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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Katie77:
--- Quote from: forsythia12 on January 30, 2008, 09:17:57 pm ---okay. i bought some 'rinse free' floor cleaner to mop my kitchen floor today. so i'm mopping away, and when i was done, i emptied the bucket and put away the mop. my hubby asks "aren't you going to rinse it?" and i said:
"no, it's rinse free ......this is a one shot deal we got going on here." ;D
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Your brokeisms make me laugh forsythia..............(how good it is to laugh again)
forsythia12:
well thanks katie. i'm wishing we had a "knife and fork" restaruant in my town, 'cause i'm absolutely dying to use that line.
lol
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: forsythia12 on January 30, 2008, 10:57:43 pm ---well thanks katie. i'm wishing we had a "knife and fork" restaruant in my town, 'cause i'm absolutely dying to use that line.
lol
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Oh, I wouldn't let realism stop me from using it. :)
I like your stories too.
forsythia12:
okay ellmeno. i said to my husband "maybe we should go to the knife and fork tonight.....get a sitter?"
and he's like "what the f**ck is the knife and fork?" lol :laugh:
and then today , when i made my kids clean their room i said "you pair a dueces lookin' for work i suggest you get your scrawny asses in here pronto" ;D
Nevermore:
--- Quote from: JudgeHolden on January 30, 2008, 03:40:59 pm ---Haw! Crow,I loved how you laid this all out, you wouldnt be a screenwriter by anychance <wink>. I am going to rip this off borrow this in a story sometime. No made-up dialogue is ever as good as the real thing.
Those other mechanics have any idea what Matt was referring to?
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In answer to your questions and points (and Brad's, below)-- Yes, I have tried my hand at screen and playwriting, as you well know. A fine Irish playwright, Billy Roche (Google), who I was lucky to meet a couple of times, acknowledged that he, like me, was an incorrigible eavesdropper--got some of his best dialogue this way, and a few times had been tempted to offer money for a really prize exchange. Blue-collar sorts, particularly veterans, are excellent sources of material. Many a time have I joked that "I'm writing a novel about thi place--all of you are in it," and they thought I was kidding...
Yes, most of the mechanics listening in on the maintenance channel knew what Matt was referring to. John Gibson's commentary on Heath Ledger's death would not have made sense if that line, "I wish I knew how to quit you!" had not been a pop culture phenomenon.
There's a Landmark theater up here, the Neptune Theater near the University of Washington, that has a schtick of putting catchy film quotes on its old-fashioned marquee--when Brokeback was first released in mid-December of '05, they had "I wish I knew how to quit you" up there for weeks, even though the film was actually playing several miles away on Capitol Hill (yeah, the gay part of town). It just had that buzz, like "what we have here is failure to communicate."
It had crossover potential, so, as Brad describes so deliciously,even straight guys who would never watch Adam and Steve, even on HBO at 4 AM, were curious enough that they had to know what all the fuss was about, even if it meant sneaking in after the trailers were over.
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