(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . A few of the darnedest sayings and who said them [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-23 What was said: “What’s two chickens in every pot?” Who said it: A Jeopardy contestant putting in question form the answer to one of the category clues. The correct response? “What’s a chicken in every pot?” What was said: “You mean you got a zero?” Who said it: One among a group of children playing ahead of me in a game of miniature golf. It came in response to one of the other children in the group getting a hole in one. What was said: “What does she have that everybody wants?” Who said it: The perceived-by-the-class-students to be an extremely naive junior-high-school teacher putting the above question to the students in question, in inquiring about what it was about one particular female student that was cause for her attracting as much attention as what was being heaped her way. What was said: “What do you want to use it for?” Who said it: The barber in the barber shop in response to my asking the question: “Can I use your bathroom?” What was said: “[In] the next building over.” Who said it: (I assume) the proprietor of one company in one building, in response to my “Who do I talk to about advertising?” question posed to that person, his pointing in the direction of “the next building over.” What was said: “Good one!” Who said it: I did, after I learned that “the next building over” housed a completely different business unaffiliated with the first business where I first posed my “Who do I talk to about advertising?” question. What was said: “I’m either lying or I’m gonna shoot you! So what do ya think?!” Who said it: Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones) in the movie The Fugitive, it being directed to Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford) in reference to the former having pieced the puzzle together, the puzzle regarding the suspicious circumstances under which Dr. Kimble’s wife (played by Sela Ward) met her most unfortunate demise. This scene came near the very end of the movie. Footnote: I personally think this was an ad-libbed line that Jones came up with himself. Why? Because, to me, the question makes zero sense. (Full disclosure: How’s a person even supposed to answer a question like that, anyway?! What, “I say you’re a liar because I don’t want to get shot?!”). Which, I presume, is one reason why Kimble didn’t verbally respond to it. It is also important to remember (if you saw the movie) Kimble was also trying to keep his precise whereabouts in the hotel linen-cleaning-services area unknown. Which would then render Gerard’s question as purely rhetorical. What was said: “I got a million of ‘em.” Who said it: Actor/comedian/singer/pianist Jimmy Durante. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/23/2257472/-A-few-of-the-darnedest-sayings-and-who-said-them?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/