug 02 - 12:26 AM (#769956)
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From: Bert

I asked my love to take a hike.

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23 Aug 02 - 03:13 AM (#769983)
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From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie

Oscar Wildes last words: "Either that wall-paper goes, or we need to replace the carpet to match"

"Badges? We just LOOOOOVE those pretty badges"

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23 Aug 02 - 04:36 AM (#770014)
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From: Trevor

F**k Bognor!

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23 Aug 02 - 08:50 AM (#770094)
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From: The Walrus at work

Pitt the Younger's last words:
"I could just eat a chicken vindaloo."

Walrus

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23 Aug 02 - 09:16 AM (#770112)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST

We have nothing to fear but a decade long crippling depression. (The Onion)

Whatsisname Beats The Other Guy! (Dewey Wins!, the Onion)

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of milk-duds. (Ken Byrd)

Woke up this morning, saw both my cars were gone. Felt so low down deep inside, I threw my drink across the lawn. (Martin Mull)

It ain't me, babe, it aint me, babe, you, babe, are looking for. Babe.

Do you want to know a secret? and The sound of silence; (the words stay the same, but as sung by Ethel Merman)

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23 Aug 02 - 09:25 AM (#770119)
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From: GUEST,Fred Miller

Oops, the above were my fault. I'm a Doctor, Jim, not an assistant crack-whore.

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23 Aug 02 - 09:25 AM (#770120)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: MMario

"It was an okay time, it was not the greatest of times"

"Now is the cold season of our peevishness made slightly better by that big light in the sky"

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23 Aug 02 - 09:56 AM (#770137)
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From: Trevor

This is a far, far more stupid thing than I have ever done before. (Pinching MMario's source!)

Nymphs and shepherds sod off!

Oh for the wings of a stormy petrel.

A Town Called Gertie

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23 Aug 02 - 01:34 PM (#770310)
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From: The Walrus at work

"When I was a young man I carried a pack
And I irritated every other passenger in the tube train".
(Apologies to Eric Bogle

"To plough and sow,
and reap and mow
And rake in EU subsidies
And rake in subsidies.

Walrus

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23 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM (#770316)
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From: DMcG

A rose by any other name would still have greenfly

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23 Aug 02 - 04:18 PM (#770416)
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From: Boromir

It means nothing if it hasn't that swing.

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23 Aug 02 - 04:23 PM (#770418)
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From: MMario

To soar with the penguins....

You are the atmospheric disturbance beneath my wings...

A trolley-car named 'Lust'

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23 Aug 02 - 10:05 PM (#770596)
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From: Genie

"Come shack up with me and be my main squeeze...".

Then there's that great Tennessee Williams play, "Moggy On Overheated Metal Shingles."

or
Shakespeare's classic line: "All the world's a mosh pit."

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23 Aug 02 - 10:57 PM (#770607)
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From: katlaughing

This one's too easy...Heya Romeo, where the hell are you, anyway?

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24 Aug 02 - 12:09 AM (#770633)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

"It is better to have loved and lost. Much better."

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24 Aug 02 - 12:57 AM (#770648)
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From: GUEST,Souter

This one's too easy...Heya Romeo, where the hell are you, anyway?

But, catlaughing, wherefore means why, not where. Just as therefore means for that reason, wherefore means for what reason. See? So it could never have been said that way.

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24 Aug 02 - 01:03 AM (#770650)
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From: GUEST,Souter

To clarify: Juliet wasn't asking where Romeo was, she was asking why he couldn't be someone her parents liked.

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24 Aug 02 - 01:38 PM (#770826)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

Blackcatter,

"Fiddler on the Lamb "  -- Do you mean "...on the lam" ?  (Shouldn't it be "Banjo Player On The Lam"?)

"The Last Temptation Which Was Affective"   Do you mean "Effective?"

 "Who's The Bell Ringing For?"  -- good one!

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Some others:

The Sun Also Rises (So Get Out Your PABA)

The Leopard In Summer

Failed "Safes"  (required reading for Planned Parenthood)

A Vermont Mets Player In The Court Of That Guy With The Round Table

Strawberry Finn

The Last Dandelion of Summer

Mighty Lak' A Geranium

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24 Aug 02 - 06:49 PM (#770999)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: The Walrus

Some older films:

"Duel in the drizzle"

"Mr Deeds Goes to Town, gets bored and comes Home"

"It's a so-so Life"

"ElectroGlide in a nice Magenta and Plum"

"Malediction of a preserved corpse"

Bob Hope in "The Sunblock worked" (alright, it was the nearest I could get to "Paleface")

Walrus

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24 Aug 02 - 06:51 PM (#771001)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Fred Miller

What if they'd said it together?

Fiddler on a hot tin Roof

A Streetcar named desire under the elms

What if they'd said it more precisely?

Her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter tint of pale

You and I travel to the beats of two different drums

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24 Aug 02 - 09:47 PM (#771079)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Ebbie

Very frequently, a suggestible person is birthed. P. T. Barnum

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24 Aug 02 - 11:53 PM (#771115)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

Seen on a tombstone: "Better here than in Guelph."

BTW, wasn't Robert Burns's observation
"The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley*"
just an earlier version of
Murphy's Law?
"Whatever can go wrong will."

Genie

*This is only a rough approximation of the Burns line.

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24 Aug 02 - 11:58 PM (#771117)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Blackcatter

"Fiddler on the Lamb" - I was actually going for the meat of choice at Passover, but lam is fun too.

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25 Aug 02 - 06:27 AM (#771187)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Gurney

How about a few songs, like... Poached egg on toast by Cyril Tawney I'm metropolitan, really by Harvey Andrews When you reached the age of consent as sung by the Fureys

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25 Aug 02 - 11:15 AM (#771268)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Skipper Jack

If they have no bread then let them eat toast! ( I don't know who said that?)

I went, I didn't see, I won at conkers! (Julius Caesar)

Woa, woa, and triple woa! I am falling apart (I don't who said that?)

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25 Aug 02 - 12:11 PM (#771280)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: GUEST,Fred Miller

I think it was Marie Antionette who said Let them eat toast, but I'd better be careful, might've been Groucho Marx.

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25 Aug 02 - 02:29 PM (#771346)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: katlaughing

Souter, thanks for the correction...HeyaRomeo..I wish my parents liked you!

**bg**

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25 Aug 02 - 06:08 PM (#771416)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Uncle_DaveO

GUEST Souter submitted:

"This one's too easy...Heya Romeo, where the hell are you, anyway?"

Unfortunately, "wherefore" does NOT mean "Where". It means "why". So maybe:

"Howzacome you're Romeo?"

Dave Oesterreich

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25 Aug 02 - 06:12 PM (#771421)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Uncle_DaveO

He marches to the beat of a different kettle of fish!

Dave Oesterreich

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25 Aug 02 - 09:06 PM (#771491)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

How about a combo song title:

"Seventy-six Candles"

Then there's the classic Gary Cooper film:

"Twelve-hundred Hours Straight Up."

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25 Aug 02 - 11:56 PM (#771559)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: katlaughing

And to clarify further:

Main Entry: 1where.fore
Pronunciation: 'hwer-"fOr, 'hwar-, 'wer-, 'war-, -"for
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle English wherfor, wherfore, from where, wher + for, fore for
Date: 13th century
1 : for what reason or purpose : WHY
2 : THEREFORE

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To actors: Fracture a tibia or femur

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26 Aug 02 - 04:49 AM (#771624)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Skipper Jack

Now children, write this simple sentence:

"The feline squatted on the floor covering".

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26 Aug 02 - 11:26 PM (#772081)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

...or the Dr. Seuss classic,
"Le Chat Avec Le Chapeau"

or the Hemingway novella
"The Geezer Vs. Davy Jones"

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26 Aug 02 - 11:54 PM (#772091)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Blackcatter

Hitting our butt on the ground while rocking back and forth in a candied Roman horse cart.

What a present it is to be uncomplicated.

The plot of earth wot you see before you belongs to you.

There's a fair amount of distance across the H2O.

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27 Aug 02 - 01:51 AM (#772153)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Genie

That first one took me a while, Blackcatter. :)

How about some of Patsy Cline's big hits:

"Psychotic"
"Washed-Out Co-dependence"
"I Have A Nervous Breakdown
"Sugary REM Sleep"
"Ambulating In The Early Hours Of The Morning"

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27 Aug 02 - 06:43 AM (#772223)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: Trevor

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

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27 Aug 02 - 07:29 AM (#772229)
Subject: RE: BS: What if they had said it this way
From: DMcG

Once a battalion of dragoons@ from Ireland held a military exercise in Fife. Oh.

(@ a dragoon is a kind of pigeon, but that would be silly)

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