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LOL. Ok, I just checked the date on THIS thread and it preceeds the others! Duh.
Well, someone better put the line in a movie soon. Seems like I *did* hear it in the new version of Willy Wonka...
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I have asked the 100 hour board (http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=about) and if they turn up stumped then I am willing to give up.
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I too could've sworn I heard it in the new Willy Wonka, but I'm also thinking Red Dwarf or a Mel Brooks film.
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There is a line in the simpsons that sounds familier, this one:
Homer: What does it do? Marge: It doesn't do anything. Homer: No really, come on. Marge: If it does anything, it's doing it right now.
It also sounds like it could've came from Third Rock from the Sun, or Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy though...
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The person who bumped this thread should be shot. Jonathan Howard, you are on my list. And I don't mean Christmas.
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I would have to say...the line comes from nowhere. Surely the IMDb would have the quote somewhere, you know they have all the clever and memorable quotes from every movie you could think of. And don't you think at least ONE person in the world would be able to recall EXACTLY where it came from? Once more, for all to hear, THE LINE DOES NOT EXIST outside of the crazed search for its origin.
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Just because we've settled it doesn't mean that we still can't discuss or debate it. Wait, let me call Tresopax in here...
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My roommate's best friend's great uncle say's it's from an old Hoppy Turnbow skit called "Once I Ate Seventeen Quarters At A Hotel In Cleveland".
True story. Says he watched it the other day to be sure, and there it was.
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Maybe not sing, exactly. Warble. Croon. Mumble. Nah. What's a good word for "sings very very badly off-key to the point of hurting ears until they bleed"?
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You have reaffirmed my belief in God Papa Moose. If evil personified exists, then I accept that good personified exists. Good personified is God.
You sir are EVIL, ergo God exists! My testimony thanks you.
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Given the number of people who are sure they know the quote but have never seen the movie, it seems doubtful that it is the primary source.
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I disagree. Merely having found some form of the quote doesn't count; it has to be a quote from a source that could plausibly have been the origin of the meme (i.e. popular with a significant section of the demographic.)
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With the entire Internet looking for the answer, you figure they'd had found it by now... if it existed.
Heck, they found that Burgess Meredith clip, didn't they? That's pretty out there and obscure to begin with.
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I hate to say it, but I tend to agree with TomD on this. The Burgess Meredith clip is too...arcane.
Well, I put in a request for "In Like Flint" at my local library...I'll have to let you know what I find.
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Seriously, when Ender's Game is finally made into a movie, it MUST have these lines in it. Somewhere. I love that.
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