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