Meet Me In St. Louis*
Posted: July 10th, 2009 | Filed under: Media | 31 Comments »
OK, about to begin the drive to St. Louis. Remember if you are in the area — or if you are intending to be for the All-Star Game — I’ll be talking about Soul of Baseball and signing books at the Central Library at 2 p.m. on Saturday. I’ll also be available to be yelled at because I did not yet include Ghostbusters and Dumb and Dumber in our “Most Quotable Movies” poll.
We’ll try to keep active throughout the All-Star Weekend with posts. I’m thinking about doing a little “answer the Brilliant Readers questions” thing if you would like to send along an email … you can hit the Contact button above and it does this really cool pop-out thing.
*Not an especially quotable film.
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don’t forget Tommy Boy!
And Office Space
“Ghost Busters” has some great quotes, but it isn’t necessarily quotable on a day to day basis. How often does something happen that you wanna respond with “This chick is TOAST” or “So…she’s a dog” or “This man has no dick” or “Nimble little minx, isn’t she?” Good for you if that last one comes up a lot.
“Phone’s ringing, Dude” and “Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here!” and “Shut the fuck up, Donny!” appear almost daily in my conversations. Sometimes in that order.
“The Big Lebowski” wins. Hands down.
PS – Dunno if you read the comments to your last St. Louis post, but I suggested using “Meet Me in St. Louis” as a title for your post. And no…it isn’t an especially quotable film. Although “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was first heard in it.
I’d have to second office space
I still think that Major League should be on the list.
Joe, you need to add _Withnail and I_ and _Trainspotting_, too.
ummm yeahhhh…
I’ll second Office Space for the flair.
Otherwise, when else do you use the world “flair” other than for injury?
I quote The Hunt for Red October on a daily basis. When I’m coming down the stairs in my home, I yell, “Down ladder! Down ladder! Make a hole!”. Before I make a turn in my car, I shout out, “Right full rudder!” And yesterday, the cashier at 7-Eleven gave me a nickel as change even though I was only due 4 cents. I said to her, “You’ll receive the Order of Lenin for this.”
I really wish I could hear you speak at the St Louis library, but it’s a very long road trip from Boston. Also, it’s great to see you got top billing on the web page, even above the Wii Baseball competition!
You are SO moving up in the world.
I don’t know when the last time my wife or I said “It’s possible,” that the other didn’t follow up with “…pig. It’s conceivable you miserable, vomitous mass.” Or how many times we’ve found a chance to say, “You keep using that word…”, “I’m waiting!…”, “As you wish.”, “While you’re at it, why don’t you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?”, “Get used to disappointment. “, “…except for a nice MLT – mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that. “
Goetzo @10: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Now stop that rhyming and I mean it!
Can’t wait to hear Joe’s thoughts on the Royals trading for Yuniesky Betancourt.
Chuck@12:
Does anybody want a peanut?
Not that I like people quoting it, but man have a lot of people found Borat to be quotable or what?
And yeah, Office Space for sure.
Re #12: Is Betancourt OK with sharing playing time with Pena Jr.?
curious to hear what you have to say about the betancourt trade!
Oh my God. The Royals traded more than a pack of M&Ms for Betancourt. As a Joe Poz fan, I just got chills.
Just heard about the Betancourt deal. Joe (and other Royals fans on here), I am SO sorry.
If I rooted for KC, I think I’d actually have to hope for them to be historically bad. As someone who grew up rooting for the Toronto Maple Leafs, I’ve spent the last couple of seasons hoping they tank and finish dead last, since they’re not going to win anything with the roster they have and underachieving (or just not overachieving) would secure them one of the top couple of draft picks (though they’ve actually managed to do better than they should have over those years, which means they’re such a terrible organization, they can’t even lose properly.
And I just saw that Mauer’s going to be in the HR derby. How much do you want to bet that as his average and power revert closer to Mauer’s career norms in the second half, tons of uninformed writers and fans will attribute it to the derby slump?
I feel your pain Royals fans. It can’t get much worse than this. Well…if Betancourt is on the books for the next few years, it probably WILL get worse, but then it will probably get better. Right?
Have you no decency, Dayton Moore? At long last, have you no decency, sir?
I presonally would pick Princess Bride, and all the reasons have been stated well. Not on the list, but belonging there, frankly ahead of Blazing Saddles, is History of the World, Part I:
“It’s good to be the King”
“Piss boy!”
“Dont get saucy with me, Bernaise”
“Yes, no no no no no no Yes…”
“Profession? Standup Philosopher…Oh, a bullshit artist. Did you bullshit last week?”
“Boy, when you die at the Palace, you really die at the Palace”
“He’s a eunuch. He’s a eunuch. He’s dead.”
Bonus points for The Inquisition song…
As a royals fan who has been willing to forgive the misques of past administrations and the mistakes of the current group, I am now wondering if I should drink drano or just shoot myself. I mean COULDNT WE DFA PENA WITHOUT TRADING FOR THE SECOND WORST SS IN THE GAME? and who knows, they will probably end up keeping pena anyways…
as far as the movies go, I know I am gonna get run for this, but I have seen The Big Lebowski several times and have not found it to even resemble a comedy. I guess its just my sense of humor, but I voted for Blazing Saddles and anchorman and nothing else, because my favorites like Dumb and Dumber and Office Space, not to mention Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore got left off, oh well, time to see if the royals are losing by ten in the third or something like that yet
Some good news for Royals fans: Looks like Francoeur is off the market.
The Royals have reportedly acquired Yuniesky Betancourt from the Mariners.
Yes, this is bad news. Betancourt will be the latest in a long line of terrible, frustrating shortstops fielded by KC.
Ooh, I forgot “History of the World, Part 1.” Yeah, that belongs on there, too. Not nearly as high as “Fletch,” of course, but on there.
“Come see the violence inherent in the system!”
“Did you see that? That’s what I’m on about!”
Duck Soup
fear not, royals fans: betancourt’s 63 obs+ , 2:1 k to bb rate, and nearly .300 obp is better than almost any ss you’ve ever had !
My top two favorite quote are from movies that aren’t listed:
Roadhouse:
Sheriff: “Tinker, did you see what happened?”
Tinker: “A polar bear fell on me…”
Die Hard:
(after FBI chopper explodes)
Police Chief: “I guess we’re going to need more FBI guys”
Had to add this to take my mind off of the horrendous disappointment of the Betancourt trade. This simply proves that Dayton Moore et. al. have no idea how to evaluate any players other than pitchers.
I missed you by 15 minutes apparently. I forgot about the STL Library appearance until 3:30 and by the time I got there at 4 it was too late.
Any chance you’ll be coming to Boston any time soon?