What habits have you picked up from films, books, music, etc?

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I've started doing the tongue thing from Secretary at any given moment.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Coincidentally, I'm into BDSM now too.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

smoking

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

What haven't I? I'm little more than a loosely connected network of patchwork pop culture with occasional flashes of homegrown charm and enough modesty to sink a ship that's stupid enough to think modesty is a torpedo.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

what he said

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancing. Whistling. Quoting.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Suddenly I have a Red House Painters song in my head:

And it was unintentional
When I spit in your beer
I'm over-influenced
By movies

It always made me think "who the hell spat in someones beer in a film!?"

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I went about ranting and drinking like Withnail for some time after I saw that movie :) In fact I dont think it ever wore off...

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 06:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I butter my corn like the father in War Games.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

listening to rock music gave me a heroin habit

― dznpf, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to The Big Lebowski, I now cannot help but refer to a female love interest as my "special ladyfriend".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to Star Wars, I race around the galaxy now in a battered-up old ship which still makes .5 past light speed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to The Big Lebowski, I will soon understand the charms of being unemployed. And of white russians.

"Sometimes you et the bar, sometimes the bar ets you."

― hstencil, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't forget the wearing-bathrobes-&-flipflops-in-public thing, maaaan.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll be doing that starting June 1st, bro.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

After watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea I fashioned a crude guitar out of turtle parts and spontaneously sang "Oh it's a whale of a tale" to every seal I met.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

But did you spit up your meal of unborn octopus?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

*not so keen on eating this calamari now....*

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

But did you spit up your meal of unborn octopus?

As if you have to ask.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to _Eyes Wide Shut_ & Robert Heinlein, I now hate sex.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I done learnt to curse, spy and back-talk from Catcher in the Rye and The Time Machine learnt me to be a comunist. Huckleberry Finn learnt me to traffic slaves across state lines whilst coming to a better understanding about mid 19th century american life and attitudes, and to dress up as a girl and chew tobaccy.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 May 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to Special Agent Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks I now flash a "thumbs up" sign on occasion and comment about "lining up the doughnuts".

Thanks to The Prisoner I now say "Be seeing you" often.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to Japanese films I say "hm" instead of "yes".

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Is 'Secretary' good? It has the best trailer I have seen in years.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I started drinking gin and tonic because of Stephin Merritt. It's a really nice drink so I'm glad I did.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

After seeing The Hudsucker Proxy I started saying "sure, sure" like Paul Newman's character until someone pointed out that it sounded incredibly patronising from me.

I've been ending conversations with "And that's all the news" for 10 years now, and was surprised on rewatching The Day Today to see that I'd nicked it from there (and forgotten).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I recently realised that I had picked up 'I weep for our generation' from a Peanuts cartoon. My sister and I used to say 'We're brother and sister and we love each other' when we were playing it being model children, and that was from the same one. She used to say 'We're a couple of smart kids and he's just an old man' too. It was a great strip. If anyone has a copy of it around they could scan in, I'd be very grateful.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I've started being John Malkovich.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually use the word "grok" in conversation every once in awhile, so, uh, thanks Heinlein (you bastard).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I am becoming The Count of Monte Cristo.
I've come to regard my cubicle as Chateau D'If.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Everytime my sister and I are eating a meal together it is guaranteed that at least one of us will delicately take a bite of our food and say, "It's the European way," like Dick Tremaine from Twin Peaks.

― Mandee, Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to Rorschach from Watchmen I say/write "hurm" a lot.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to Rorschach from Watchmen I say/write "hurm" a lot.
Thanks to same, I act like a cross between Lou Ford and Travis Bickle a lot.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I say 'grok' sometimes, and I've never even read any Heinlein. Thank you, world of geekdom.

Secretary was Film Of The Week in the Guardian today. I might try and see it over the weekend sometime.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

When I walk across dark parking lots, I kinda walk like Henry Hill crossing the street to beat up the neighbor in Goodfellas.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 6 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow I totally do not recall making that previous post of mine to this thread.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post Or so you like to think.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned everything I know about how to behave on a date from Lloyd Dobbler. Hey, it's as good as anything else.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

at least one of us will delicately take a bite of our food and say, "It's the European way," like Dick Tremaine from Twin Peaks.

OMG how many times have I said, "This is-- excuse me--a DAMN fine cup of coffee."

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The line "What's so gruesome about Tuesday?" (or is it Thursday?) from Breakfast at Tiffiny's I've stolen. "What's so gruesome about buses?", "What's so gruesome about Blackpool?" etc etc.

I sometimes think I've stolen my whole personality from some hybrid between Leslie Nielson and Jim Carey from Dumb and Dumber.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 6 September 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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