Movie quote Monday [extra] - lines about stroke

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I never realized how many films have touched on the subject of stroke.  Maybe because I have first hand experience my ears are keen to be aware of the subject.  Here is on funny quote and several films that either reference or are about stroke:

"It's possible that I'm gonna have a stroke and they're gonna find the words I TOLD YOU SO  blocking the blood to my brain!" - Mad Money

1. Say It Isn't So, Comedy- Story line (B), Richard Jenkins' character has a debilitating stroke and Sally Fields' character, his wife, couldn't be more annoyed to have to care for him.
2. Legends of the Fall, Drama- Story line (C), Anthony Hopkins' character has a debilitating stroke
3. The Age of Innocence, Period Drama - A mention in order to move the story forward, the "Granny" character has a stroke.
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, True story Drama - this film is about the true story about the editor of Elle France Magazine having a crippling stroke in 1995 and how he dictates his memoir [having the same name as the film], describing the aspects of his interior world, by blinking the letters of each word in dictation with only his left eye, which was the only part of his body not paralyzed by stroke.  He was 43 years old when this happened.  He passed in 1997 two days after his book was published.
5. Where the Money Is, Drama - Paul Newman's character, a legendary bank robber, has a massive stroke while in prison.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing, through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.  So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up...and handle it."  Tupac Shakur-

... that's what I do!

Mensa quote Monday - A tribute

Instead of participating in cyber Monday, where you have to spend money why not participate in Mensa Monday right here, while I go off to search for more movie quotes that I like.  By participating in this you save cash while spending brain cells.  FYI, Mensa - an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.  You certainly consider yourself to be in that percentile.  Right?

One of my favorite humor blogs, and I have several, is Crazy People I've Worked With.  It is the brainchild of Anita, who has evidentially worked with a variety of lunatics who have touched her life so prominently that she dedicated an entire blog to both sharing those experiences and having us submit stories for her to post so everyone can be universally mortified.  If I were to have thought of this idea mine would have been called Crazy People With Whom I've Worked.  But proper English would not have been funny and it wouldn't have worked so it's best that I didn't create that blog (snapping fingers - Darn!). 

Anywho, THIS post is not quite a meme* but rather a tribute because I love the idea of a challenging cerebral exercise.  For the non bloggers a Meme*- according to the urban dictionary is - an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media).  


Anita introduced her followers to a game from the Washington Post where readers where to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Or supply alternate meanings for common words.   Here are a few of the Washington Post winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Reintarnation - Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Dopeler Effect - The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
4. Pokemon, (n.) - A Rastafarian proctologist.
   
5. Oyster, (n.) - A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

Here are a few of my attempts:

1. Populiar- an infamous wolf crier.
2. Arachofrobia - the fear of fabulous and very large ethnic hair
3. Produce- Any number two playing card who works in Vegas full time.
4. Bushwhacked - The state of mind of an American who considered our 43rd president to be the pied piper.
5. sorrow- remorse one develops after eating caviar.

Many of you are very funny so let's see if your cranium can come up with one or two.  Thanks Anita.  I told you that I might use this idea on my blog. I hope that Crazy People I've worked With wins for best humor blog.  You so deserve it :-).


Put the credit card down and open up your dictionary.

Much Ado About Nothing Monday

Good morning and Happy Monday to you all.  Back by popular demand is movie quote Monday.  Please feel free to leave a comment sharing quotes from your favorite movies, I'd love to read them.

Well today is all about seven random quotes that tickle my funny bone or have given me something about which to think.

Hopefully my choices will make you chuckle or free your mind.

1. from "The Matrix"

Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. 

What truth? 

There is no spoon.

There is no spoon?

Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Neo...nobody has ever done this before. 

That's why it's going to work. 

2. from "What the [Bleep] do we know?"

In the beginning was the Void 

Teeming with infinite possibilities 

Of which you. 

Are one... 

3. from "Devil in a Blue Dress"

You said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't, I choked him. 

[Easy Rawlings very upset asked why the character was dead] 

If you didn't want him dead, why did you leave him with me? 

4. from "The Birdcage"

[Senator Keeley says the following after spending the entire film thinking that Nathan Lane was a woman,the future mother in law to his daughter]

I feel like I'm insane!

5. from "Trading Places"

I'm a karate man! And a karate man bruises on the inside! They don't show their weakness. 

Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness.  Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the absolute carnage you are about to witness. Super Bowl, World Series - they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me? 

Would you like a sip of whiskey? 

I do not drink, it is against my religion! 

Religion is a good thing I say, taken in moderation. 

6. from "One Night with the King"

This is my most valuable possession in the world. It is my past, my present, and my future. And all of it is yours. 

Some would call you foolish, indeed. As they would call your Jacob. Of all commodities, love is the easiest... and the most cheaply purchased. 

 If it is for sale, my lord. It is not love. 

7. from "Hellboy II: The Golden Army"

You're in love. Have a beer. 

Oh, my body's a temple. 
Now it's an amusement park. 

Enjoy!

Much Ado About Nothing! Part Deux

The quotes from yesterday came from these films:

1. As good as it gets #10, 11 - The entire dialog of this script could have been written but I just quoted two of the most memorable.
2. Dan in real life #1, 2
3. Fools Gold #5
4. Broadcast News #6, 7
5. Trading Places #3, 4
6. Wolf #8
7. Baby Boom #9

Multiple personalities and Krippled Warrior thanks for stopping by and leaving comments on my blog. Come back now, ya hear?

Krippled Warrior, your quote was from "Rocky. That was a great line as well. Thanks for sharing!

Much Ado About Nothing!

**Random Blog alert!!**

One thing that I do sometimes is remember great quotes from films that I love and recite them to friends, or incorporate them into conversations that I have. When I get the deer in headlights response, I reference the films from where the plagiarized part of my conversation comes. And I either get a chuckle or crickets.

One time [*at band camp] a coworker and I were on location on a film in Utah that was sooo not fun. We were so stressed, tired, far from home, and punchy [without the pleasure of inebriation] that we carried on an entire conversation of nothing but movie quotes from "Trading Places." It was silly fun. And it went on for hours. Try it sometime. Maybe not so much at work. But try it sometime!

Here are my top 10 quotes: **warning my taste in films is all over the place** Just in case you were wondering #8 is my all time favorite movie quote. Because it's something I would say.

1. Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.
2. I don't want to go out with the pig... face.
3. Looking good, Billy Ray! Feeling good, Louis!
4. In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks.
5. Your uselessness is epic.
6. I can sing while I read, I am singing and reading both.
7. Ok, I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
   
8. You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful, but you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn. I know you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath but the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautiful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.
9. I can't have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting
10. Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
11. HERE'S A BONUS - To hell with sex! It was better than sex! We held each other! What I needed, he gave me great.

*the band camp reference is from "American Pie" for those who didn't get it.

And there you have it.