I was last-year-old when I realized that John Cleese was calling the knights: "Ka-nig-its" in Holy Grail.
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Apache said:
I didn't understand true meaning of the ZZ Top song "Pearl Necklace" until 7th or 8th grade when my older cousin told me what it meant. I felt like such a badass telling my Jr. High friends that fact afterwards lol.
The Eliminator album got me into ZZ Top at the ripe old age of about 9. Used a bunch of birthday money to get almost the whole collection on cassette. Pearl Necklace, Mexican Blackbird, and Tube Snake Boogie were completely lost on me at the time. Didn't stop me from singing along.
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I always thought I was missing the joke in Breakfast Club when John Bender is crawling through the ceiling. Turns out it wasnt a real joke. Or was it????
I never understood the line in True Lies where Bill Paxton tells Arnie his side chick has the ass of an 8yo boy. I thought that line would get explained other than him just being a sleazy creep. But considering Hollyweird and the grooming industry, it seemed to be just another nod at a writer sexualizing children. There are a million colorful metaphors to make the car salesman look like a creep, but they landed on that one and then kept it.
The Debt said:
I never understood the line in True Lies where Bill Paxton tells Arnie his side chick has the ass of an 8yo boy. I thought that line would get explained other than him just being a sleazy creep. But considering Hollyweird and the grooming industry, it seemed to be just another nod at a writer sexualizing children. There are a million colorful metaphors to make the car salesman look like a creep, but they landed on that one and then kept it.
Oh boy. Is this real or just an attempt to draw TCTTS offsides?
rednecked said:that's because everyone says it backwards. the actual phrase is, you can't eat your cake and have it too. Said that way, it makes sense.Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
I never understood why it was a bad thing to want to eat your cake.
Yeah, but why would you want a cake if you're not going to eat it?
Know Your Enemy said:The Debt said:
I never understood the line in True Lies where Bill Paxton tells Arnie his side chick has the ass of an 8yo boy. I thought that line would get explained other than him just being a sleazy creep. But considering Hollyweird and the grooming industry, it seemed to be just another nod at a writer sexualizing children. There are a million colorful metaphors to make the car salesman look like a creep, but they landed on that one and then kept it.
Oh boy. Is this real or just an attempt to draw TCTTS offsides?
You know...not everything posted on this board is about him. Crazy notion.
AustinAg2K said:rednecked said:that's because everyone says it backwards. the actual phrase is, you can't eat your cake and have it too. Said that way, it makes sense.Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
I never understood why it was a bad thing to want to eat your cake.
Yeah, but why would you want a cake if you're not going to eat it?
BenTheGoodAg said:AustinAg2K said:rednecked said:that's because everyone says it backwards. the actual phrase is, you can't eat your cake and have it too. Said that way, it makes sense.Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
I never understood why it was a bad thing to want to eat your cake.
Yeah, but why would you want a cake if you're not going to eat it?
If it's of French etymology it makes sense because eating is not possessing. However looking into it, the phrase is English. And English is gutterspeak from french/german/latin/greek, so the comprehension if probably archaic and tied to the French.
I remember 10 year old me didn't get the line "She's gone from suck to blow" from Spaceballs at the time. A lot of that movie flew over my head until I was older...
Prime0882 said:
I remember 10 year old me didn't get the line "She's gone from suck to blow" from Spaceballs at the time. A lot of that movie flew over my head until I was older...
I bet she gives great helmet
I heard the word "*******s" for the first time in a movie in the early 1980s, can't remember which, and had no idea what it meant.
Imagine my surprise to my dad's reaction when we were playing a game on our Atari a few weeks later and 8-year-old Porkchop declared "I hate these *******s!" when I was killed.
Imagine my surprise to my dad's reaction when we were playing a game on our Atari a few weeks later and 8-year-old Porkchop declared "I hate these *******s!" when I was killed.
We used that word a number of times in 6th and 7th grade age range before someone alerted us of the meaning.
Even then we didn't understand why it should be a derogatory term. We walked around talking like Jean Paul Jean Paul from "Seinfeld", or Spock in Star Trek IV when he learned to cuss to fit in.
Even then we didn't understand why it should be a derogatory term. We walked around talking like Jean Paul Jean Paul from "Seinfeld", or Spock in Star Trek IV when he learned to cuss to fit in.
The Porkchop Express said:
I heard the word "*******s" for the first time in a movie in the early 1980s, can't remember which, and had no idea what it meant.
Imagine my surprise to my dad's reaction when we were playing a game on our Atari a few weeks later and 8-year-old Porkchop declared "I hate these *******s!" when I was killed.
Your parents did a poor job raising you. I knew all the curse words by the time I could talk!
Two moments from There's Something About Mary:
1. When Mary's dad opens the door and Ted looks up to make sure he's at the right house.
2. The entire infamous scene, ending with the "hair gel" on the ear.
I was 10 years old when this came out and that entire scene went over my head. I never got why her hair stood up that hard.
1. When Mary's dad opens the door and Ted looks up to make sure he's at the right house.
2. The entire infamous scene, ending with the "hair gel" on the ear.
I was 10 years old when this came out and that entire scene went over my head. I never got why her hair stood up that hard.
If we're talking scenes you didn't get as a kid
#BustinMakesMeFeelGood
#BustinMakesMeFeelGood
Love these two examples.maroon barchetta said:
We used that word a number of times in 6th and 7th grade age range before someone alerted us of the meaning.
Even then we didn't understand why it should be a derogatory term. We walked around talking like Jean Paul Jean Paul from "Seinfeld", or Spock in Star Trek IV when he learned to cuss to fit in.
AustinAg2K said:Bruce Almighty said:
I don't think my 10 year old self got this reference.
One day my son came home and asked why everyone thought the number 69 was funny. I just looked at him with a, "Well, that's weird" kind of look
NoahAg said:
"Nice beaver" made no sense as a kid.
Really? She handed him a stuffed beaver.
BenTheGoodAg said:
"I'm your Huckleberry"
Most awesome line that doesn't actually make sense.
The movie is set in the 1880's. The book Tom Sawyer came out in the 1870's. I always took that line to be like a shortened version of him saying something like "You're Tom Sawyer and I'm your Huckleberry Finn". Like they're inseparable. And he just shortens it to "Im your Huckleberry."
Could be completely wrong but that's how I always took the line.
redline248 said:AustinAg2K said:Bruce Almighty said:
I don't think my 10 year old self got this reference.
One day my son came home and asked why everyone thought the number 69 was funny. I just looked at him with a, "Well, that's weird" kind of look
Also gum. Dry and hard, wet and sticky.
"Baby, please, I am not from Havana"
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
I was 17 when I saw Blazing Saddles. Didn't understand that line until a few years later.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
That's the joke…Naked Gun humor at its finest.Chuck Cunningham said:
Really? She handed him a stuffed beaver.
JPAg88 said:That's the joke…Naked Gun humor at its finest.Chuck Cunningham said:
Really? She handed him a stuffed beaver.
The Naked Gun had a similar joke when Frank was looking around for evidence in that office. He opened a drawer and said "Bingo" only for him to pull a bingo card out. Always made me laugh.
It actually makes perfect sense:BenTheGoodAg said:
"I'm your Huckleberry"
Most awesome line that doesn't actually make sense.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-huc1.htm
Also pretty relevant to the time period.
Because finding your huckleberry in the south would be a special occasion, not and everyday occurrence. It would be noteworthy when a southerner found a huckleberry.Tanya 93 said:BQ_00 said:BenTheGoodAg said:
"I'm your Huckleberry"
Most awesome line that doesn't actually make sense.
I've read up on this previously bc I was curious as well. Apparently it's an old southern idiom meant to state something along the lines of "I'm the right man for the job".
Odd that it is an old Southern saying because thry do not grow in the South.
It wouldn't be too noteworthy for a Floridian to find an alligator or a Canadian to find a maple leaf. "I'm your maple leaf, eh. And so is he, and her, and they, and them"
I've always hated Al Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday about fighting and scratching for an inch. If you're fighting for an inch, you're going to go 3 and out and punting all the time. Plus, you can't rely on a ref to accurately spot the ball that was moved an inch.
I could never buy Al Pacino as a football coach in that movie. He just didn't seem at all like a coach. Or James Caan in the Program.
Sounds like this went completely over your head. It's all about fighting for that extra inch at the end of every play.
Absolutely love the original Naked Gun.
Are we still talking about stuffing beavers?Brian Earl Spilner said:
Sounds like this went completely over your head. It's all about fighting for that extra inch at the end of every play.
Oceans Eleven, Danny orders from the bartender "Whiskey, and a whiskey".
Iirc, he's showing with his fingers that he wants a triple.
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