Topic: Stooge lines used in everyday life?

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Tell of any lines from the Stooge shorts that you

• often use in everyday life,
• have on some occasion used, or
• are waiting for the chance to use.

My ability to use Stooge lines is, sadly, limited by the scarcity of Stooge fans among the people I see every day. (I have several Stooge fans among my friends and acquaintances, but I no longer live in the same part of the country as any of them.)

"Oh, a wise guy!" is probably the most universally usable of Stooge lines, and has the advantage that it makes sense even to people who don't recognize it as a Stoogism.

Once, I was helping some people, one of whom I knew to be a Stooge fan, clear some materials out of an area. Happening on a sheet of wood with a hole cut in the middle of it, I held it up and squawked in my best Curly voice, "Oh! Toimites!"

I keep hoping to be in the company of at least one Stooge fan when we get ice cream so that I can say, "Oh, a frozen dainty!"

[Shemp_Diesel]

I often use It was my idea, but I don't think much of it. And sometimes I'll use Shemp's Oh, almost got it myself, it backfired on me, on those occasions where I'm doing something around the house--like cooking--and get something splattering in my face or near my eyes.

I've also used the word nitwit and lunkhead on occasion--if that counts...


 

[Paul Pain]

Whenever someone should be hurt and doesn't flinch: "Oh, he/she/you must have iron in his/her/your blood."
Whenever someone does something dumb: "You lame brain!"
Whenever someone asks me a favor: "Soitanly!"
Whenever I fail: "Am I mortified!"

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Whenever someone should be hurt and doesn't flinch: "Oh, he/she/you must have iron in his/her/your blood."
Whenever someone does something dumb: "You lame brain!"
Whenever someone asks me a favor: "Soitanly!"
Whenever I fail: "Am I mortified!"

That last one is a Jimmy Durante line: the Stooges only use it when they are imitating Jimmy Durante.

But, of course, "Soitenly!" is the most useful line of them all.

[metaldams]

Mine would be, "Oh, I betcha you say that to all the boys." 

[hiramhorwitz]

My three favorites:

1)  I'm trying to think, but nothing happens

2)  Spread out

3)  I feel so silly

[Paul Pain]

That last one is a Jimmy Durante line: the Stooges only use it when they are imitating Jimmy Durante.

But, of course, "Soitenly!" is the most useful line of them all.

Truth.  But I don't watch Durante, so for me it's a Stooge quote. 

Mine would be, "Oh, I betcha you say that to all the boys." 

Forgot that one.

Another one I use when someone misses something obvious: "Look at the grouse!"

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Whenever something strange happens: "That's a coincidence!"

[Paul Pain]

Whenever a cheap substitute is used: "Gasoline don't taste so good since Prohibition. They ain't so careful like when they used it for makin' gin."

Whenever I asked to retrieve something: "I'll be back in a quack with a quack, and I do mean quack!"

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Just heard a line that I must look out for an opportunity to use: it comes from the nearsighted old guy who is trying to slaughter the "horse" that is actually Curly and Larry in Three Little Twirps:

"Now I'll teach you a lesson you'll never remember!"

Which, of course, reminds me of the old Stooge stand-by: "I'll teach you/that'll teach him a thing or two or three!"

[Seamus]

I'm always hearing Curly's voice in my head saying, "I'll make a note of it!" (his response to Moe's "Remind me to kill you later") whenever I have to remember something.

Larry's "Oh boy, success!" pops into my head whenever I pull off some small victory.

[JazzBill]

When someone asks me, "what kind of a fool do you take me for?" I reply, "why, is there more than one kind?"

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

When someone asks me, "what kind of a fool do you take me for?" I reply, "why, is there more than one kind?"

Is that in a Stooge short? I seem to recall it coming from Groucho Marx.

[Shemp_Diesel]

Is that in a Stooge short? I seem to recall it coming from Groucho Marx.

See Saved By the Belle....

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

See Saved By the Belle....

Thanks. Whoever thought of it, it's a line worthy of Groucho Marx, which I mean as high praise.

[Kopfy2013]

"I reckon this must be the place I reckon" when we get to a place we have rarely been at or never been at.

"It's a tin roof' when I am drinking

"Victim of soicumstance"

I use Stooge phrases all the time. I don't care if they are fans of the stooges or not.

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

When dealing with a device of some kind that snaps shut: "Oh, a navigator!" (from Curly in Higher than a Kite).

If I ever use that line in front of someone who doesn't know the source, I'll have to explain that a navigator is an animal that "crawls through a swamp until it becomes a suitcase."

[ThumpTheShoes]

Anytime someone does something weird at work or even just deliberately, it's, "Oh! Superstitious, eh?"

The results are the same: some folks are like, "Oh, yeah I am!" or they get defensive and try to explain why, for instance, they change chairs in the lunch room at work, when all the chairs are identical and the same level of uncomfortable.

And something that has become prevalent at the workplace with Laurel and Hardy fans like myself, repeating the last part of what someone said, slowly, with a disapproving grunt, a-la Hardy's, "Hard boiled eggs and nuts. MMMmmph!"

"Superstitious. MMMmmph!"

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Anytime someone does something weird at work or even just deliberately, it's, "Oh! Superstitious, eh?"

The results are the same: some folks are like, "Oh, yeah I am!" or they get defensive and try to explain why, for instance, they change chairs in the lunch room at work, when all the chairs are identical and the same level of uncomfortable.

That's a great line when given and taken in a Stooge-ish spirit, but I can see how it would create problems when used upon those who don't have Stooges on the brain.

I seem to remember Curly using the line, but I may have it mixed up with the time when he says "Oh, don't trust me, eh?" as he deals out cards. I Googled the line and found it spoken by Moe in Disorder in the Court. Is it used in other shorts?

[Signor Spumoni]

Just for information:  a frozen dainty is a dessert.  It's creamy gelatin made in a molded shape with creamy fruit inside.  I was reading a 1930s cookbook once, and was surprised to come across a recipe for it.

When someone wants to borrow a tool:  "Help yourself.  It'll save us having to work on the job," from "Violent Is the Word for Curly."

When I'm going to the bank, regardless of reason: "Let's go and get the moola, go and get the moola (ad infinitum)," "If A Body Meets A Body."

When I have to do a difficult job:  "If that piper can pipe rats pie-eyed, I can do it sober," several shorts such as "Termites of 1938."

When working:  "Super service!  Super service!" from "Violent Is the Word for Curly."

I use a lot of Stooges lines whether I'm alone or with others.  The most fun I had with Stooges lines was when I ran into an acquaintance who discovered I was a Stooges fan.  She hates the Stooges, by the way. 
She asked, "Do you really like the Stooges?" 
I said, "Soitenly!"
"I'm so disappointed in you."
"Don't blame me, I'm a victim of soicumstance!" 
Every time she said something, I replied with a Stooges line.  Her husband - - also a fan - - was nearby, and he got a laugh out of it.

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

I use a lot of Stooges lines whether I'm alone or with others.  The most fun I had with Stooges lines was when I ran into an acquaintance who discovered I was a Stooges fan.  She hates the Stooges, by the way. 
She asked, "Do you really like the Stooges?" 
I said, "Soitenly!"
"I'm so disappointed in you."
"Don't blame me, I'm a victim of soicumstance!" 
Every time she said something, I replied with a Stooges line.  Her husband - - also a fan - - was nearby, and he got a laugh out of it.

You, as the young folks say, rock.

[Signor Spumoni]

You, as the young folks say, rock.

Oh, garsh!

Another snippet of that conversation:
She said, "I can't believe you.  You're not even using your brain!"
I said, "I try to think, but nothing happens!" 
It was fun. 

[Squirrelbait]

When somebody didn't quite hear what I said: I was just saying that this is LOVELY country and I'm glad we landed!

Also, any time I eat at Panera, can't help but comment on the 'Pick Two' menu....always good for a laugh.

[Lefty]

Whenever someone or something does you wrong:  "That's sabotoogie!"

[stoogerascalfan62]

I'm a victim of soicumstance.