Mission

Yes, yes, I know. Great movie. Great movie. I was fixin' to swipe a quote from it myself soon. Isn't the quote actually, "Rommel, you magnificent b******, I read your book!" The other one is actually: "I was interested to see a Bible by your bed. You actually find time to read it?" "I sure do. Every g****** day." (People can't find 'em using Google unless you quote them exactly right, Diego. )

Oh, I know! It's The Passion of Christ!

It's not too easy, 'cuz I sure don't know what it's from.

You didn't give us a new quote to play with, Cap'n Mac! Here's another softball: "You were right about one thing, Master. The negotiations were short." And one that's just a great quote: "Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the Exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time i see it... not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy...NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?"

I believe it's from Big Trouble in Little China. (Boy, that was an odd movie.) The Porkchop Express! Either that or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. _____ "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein That's in my list of favorite quotes. _____ Ok, a new quote then (this should be easy): "I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink. And when I came to I had a revelation, a vision, a picture in my head, a picture of this."

Princess Bride "Maybe we could go out for coffee sometime?" "Great, or maybe we could go somewhere and just eat a bunch of caramels." "What?" "When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee."

That's easy. I just saw What Women Really Want for the first time about two months ago. (It was decent. I liked When Harry Met Sally better as these sorts of movies go...) Here's two (from different movies): "It is to be handled with special care!" "Everything you give me..." "...is treated with equal contempt. Yes, I know." "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently...but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission..."

Sculpy's nice stuff. It's like stone when you get done baking it. I had never used Sculpy until an artist friend suggested it when I was casting about for material for the claws on my velociraptor. Those Sculpy claws are more solid than the fiberglass body of the raptor. You're right about the detail, though. Not good for detail work from my experience.

I believe it was Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

My quote above was from Seven Samuri. Here's a great quote: "... what we want is, I think, what everyone wants, and what you and your viewers have: civilization. The niceties... The fine points...Diplomacy. Compassion. Standards, manners, tradition. That's what we're reaching for. Oh, we may stumble along the way, but-civilization, yes! The Geneva Convention. Chamber music. Susan Sontag.... Everything your society has worked so hard to accomplish over the centuries...that's what we aspire to. We want to be civilized. I mean, you take a look at this fellow here...*shoots* Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized. Now bear in mind, none of us has been in New York before. There are the Broadway shows...we'll have to find how to get tickets. There's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch the for free. We want the essentials. Dinettes. Complete bedroom groups. Convenient credit, even if we've been turned down in the past..." Boy I love that quote. Actually it's more of a monologue. The Brain Gremlin is sooo funny I think I would choose this one from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou as one of my favorites: "Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?" "Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote." Anyhow...new quote (that one I wrote out above is too easy): "We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives."

"Ah-ah, I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' And to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" So I take it that nobody knows my quote from several posts ago? Alas.

The Mask! "Well do ya...? Punk?" Or was that from something else, too...?

Oops! Misspelled Sean of the Dead. Sorry 'bout that.

Shawn of the Dead (What a great flick) Ok, I cheated on jessie's line and looked it up since no one seems to know it and some people are ignoring it. It's from The Man From Snowy River. My favorite "line" from Jaws is the song: "Show me the way to go home I'm tired and I wanna go to bed I had a little drink about an hour ago And it got right to my head Where'er I may roam O'er land or sea or foam You can always hear me singin this song Show me the way to go home." Here's a tricksy one: "A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in so we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war."

Doc's quote is from one of the Star Trek movies - I think it was Kirk who said it. Probably from ST4 (the one about the whales) since that's the only one I've seen enough to remember anything from. I'm not sure about the origin of jessie's quote. I think it should probably be stated: "Gentlemen! May I propose a toast? To our two romantics: one who sees what is, and one who sees what can be; Lord grant that the two are compatible." Sorry jess. The "to's" are redundant and in the movie business, time is important.

You're just giving me a hard time, aren't you Diego? (It could also be from the forthcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...but it's not.) I think Lady Snow's quote is from The Skulls. I'm not sure, though.

I've actually noticed that habitual marijuana users who I know tend to think like JB writes. (I have no idea if JB is a habitual marijuana user - although he references it in his first live album several times.) You want to read some stuff that wanders, pick up some of Lennon's books if you can find them. Absolutely bizarre... quite similar to Jabberwocky.

I've read some of them. I've read A Pirate Looks at 50, Where is Joe Merchant and A Salty Piece of Land. Like many of his songs, I've found his books tend to wander a bit. I enjoyed the recent one the most.

I've never actually seen AOTKT. Sorry, that's not it.

First Knight. How about this one: "Don't you people have homes?" BTW, I like the way Belloq says, "When we are very far from here." He can take the most mundane line and make it sound interesting. Kind of like the way that Gibbs says, "Aye, sea turtles!"

Here in Detroit, you used to be able to get into the parking lot for free. Then you could hang around, be a parrothead, drink rum with your fellow parrotheads, listen to the live albums (there were only two at that point) and leave when the show started. Jimmy Buffett on a budget. Now I think they make you flash a ticket to get into the parking lot.

SWAT How about this: "A toast to our success in the desert." "When we are very far from here."

Better yet, buy a used copy off Amazon or Half.com. If you're really lucky, you may find it for 99¢ on eBay.

You know, I wondered where you could get urethane pigments from. I saw a couple of black-colored polyurethane props awhile back and was curious what they used to color the urethane. Thanks for the link! I'm actually thinking about, er, "resurrecting" one of my old HEDZ concept products (which never made it into production and thus isn't on my web page) and selling it via eBay marketplace. It may even have pirate appeal if I modify it slightly. (By which I mean if I give it an eye patch and a bandanna.) I need to get back into polyurethane mold-making to do it (and find a fast and cheap seamstress...).