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An xtreme mix of postings covering . . . ERISA and Pop Culture!
About Me
- xtremErisa -
- ERISA lawyer, fan (big fan!) of Pop Culture, Corvette driver, Mets fan (maybe by 3010?), Jets fan (will it be 2011-12?!)
Some Lite Thoughts
You can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me. - Guns N' Roses
It's better to burn out than [to] fade away. - Kurt Cobain and Def Leppard, quoting Neil Young
Sickness will surely take your mind where minds don't usually go. - The Who (see also Harvey Danger's quote below)
I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you . . . stranger. - Heath Ledger's The Joker (with a tip of the cap to Nietzsche)
Where does he get those wonderful toys? - Jack's The Joker
Don't drink, don't smoke - what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow. - Adam Ant
I'm not like other guys. - Michael Jackson immediately before the Thriller transformation
I drive a Dodge Stratus!! - Will Ferrell's "Dad"
Free speech is the right to shout "theater" in a crowded fire. - Abbie Hoffman
Win. . . . Win! - Talia Shire's Adrian (with Bill Conti's music cued at the appropriate moment)
I win. - Bryan Cranston's indefatigable Walter White
Resistance is futile. - Borg catchline
Be afraid. . . . be very afraid. - Geena Davis' Veronica (Ronnie) Quaife (and then there's always, "What's the point in being afraid?" from Henry Ian Cusick's Desmond Hume (responding to, "[W]hy aren't you afraid?" from Terry O'Quinn's "John Locke"))
I don't believe in much, but I believe in duct tape. - Ken Leung's Miles Straume
And never mind that noise you heard - it's just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head. Exit light. . . . Enter night. - Metallica
I'll be back. - Ah-nold
I'm back - back in the New York groove. Ace Frehley
I'm not dead [yet]. - John Young's not-yet-dead guy
They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God. - Dan Aykroyd's Elwood Blues
My brain hurts. - Michael Palin's D.P. Gumby (not utterly unlike Gary Larson's quip from The Far Side, "Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full.")
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. - Repeated by Steven Tyler on American Idol
People either loved us or they hated us. Or they thought we were OK. - Mitch Hedberg, talking about a band of his
The future's so bright I gotta wear shades. - Timbuk3
A man's got to know his limitations. - Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry (Callahan)
You're never alone with a schizophrenic. - Ian Hunter
Your momma told you that you're not supposed to talk to strangers. Look in the mirror, tell me - do you think your life's in danger here? - Ozzy Osbourne
The smoker you drink, the player you get. - Joe Walsh
Done done and onto the next one. Done I'm done and I'm onto the next. - Foo Fighters
You . . . you're good, you. - Robert De Niro's Paul Vitti
Baby did a bad bad thing. - Chris Isaac
Just do it! - Nike ad (bringing to mind Ben Stiller's facially similar, but ultimately very different, hilarious "do it" line in the otherwise mediocre Starsky & Hutch)
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. - Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rumack
So you're telling me there's a chance. - Jim Carrey's Lloyd Christmas, after being told by the girl that his chances to get her were "like one out of a million"
Image is everything. - Andre Agassi (for Canon)
Success is my only mother****ing option, failure's not. . . . Feet fail me not 'cause maybe the only opportunity that I got. . . . You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo. You can do anything you set your mind to, man. - Eminem
How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough, huh? - Charlie Sheen's Bud Fox to Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko
I don't think it was my nature or any of ours to start complaining . . . . That's like winning the lottery and then complaining about the taxes, or becoming President and saying I don't like wearing a tie. Well, if you're lucky enough to get what you wanted - shut up. - Paul Stanley
Heeeey man, niiiice shot - Filter
Blood on the rocks, blood on the streets, blood in the sky, blood on the sheets. - Bon Scott's AC/DC
Fi-ya! - Brian Johnson's AC/DC
This ain't rock 'n roll; this is genocide. - David Bowie
This ain't no party; this ain't no disco; this ain't no fooling around. - Talking Heads
'Cuz if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box. You better run. - Pink Floyd
These go to 11. - Christopher Guest's Nigel Tufnel to Rob Reiner's Marty DiBergi
Woo hoo! - Blur
Oo wah ah ah ah. - Disturbed
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah. - Usher
Let it roll, down the highway. - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I can't stop my leg. - Robert Klein
Kinda bent, but we ain't breakin'. - Eagles
Insane in the membrane - Cypress Hill
Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused. - Elvis Costello
Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back; you can never look back." - Don Henley
I'm as mad as he[ck] and I'm not going to take this anymore! - Peter Finch's Howard Beale
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really all against you. - anonymous
I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. - James Callis' Baltar in the series finale of Battlestar Galactica, maybe updating the foregoing sentiment
They're baaaaaaack. - better-than-the-actual-movie trailer for Poletegeist II
It's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy, 'cause every now and then I kick the living sh** out of me. - Lit
Can we all get along? - Rodney King (well before Celebrity Rehab 2 with Dr. Drew)
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell
And I'll bet the last company around [that made buggy whips] was the one that made the best godda[r]n buggy whip you ever saw. - leading man (!) Danny DeVito's Lawrence Garfield
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeeeeeeeeeee. - David Cross's "Slow" Donnie DiMauro
You know what? You've got spunk. . . . I hate spunk. - Ed Asner's Lou Grant to Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards
It's just another Manic Monday / I don't like Mondays - Prince by way of The Bangles / The Boomtown Rats (two different songs)
Little pink houses for you and me. - John Mellencamp
Nobody goes there any more; it’s always too crowded. - Yogi Berra
I apologize if I offended more people than I usually offend. - Rex Ryan
If I wanted to read I'd go to school. - Mike Judge's Butt-Head (said to Mike Judge's Beavis, o' course)
Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn't mean you have to approve of it! If you had to like it, it'd be called . . . acceptance! - South Park's Mr. (Herbert) Garrison
The only difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be credible. - Mark Twain (or maybe a paraphrase thereof - not sure) (my own spin on the preceding - the odds that any particular occurrence would actually have taken place in this world may be incalculably high, and yet . . . each and every one of them in fact happens)
If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. - Sheryl Crow
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. - caption for an Edward Frascino New Yorker cartoon of a man passing under a bird talking to him from a tree
Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding. . . . They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee God da[rn] you. . . . I'm not sick but I'm not well. - Harvey Danger
Despite all the amputation[s], you could dance to a rock 'n' roll station; and it was all right. / Somebody cut off her feet; now Jelly rolls in the street. - The Velvet Underground (two different songs)
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?" But Tony couldn't fly. . . . Tony died. - The Jim Carroll Band
I love it when a plan comes together. - George Peppard's Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (obviously referring to ERISA matters)
Great minds think alike . . . or fools rarely differ. - original source unclear, but said to me by a fellow commuter after I uttered the first portion of the foregoing line after noticing our identical briefcases
I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary. - Mena Suvari's Angela Hayes
They're people. They're just people. - Al Pacino's Arthur Kirkland (not to be confused with Charlton Heston's Robert Thorn when he says, "Soylent Green is peeeeeeople")
Get a life (will you, people)! - William Shatner on Saturday Night Live
That man just bumped into me so hard that I think he literally impregnated me . . . literally. - Nicole Sullivan's Judith to Michael Sullivan's Clyde
Only Nixon could go to China. - hilariously claimed by Leonard Nimory's Cap'n Spock to be an old Vuncan proverb
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. . . . How true that is. - Dan Quayle (commenting to a meeting of the United Negro College Fund with the intention of referring to the credo, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.")
I got saved when I was 14 years old. I found Jesus Christ. And then that got put on the back burner. - Hulk Hogan (paraphrased) on The Howard Stern Show
. . . YOU are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. - Philip Stone's Delbert Grady
Darling? Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. . . . I'm just going to bash your brains in. - Jack's Jack ("All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.") Torrance
What's in the box?! - Brad Pitt's Det. Mills (also seen (ha ha) on the Hewlett-Packard shopping website)
Start the reactor! - Marshall Bell's Kuato (George)
It's . . . it's a cookbook! - Susan Cummings' Patty, revealing the secret of Richard Kiel's and other Kanamits
Earmuffs. - Vince Vaughn's Bernard "Beanie" Campbell
Before it smelled like someone puked. Now it smells like someone puked in a gardenia patch. - Kenneth Nelson's Michael, commenting on whether the room deodorant worked
[S]tep up and address the ball: Hello, ball. - Art Carney's Ed Norton teaching golf to Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden
You wearing THAT shirt? - Heidi Swedberg's Susan Biddle Ross to Jason Alexander's George Costanza, after George mistakenly (it turned out) informed her he was ready to go
On the inside. - Bobby Collins' clarification of where his statements are when he's supposedly standing up to his wife
How much denial are you in if you're eating a mini-muffin? "Oh I'm just gonna have like one . . . or 12." - Jim Gaffigan (who also correctly has noted that beds should be made out of bacon)
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down. - an old one-liner
Lawyers: persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief. - Franz Kafka (evidently doing more than thinking about those who wake up as cockroaches)
ERISA been berry, berry good to me. - apologies to Garrett Morris' Chico Escuela
Don't start citing Code sections to me! - said to me in the mid- to late 80s by an IRS agent (name withheld to protect the . . . well, you get it) in connection with the negotiation of a determination letter
I turn to the one where they're screaming the loudest. - a paraphrase from someone explaining to me how he would prioritize his many projects
You'll be playing me. And I'll know it. But that's alright. - a paraphrase from somewone explaining to me how he wants to be handled.
But that's OK, they pay us less. - response from a colleague after it was noted to her how hard she was working
Fish or get off the bait. - a mentor's garbling of the phrase (corrected immediately thereafter to, "fish or get off the pot")
He wears such expensive ties. Well, I do, too, but that's OK - mine are all stained. - a paraphrase from a mentor
Send lawyers, guns and money. The sh** has hit the fan. - Warren Zevon
Am I the only one who hears the screams and the strangled cries of lawyers in love? - Jackson Browne
And give me something to believe in. - Poison
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Oscar Wilde
And that's all I have to say about that. - Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump
It's better to burn out than [to] fade away. - Kurt Cobain and Def Leppard, quoting Neil Young
Sickness will surely take your mind where minds don't usually go. - The Who (see also Harvey Danger's quote below)
I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you . . . stranger. - Heath Ledger's The Joker (with a tip of the cap to Nietzsche)
Where does he get those wonderful toys? - Jack's The Joker
Don't drink, don't smoke - what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow. - Adam Ant
I'm not like other guys. - Michael Jackson immediately before the Thriller transformation
I drive a Dodge Stratus!! - Will Ferrell's "Dad"
Free speech is the right to shout "theater" in a crowded fire. - Abbie Hoffman
Win. . . . Win! - Talia Shire's Adrian (with Bill Conti's music cued at the appropriate moment)
I win. - Bryan Cranston's indefatigable Walter White
Resistance is futile. - Borg catchline
Be afraid. . . . be very afraid. - Geena Davis' Veronica (Ronnie) Quaife (and then there's always, "What's the point in being afraid?" from Henry Ian Cusick's Desmond Hume (responding to, "[W]hy aren't you afraid?" from Terry O'Quinn's "John Locke"))
I don't believe in much, but I believe in duct tape. - Ken Leung's Miles Straume
And never mind that noise you heard - it's just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head. Exit light. . . . Enter night. - Metallica
I'll be back. - Ah-nold
I'm back - back in the New York groove. Ace Frehley
I'm not dead [yet]. - John Young's not-yet-dead guy
They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God. - Dan Aykroyd's Elwood Blues
My brain hurts. - Michael Palin's D.P. Gumby (not utterly unlike Gary Larson's quip from The Far Side, "Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full.")
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. - Repeated by Steven Tyler on American Idol
People either loved us or they hated us. Or they thought we were OK. - Mitch Hedberg, talking about a band of his
The future's so bright I gotta wear shades. - Timbuk3
A man's got to know his limitations. - Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry (Callahan)
You're never alone with a schizophrenic. - Ian Hunter
Your momma told you that you're not supposed to talk to strangers. Look in the mirror, tell me - do you think your life's in danger here? - Ozzy Osbourne
The smoker you drink, the player you get. - Joe Walsh
Done done and onto the next one. Done I'm done and I'm onto the next. - Foo Fighters
You . . . you're good, you. - Robert De Niro's Paul Vitti
Baby did a bad bad thing. - Chris Isaac
Just do it! - Nike ad (bringing to mind Ben Stiller's facially similar, but ultimately very different, hilarious "do it" line in the otherwise mediocre Starsky & Hutch)
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. - Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rumack
So you're telling me there's a chance. - Jim Carrey's Lloyd Christmas, after being told by the girl that his chances to get her were "like one out of a million"
Image is everything. - Andre Agassi (for Canon)
Success is my only mother****ing option, failure's not. . . . Feet fail me not 'cause maybe the only opportunity that I got. . . . You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo. You can do anything you set your mind to, man. - Eminem
How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough, huh? - Charlie Sheen's Bud Fox to Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko
I don't think it was my nature or any of ours to start complaining . . . . That's like winning the lottery and then complaining about the taxes, or becoming President and saying I don't like wearing a tie. Well, if you're lucky enough to get what you wanted - shut up. - Paul Stanley
Heeeey man, niiiice shot - Filter
Blood on the rocks, blood on the streets, blood in the sky, blood on the sheets. - Bon Scott's AC/DC
Fi-ya! - Brian Johnson's AC/DC
This ain't rock 'n roll; this is genocide. - David Bowie
This ain't no party; this ain't no disco; this ain't no fooling around. - Talking Heads
'Cuz if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box. You better run. - Pink Floyd
These go to 11. - Christopher Guest's Nigel Tufnel to Rob Reiner's Marty DiBergi
Woo hoo! - Blur
Oo wah ah ah ah. - Disturbed
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah. - Usher
Let it roll, down the highway. - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I can't stop my leg. - Robert Klein
Kinda bent, but we ain't breakin'. - Eagles
Insane in the membrane - Cypress Hill
Oh I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused. - Elvis Costello
Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back; you can never look back." - Don Henley
I'm as mad as he[ck] and I'm not going to take this anymore! - Peter Finch's Howard Beale
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really all against you. - anonymous
I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. - James Callis' Baltar in the series finale of Battlestar Galactica, maybe updating the foregoing sentiment
They're baaaaaaack. - better-than-the-actual-movie trailer for Poletegeist II
It's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy, 'cause every now and then I kick the living sh** out of me. - Lit
Can we all get along? - Rodney King (well before Celebrity Rehab 2 with Dr. Drew)
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell
And I'll bet the last company around [that made buggy whips] was the one that made the best godda[r]n buggy whip you ever saw. - leading man (!) Danny DeVito's Lawrence Garfield
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeeeeeeeeeee. - David Cross's "Slow" Donnie DiMauro
You know what? You've got spunk. . . . I hate spunk. - Ed Asner's Lou Grant to Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards
It's just another Manic Monday / I don't like Mondays - Prince by way of The Bangles / The Boomtown Rats (two different songs)
Little pink houses for you and me. - John Mellencamp
Nobody goes there any more; it’s always too crowded. - Yogi Berra
I apologize if I offended more people than I usually offend. - Rex Ryan
If I wanted to read I'd go to school. - Mike Judge's Butt-Head (said to Mike Judge's Beavis, o' course)
Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn't mean you have to approve of it! If you had to like it, it'd be called . . . acceptance! - South Park's Mr. (Herbert) Garrison
The only difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be credible. - Mark Twain (or maybe a paraphrase thereof - not sure) (my own spin on the preceding - the odds that any particular occurrence would actually have taken place in this world may be incalculably high, and yet . . . each and every one of them in fact happens)
If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. - Sheryl Crow
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. - caption for an Edward Frascino New Yorker cartoon of a man passing under a bird talking to him from a tree
Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding. . . . They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee God da[rn] you. . . . I'm not sick but I'm not well. - Harvey Danger
Despite all the amputation[s], you could dance to a rock 'n' roll station; and it was all right. / Somebody cut off her feet; now Jelly rolls in the street. - The Velvet Underground (two different songs)
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?" But Tony couldn't fly. . . . Tony died. - The Jim Carroll Band
I love it when a plan comes together. - George Peppard's Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (obviously referring to ERISA matters)
Great minds think alike . . . or fools rarely differ. - original source unclear, but said to me by a fellow commuter after I uttered the first portion of the foregoing line after noticing our identical briefcases
I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary. - Mena Suvari's Angela Hayes
They're people. They're just people. - Al Pacino's Arthur Kirkland (not to be confused with Charlton Heston's Robert Thorn when he says, "Soylent Green is peeeeeeople")
Get a life (will you, people)! - William Shatner on Saturday Night Live
That man just bumped into me so hard that I think he literally impregnated me . . . literally. - Nicole Sullivan's Judith to Michael Sullivan's Clyde
Only Nixon could go to China. - hilariously claimed by Leonard Nimory's Cap'n Spock to be an old Vuncan proverb
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. . . . How true that is. - Dan Quayle (commenting to a meeting of the United Negro College Fund with the intention of referring to the credo, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.")
I got saved when I was 14 years old. I found Jesus Christ. And then that got put on the back burner. - Hulk Hogan (paraphrased) on The Howard Stern Show
. . . YOU are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. - Philip Stone's Delbert Grady
Darling? Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. . . . I'm just going to bash your brains in. - Jack's Jack ("All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.") Torrance
What's in the box?! - Brad Pitt's Det. Mills (also seen (ha ha) on the Hewlett-Packard shopping website)
Start the reactor! - Marshall Bell's Kuato (George)
It's . . . it's a cookbook! - Susan Cummings' Patty, revealing the secret of Richard Kiel's and other Kanamits
Earmuffs. - Vince Vaughn's Bernard "Beanie" Campbell
Before it smelled like someone puked. Now it smells like someone puked in a gardenia patch. - Kenneth Nelson's Michael, commenting on whether the room deodorant worked
[S]tep up and address the ball: Hello, ball. - Art Carney's Ed Norton teaching golf to Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden
You wearing THAT shirt? - Heidi Swedberg's Susan Biddle Ross to Jason Alexander's George Costanza, after George mistakenly (it turned out) informed her he was ready to go
On the inside. - Bobby Collins' clarification of where his statements are when he's supposedly standing up to his wife
How much denial are you in if you're eating a mini-muffin? "Oh I'm just gonna have like one . . . or 12." - Jim Gaffigan (who also correctly has noted that beds should be made out of bacon)
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down. - an old one-liner
Lawyers: persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief. - Franz Kafka (evidently doing more than thinking about those who wake up as cockroaches)
ERISA been berry, berry good to me. - apologies to Garrett Morris' Chico Escuela
Don't start citing Code sections to me! - said to me in the mid- to late 80s by an IRS agent (name withheld to protect the . . . well, you get it) in connection with the negotiation of a determination letter
I turn to the one where they're screaming the loudest. - a paraphrase from someone explaining to me how he would prioritize his many projects
You'll be playing me. And I'll know it. But that's alright. - a paraphrase from somewone explaining to me how he wants to be handled.
But that's OK, they pay us less. - response from a colleague after it was noted to her how hard she was working
Fish or get off the bait. - a mentor's garbling of the phrase (corrected immediately thereafter to, "fish or get off the pot")
He wears such expensive ties. Well, I do, too, but that's OK - mine are all stained. - a paraphrase from a mentor
Send lawyers, guns and money. The sh** has hit the fan. - Warren Zevon
Am I the only one who hears the screams and the strangled cries of lawyers in love? - Jackson Browne
And give me something to believe in. - Poison
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Oscar Wilde
And that's all I have to say about that. - Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump
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