I copied this from Limor who copied it from someone else. I’m trying to paint the guest room and needed a break (plus it was a good excuse to stop and watch some of the Olympics as well..) so here’s what I did on my break.

The following are quotes from 15 of my favorite movies. Can you name them? Take a guess in the comments. Here’s the “official” rules:

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
5. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly and put who guessed it and the movie.

1. “I know how difficult it must be for you to overcome all those years of upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the PTA crusading for better… lunch meat, or whatever it is you white girls complain about, ask them WHY they can’t buy a book written by a black man!” Tim (10 Things I Hate About You)

2. “Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you? Because excuse me if somebody doesn’t know the secret handshake with you.”
“There’s no secret handshake. There’s an IQ prerequisite, but there’s no secret handshake.” Dave (Reality Bites)

3. “You know how Sister Bertha always makes me kiss the floor after we’ve had a disagreement? Well, lately I’ve taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time.” Tim (Sound of Music)

4. “That ain’t no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can’t be un-did, homeskillet.” Jaime (Juno)

5. “Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket…”

6. “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Limor (When Harry Met Sally)

7. “I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.” Andy (LOTR: The Two Towers)

8. “Excuse me a sec. What are you babbling about?”
“Well, what I had said was I’m in the math club, uh, the Latin, and the physics club… physics club.”
“Hey, Cherry. Do you belong to the physics club?”
“That’s an academic club.”
“So?”
“So academic clubs aren’t the same as other kinds of clubs.”
“Ah… but to dorks like him, they are. What do you guys do in your club?”
“Well, in physics we… we talk about physics, properties of physics.”
“So it’s sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?” Limor (Breakfast Club)

9. “Mary, you want to go out sometime?”
“What? Are you going to take me out on your “scooter”?”
“Come on, I’m like, totally adorable, besides, it would drive Hilary Faye crazy.”
“I can’t. I’m… not dating right now.”
“What about tomorrow night? Will you be dating then?” Dave (Saved)

10. “What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” Jaime (High Fidelity)

11. “And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire…” Limor (Office Space)

12. “You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.” Limor (Princess Bride)

13. “Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets.” Tim (Little Women)

14. “Honey, I’m thinking of switching to the mock turtleneck?”

“Is that not breathing?”

“Well, it’s breathing now, but it’ll be hot down there. I could go with the lambswool, but then again, you’ll see a lot of khaki down there and this merlot looks good with the gray.” Jaime (Best in Show)

15. “There will be no rescue, no intervention for us. We can only save ourselves. Many of you know influential people abroad, you must call these people. You must tell them what will happen to us… say goodbye. But when you say goodbye, say it as if you are reaching through the phone and holding their hand. Let them know that if they let go of that hand, you will die. We must shame them into sending help.” Dave (Hotel Rwanda)

1. Last night we watched Juno, again. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, you are missing out my friend. We also bought the soundtrack, which if you don’t like the movie, the soundtrack alone is a good enough reason to watch it.

2. This year is the summer Olympics. The games start on August 8. I love watching the Olympics. The summer Olympics especially. Gymnastics, swimming, diving, track & field, all good. I’m also excited to watch it with Lexi. I think she’ll enjoy watching the games, especially the gymnastics and maybe even some of the diving.

I am now the coolest. teacher. ever. I own the Kim Possible Movie. The book we are reading in reading class has a character named Kim. And the kids realized it was “like Kim Possible”. I agreed with them and they were shocked that I knew who Kim Possible was. But they were even more impressed when I wowed them with my knowledge of Ron Stoppable, Rufus, “what’s the sitch’, Wade?”, Ninja Monkeys, and “call me, page me, beep me. Anyway you want to reach me.” We sort of lost focus of reading class for about 15 minutes while we discussed the finer points of Kim Possible. Today was indoor recess - being the great teacher that I am guess what movie my kids got to watch?

I hate flying and I am terrified of snakes, which makes Snakes on a Plane number 2,783,468 on my list of must-see movies. Not only does the movie contain two of my least favorite things, it wins in the award in the following categories: Most Uncreative Title and Lamest Plot. Although, it did pick up the awards for Best Reason to Change A Movie Rating From PG-13 to R (Rumor has it the rating got upped so that Sammy J. could tell everyone (and I quote) “I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane.” Don’t we all Sammy, don’t we all.) and Best New Phrase That I Really Hope Catches On And Is Used On A Regular Basis: “Meh, snakes on a plane”. To be used when something does not happen in your favor.
For example,
“I’d like to buy a ticket to see the new Samuel L. Jackson movie, please.”
“I’m sorry, Ma’am, we’re all sold out.”
“Damn, well, snakes on a plane.”

Kevin blogged about this clip, but so far, this is my favorite link related to the movie, listen to the clip of the show starting at 2:30.

And if you don’t like the links, oh well, snakes on a plane.

I ran to the video store tonight to get a really girly movie because Kevin went to Sonshine and won’t be back until Saturday so I can watch whatever I want. For all those interested I picked out the Princess Diaries 2. It fit all my requirements of movie watching without Kevin. 1. Absolutely nothing in it is scary (well some of the writing was a little scary, but I won’t lie awake thinking about it) 2. Kevin would never, ever, ever even think about renting it. 3. Extremely simple plot line so if I watch it on the laptop in bed and fall asleep 30 minutes from the end I can guess what happens without having to re-watch anything.

Okay, but that wasn’t the point of this post. While I was at the store, the place was packed. I think people were just hanging out there because Hollywood video keeps the temperature at about 42 degrees no matter what month of the year it is. While I was scanning the new release wall, there was a woman looking through the bin of videos for sale. And she had this horrible cough. Not the “I’m really sick” cough, but the “I really should cut back from 5 packs a day to 1 pack so when I cough my lungs don’t end up on the floor” cough. You could hear her from one end of the store to the other, and if you were close enough (which I was while waiting in line to check out) you could see little bits of spit and possibly lung flying through the air because every freakin’ time she coughed SHE NEVER COVERED HER MOUTH. She was holding all these videos, hacking up a lung, then would decide she didn’t want them, mix them back into the bin, pick up a bunch more, cough on them and repeat the process. Now I am not an extremely anil person about germs and all that, but seriously, if you are over 6 years old, you should learn to cover your mouth when you cough, at least in public.