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So many if my favorite lines have already been quoted, especially the ones from “The Princess Bride”!
“Let’s try reversing the polarity”
Some version of this is in nearly every Sci Fi show ever. Drives my son nuts 😆
ddvm wrote:Not a movie but:
“Not that there is anything wrong with that.”
Anyone know the source? 😀
Seinfeld.
khat7 wrote:“Let’s try reversing the polarity”
Some version of this is in nearly every Sci Fi show ever. Drives my son nuts
And yet it always seems to work, on TV.The one time I did (accidentally) “reverse the polarity” in real life, my stereo amplifier blew up. Literally blew up, with smoke and sparks, buckled metal, and the horrible stench of burning insulation.
Like in the beginning of “Back To The Future” when he blew up the amp? That must have been horrible! Were you all right? I can only imagine the mess, not to mention the smell! 😯
purpledragonclaw wrote:Like in the beginning of “Back To The Future” when he blew up the amp? That must have been horrible! Were you all right? I can only imagine the mess, not to mention the smell!
In Back To The Future it was the speakers that blew up. I’ve seen that happen (on a smaller scale). There is a virtual explosion (the sound without the sparks) and then silence. Silence, that is, apart from the heartfelt cursing by the owner of the now useless equipment.
I was OK when my amplifier blew up. I was certainly shocked, though. And my dad came rushing into the room to see if I was alright (he’d been outside and heard the bang).
When I took the amplifier back to the schoolfriend electronics wizard who’d made it for me, I told him it “just blew up!” He took one look at it, and one look at me, and I could tell right there that I’d dropped about 100 points in his estimation. “You wired the plug up back to front, didn’t you.” It wasn’t a question. And he was totally astounded that anyone could be so stupid.
He’d saved a bit of money by providing the amplifier without a plug (this was Britain, with those big expensive three-pin 240 volt plugs). I’d provided my own plug, which had totally the wrong fuse in it (13 amp instead of 2 amp), and managed to wire it up wrong too.
The good thing that came out of this was that whenever he sold electronic equipment from then on, he included the price of a plug in the cost and wired it up himself. Sadly, I don’t recall him ever speaking to me again.
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purpledragonclaw wrote:Like in the beginning of “Back To The Future” when he blew up the amp? That must have been horrible! Were you all right? I can only imagine the mess, not to mention the smell!
In Back To The Future it was the speakers that blew up. I’ve seen that happen (on a smaller scale). There is a virtual explosion (the sound without the sparks) and then silence. Silence, that is, apart from the heartfelt cursing by the owner of the now useless equipment.
I was OK when my amplifier blew up. I was certainly shocked, though. And my dad came rushing into the room to see if I was alright (he’d been outside and heard the bang).
When I took the amplifier back to the schoolfriend electronics wizard who’d made it for me, I told him it “just blew up!” He took one look at it, and one look at me, and I could tell right there that I’d dropped about 100 points in his estimation. “You wired the plug up back to front, didn’t you.” It wasn’t a question. And he was totally astounded that anyone could be so stupid.
He’d saved a bit of money by providing the amplifier without a plug (this was Britain, with those big expensive three-pin 240 volt plugs). I’d provided my own plug, which had totally the wrong fuse in it (13 amp instead of 2 amp), and managed to wire it up wrong too.
The good thing that came out of this was that whenever he sold electronic equipment from then on, he included the price of a plug in the cost and wired it up himself. Sadly, I don’t recall him ever speaking to me again.
Ouch. But also kind of funny (well more now then it would have been at the point in time, especially the friend who made it for you, his reaction).
I guess if it’s ‘common knowledge’ to you (like some chemistry things are to me) then if someone didn’t get it, it would be like … are you retarded? Sort of reaction. But it is the reaction of a jerk. I keep that thought to myself. 🙂
My friend Pan and I (the one that lives in Amarillo) have a language built entirely around Short Circuit quotes.
Yes, I am serious.
“Hmm, still lumpy” must be said any time cooking is involved.
“I do not travel with bananas, sir!”
“Don’t worry little lady, I’ll fix their wagon!”
“Have we created another Frankfurter’s monster?”
“No, people LIKE you, craphead is a compliment!”
“May I have this, craphead?”
“Fish! Salmon! SUUUUSHI!”
And of course: “Input input input input (repeat ad nausem)”
IN REAL LIFE where I hide that particular fandom…I dunno, I mostly quote TV shows. And a lot of the movies I DO quote already ended up here. (“You keep using that word. I do not believe you know what it means.”)
I also like Dr. Evil’s “All I wanted was some sharks with fricken laser beams on their heads, is that so much to ask?!” And anytime the word “magma” is said on TV either me or my dad have to say “liquid hot maaagma” in Dr. Evil’s voice. XD
Sad, innit?
“Hasta la vista, baby” from The Terminator
“I’ve been slimed” from Ghostbusters. This is usually after the dog has slimed the cat, who then decides to share by headbutting my chin.
“I can fix that hump for you/What hump?” from Young Frankenstein–one of my all time favorite movies
And “A little mind F** can be nice.” from Rocky Horror Picture Show–another all time favorite. 😉
“Hold on to your butts” Jurassic Park
“No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space.” ST-IV
“Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me / I wanna be dirty!” Rocky Horror, one of my favs.
“Damnit Jim I’m a doctor not a ________________” ST, this one I use when Kory asks me to do something 😆
Kory and his friend Jason can run through most of the star trek movies and many of the shows best scenes back and forth line by line, LMAO.
Princess Bride:
Have fun storming the castle. Think they’ll succeed? It will take a miracle.
If we only had a holocaust cloak!
Anybody want a peanut?
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
I’m on the brute squad. You ARE the brute squad.Fifth Element:
Big Bada Boom!Terminator:
I’ll be back. (Said in an Arnold-like voice.)Ghostbusters:
(This is usually my husband and friends saying this one) Don’t cross the streams!
When someone asks you if you are a god, you say, “Yes”!Monty Python:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I’m here for an argument. No you’re not.
Your mother was a hampster and your father smells of elderberries.
I fart in your general direction.
K-nig-ets (knights, said phonetically – the Old English way)Young Frankenstein:
Pu-ing on a ritz (Putting on the ritz, said like the monster says it)
Nice knockers! Thank you, doctor. (the second part is my line :))I had a teacher once that said, “Frau Bluehair.” (Or however it’s spelled in German – the German word for glue) And I made the horsey noise. He laughed, but some of the other students didn’t get it. Luckily I don’t embarrass easily.
I’m sure there are more. I can’t think of them right now.
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