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#109315 08/07/03 02:01 AM
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Thanks, vbg!...that Peter Finch line from Network and the Star Wars mantra are two great examples! and two I should've come up with, but

We could even shade into TV Land, I guess:

Live long and prosper.
--Mr. Spock (Bingley, where were you on this one? )

Nothing!...I know nothing!
--John Banner as Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes

You rang?
--Lurch, The Addams Family






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Ah well, if Star Trek is allowed, I want:

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

Beam me up, Scotty. (apparently never actually said, like "Play it again, Sam")

Bingley


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Beam me up, Scotty

Of course! Has to be in the top ten of the most-spoken and most-heard screen phrases ever! Thanks!

Beam me up, Bingley!


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"Fasten your seatbelts...
It's going to be a bumpy night."
-Bette Davis in All About Eve


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"Dave's not here"
-Cheech and Chong
Up in Smoke

"Just what do you think you're doing Dave?"
-Hal
2001:A Space Odyssey


#109320 08/07/03 10:39 AM
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Star Trek

I'm a ________(frequently doctor), Jim, not a ________.


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Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone certainly became part of the language.

And I was waitin' for tsuwm on this one but I can waits no more:

"The facts. Just the facts."

--Joe Friday, Dragnet.....Obvious?






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just the facts, ma'am
and as missquoted in Die Hard II "Just the fax, ma'am, just the fax."


#109323 08/09/03 03:42 AM
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SWAT has introduced such a phrase. By the end of the summer, everyone will be using it.

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And, of course, "I'm king of the world!", repopularizez by Titanic but originally from another film...anybody know?


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