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Yes, but now we have an ACTUAL source!!! Visable proof that it WAS Wonka talking to Data at Ten Forward about a lava lamp!
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I also could have sworn I had heard this quote before upon first reading the title but when I checked the first source I thought of (Megatokyo, a web comic) it was a similar line but no cigar. However, it drove me mad enough to read through all six pages of replies
I did my carrier duty and asked a few friends on another chat board and, like many here, they said "Willie Wonka?" but couldn't say for sure who, when, or where.
However, I will now have to put up with discussions of memes whenever I sign in there for days now *sigh*
Makes me want to put on Heather Nova: "I don't want your virus of the mind!"
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WAIT! Did anybody check the book? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! DID ANYBODY CHECK THE BOOK? Tell me someone checked the book.
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I now have my coworkers on a wild goose chase. I warned them, though, not to think about it for more than 5 minutes, but now they are scourging the internet looking for it.
Oh, and now you get to remember just how frustrating this is. You're welcome.
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Just don't look at the window. Because you'll see me. But not just me. It'll be me holding a loaded sniper rifle and waving at you as I smile. Always smile.
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I keep wondering if anyone ever checked Better Off Dead. Someone suggested it way back when ... but I didn't want to read 6 pages to find out if anyone ever did.
That would be too easy, though, wouldn't it?
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I still think it's in an episode of M.A.S.H. called "Depressing News." I saw that episode just a few days before seeing this thread. I haven't seen it since. But, as I recall, Hawkeye built something out of tongue depressors (they got a huge shipment of tongue depressors, not the most necessary item for their needs) and someone from Stars and Stripes came to interview him about it.
Anybody have season 9 of M.A.S.H. on DVD?
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It isn't ANYWHERE. It is a collective hallucination. Attempting to find a source will simply drive you (and everyone around you) crazy.
And Pops, this was almost as evil as the repeated "rescearch" threads. (Although I really shouldn't give you any idea. ) *shakes fist*
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(speaking of Snakes on a Plane, my reaction to this thread resurrection contained much the same language that Samuel L. Jackson is known for)
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and here I was going to ask pop to ban whoever bumped this thread WHEN HE WAS THE ONE WHO DID IT!!!!!!
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I agree with Rivka. It's collective hallucination. Brought about by an evil pop culture meme. A thousand years from now our descendents will worship it as the creator.
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Ah, the memories of reading this thread and thinking "Oh, I know where that's from!" only to realize many hours and many heads asplosions later that no, in fact, I do not know where it is from. Now, I know better.
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Has anyone seen the movie "Van Helsing"? I remember a very similar line between Van Helsing and the inventor guy describing an invention of his that eventually turned out to have the power of the sun or something.
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I know I shouldn't aid in the continuation of this thread, but I'll second CaySedai's vote for MASH. I saw that episode too and he was building a tower out of tongue depressors and writing all the patients' names on them. The reporter guy wanted to protray it as some representation of blah blah blah and Hawkeye said he did it for no reason, so instead of letting the reporter push his propaganda, he blew it to smithereens.
I checked imdb's quote page for MASH "Depressing News", Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Spaceballs came up with nothing. You would think a quote this important would be listed. Posts: 298 | Registered: Sep 2004
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when this thread first started, i was *sure* i knew where the quote was from, and that eventually i'd remember.
Now i'm so sure the quote comes from nothing that i actually have trouble imagining what i thought it sounded like in the first place.
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