[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic][i]They should market Invisalign as a teeth-grinding luxury apparatus![/i][/font][/quote]

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[quote=Act III]There once was a clue man with a troop of leaf blowin cronies who laid their gaze upon you years ago, messin wiff yer mind, like deadly hypnotist librarians from an evil cult. They're back once again to twist your mind and cause spelling mistakes, double negatives, anomalous dyslexia and the confusion of you're and your. His name is George and the goons that he sets upon you knows not how to stop, ever.

But... if you can find a way to kill his goons, your spelling mistakes soon too shall find an end.  So I implore upon you, go forth, and slay George's cronie squad of mental librarians.  The fate of the free world, capitalism and the republic depends upon it.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][i]Futurama[/i] back in my life is just…is just…beautiful, man

🥲[/quote]

[quote=Corax][quote=Holden Pike]But since the play pre-dates them, it could be Walter Hill saw a production or read it and grooved to it?[/quote]
This is the most plausible answer, assuming our evidence is exhaustive. 

Even so, one wonders where the line in the play came from. Did the writer just think that it sounded cool? And what does that line even mean? 

My paranoiac brain wants to take this evidence for the "dead internet" theory--Google failing to produce results for an old colloquialism--shows that the power of search has been NERFed over the years. However, I can't rule out the possibility that some random writer was turning what he thought was a clever old-timey sounding line that Walter Hill copied. If it is the latter, then it makes sense that the returns are so sparse (a freak/sport locution that never really chained out).[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=mattiasflgrtll6]There are more weird instances of that, such as "I'd rather be his whore than your wife" being spoken in Twin Peaks, then later on Titanic. Both projects feature Billy Zane in some form.

"Who? Who? What are you, a ****ing owl?" is said in Sea Of Love, then in Heat. Both movies star Al Pacino.[/quote]

I feel like none of the 3 phrases below are awfully original, so what’s the big deal. It’s not like repurposing ‘REDRUM’.[/quote]

[quote=mattiasflgrtll6]There are more weird instances of that, such as "I'd rather be his whore than your wife" being spoken in Twin Peaks, then later on Titanic. Both projects feature Billy Zane in some form.

"Who? Who? What are you, a ****ing owl?" is said in Sea Of Love, then in Heat. Both movies star Al Pacino.[/quote]

[quote=Holden Pike]But since the play pre-dates them, it could be Walter Hill saw a production or read it and grooved to it?[/quote]

[quote=Holden Pike]Don't know about the play, but the other three are all Walter Hill projects so it may just be one of his pet lines he reuses, like the many Sorkinisms that abound?[/quote]

[quote=Corax]Half a grand howdy. 

This line appears in Wild Bill (1995), an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1990) "Cutting Cards," a draft script for Another 48 Hours (1990), a 1980 play called "Fathers and Sons" which features Wild Bill Hickock. Reverso.net appears to offer a translation of "Half a grand howdy, pard!" Apart from that the internet is showing be nada. Is anyone familiar with this phrase?[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]i’m sure if it weren’t for the treats my dog would totally rip up everything i own. the alliance is precarious[/quote]