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Let's see here.... A couple of moldie oldies...but I think they are appropriate!
Bruce Willis, Die Hard, "Yippie Kai Yay, Mother F****R!!!! Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, "Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk??" Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee, "That's not a knife...THIS is a knife!!" Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator, "I'll be back" And a few from REAL history!! Always usefull John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight" Horatio Nelson, "Thank God I have done my duty" John J. Pershing, "Lafayette, we are here" Unknown, "Remember the Alamo" Winston Churchill, "...this was their finest hour" Julius Caesar, "Veni, vidi, vici" My $0.02 Mike |
Another Churchill line: "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
Or, General Sir Charles Napier, "Peccavi." The fighting in the 1840's was at a time of British expansion in India. Nevertheless, there were those in Britain who doubted the wisdom of too rapid an advance, and in particular, the capture of the province of Sind, which was thought likely to lead to an overextension of lines of communication. Napier was therefore under express orders not to capture the territory. Once he discovered, however, how little resistance there was, he took the province with ease. ''Peccavi'' therefore meant both ''I have Sind,'' and ''I have sinned'' - perhaps a perfect pun. With apologies for introducing Latin puns unto the thread... |
True Grit (Coen Brothers)
"Mister Cogburn - in your four years as US-Marshal - how many men have you shot ?"
"Shot ? Or killed ?" "Let us restrict it to killed, to have a manageble figure.." |
Even more sadly I seem to recall that it was "Punch" that invented Napier's quote.
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