Who Said It?
"Well, you see, according to [blank's] plan, I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think! I like to read! I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder..."Gee, should I have the T-Bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol! I want to eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS OF CHEESE, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section with my feet on the table. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body, reading Playboy magazine! Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year old virgin sitting around in beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer weiner".
A) Rosie O'Donnell
B) Nickie Goomba
C) Sting
D) Edward Kennedy
E) Charles deGaulle
F) None of the above
BONUS POINTS! Who Said It?
"I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off. On and off, all day; all night. Soon where [blank] once stood will be a string of gas stations. Inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly-prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards, reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it wil be beautiful!
A) Any Congressional Republican
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) DC
D) Lou Dobbs
E) John Major
F) All of the above
The first one's gotta be Rosie or Teddy. Such sentence structure could only be muttered by an Irish Catholic from Boston.
ReplyDeleteThe second one is clearly the legal opinion of some second-rate jurist.
You're close on the first, but too esoteric, whatever the hell that means.
ReplyDeleteThe second....ahhhhh, not really.
By the way, none of the sponsors of this game can win.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're buying the winner a new car.
#2 sure did remind me of that judge in Roger Rabbit.
ReplyDelete#1 could be any one of a million smartass Irishmen in Beantown.
Well, the car will be "new" to the winner. I'm willing to part with a classic AMC Pacer with custom cloth-like upholstery.
Curse, foiled again!
ReplyDeleteWas that the Pacer with the Levis interior, or the Pierre Cardin interior? Or was it the one with the auto deparment terry cloth slip covers?
You and DC have had so many.
I'm going to have to say it's Nickie Goomba for #1 and DC for #2.
ReplyDeleteAnd If I'm right, tell that cheap ass Goomba to keep his Pacer.
Rhod, mine is the classic Pacer Sundowner. There was never a more prophetic branding. The upholstery is the time-tested two-tone Basketry Weave.
ReplyDeleteDC had the basic model with a set of Peter Max seatcovers from Pep Boys and a Horny Toad gearshift lever from JC Whitney. That thing was a babe magnet.
My answers are F and F.
ReplyDeleteDennis Leary.
ReplyDeleteBTW, did you see this?
http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/presto-the-magic-negro-saved-or-created-jobs-in-invisible-congressional-districts/
Not just AZ. This could be fun.
Wow, tough quiz. I think we need to call of the Pacer award.
ReplyDeleteThe second one is both A & C. I said that after my election in 1994 ...
Back to your keyboard, Rhod (the musical one).
Good Lord. I've seen it all now. Peter Max, JC Whitney, Horny Toad and babe magnet used in the same sentence. 2012 isn't so scary now. I'm satisfied.
ReplyDeleteDC, Helen Thomas whispered quote #1into your moist ear in a booth at Quizno's. Don't you remember?
ReplyDeleteOdie, Goomba has a Gremlin (with three good tires) out back of the chicken coops you can have. It's got the AMC straight-six in it. Bulletproof.
ReplyDeleteOpie gets the furry steering wheel cover for a good guess.
ReplyDeleteCbullit gets a matched set of curb detectors for his Hudson.
Rhod, who promoted you to Monte RHall around here? You are giving away more auto accessories than that flak that Obummer named to run GM.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that's saving you from a huge blog brawl now is that Goomba has thrown down with a Horny Toad Gearshift Lever Bomb. He slipped that one in on my like a terd in my pocket.
Babe magnet? I need to stay out of those things, Goomba, to keep myself from repelling the ... never mind.
I need to "shift gears" and get back to you ...
This country was founded by rebels...people who just didn't go along with whatevershit the gov threw at them.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a rebel....that's why it takes me so long to get promoted.
We can pick and choose what we want...some of the gove is OK (I think, maybe, hopefully...I guess)
and some of it is out of control.
What we need is a common sense party.
Rhod, thanks so much. <3
ReplyDeleteOpie, does that mean 2?
ReplyDeleteDC, on the internets that known as the "Doda".
ReplyDeleteYou mean the "Doodad" ... or the good-lookin' Polish girl.
ReplyDeleteCan it be that you guys don't recognize my heart when you see it?
ReplyDeleteOpie, that sure does sound like a Country-Western song title.
ReplyDelete#1 is of course Denis Leary, playing Edgar Friendly in Demolition Man. He made the speech to John Spartan and Lt. Lenina Huxley played by Sly Stone and Sandra Bullock.
ReplyDeleteFrankly I think it does suggest pretty strongly at our future.
Quote # 2 is Al Gore the minute he realized that not enough people were going to buy the global climate mumblything.
BTW Rhod - I saw the actual machine that is your image - on TV today. That was my favorite Twilight Zone episode.
SPARTAN. That's the name I couldn't come up with. I thought that line was spoken by Stallone, it's been years since I saw Demolition Man, and I could not come up with Stallone's character's name to save my life. I knew it started with S and was something suitably aggressive-sounding. But yeah, that was Friendly. Obviously I need to see the movie again.
ReplyDeleteThat speech about ranks up there with the St. Crispin's Day speech from Branaugh's Henry V, as far as kick-a** movie speeches that inspire you to go buy fast-food and kill a bunch of Frenchmen.
Kid, you are the Kulture King, as usual.
ReplyDeleteCaeseria, I am very impressed. You're giving The Kid a run for his money. Well done.
ReplyDeleteTK, that's me, Robby the Robot. I made my debut in "Forbidden Planet". Leslie Nielsen isn't very funny.
ReplyDeleteRhod. I was thinking of the smaller version I saw in the episode that pitted the Pitchman, Mr Bookman against Mr Death.
ReplyDeleteAfter making a deal to not be taken until he has made the one big pitch of his life, a pitch for the Angels, Mr Death has to pick someone else so he chooses Mr Bookman's young female neighbor friend.
In order to keep Mr Death from being at the girls side at midnight to take her, he gives his greatest pitch ever to Mr Death, selling him just about everything in his case. A pitch for the Angels, and Mr Bookman went as planned instead of the girl.
Perfect synopsis, TK, and if I may say so, perfect writing.
ReplyDeleteWith your reminder, I recall the episode.