I had a great time last night. I hope the pair I was hanging out with did too (since the one who I know reads this blog passed out relatively early I can’t be sure, but … I hope so). Anyway, among the night’s entertaining activities was a viewing of The House of Yes, one of the classics of 1990’s cinema. I do I love it so – I can barely count the ways. But I sure as hell can quote the lines. In honor of the night and the movie - some of the highlights, lines worth remembering:
A person offers a little constructive criticism and a person gets lectured on the nature of things.
No, sweetheart, you just have to do something in some other location.
Don’t leave this girl alone with any handsome death mutes Marty, that’s my advice to you.
Were you poor? Did you eat chicken pot pies?
Do they have paintings in Pennsylvania? … I’ve never even met anyone who’s been to Pennsylvania, much less been from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania is just this state that gets in your way when you have to go someplace else.
There’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you. There’s this thing I’ve heard and if I thought for one second that it might be true I’d probably kill myself. Does your fiancée work in a donut shop?
Croissants, they are in the kitchen. They are filled with something, I forget what.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives.
I don’t recognize the past tense.
You and I Marty have a great deal in common – parents, DNA, bone structure.
Goo is what tape is all about.
Mama- Marty, a word. Marty - A word mama, or many words?
Mama - I’ll tell you what the subject is not. Marty - No mama, that’s too broad a category. Tell me what the subject is.
Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
A person gets their heart set on a certain thing. A person gets their heart set on a certain thing. And if a certain person can’t have a certain thing a certain person goes insane.
You raise cattle. Children just happen.
Love is for tiny people with tiny lives.
People buy matches Anthony, but not people like us.
Anthony - Would you like a glass of Liebfraumilch? Leslie - No, thank you, I’ll just have a glass of wine. Marty - That’s the name of the wine. Leslie - Oh – hee-hee. I don’t speak French. Jackie – Who does? Anthony – You do. Jackie – Oh that’s right I do. Leslie – So what does that name mean? Jackie – In French? I think it means something German. Leslie – Oh. Marty – It means loving mother’s milk. Leslie – You speak French? Marty – No, German.
Mama- What is it doing there? Jackie – Just being gun-like, gun-esque, gun-onic. Mama – Where did it come from? Jackie – God?
Jackie - I suppose you think I’m going insane just to be fashionable Leslie - I don’t think you’re insane. Jackie - You don’t think I’m insane? Leslie - No. Jackie - You don’t think I’m an eensie-weensie bit insane? Leslie - I don’t think you’re insane, I think you’re just spoiled. Jackie - Oh please, if people are start telling the truth around here I’m going to bed.
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