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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