Lines from fiction you yearn to say in earnest.
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Last year I was on a field exercise with my platoon, and I was in charge of logistics. I refrained from going Scotty on my platoon captain when I had to report to him the power generator was offline.
Being in the military, the list is loong..
For one, I hope to write my own captain's log one day..
Being in the military, the list is loong..
For one, I hope to write my own captain's log one day..
That actually made me laugh out loud -my cat even woke up and gave me that WTF look!
Your AV of course prompts me to say that I love the chance to say I know whenever someone offers me something like a cigarette or a beer...
I really should practice that scottish accent..
"Ye cannae change the laws of physics captain" 
Would he have understood?
Would he have understood?
From the 1948 John Ford classic Fort Apache, delivered by Henry Fonda: "You're a blackguard, a liar, a hypocrite, and a stench in the nostrils of honest men. If it were in my power I'd hang you from the nearest tree, leave your carcass for the buzzards."
Rett Mikhal
Captain
You can't run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps, John!
True story I had many classes with a fellow engineer named John and EVERY DAY I waited for him to mention some amount of amps so I could bust out THAT Apollo 13 quote.
Other than that there's the classic: "YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS! YOU BUMPED INTO THE CEILING AND NOW IT MUST BE WASHED AND STERILIZED SO YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!"
...Of course I have said that randomly at the climax of an argument for no apparent reason.
Good man. I have used that on multiple occasions. None involved time travel, however.
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Some lines I've always wanted to use:
"I find your lack of confidence disturbing."
"I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!"
One of these days, when someone phones me by mistake and asks to speak to some woman I've never heard of, I'll get up the nerve to use this line from Ruthless People:
"Hello? Debbie? Yeah, Debbie's here, who's this? Well, uh, Debbie can't talk right now, my dick's in her mouth."
"I find your lack of confidence disturbing."
"I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!"
One of these days, when someone phones me by mistake and asks to speak to some woman I've never heard of, I'll get up the nerve to use this line from Ruthless People:
"Hello? Debbie? Yeah, Debbie's here, who's this? Well, uh, Debbie can't talk right now, my dick's in her mouth."
There are two jokes I know of to which this line acts as the punchline. I fear to ask which one you're referencing...
Julemand, I'm delighted this spin-off thread is turning out so funny. Some great replies so far!
To my two requoted in the OP, I'll also add:
"Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad."
"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube."
And on a related note: "Oh, and Senator, just one more thing: love your suit!"
"TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW!"
"Put... the bunny... back... in the box. "
I'd like to use "And here's us, on the raggedy edge" during a staff meeting about how badly things are going.
I have actually used the line "You had best unfuck yourself, pronto!"
And one of these days, I'll get to use a Homer Simpson classic: "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand."
I have actually used the line "You had best unfuck yourself, pronto!"
And one of these days, I'll get to use a Homer Simpson classic: "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand."
My top two picks come from Casablanca:
"Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."
"The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
"Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."
"The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
I don't really want to say lines, I just want to say ANYTHING in the classic Don LaFontaine-style movie preview voice.
In a world...where one man...one desire...one solution...
In a world...where one man...one desire...one solution...
I don't really want to say lines, I just want to say ANYTHING in the classic Don LaFontaine-style movie preview voice.
In a world...where one man...one desire...one solution...
You know, that's a good point. You take him. I'll take Harry Kalas. Michael...Jack..Schmidt. The...National...Football...League. He made Campbell's Chunky soups sound epic.
If the situation is right I'm always one for giving off a Mulderism.
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