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#109345 08/11/03 03:21 AM
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"What we have here is a failure to communicate." -Cool Hand Luke


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EX-TER-MI-NATE EX-TER-MI-NATE The Daleks from Dr. Who

Thunderbirds are GO! from Thunderbirds (can't remember who said it now. Jeff Tracy? Brains?)

Time for bed, said Zebedee. The narrator from The Magic Roundabout

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"Resistence is futile"
The Borg, Star Trek Next Generation

Why the computer people haven't picked up on this one as an error message is beyond my powers to compute!


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Some more from US TV Late Night:

This one has more to do with the the inflection, the sound, than with the actual phrase:

"I did not know that."
--Johnny Carson

"Herrrrrrrrrrrre's, Johnny!" [or any other name]
--Ed McMahon, introducing Johnny Carson


And another SNLism:

"It just goes to show ya...it's always somethin'!"
--Gilda Radner as Roseanna Roseannadanna




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A few from Rowen and Martin's Laugh-in:

"Sock it to me."
"Veeery interestink...but stupid."
"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
"One ringy dingy, two ringy dingies..."




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Yes! Laugh-In! :

You bet your sweet bippy!

How'd'ja like a nice walnetto?

Here come da judge! Here come da judge! Order in da court, 'cause here come da judge!




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We use a couple of these in our house on a regular basis:

It's dead, Jim. (some kind of Star Trek reference, now used when referring to, say, an appliance that won't start)

I don't think so, Tim. (from Home Improvement, used when anyone suggests something bloody stupid, reference to Tim Allen's character who did a lot of bloody stupid things on that show)


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I don't think so, Tim.

This one needs to be said with just the right tone of voice.

Then there's always (back in the realm of movies):

"Don't call me Shirley."


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"Don't call me Shirley."

--first used in Airplane!, I believe, and introduced by Robert Hays as the pilot, then Leslie Nielsen.

Surely that phrase needs the requisite conjunction "And" in front of it, doesn't it? just kidding, Faldage, that's a good one we missed, thanks!

...and don't call me Juan!





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and don't call me Juan!


But Juan! Juayever not?


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