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Jan 29, 2024 09:29AM
Recognized the last half, had to confirm the whole thing. Yep, Buckaroo Banzai. Such a good film. Never read the graphic novel.
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Economondos wrote: "Recognized the last half, had to confirm the whole thing. Yep, Buckaroo Banzai. Such a good film. Never read the graphic novel."You nailed it! I quoted it from the movie script. Loved the movie. John Lithgow stole the show.
@Dj - I was referring to "The Nutcracker".
CBRetriever wrote: "Dj wrote: "Brett wrote: "@Dj - Alison Weir's biography of Henry VIII."Well, that does sound very funny, but no. It is actually the name of a book about a guy who goes to Ecuador to an animal resc..."
I just started it and so far it is a fun read.
Jason wrote: ""Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.""Buckaroo Banzai, at lest the quote shows up in the movie
"Africans were anyway tougher than white yokels."
For Valentines we watched a romance, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922, Silent). One of the cards:"While you are unhung, Hentzau, Hell is missing its master.
"I just took the luckiest shit of my life."
Brett wrote: ""I just took the luckiest shit of my life.""I'm really glad that I swallowed my water before reading this, otherwise my cats would have just taken an unintentional shower!
Brett wrote: ""I just took the luckiest shit of my life.""Sounds like someone missed out on all the shooting
His enemies were fiercely critical of him, accusing him of presumption for daring to rewrite the Gospels.
"If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed."
Brett wrote: ""If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.""That sounds like a dark Terry Pratchett, so... Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch?
Raucous wrote: "Brett wrote: ""If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.""That sounds like a dark Terry Pratchett, so... [book:Good Omens: T..."
Completely agree with Raucous on this!
I am often delighted by jaded lines about motherhood:"The children seemed to require so much of her attention that she sometimes thought of them as akin to those legendary wraiths in the Gonlogi Desert who sucked travelers' blood until they fell down as empty husks."
Brett wrote: ""If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.""Sounds like something that would be said of Leopold of Belgium.
@Dj, it does, doesn't it? But it was Gaimen and Pratchett.
'Cirene is strictly a man's world.' I told him. 'They come here to forget women.''Did you?'
"Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die."
Brett wrote: "@Dj, it does, doesn't it? But it was Gaimen and Pratchett."Well, that would surely make it a more enjoyable read. LOL
Trude wrote: "'Cirene is strictly a man's world.' I told him. 'They come here to forget women.''Did you?'"
Ah, what? No, I must have taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque.
Don't know what book it comes from, but that does seem to be the proper response.
Economondos wrote: ""Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.""Please, please, some stick a fork in polka, the most annoying music short of bagpipes to existing. And bagpipes were meant to scare people.
Dj wrote: Please, please,..."
That is part of the joke, of course. No one really wants to listen to Butters polka music, but the like him so they encourage his hobby.
I agree with you even though my uncle used to be on a Saturday morning polka show in Minnesota.
Economondos wrote: ""Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.""Definitely Harry Dresden!
Economondos wrote: "Dj wrote: Please, please,..."
That is part of the joke, of course. No one really wants to listen to Butters polka music, but the like him so they encourage his hobby.
I agree with you even thoug..."
Stop scaring me. I live in MN now.
I don't think God could even play God anymore without a permit application and a public hearing.
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."The modern take seems to be, "It's the friends we met along the way."
Economondos wrote: ""It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."The modern take seems to be, "It's the friends we met along the way.""
I have always heard the saying as...it is the journey not the destination. Or you should take time to stop and smell the roses.
So I am going to go with a self-help book on how to live your life as the source of your quote. Although that might be too in context. So maybe instead a biography of Bennidect Arnold.
Economondos wrote: "It was in The Left Hand of Darkness."Hmm, I am not sure that is a journey I would want to be taking without rushing to the destination. Although that is the way it goes sometimes.
"She could read and sign her name, but if she was as intelligent as her champions claimed, she hid it well."
Brett wrote: ""She could read and sign her name, but if she was as intelligent as her champions claimed, she hid it well.""I hope this isn't the case but a Biography of Helen Keller
@Dj - nope, Alison Weir's Henry VIII. Quote refers to Jane Seymour.
Brett wrote: "@Dj - nope, Alison Weir's Henry VIII. Quote refers to Jane Seymour."man, what a rude way to talk about a Woman.
TBH I know she had access to the primary sources (metric tonnes by the end notes), but I agree with you. I didn't see evidence in her book to support that conclusion.
"Ogling a demon's ass is what got you into all these troubles in the first place."
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi! I'm currently listening to it. I'm glad I wasn't drinking my tea when I heard that line.
Two from a recently read book:"All my life I've wanted to see dragons!"
"From the inside?"
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Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Hmm... The first one is from a Discworld book that I read not that long ago. Maybe The Colour of Magic? Not one of Rincewind's better moments.
Yep. Twoflower always wanted to see dragons . . . The second one is some time later when the luggage boards a pirate vessel.
"The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication."
"I am my mother's disappointment and my sisters' mockery, and I have no purpose but this. I will save the world."
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"Look, that's Adolf Hitler there - he's on fire."
"Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
And from earlier in the same book:"Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures."
Economondos wrote: "And from earlier in the same book:"Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.""
I love Miles 😁
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