I Don't Want Your Life

On an average day, you can probably hear 10+ movie quotes spoken in our house.  Some of the favorites we use regularly are:

• "I like to picture my Jesus wearing a tuxedo t-shirt, because it says I can be formal, but I like to party" (Talladega Nights)
• "I like to picture my Jesus with giant eagles wings, singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and I'm in the front row and I'm HAMMERED drunk" (also Talladega Nights)
• "Baxter, I'll take you to foggy Londontown!" (Anchorman)
• "They're breakdance fighting!" (Zoolander)
• "My cousin Ray-Ray?  Boop - dead."  (Dodgeball)
  
• "Pretty nice little Saturday - goin' to Home Depot tomorrow, pick out some flooring, maybe go to Bed Bath and Beyond - I don't know if they'll be time."  (Old School)
• "You're so money, you don't even know it."  (Swingers)
• "Who's the big winner?  Mikey!  Mikey's the big winner!"  (Swingers)

In fact, Mitch and my fantasy football team in the One Carbon Hill League is named after Anchorman - "Sex Panther" - the "cologne" that smells like "pure gasoline".  "60% of the time, it works every time!"

However, no movie gets quoted more in our house than Varsity Blues.  I know, why would we quote this, when there are so many other movies that we could use?  This movie (which hit a little close to home when I was teaching at Morris, mind you) has some real gems.  Mitch had said once that I quoted this movie too much, to which I balked and told him he was making it up.  Not more than five minutes later, though, I was spouting off another quote from Varsity Blues.  He was right - 

• "Stud-Daddy Wilkerson.  Look at him dance, get 'em some mustard!"
• "Ice?  Get 'em a beer!"
• "That's not the formation, that's not the formation!"
• "You can do it!"
• "Dummy-o's, follow your dummy-0 quarterback to the mud for a scrimmage!"
• "Coach Lance, put me in!  We'll block it!"
• "Move, freak-o's!"
• "Shit, these boys is havin' the time of they lives out there!"  "No doubt about it."

And my all-time favorite:

• "Puke and rally!"

If only our long-term memory could be used for something useful.....