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Eaquae Legit
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I still think it was in a commercial. We've all seen it, but who remembers commercials?
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I'm beginning to suspect that there is just some property to it that it sounds familiar without having ever really existed beforehand.

Perhaps here is evidence of the collective consciousness. And what does it focus on but the fact that something is so very cool because it doesn't DO anything!

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Chris Bridges
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The lines were from an episode of "Hiatus." Glad I could clear this pesky problem up for you.
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<smacks forehead>

I knew I had heard it!

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Orincoro
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To reiterate for all you johnny-come-latelies on this, I've done extensive research into the meme.

It was part of a psychological experiment in the 1970's, in which test subjects were told that this line was a part of popular culture, and asked to supply the source.

Up to this point in popular culture, it had no extant source, and none has since been recovered that predates the experiment. The immediacy and humor of the line, as well as its absurdity, appeals to the reader and makes it feel authentic. It isn't from the Simpson's, and it isn't from family guy, or Seinfeld, or any other source to which it has been attributed.

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Leonide
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That link on the last page is eerily close, but i'm positive beyond all doubt that i've never seen that movie, or the clip of the movie, before in my life. also, after the original "do?" i was anticipating another line, so i've still got that pesky quote ingrained in here somewhere and it isn't the dialogue in that scene.

*le sigh*

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Orincoro
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Does. Not. Exist.
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The problem is it does exist - right here - and its an ingrained part of anyone who read this thread at one time - someone needs to get a movie made that contains this line and put us out of our misery [Big Grin]
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C3PO the Dragon Slayer
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quote:
Originally posted by Dobbie in http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/ubbmain/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=051545;p=1&r=nfx#000000:
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Originally posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer:
Tatiana: By "them" do you mean the VeggieTales films, and "that" you mean the credits?

If that's what you mean, the answer's no. In my first post I tried to make it clear only by the end that I was impressed by the movie, but not with the credits. And of course it's really the movie that matters.

Don't you rememeber "It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it?" from this movie.
The link is dead, but the URL hints at "Casablanca."
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Kama
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yes, and the poster's name hints at a joke [Wink]
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[Smile]
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Today's Blondie has the line in it!
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Kama
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they must read hatrack.
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quote:
Originally posted by Shigosei:
Today's Blondie has the line in it!

Dang it! Shigosei beat me to it!
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I saw that too, and laughed and laughed.
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That is awesome!
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I wanted so badly to tell someone about it, but none of my friends post here. I was going crazy trying not to annoy my coworkers with the story.
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I was filled with dread when I read today's Blondie...
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The Reader
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Blondie?! That's the least likely place I expected the quote to appear.

It's beginning...

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