Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!pedsgd!pedsgo!evan From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: "Mickey Mouse" and "Ribbet" Message-ID: <133@pedsgo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 09:07:49 EST Article-I.D.: pedsgo.133 Posted: Wed Jan 8 09:07:49 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 00:59:28 EST References: <4300001@konech.UUCP> <804@rtech.UUCP> <8213@ucla-cs.ARPA> <1169@lll-crg.ARpA> Reply-To: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 36 Organization : Concurrent Computer Corp. (a P-E subsidiary), Tinton Falls, NJ Keywords: In article <1169@lll-crg.ARpA> figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) writes: >In article <8213@ucla-cs.ARPA>, das@ucla-cs.UUCP writes: >> For the net.games.trivia readers (and followup only to that group, please), >> what other TV broadcasts have had bits or lines with such staying power? >> "Here come da judge!" even inspired a song. Note my criteria: the causative >> show must have been a single broadcast (so that rules out "Meathead!" from >> All in the Family, since Archie used that in every episode, or "Take off, eh!" >> from SCTV), seen by everyone at once (so that rules out "Make my day!" or other >> movie phrases); the phrase or line must have been talked about by everyone the >> next day, and there must have been some lasting effect (be it a few months, >> like "Here come da judge!" or years and years, like "Ribbet!" (if my Ribbet >> theory is correct)). >> >You forgot a couple of other ones from Laugh-In: > >"Sock it to me!" >"Verrrry Interestingk" >"Look THAT one up in your Funk and Wagnall!" > >--Lynn But, Lynn, all of these were used throughout the series, on numerous occasions. You bet your bippy they were! -- NAME: Evan L. Marcus UUCP: ...vax135!petsd!pedsgd!pedsgo!evan USnail: CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (formerly Perkin-Elmer DSG) M/S 308, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 MA BELL:(201) 758-7357 LIVE: "Hey, Evan" QUOTE: I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.