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I had a friend swear that it was in Flight of the Navigator, which she had just recently seen. I haven't gotten around to checking that yet.
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::laughs insanely:: My sister heard this quote from a teacher, who heard it from another student, who got it from a website. SHe thought it was in one of those IBM commercials.
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I can't believe this is four pages of people NOT knowing where this quote came from... I read them all in search of an answer!!
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you know, it does sound familiar, but it seems a little silly to spend too much time thinking about it without any assurances it actually came from a movie.
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Ok, it's definitely two American guys, because the local college radio station plays this quote every once in awhile in its ads. But...um....I still don't know where it came from. *frustrated*
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It's KLSU, but the quote isn't from a particular show - it goes something like..."'What does it do?' 'It doesn't DO anything - that's the beauty of it.' '91.1 KLSU!!!'" They have a whole bunch of little blurbs like that, with various movie quotes, that they play in between songs, etc.
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I'll try. It's just a matter of catching it - I listen to the station all the time, and I only hear it once a week, maybe - so it'll be difficult to record, but I'll do my best Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Yes, good thinking indeed! Hopefully they'll give you an answer and this will resolve the issue! Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Just thought you'd like to know that I was actually asking people this question in my DREAM last night. Curse you all.
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quote:Who was the guy that played the druggy buddy in 'Better off dead"?
When I say that line in my head, I picture that guy saying it.
Holy Crap! I totally didn't read Slash's post before I posted the same thing. The only possible explanation is that we're right!
Thinking about it more i not only hear him saying it, but i can also see him saying it. I can't think of what part of the movie it would be in though. that movie is so random. I know there's some better off dead fans here. Maybe they can help. Or i'll just have to watch the movie.
quote:CURSE YOU AND ALL YOUR DESCENDANTS FOR BUMPING THIS THREAD WHICH CONSUMED SO MUCH OF MY FREE TIME BACK IN APRIL.
This was my initial reaction too. Who wants to be reminded of their research failures?
I suppose there's a bright side - it should disabuse any notion that the internet is inexhaustible source for information of pop culture! In a weird way, it's kind of comforting to find the internet reources letting us down on that one. I'm hoping that contacting the radio station provides the answer, though.
Because I'm obsessing again. And I've got no place left to looking for answers. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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jeepers! No one can figure it out anywhere!
I think this means that it's used in similar contexts in more than one medium. Someone on IMDB mentioned Santa Claus the movie, with Dudley moore and John Lithgow? I'm almost positive that's correct, i can picture the scene where Dudley's elf character suggests the lollipop idea to Lithgow's nasty businessman, and Lithgow's hilarious open-mouthed gape at the thought of a toy not Doing Anything. I think Moore says something afterwards like "it's just to bring joy to children at Christmas" i have the movie, i'm gonna put it on and FIGURE THIS OUT
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Now wait...if this was heard sampled on the radio, could the station be called up? Could we ask THEM if they know?
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To clarify: i'm almost positive that's where *I* heard it...but, like i said, i have a feeling its a series of lines that've been said in more than one movie. Especially if Avadaru says two american guys say the lines on her radio station...because dudley moore is decidedly not american Posts: 3516 | Registered: Sep 2002
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Ok...next time I hear it, I'll call the radio station and ask them where the quote came from. Or maybe I'll just call and ask them anyway. I've asked all my friends about the quote, and THEY can't figure it out, either. Arrggghhh!
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Okay, people, we're just going to have to accept the fact that's not from any one movie in particular!
I just remembered this exchange from French Kiss, where Kate and Luc surprise Charlie and the "goddess" on the beach:
"Kate, what does he do?" "Do? You mean, besides what we do together? I don't think he does anything. Huh."
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quote:Okay, people, we're just going to have to accept the fact that's not from any one movie in particular!
Well, there's at least one other possibility. Others might be afraid to mention this as a possibility, but I have a high embarrassment threshold, a healthy degree of paranoia, and a good imagination.
We could be the victims of careless meddlers in the timestream.
I reckon something like the following could have happened.
In our original timestream, there was a very popular movie that most of us watched. The most memorable line of the movie was the one we've all been trying to track down. Maybe it won an Oscar (probably just for soundtrack, costume, or special effects, though.).
That was the original timestream. Here's where it gets dicey. I figure some irresponsible traveller from our future (maybe even our present - I don't read too many technical journals) made trip into our collective pasts and did something - something that - either by accident or design, resulted in this movie never being shown or maybe even made.
So this movie that made an impression on so many of us no longer exists. But the memory of our favorite line, like a ghost track on a poorly rerecorded casette tape, still rings in our memory.
Looks like the future is much the same as the present - there's never a Time Cop around when you need one. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Why don't have ask Uncle Orson to put this line in Ender's Game. This way, we will know for sure where this line "comes" from.
Perhaps Thalia saw the movie in the future and traveled back in time to torment us. If that's the case, can you tell me who dies in the next Harry Potter book? You better! Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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quote:That's actually a very interesing concept for story...
Thanks, it's probably inspired by the works of R. A. Lafferty (and I find there's a lot of stuff of his I didn't know existed I can now buy through the web). It feels like a Lafferty plot, anyway.
Of course, Lafferty's plot would have involved any possible combination of an australipithecus, a ghost, a seminal genius, a two-bit con-man, and Ktistec machine. There are other character possibilities, but those were some of my favorites.
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I found this : "A perceptual notion machine," explained Moffat. "It's based on the theory of relatives actually, mostly uncles and aunts. "I see," said Jennifer but she didn't, not really. "I wish it was more economical though, the way it is now it takes a great deal of entropy to make it go." "Oh," said Jennifer. "What does it do, exactly?" "I'm not really sure," Moffat admitted. "That's the beauty of it! It might do any number of things and it probably does! I won't really know until afterwards, and even then it might be hard to tell!"
This is the first few lines of chapter 5 in a book called "Search for the New-Moon Stones" by Allen Morgan. I'll keep looking.
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At least, Seinfeld would definitely be the most mainstream movie/tv show we've seriously considered before. I *still* steadfastly stand by my theory that variations on this theme have appeared in numerous other things. And i can still picture a guy saying "It doesn't DO anything" Posts: 3516 | Registered: Sep 2002
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I mean, I can definitely hear this quote - hmm....what if I'm just misquoting the KLSU thing?!?! Argh! That would make so much sense....now if I can just catch it on the radio....
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Maybe its actually a very common line and its derivations are found in many movies. Or it could be Men in Black II. That's what I've been thinking.
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