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That one's easy. It's from (the very funny) Army of Darkness. (Bring on the sarcastic skeleton warriors!) "I'm bad Ash. And you're good Ash. You're goodie little two shoes." "Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun." "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures." Here's one from another flick with Bruce Campbell in it (this may be a tough one, but what the hey...): "Where does he sleep and what does he eat for breakfast? Does he put jam on his toast or doesn't he put jam on his toast, and if not why not and since when?"

I was watching Hope and Crosby in Road to Zanzabar the other night, which featured cannibals (foolishly punching each other out to imitate Hope and Crosby, in fact). I immediately thought of the Caribs since that's all you hear about in connection with cannibals these days. Good job, chief!

Weather? Weather?! Um... Tornado!? Here's some fun quotes from the same movie: "Give it a few months. You'll get used to it... or you'll have a psychotic episode." "You here to make fun of me too?" "No, ma'am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of. May we come in?" "Sure. " "'Best of the best of the best, sir.' 'With honors.' Yeah, he's just really excited and he has no clue why we're here."

Jill's quote is from Shakespeare in Love. (Not to be confused with George Lucas in Love.) My quote that you have all neatly sidestepped was from The Sting, one of the three best movies ever made IMHO. (Where's Diego lately? He might have known that one.) And Top Secret is a hilarious movie! Val Kilmer has never been dumber. "I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a girl he met in a restaurant, who then turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to a childhood lover who she's last seen on a deserted island, and who turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French Underground." "I know. It, it all sounds like some bad movie." (Yes, it does. I loved Top Secret. Another movie with it's roots firmly established in WB cartoons.)

Neat photos! That sounds and looks like an interesting event. Pirates, witches, elves and wizards...as if D&D leapt off the stat sheets and come to life. The origin of the Jolly Roger is rather muddy. Not to say that that speaker had it right or wrong, but I've heard stories... (For what it's worth, this is from something I wrote elsewhere) "It's been suggested that 'Jolly Roger' derives from 'Jolie Rouge' and originally applied to the red flag rather than the black one; it would be just like some pirates to call their no-quarter flag 'jolie' ('pretty'), but I'm not sure if the use of such a phrase has been confirmed. The red flag is certainly older than the black one." Hey Charity, what do you think about moving this topic over to the Raids forum? It would really fit there better than here.

Looks like everyone is. Sorry, I'll pick a searchable quote. The one was from Up the Creek. Tim Matheson is one of my favorite underrated actors (he played Otter in Animal House. Try this one. Diego should know this... "What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others? "

Yet nobody guessed it! Yep, it's from the album It's All About to Change which went multi-platinum. It's called Bible Belt and it's by Travis Tritt. (It's a cool song - very southern rock-ish. Well, I like it.) It was in the movie My Cousin Vinny and was up to number number 75 or something on the charts. The song on the flip side of the single (remember flip sides?) reached number 5.

When I was in San Fran, I found out that during this era (the Gold Rush), people would just run their boats aground in the harbor and abandon them in their hurry to get a piece of the gold pie. I guess the government covered many of the ships over to extend the land in the city. Chinatown used to be right on the harbor.

Oops! My bad, I didn't read the post very closely - I thought he was referring to photos of tall ships from the first two sentences. Unfortunately, I can't move posts from this forum. Sorry 'bout that!

Thanks for the news. While this is interesting, I think it would better fit the topics in the Captain Twill forum. So - off she goes!

Nope, part III. It's in the letter that Marty reads from doc (with Doc voicing-over.) Part II...well, it sort of sucked, didn't it? Christine has left us quoteless... Here's a goofy one I've been waiting to spring on ya's (I may have butchered the least interesting line...it's been a long time since I've seen it): "There can't be a race...if there isn't a river!" "What are you saying, Major?" "We're gonna blow...the mother...up!" Hint: You won't find this quote on-line (Well, I didn't, anyway). The movie was released in 1984 and features one of my favorite under-rated actors.

"There's a lot of good people Who are led astray That believe what the good book said Well, I'll tell ya something brother When you're dealing with the devil It's tough to keep a level head And it's hard to imagine How the flames of passion Can burn till your soul will melt And it'll spread like a cancer But you're gonna have to answer..." (Hint: this is not a "Christian" song, it's sort of southern rock)

Black Hawk Down I knew a guy who was over there when that happened. He said that movie was a pretty good depiction of what was going on at the time. Ok, pick the right one... "Perhaps the gigawatt discharge coupled with the temporal displacement field generated by the time vehicle caused a disruption of my own brain waves, resulting in a condition of momentary amnesia."

Close enough...it's from Harvey. Another fine movie. I heartily reccomend it to everyone. Some more great quotes from Harvey "I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it." "On they way out here, they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me, some times we stop and watch the sunset, and look at the birds fly. And sometimes we stop and watch the bird when there ain't no birds. And look at the sunset when its raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip." "Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it." It's your turn, Jill!

Um, Casablanca? Except I think it may be "I never make plans that far ahead." "What on Earth brought you to Casablanca?" "My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters." "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert!" "I was misinformed." Lord, Rick has great lines. That is one fine movie! Doesn't anyone appreciate a fine stream of consciousness rant anymore? You guys should have seen what I was going to post in Hetha's Noodling thread. Ok, try this on for size: "We came as strangers...soon we have friends. They come over. They sit with us. They drink with us. They talk to us. They tell us about the great big terrible things they've done and the great big wonderful things they're going to do. Their hopes, their regrets. Their loves, their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. Then I introduce them to ______, and he's bigger and grander than anything they can offer me. When they leave, they leave impressed."

Whine? I think Fancy sort of cheated. What's your new quote, Jill? You pretty much stumped us with that last one.

Yes, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Jill, your quote sounds like it's from a modern Vietnam movie where we're being shown how bad a pro-war officer is by the nature of his cliches. Alas, the only such movie I've seen is Apocolypse Now and I know it isn't from that. (I thought Apocolypse Now was so awful that I refused to watch any remotely similar 'Nam movies including Born on the 4th of July or the widely acclaimed Deer Hunter... What the heck was the point of Apocolypse Now? Other than proselytizing, of course... Yuck. Give me war movies like Patton where, even if he's flawed, there's a hero to root for. I don't go to the movies to get political messages thrown at me underhand, I go to be entertained! Isn't that what movies are for? Well, unless you're making documentaries and then I don't know what movies are for because I don't watch documentaries, either. Well, I don't watch documentaries other than ones about pirates, of course. Not that there have been any good documentaries about pirates recently. Oh, sure, the History Channel had some, but they got facts wrong all the time. Which leads me to wonder why the History Channel, of all channels, promotes itself as the History Channel if it can't get the "History" part right. Maybe it should be the Almost History Channel. Or the Nearly History Channel. Or the Just One Calorie, Not History Enough Channel. [Moderator's note: Ignore him, he's raving like a loon.] Plus they have those funny re-enactment segments. What's up with that? That's not history, that's pretending to be history based on the four pages that Johnson devoted to a particular pirate. Better yet, they sometimes show photos from the period of things going on that are in no way related to the historical subject, other than through association. Like showing pictures of people in medical outfits from the early part of the century when they're talking about Jonas Salk. And what was up with Walter Winchell when he started bashing Jonas Salk's polio vaccine? I mean, what does Walter Winchell know about polio or vaccines or the price of tea in China? Well, maybe he knows about the price of tea in China if it's news. "Today in China, Tea prices increased, causing butterflies to flap their wings in different patterns which lead to a Sou'Easter over Vermont. In other news..." But to claim that the government stored coffins around the country filled with kids who died from Salk's vaccine when he had no proof? Are we talking about Dan Rather or what? This is a pillar of the media community. Except he could move around. Pillars generally are stuck where they are stuck, right? So maybe Winchell isn't a pillar. What was I talking about? Oh, yes, Vietnam movies. Won't watch 'em. Ok, off'n me soapbox now... ) (No Fancy, I have not been drinking wine tonight. Must be all those chemicals from the paint stripping gunk I was using on my house tonight. I wonder if prolonged exposure over the course of weeks is dangerous? And I've still so far to go...)

Well...for some things. Remember, I warned you about Jill St. John. Blah. (Wint and Kidd are worth the price of admission, though.) "The scorpion..." "One of nature's finest killers, Mr Kidd." "One is never too old to learn from a master, Mr. Wint." "Tell me, Commander, how far does your expertise extend into the field of diamonds?" "Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggest marriage, I suppose it replaced a dog as a girl's best friend. That's about it." (You don't need to see it, I can recite the whole thing for you, Fancy. Horrible waste of memory, that.) Did'ja know that the cartoon Kid's Next Door has parody characters of Wint and Kidd called Mr Wink and Mr Pibb? Too funny (especially given the source material). New Quote Let's try a new quote (from a great, if somewhat depressing, movie). It's tangentally related to the above movie (if you stretch a bit): "He's okay. Aren't you, Cat? Poor old Cat. Poor slob. Poor slob without a name. I don't have the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is, but I know what it's like. "

No, the movie was not McClintoc, it was Donovan's Reef. It's a comedy with John Wayne as the lead. I doubt I've seen the movie you're quoting, Fancy. It doesn't ring any bells. DAF = Diamonds Are Forever It was an interesting movie. It really started the whole idea of Bond spoofing himself, which Moore carried on (some would say to extremes). I liked the movie because it was so self-deprecating, especially for a Connery movie... The real fun were the two killers Wint and Kidd (who are dramatic departures from the book - but it works fairly well in the context of the movie). They got most of the good lines. Well, except for the absurd, "I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way." The big problem with DAF was the character of Tiffany Case as played by Jill St. John. Why they didn't use the über female character Tiffany Case as portrayed in the book is beyond me. Well, ok, it wouldn't have fit the light tone of the movie, but still... (Dear Barbara: Please get your writers to resurrect the literary Tiffany Case character in some form for future Bond movies. Love, Mission) Actually, I'd sort of like to see them re-make DAF following the source material. I would even go so far as to set it in the 1950's - they're allowed to do that in movies. It is my favorite Bond novel - mostly because of Tiffany Case's wonderful character and lines. But I digress...

Everyone's ignoring my quotes from DAF. Oh, well. Dogma is not what I would choose to see if I were checking out a Kevin Smith movie. If you're want to try his movies either see Chasing Amy (if you like "serious" movies) or Mall Rats (if you like WB cartoons). Clerks is also worth a gander. Er, put the kids to bed first. Gobs of adult themes and language. I don't know what that's from, Fancy. It reminds me of another quote (from Ghostbusters), though. "Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?" "Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."

You guys skipped those...c'mon, they're easy. Boy, if Diego doesn't know it I may as well spill. It's from a movie called Donovan's Reef with Marvin, John Wayne and Ceasar Romero. Well worth watching if you happen to see it flit by on AMC, Diego. I'm not a huge Wayne fan, but that was a fun movie. I hesitated to put it in the mix because I knew you couldn't find the quote on-line. (Slows this post down something terrible when that happens.) Jill: Dogma. Best quote from Dogma: "I give you...The Buddy Christ! Now that's not the sanctioned term we're using for the symbol, just something we've been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn't it...pop?" Somewhere I have a Buddy Christ statue...

Hmm... I think it's from Casablanca. Ok, here's a few easy ones from a great movie. (Someone still has to guess the other one, though. Anyone?) "Well, go on, it's merely a lift. Or perhaps I should say elevator." "If God had wanted man to fly..." "He would have given him wings, Mr. ____" _______ Don't forget this one (if no one get's in a day or two, I'll confess): "You've a mean Irish temper _____, but I love it!" Hint: it's from the 1960's & Lee Marvin's in it.

Nope. Can't quote a movie I've never seen. Doesn't anyone watch AMC? Another hint: Lee Marvin's in it - and he's an absolute hoot! (He didn't say this line, though.)

Ok, I know this quote isn't totally right because I'm leaving out a character's name, so it's going to be a tough one for you Google searchers... "You've a mean Irish temper _____, but I love it!" Hint: it's from the 1960's.