I don't think you can be meta if you have no idea what you are talking about.
Don't you have to be meta, if you don't know what you're talking about?
My head hurts. I should have tea.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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§ ita § - Oct 27, 2005 4:06:34 am PDT #8291 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Oct 27, 2005 4:41:56 am PDT #8292 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm trying to decide if "Play it again, Sam" should be in the list, since it's not the actual quote.
Well, not from Casablanca, anyway.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2005 5:00:15 am PDT #8293 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Luke, I am your father."
JZ - Oct 27, 2005 5:24:29 am PDT #8294 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
NTFBDTBATB:
"Positively the same dame!"
Nutty - Oct 27, 2005 5:36:12 am PDT #8295 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My thinking is that meta is a knowing abstraction of an idea out of context (or juxtaposition of contexts and ideas). This version of acontextual quoting is more like verbal eggcorns, where people invent plausible meanings for words/phrases, that happen to be completely wrong, but kind of work if you're willing to overlook recorded history.
Like turning "card sharp" into "card shark," which has come to be the norm, but not in a meta or ironic way.
Nicole - Oct 27, 2005 5:45:42 am PDT #8296 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
I should probably do a re-watch of Salem's Lot. I was ten or so the first time and I watched most of it while hiding behind my mom. The sound of fingernails tapping and/or scraping on a window pane still gives me goosebumps.
I'm sure I'd giggle at it *now* but nsm then.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 27, 2005 5:47:11 am PDT #8297 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Another NTFBDTBATB: "I know. And you know I know. And I know you know I know. And Henry knows it. We're a very knowledgeable family."
That movie is just FULL of wonderful, wonderful lines
My favorite:
John: A knife! He's got a knife!
Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
Strega - Oct 27, 2005 5:48:12 am PDT #8298 of 10002
Not to be rude/nitpicky, but it's "Frankly."Because correcting corrections is more fun, it's "Frankly, my dear..."
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"Come with me if you want to live."
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
"STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA!"
"You talkin' to me?"
Another one that's usually misquoted: "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
We're a very knowledgeable family."Heh. I always liked "The royal corkscrew finds me twisted?"
Fred Pete - Oct 27, 2005 5:49:31 am PDT #8299 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
And let's not forget, "There'll be pork in the treetops by morning!" and "I'd hang you from the nipples, but it'd shock the children."
Volans - Oct 27, 2005 6:02:01 am PDT #8300 of 10002
move out and draw fire
"They're digging in the wrong place!"
Okay that last one could just be me.
It's just you. I can say that, because "Bad dates." is just me.
Other quotes I use all the time that I doubt anyone else does:
"Let's go do some crimes." (optional add-on: "Let's get sushi and not pay.")
"Ah will not be pawed at."
"Listen up, you primitive screwheads."
"Game over, man! Game over!"