Notice the date. April 3rd. 7 days before ssywak posted it on IMDb...and look ssywak actually posted on our boards first!!! Philotic web didn't pick on it til July. Here's the link. http://www.philoticweb.net/openbb/read.php?TID=2743Posts: 421 | Registered: Jan 2001
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This one's from the blog. It's unsubstantiated, though.
Sherlock Holmes And The Computer AUG 05 03 by Thomas H. Hunter, http://www.icubed.com/~thunter/stories/computer.htm "But what does it do, Holmes?" "Anything, Watson! That's the beauty of it--a machine that is not restricted to a single task, but can do anything you ask of it." "But what is it doing now?" "Er, nothing really." muttered Holmes as he tried to block my view of the clattering typewriter. (Pretty good, but needs date)
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I think it's interesting how one little post can spread around the internet. It's like a virus and ssywak is our Typoid Mary.
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I can really hear Shake from Aqua Teen saying this, but I can't find a quote anywhere. I think that this is just one of those common things that you hear in real life in some form or other that for some reason we can't seem to find as a pop culture reference. It seems like this is something that's been with me for awhile, like since grade school (10-12 years ago (so maybe not that long by some standards)).
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That is true Rivka. However Thalia's post is the first case of the quote online. Thus it went from a local virus to a global epidemic.
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Charlie and The chocolate Factory? Willy Wonka would have said it, I'm not positive, and plan to rent the movie today, but it seems incredibly possible (and a few of my friends agreed). Sorry to bring this thing up again, and especcially if this one has already been mentioned.
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Breyerchic asked me and i told her.... It is from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... I guess i should stop ignoring hatrack for long periods of time... i was unable to participate in 90% of the conversations at Breyerchic's house last night...
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Just checked out "Flight of the Navigator."
Nope.
Fun movie, though. Silly. Quite silly. You could tell that it desperately wanted to be an IMAX film, though!
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You have to have read the book, or the comic, or seen the movie, or the TV show, or the commercial RECENTLY. Almost (but not quite) solely for the purpose of responding to this search.
Saying, "I seem to recall this line from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' when I saw it three months ago" DOES NOT COUNT.
Saying, "A friend of mine says she saw it on the Simpsons episode last week," similarly DOES NOT COUNT.
You need direct, recent experience.
You also have to be able to quote chapter and verse, or scene, or whatever. Links, if possible, are required.
Otherwise, you're just a poser. A wannabee. A charlatan. A faker. A fakir. A snausage.
So, lem... what happened to the movie you were so sure of? Didja go home and watch it?
Nope, I am in middle of moving, and it was one of the first things my wife packed. We packed days early, unlike me, she is good at preperation.
Tuesday we move into our new house. I will celebrate by watching the where I think it is from. However, after reading this entire post and some posts on other boards, I am loosing a lot of confidence. But I will check back with you all after I see it.
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I planned on renting the movie today to check it, I just wanted to post it before it was out of my mind. But I won't be suprised if that isn't it.
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See I am evil..........now you are all losing your minds.........next your brains will ooze out of your ears..........so far everything is going according to plan
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I know that Hatrack was probably the source because I did a google search for the term back when the question was first posted. I don't think I came up with anything.
Also, someday I'm going to figure out a way to get a screenwriter or author to slip it into a book or movie. Then when one of you sees it, you'll get excited that you finally figured it out before realizing that the book or movie came after the Hatrack thread. Posts: 3546 | Registered: Jul 2002
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Tuesday, lem? Why don't you just tell us where you think it is... someone will have a copy and be able to check. You'll still get credit.
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Except they're trying to stay very very true to the book, and it is NOT in there . . . I think.
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I repeated the line at a family gathering recently and my bros (none of which are hatrackers) all swear they've heard it before too. Of course no one could pinpoint where...... It must be something we come to earth programmed with. Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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I just skimmed this thread, and one thing struck me. Every time someone is almost sure they are about to have proof, the tape or book or DVD just happens to be lost in the mail, or borrowed by a friend, or on reserve at the library, or misplaced in a moving box......
It is a sentient meme, whose sole purpose is to stay hidden. (What does it do? Nothing! Not even appear to view!)
My other theory is that it's from a children's classic. That would explain its universality, and the fact that people can hear it in voices from Kramer to Bart to Kirk -- it came from a print source.
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You know... maybe it is on an old cartoon, and we watched it many, many times in our childhood. That is why we remember it so well, and why we can't definitavely find the source.
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You know -- I think it is the Oversoul. Everytime we think we have the answer - every time we are close to having the answer -- the Oversoul makes our mind lose focus and we forget.....
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Another false lead, but I think this might have been what someone was talking about a few pages back (re: a particularly useless-looking invention). From Space Ghost Coast to Coast, episode "Flipmode":
quote:Space Ghost: I know! My God, how many times do I have to tell you that? Hey, wood! (beat) We should build something.
(Black screen with caption: "SEVEN HOURS LATER". Cut to set. Two boards are nailed together in an upside-down v shape. An extension cord is taped to one board.)
Moltar: Wow. What's it do?
Space Ghost: It's symbolic, Moltar. Things don't always have to do things. Now, help me plug it into the wall.
<Edit: Fixed UBB code -- PJ>
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I wonder if I could photoshop some of the other possibilities into the background. It would make for an awfully fantastic drawing if someone could draw well enough to do it that way.
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