quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: "The people you meet when you don't have a gun."
-Ryan Stiles, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
This is actually a take on 'background chatter' used in British comedies, most notably Are You Being Served?. Whenever they needed talking going on behind the coversation of focus they would say "The things you see when you haven't got your gun.". The phrase also made it into the script a number of times for other instances.
It makes sense to hear Ryan Stiles say it since he was on the British version of Who's Line. I love that show.
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"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things -- including the fear of childishness and the desire to be grown-up." -- C.S. Lewis
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"What about that 'Elisa' you left back in Michigan?" "Oh, she isn't real. Just someone I made up." "Well, them's the best kind. Right now -- I need the worst kind!" -- Ben (Lee Marvin) and Pardner (Clint Eastwood) in "Paint Your Wagon"
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"Now, don't everypanic body, just because the comesters are ganging!" -- The Skipper, "Gilligan's Island"
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quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: "The people you meet when you don't have a gun."
-Ryan Stiles, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
This is actually a take on 'background chatter' used in British comedies, most notably Are You Being Served?. Whenever they needed talking going on behind the coversation of focus they would say "The things you see when you haven't got your gun.". The phrase also made it into the script a number of times for other instances.
It makes sense to hear Ryan Stiles say it since he was on the British version of Who's Line. I love that show.
Man, you learn something new on this board everyday. Thanks for the info!
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"Hazards are risks, and risks are chances." -- Fairport Convention (lyrics by Sandy Denny), "Stranger to Himself"
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"I said, 'Do you speak-a my language?' He just smiled and gave me a vegamite sandwich." -- Men at Work, "The Land Downunder"
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