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Old 08-12-15, 12:13 PM
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"Can you dig it?

"Coffee is for closers."

"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
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"Can you dig it?

"Coffee is for closers."

"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
"Can you dig it" came from a popular song back in the '60s but I can't remember which one. Then I heard it in Billy Crystal's Louis Armstrong sketch on SNL. ("Can you dig it? I knew that you could.") Did a movie use it, too? If so, which one?
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
"Can you dig it" came from a popular song back in the '60s but I can't remember which one. Then I heard it in Billy Crystal's Louis Armstrong sketch on SNL. ("Can you dig it? I knew that you could.") Did a movie use it, too? If so, which one?
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcc2ltIjNU0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The only song I know of to use the phrase came form the '90s, and it was named after the line from the movie, which was heavily sampled in it.
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
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The only song I know of to use the phrase came form the '90s, and it was named after the line from the movie, which was heavily sampled in it.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q429AOpL_ds" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
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"Can you dig it" came from a popular song back in the '60s but I can't remember which one.
You might be thinking of Grazing in the Grass by The Friends of Distinction - 1968.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2UhResTVZ6s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I know the expression itself goes back farther than that, maybe the 1930's.
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
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You might be thinking of Grazing in the Grass by The Friends of Distinction - 1968.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2UhResTVZ6s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I know the expression itself goes back farther than that, maybe the 1930's.
Yeah! "Grazing in the Grass / it's a gas / can you dig it."
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcc2ltIjNU0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The only song I know of to use the phrase came form the '90s, and it was named after the line from the movie, which was heavily sampled in it.
'89, if this is what you're thinking of:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/36nWNAvtwrw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

(Always liked this one better, actually ) :


Spoiler:

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"Be afraid...be very afraid" definitely fits the criteria. Can any of you even name what movie it came from?
Addams Family Values

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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
"Can you dig it" came from a popular song back in the '60s but I can't remember which one. Then I heard it in Billy Crystal's Louis Armstrong sketch on SNL. ("Can you dig it? I knew that you could.") Did a movie use it, too? If so, which one?
In Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta and his friends say it after they make a girl think that they jumped off a bridge.
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
"Can you dig it?

"Coffee is for closers."

"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
The second one is a good one.
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You don't understand the thread.
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You don't understand the thread.
I think there's a lot of people in here that don't understand the thread!
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Pretty sure it all started after the first post
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Pretty depressing article about how forgotten CASABLANCA is these days:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/....html#comments
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Re: Movie lines that have become idiomatic phrases so common...
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Pretty depressing article about how forgotten CASABLANCA is these days:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/....html#comments
Pop culture doesn't always stay relevant. Get over it. Bitch bitch bitch.
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What movie is that from?
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Park it yourself, Metallica-breath.
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