Nearing the end of NPQiYBM
It's getting near the end of February, so I thought I'd do another overheard-in-our-household quiz thingie -- some version of all of these quotes were spoken in our household during the month of February. Books and movies both are fair game, with one from a musical. Frighteningly enough, more of the quotations are not from books than are, which is really Just Wrong, but oh well. I'll do an update to this post on Monday with the answers.
1. 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.'
2. "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life."
3. "He lay there like a slug. It was his only defense."
4. "Well, I'm back."
5. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”
6. Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
7. Don't squeeze your bosoms against the chair, dear! It'll stunt their growth, and then where would you be?
ETA:
1. The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)
2. Casablanca. [This gets used in our house all the time because we procrastinate a lot, although of course procrastination wasn't the point of the original quotation.]
3. The Christmas Story
4. Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), of course!
5. The epigraph to The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald). Apparently Fitzgerald's original title was The High-Bouncing Lover; both D and I agree that it would never have made it as a classic of American lit with that title.
6. Spinal Tap, which all of you (except julianyap) need to go watch Right Now because it is utterly hilarious.
7. A Little Night Music, which D and I love but which has got to be the worst date musical of all time.
1. 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.'
2. "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life."
3. "He lay there like a slug. It was his only defense."
4. "Well, I'm back."
5. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”
6. Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
7. Don't squeeze your bosoms against the chair, dear! It'll stunt their growth, and then where would you be?
ETA:
1. The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)
2. Casablanca. [This gets used in our house all the time because we procrastinate a lot, although of course procrastination wasn't the point of the original quotation.]
3. The Christmas Story
4. Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), of course!
5. The epigraph to The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald). Apparently Fitzgerald's original title was The High-Bouncing Lover; both D and I agree that it would never have made it as a classic of American lit with that title.
6. Spinal Tap, which all of you (except julianyap) need to go watch Right Now because it is utterly hilarious.
7. A Little Night Music, which D and I love but which has got to be the worst date musical of all time.