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| Name: Ryan Roe Email: prawnrr-rmv@this.com-yahoo.com Position: Movie / Television / Comic Book / Trivia Geek View Ryan's Personal Profile |
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| Okay, I have this idea. It might turn out to be a fun thing, or it might turn out to be one of the dunderheadest notions I’ve ever had. I’m constantly quoting lines from my favorite movies, TV shows, Shakespeare plays, Homestar Runner cartoons, etc. If something I hear in real life reminds me of one of those things, I won’t hesitate to spout out the line, whether I think anyone else will recognize it or not. I know a number of other people who are the same way. I could probably hold conversations with various friends and siblings of mine in which everything we said would be from The Simpsons, or UHF, or Not the Baboon, which isn’t even a real movie. Thus came my idea. Below I’m quoting four lines from things I’ve seen or listened to. I’m challenging everyone who’s reading this to use any one of these in real life within the next few weeks. Work it in to conversation, any way you can. If you can use all four, then you’re really awesome and maybe I’ll send you a Slim Jim as a prize. When you’ve used the line, come back here and leave a comment to tell me about it. I’m especially interested to hear how other people respond. You could use the lines in a context that makes sense. For example, let’s say one of the lines was, “Spoon!” (from The Tick). If somebody asked you for the name of your favorite piece of silverware, you could use the line. Or you could use them in a context that makes much less sense. If somebody greeted you with a, “What’s up?” you could then yell, “SPOON!” It would still count, and it would be funnier. Okay, I’ve explained this using far more words than it deserves. Here are the lines. 1. “I’d horsewhip you if I had a horse.” (Groucho Marx, from the film Horsefeathers) 2. “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me.” (Cookie Monster, from Sesame Street) 3. “Connect the dots! La-la la-la!” (Pee-wee Herman, from Pee-wee’s Playhouse) 4. “Bye! Don’t forget to feed the goat for me!" (Monty Barton as Jacques Pierre Rembrandt van Picasso, from The Glass Eyeball of Dresden) If this proves to be a fun thing, I’ll do it again sometime. If not, I’ll print this page, shred it, and forget the whole thing ever happened. Comments on this post are closed. |
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| I just had to comment on this one. I just yesterday made a Groucho Marx reference to a few of my employees. I spent the next hour trying to explain to a group largely composed of college freshmen and sophomores. Beware the "make you feel old" quotes. Now I stick to Napoleon Dynamite in the office |
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| Thank you! A while back I was trying to remember the name of Monty's character in 'Dresden.' You would think that *I* would be able to remember that name. That sort of thing should really be on IMDB. :-P |
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| Oh, and here's an interesting fact. Look up 'Not the Baboon' in IMDB, and the top result is 'Kevin Bacon.' Apparently he's 7 degrees away from non-existant movies, too. |
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| Man, this is going to require some willpower. When I depart from people, my automatic line is, "Bye-bye, boys; have fun storming the castle." It's a grand idea, though. Once I resolved to use the phrase "abscond with" by the end of the week. I used it, and I'm a better person for it. |
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| I do this all the time, including this once I spontaneously quoted Ryan Roe. I was talking to my cousin Mick, and I told him I was going to "revert to human form and leave to find myself" which is how you described Ms. Marvel leaving the Fantastic Four. That sounded way better in my head. |
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| This evening I put "Resolved: I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse" on the list of suggested debate topics for next week's meeting of the Philolexian Society. I was the only person who voted to debate it. I also left the Philo post-party by saying, "Bye! Don't forget to feed the goat for me!" I immediately followed it up with "Bye-bye, boys; have fun storming the castle!" because my obsessive compulsiveness wouldn't have allowed me to leave the room otherwise. |
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| Okay, folks, I think Michal is winning so far. Well done, that's the spirit, tally ho, etc. How did people react to the goat line? Not that it's a contest, by the way. But if it were, Anthony would get extra credit for having quoted me long before I had the idea for this journal. To Chris I would say, don't give up. Napoleon Dynamite quotes are good, but anyone could come up with one of those. Just the other day at work, I said, "I betcha I could throw a football over those mountains," and a few minutes later somebody else came in the room and said, "I betcha I could throw a football over those mountains." But using Groucho quotes around people who don't know them makes you very, very sophisticated. Don't worry about feeling old; Groucho died before we were born. Finally, to Matt: Hmm... I don't think Kevin Bacon was in "Not the Baboon," but I guess he could have been disguised. As Erin, maybe. Hold on a minute... Jason Roe was in Not the Baboon with Chris Fischer, who was in The Glass Eyeball of Dresden with Eric Idle (nightmare montage), who was in Casper with Christina Ricci, who was in Now and Then with Demi Moore, who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon! Yes! I have no idea what that proves. And yes, Monty's character in the scene you wrote was Jacques Pierre Rembrandt van Picasso, but he just goes by Van P. His parents were morons. |
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| I successfully applied "C is for cookie..." after, for soem unintelligible reason, a certain content filtering program blocked an image of cookie monster for one of my friends yesterday. Unfortunately nobody had any reaction. I think it may be too cliche. |
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| This evening at my friend's birthday party, I left a message on her roommate's dry-erase board, instructing the reader to "Connect the dots! La-la la-la!" I also left several numbered dots, which I hoped would form a five-cornered star. The roommate followed the instructions, and drew a smiley face in the middle of the star when she was finished. |
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| My friend Debbie is holding an RA event for her floor tomorrow night. They're baking cookies. She even made flyers with pictures of Cookie Monster and with a statement very similar to the one you requested that we say. Obviously, I was singing "C is for Cookie" for most of the afternoon. Everybody wins! ...But mostly me. Oh, and the people who get to make cookies tomorrow. |
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| Well, color me impressed, with cerulean polka dots. Now, who wants to match her four-for-four? |
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| By the way, I've been trying to think why Michael's friend was blocked from seeing an image of Cookie Monster... I think I figured it out. Cookie Monster is naked! |
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