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Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

I must confess my wife and i do this sometimes where something comes up in a conversation and we'll answer with a Columbo reference....
Examples...............

If my wife asks me to get her a glass of wine, i might say something like.."i feel honored your letting me decant"

or

If she's putting on night cream, i might say something like, " it's like a miracle, wrinkles just disappear and it lasts all day"

etc.


Re: Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

We must have all done 'just one more thing' I have also done 'don't count on that' to employees when they are trying to take advantage of my good nature!

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I don't know if I've ever done it out loud, but when it sounds like someone is making a lot of false assumptions, I feel like quoting Milo Janus by saying "Cigar ashes!"

(It's a lot more original than "B.S.!" - either the initials or the actual phrase!)

Re: Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

No but some from other characters. "It wasn't premeditated" "I have a perverse affection for..." "Do you really believe those crazy things you are saying?"

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Nope. I think for myself, but I can see why your ilk would.

Re: Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

"I'll have the chili; with beans ,without beans...it doesn't matta"

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It isn't direct quotations, but every time I ask very hopefully if something is a lot less expensive than it turns out to be, I feel like I'm quoting Columbo.

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J.P. Morgan once said, "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"

as Donald Pleasance reminded Columbo in 'Any old Port in a storm'.

Re: Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

Yes, and before that, General Hollister uses the quote in DEAD WEIGHT.
But I'm with Columbo - asking the price almost always makes sense.

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There are so many lines that I would like to use, but most of them would require a very unique context.
In a way, I hope someday someone will ask me, "What's going down?", so I can respond with Joe Devlin's classic line, "The world, in terminal descent."

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I've always wanted to say things sarcastically exactly like Donald Pleasence. In the case of ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM, there's his very simple line "Re-markable."
(In the film NIGHT OF THE GENERALS - which is also a murder story - Donald has a whole "repertoire" of sarcastic lines, and in his case it isn't just the lines, it's his great delivery.)

Re: Admit it...Do you reference Columbo lines or scenes in everyday conversation?

I just used a line that I loved from "Last salute to the Commodore". We were talking at work about how much sleep we get, I used Columbo's "I gotta have my eight".

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Ive used the term moral junkyard a few times as per Rumford...
and it being summer...if I sweat in the car before the AC kicks in..I think of Jesse Jerome in his high back leather chair