friday night thriller: attack of the zobambies ~open thread

Funniest line ever? “What do you mean, “oops”".

The funniest line for me..

Mel Brookes in The History of the world…The French Revolution sketch.
Brookes looks at the camera after an indiscretion and says…
It’s good to be the King!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAgu6zI9v0

I loved Cat Ballou. I loved Lee Marvin struggling drunkenly to understand what was happening when the family was gathered in the dark around the father’s casket, the whole scene lit only by candles.
Peering through his stupor at the candles he suddenly brightens and tries to lead the family in singing “Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you”

This week is the 40th anniversary of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
This and The Sting are two of my favorite movies.

great line
Think you used enough dyamite butch?

Another great movie line from CoolHand Luke
what we have here is a failure to communicate

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS, BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGqQmBtdTo

A man’s got to know his limitations!

Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood

Shawshank Redemtion

Oh, Andy loved geology. I guess it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time

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Here’s a couple of my favorites.

Mel Gibson as William Wallace~Braveheart
And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.

You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight? Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will live.

Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live — at least a while.

And dying in your beds many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… our freedom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3S8PRWjeg

Bill Pullman~Independence Day
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGUqd_M6Mg

From the TV show “Monk”…….

Monk and his nurse, Sharona, are talking about politicians. Sharona says, “I don’t vote, it only encourages them.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3S_k1dRbXY

This is one of our family’s favorites…..Bill Murray’s sermon, of sorts: “It just doesn’t matter” from his early movie “MeatBalls”.
Words to live by, indeed.

(hope this link works)

The movie “How Sweet It Is” with James Garner and Debbie Reynolds was released in 1968, a year after the Summer of Love. For its day, it was very funny. (Garry Marshall was one of the writers and Jimmy Webb did the music)
A great funny scene from the film:
James Garner plays a professional photographer . His college-age son comes to him and says that he’s dropping out of school. Garner asks him what he plans to do and the son says “I’m gonna become a hippie and go around the world and find peace and love”, to which Garner deadpans, “I’ve BEEN around the world. Take a gun.”

One of my favorite films of all time Gena Rowlands as “Gloria”. Two scenes stand out; this woman takes no guff from anyone.

She takes matters into her own hands…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoR7NtAfAOE

“Ya Sissy! Ya let a woman beat ya!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA8VJBtZguM

Another great movie line from Fried Green Tomatoes

I am older and have more insurance.

not a movie line but
when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks
he replied ” thats where the money is”

Also Wall Streets new motto Never Steal Anything Small

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

American Girl—Thanks for this topic tonight. It’s a wonderful way to end the day, and start the weekend. First time I’ve laughed all week.
Your Bob Hope quote is the best from that movie and best ever! Loved that entire movie, too.

Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY

Well of course ANYTHING from the Marx Brothers is quote worthy but I love this scene from Young Frankenstein when Gene Wilder goes into the jail cell where Peter Boyle is kept in an effort to start “rehabilitating” him. Gene Wilder tells everyone outside that no matter what happens or whatever he says do not open the door and let him out.

“Let me out!! LET ME OUT OF HERE!! GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE!! What’s the MATTER with you people?! I was JOKING! Don’t you know a joke when you hear one? HA-HA-HA-HA. Jesus Christ, get me out of here!! OPEN THIS GODDAMN DOOR OR I’LL KICK YOUR ROTTEN HEADS IN!!! MOMMY!!!”

When I saw this it made me understand that the line from Bob Hope is so true.
These dumbass morons have no redeeming value

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senator-quashes-treasurys-bid-for-humorist-2009-07-17.html

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

Since Ryan O’Neal has been in the news lately, I thought I’d mention my most dreaded movie line: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

I was teaching ninth grade English when the movie starring O’Neal and Ali MscGraw came out. That meant reading gadzillion book reports every month. Erich Segal’s Love Story was read most by the girls. It got to the point that I had to overdose on coffee to grade those. (I also had to learn the little trick ways to catch when I was reading a movie report rather than a book report.)

Can you imagine my glee when What’s Up, Doc? came out two years later. Barbra Streisand’s character says the line that time, and O’Neal’s gets to repond, “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”

OMG–O-writer Jon Favreau must have studied The Candidate carefully–what a perfect parody of Thee One’s hopey-changey meaningless drivel! And Robert Redford does it off the top of his head and without a teleprompter! Hilarious! Great find, American Girl.

The Bob Hope line in the first clip is priceless. And so true today. Nancy as a zombie, very possible, just look at her.

My favorite line from the Candidate is the last one when Robert Redford looks at Peter Boyle after they have won the election and says “Now what do we do?”

In the Blake Edwards movie Switch, JoBeth Williams plays Margo Brofman, a woman who has manipulated her way up the ladder of success. As she leaves a high-rise in NYC wearing an expensive mink coat, she is confronted by a crowd of fur protestors:

Fur Protestor: Do you know how many poor animals they had to kill to make that coat?
Margo Brofman: Do you know how many rich animals I had to fuck to get this coat?

I guess I have more boorish, juvenile taste when it comes to humor. Aside from classier/non-profane comedies I love like It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, What’s Up, Doc?, Annie Hall, Sweet and Lowdown, The Burbs and Napoleon Dynamite (”BOW to your sen-sei!), etc., some of my favorite funny films are Animal House, Blazing Saddles, Office Space and The 40 Year-Old Virgin. There are so many funny lines in each of them.

In Animal House, I never fail to LOL when Bluto says, “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” or when the geekish Stork says, “Well what are we supposed to do, you moron?” The whole AA bar scene is a side-splitting riot.

In Office Space when Peter thinks he’s headed for prison, I always laugh when his neighbor says, “Watch out for your cornhole, bud”.

*..you mean, like democrats?*

hee hee!

Silobreaker, an interesting web site that has relational link intefaces.

Obama and “The Theory of Executive president”

Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation et al.v. Obama, et al.

Neither statute, however, can place any limits on the President’s determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing, and nature of the response. These decisions, under our Constitution, are for the President alone to make.

According to Obama, only the President has the power to decide what is done with classified information, and neither courts nor Congress have any power at all to do anything but politely request that the President change his mind

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the Obama administration’s approach to civil liberties, constitutional protections and the reining in of executive power abuses has been absolutely abysmal. Greenwald.

Mike Hammer’s secretary Velda (Maxine Cooper) in Kiss Me Deadly, commenting on a mysterious box that Hammer, the Feds, the Mob, and the Reds are all commiting mayhem and murder to find:

They? A wonderful word. And who are they? They’re the nameless ones who kill people for the great whatsit. Does it exist? Who cares? Everyone everywhere is so involved in the fruitless search for what?

Michael Rennie’s closing speech to the world’s assembled scientists just before he leaves in his flying saucer at the end of The Day the Earth Stood Still:

I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly…… It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.