Geeky Earworms

[The Bluestocking]

You know how sometimes, a certain song can get stuck in your head for ages?

Well, the other day, I discovered that quips from a movie or book can keeping playing in a loop in your head too when I literally kept hearing this quote from The Princess Bride:

"Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"

Drove me a wee bit loopy after it repeated itself for like the 200th time...

Um... anyone else have that happen to them and if so, what line sticks and replays itself over and over and over and over...?

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Cool thread, TBS! I've had a few over the years, but the one that probably stuck with me longest--and that I still sometimes have popping up in the old noggin--is from Asimov: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

ps--LOVE the Goldman quote!

 

[The Bluestocking]

Cool thread, TBS! I've had a few over the years, but the one that probably stuck with me longest--and that I still sometimes have popping up in the old noggin--is from Asimov: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

ps--LOVE the Goldman quote!

Thanks, CC!

Ooooh! I completely forgot that brilliant quote from Asimov - thanks for sharing it here. I watched an interview with Asimov and was impressed - he did not hold with violence (obviously) and he supported women's rights and gender equality

Unfortunately, Asimov has also passed away. Oh well...

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Yes. forget the "The Godfather", "The Princess Bride" has a quote for every occasion.

 

[Randy M.]

Oh, you can't forget The Godfather. "Leave the gun, take the cannoli." "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." "It was only business."

Nuts. Now I've done that, I can't remember anything else.


Randy M.

 

[Vince W]

Since it's Terminator's 30th anniversary:

'Come with me if you want to live.'
'I'll be back.'

 

[The Bluestocking]

Since it's Terminator's 30th anniversary:

'Come with me if you want to live.'
'I'll be back.'

Don't forget: "Hasta la vista, baby!"

 

[Randy M.]

And going back a ways ...

"I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in them I'll never know."

"Ha! You can'ta fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!" (This one will rattle around my head for hours now.)


Randy M.

 

[Vince W]

And going back a ways ...

"I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in them I'll never know."

"Ha! You can'ta fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!" (This one will rattle around my head for hours now.)


Randy M.

But you have to say those with a big cigar and heavy eyebrows and glasses.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I know you love Miyazaki too, TBS, so here are two lines I still think of from time to time:

Trees and people used to be good friends.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

 

[Dinosaur]

Maybe because I had an afternoon nap at the weekend whilst a Carry On film was playing, but my innuendo meter is working overtime.

Even that sounds smutty.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Quite a lot of Aliens gets stuck in my head:

"Yeah man, but it's a dry heat"
"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" - "No, have you?"
"That's it man. Game over, man. Game Over!"
"Get away from her, you bitch"
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
"Did IQs just drop sharply when I was away."
"I guess she doesn't like the cornbread either."

I could go on and on...

 

[hitmouse]

Here hare here.

 

[Zoe Mackay]

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

"What's the point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?"

"Bouillabaisse. Yum yum."

"Never trust gimmicky gadgets."

Oh, and always: "All power corrupts, but we need the electricity."

 

[Musky]

"Hey kid, you want to makes ten bucks?" Repo Man

 

[The Bluestocking]

Oh great - now I have My Fair Lady (aka George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion) buzzing around my head all day while marking my students' English homework:

By right she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue

*Facepalm*

 

[Alex The G and T]

More Groucho, then.

"I only came to say I must be going."

I use that line frequently.

 

[Vince W]

"Now look, I've gone and caught a sniffle."

I always say that when I feel a cold coming on.

 

[Bick]

Lots of Blade Runner has stuck in my head, in addition to Roy Batty's monologue, e.g. :

Wake up! Time to die!
It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?

 

[Vince W]

Good call Bick. One of my favourites is when someone asks me something I don't know about:

I just do eyes. Just eyes.