a small peek into IVB's historical influences.

[IVB]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/...otes/index.html

For those of you in the chatroom, you'll know my prediliction to tossing obscure movie quotes. (baffled electron with the "Was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor! Hell no!")

Well, a fraternity brother of mine who I used to throw around movie lines now has his 15 mins of fame by writing down all the cool movie quotes he came across over the last two decades, and publishing a book.

And CNN wrote a story about it.

How a buddy of mine could be smart enough to make money and get written up for drinking & bugging his wife is beyond me. That's his picture at the bottom. Damn, i'm jealous.

 

[Neurorad]

I like the way the book is broken up - categorized under 'topic headings such as compliments, excuses and marriage'.

I love good movie quotes. I think it started with our ADD generation, growing up in front of the TV.


What can you make out of this?
This? I can make a hat or a broach or a pterodactyl...

 

[Lagerhead]

Thanks for pointing this out. I might get it just to have around the office. I work with a guy who is "annoyingly" (said in a good-natured way) frequent with his movie quotes. It leads to an unflattering picture of this junior executive on weekends, probably in underwear, transfixed in front of a wide screen, surrounded by DVDs and popcorn and neglecting the children.

On the other hand, I once needed to know the name of "that girl drummer in a movie, who had short blonde hair..." and he immediately replied, "Mary Stuart Masterson, the film was Some Kind of Wonderful and her role was [whatever] and ..."

Meanwhile, I had seen the movie but I had no clue. No head for it. Amazing. But where I do have the head for it, I do the same to fellow musicians, tossing obscure riffs to see if they can guess who, what and when.

Surprised that Dan did not know Bluto's Pearl Harbor line.