"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding."
By cyntrow
@cyntrow (8523)
United States
February 8, 2008 5:12pm CST
For those who don't know, this is a line from a Pink Floyd song, "The Wall". I used it on my kid tonight and it was the first time. LOL. My youngest is a picky eater and I bought pudding which she raved about on the way home from the sitter. So, we had beef barbeque sandwiches because I didn't feel like cooking and I could Nuke it. So my baby says, "I don't like this. Can I save it?" I said in a proper british accent, "If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don;t eat you meat?" My second youngest laughed because she knew the song. I laughed too. My baby didn't get hte joke. I made her eat half the sandwich, but that isn't what this post is about. LOL
My question is, do you ever have a situation, or have you ever had a situtation in which you can use a line from a song or a movie. I try to do it all the time and it's so much fun. Especially when I am speaking to a youngish person who doesn't get it, but every other person does.
Do you ever utilize a line from a song or a movie???
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@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
9 Feb 08
Yes...lol, I always say *ding ding* thats right! or while at work we always say "yo tommy I didnt hear no bell yet" (rocky 5?) Or we use "is that your final answer" (who wants to be a Millionaire).
@cyntrow (8523)
• United States
9 Feb 08
LOL, I often ask people if they want to use a lifeline. Lol. My 2 favorite lines are "She's just upset because someone dropped a house on her sister" relating to the Wizard of Oz, and "i just got felt up by my grandmother" from sixteen candles. I can site many more from that film and "fast times at Ridgmont HIgh." In truth I cannot hear "Somebodies' Baby" by Jackson Brown with out thinking of that movie.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
10 Feb 08
I use " Ladies" every time I see two guys about ti fight. It is from Usual Suspects.I live by " Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" and "Be nice until it is time not to be nice."But I don't get to use the best ones like " Say Hello to my little friend" or Yippie Ka Yea .. but I do think about them often.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
9 Feb 08
What a great topic. I do that all the time! When I worked at the post office as a carrier there was a time when we were going through these really horrible route inspections, where they literally keep track of every move you make and time every single thing you do. One day when the inspectors weren't there, I think it must have been a Saturday because IMPORTANT people like them didn't have to work then, everyone was complaining about what was playing on the radio so I walked over to it and changed the station. Police's "Every Breath You Take" came on a few seconds after I changed it and everyone in the office "thanked" me very much for that. We all used to sing "Workin' For A Livin'" all the time with the emphasis on "Damned if you do, damned if you don't!" Also, when it got dark earlier and after our routes had all been added onto so we couldn't finish on time, our theme song was "Thank the Lord for the Nighttime" because we weren't supposed to deliver after dark.
Here's another non-work-related story from years ago when my daughter was still in school. I'd taken her and a friend to a basketball game or something like that and it was freezing out. We had to walk quite a distance to get to the car and we got in and started down the road. Of course the car needed a few minutes to warm up and my daughter's friend said "I'm cold. Turn the heat on!" At that very moment my daughter turned the radio on and "The Heat Is On" blared out. It was like it was answering her and we still laugh about that.
Annie
