Great one-liners from PF members

[berkeman]

I guess you had to be there...

"I can't yell duck, it's a goose".

 

[berkeman]

Guess you had to be there...

That'll getcha killed... or worse, damage your boat.

 

[Hornbein]

all hell will break lose. But maybe it’s already breaking lose?

If someone can break bad I don't see why they can't break lose.

 

[pinball1970]

If someone can break bad I don't see why they can't break lose.

I never really got the title. Did he have a "breakdown" in the mental health sense? No! He was absolutely coherent, organised and focused. He was also very smart and professional, at every turn.

 

[jbriggs444]

I never really got the title. Did he have a "breakdown" in the mental health sense? No! He was absolutely coherent, organised and focused. He was also very smart and professional, at every turn.

I always took it in the sense of an analogy with the break in a game of pool. You hit the ball, you break the balls and the outcome is good or bad. You got a "good break" or a "bad break".

The show puts on display a sequence of bad breaks. They do not all look terrible. But you know that it is all a downhill slide to disaster. Like a quote from another movie: "The only way to win is not to play".

 

[pinball1970]

I always took it in the sense of an analogy with the break in a game of pool. You hit the ball, you break the balls and the outcome is good or bad. You got a "good break" or a "bad break".

The show puts on display a sequence of bad breaks. They do not all look terrible. But you know that it is all a downhill slide to disaster. Like a quote from another movie: "The only way to win is not to play".

Every break Walter made may have looked like a step back, in fact he was moving forward.
I loved his fatherly attitude to JP.
I know it went west but if you had an errant child, I would want to be that guy.

 

[pbuk]

I never really got the title.

Nor me, although I never let it worry me. It turns out the answer was out there all along:

The show's title is a Southern colloquialism meaning, among other things, "raising hell", and was chosen by Gilligan to describe Walter's transformation. According to Time entertainment editor Lily Rothman, the term has a broader meaning and is an old phrase which "connotes more violence than 'raising hell' does ... [T]he words possess a wide variety of nuances: to 'break bad' can mean to 'go wild', to 'defy authority', and break the law, to be verbally 'combative, belligerent, or threatening' or, followed by the preposition 'on', 'to dominate or humiliate'."

... if only there were some way of searching for information on the internet

 

[Vanadium 50]

FYI, Marius Stan (Bogdan) has a PhD in nuclear chemistry and does nuclear engineering as his "day job".

 

[pinball1970]

Nor me, although I never let it worry me. It turns out the answer was out there all along:

... if only there were some way of searching for information on the internet

I was referring to the phrase as it is. It does not ring a bell with a UK audience.

 

[hmmm27]

I was referring to the phrase as it is. It does not ring a bell with a UK audience.

Nor Canadian, though context makes it clear.

 

[pinball1970]

Nor Canadian, though context makes it clear.

What context? I think Walter broke well, or braked in a unique and innovative, lucrative yet violent way.
Jessie went backwards, the more involved he got the more detached from reality he became.
Walter was trying to protect Jessie in his eyes, just like his family but descended further and further into criminality. I AM THE DANGER!
Jessie began as a criminal but strived to escape early doors.
To become human.
A beautifully complex story and "Breaking bad" did not sum it up for me.

 

[hmmm27]

What context? I think Walter broke well, or braked in a unique and innovative, lucrative yet violent way.
Jessie went backwards, the more involved he got the more detached from reality he became.
Walter was trying to protect Jessie in his eyes, just like his family but descended further and further into criminality. I AM THE DANGER!
Jessie began as a criminal but strived to escape early doors.
To become human.
A beautifully complex story and "Breaking bad" did not sum it up for me.

Never seen it, save for a few YT clips where wossname beats the crap out of some idiot(s).

Along the lines of "breaking news", "breaking surf", "breaking wind", etc.

Guess : you think the title was too generic ? considering the current slew of criminal-POV TV.

 

[Hornbein]

. Like a quote from another movie: "The only way to win is not to play".

I don't know that one. I recall a cinematized gambler saying "You can't win if you don't play." (It was a cameo by the director of the film. I don't remember anything else about it.)

 

[Borg]

It's slightly misquoted from the movie War Games - the only winning move is not to play.

 

[Hornbein]

A two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress must propose a Constitutional amendment. If one party has at least 26% of the votes in either house, they can stop an amendment.

I knew this would happen when kids started relying on calculators.

 

[berkeman]

I took a speed reading class and then was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes.

It's about Russia.

 

[Vanadium 50]

It's not original. I think it might have been Woody Allen.

 

[Bystander]

It's not original. I think it might have been Woody Allen.

Alan King?

 

[Ibix]

If you can read War and Peace in twenty minutes you must have been Russian through it.

 

[hmmm27]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

 

[pinball1970]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

It's Lord of the rings, lots of characters and lots of letters.

 

[hmmm27]

It's Lord of the rings, lots of characters and lots of letters.

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

 

[gmax137]

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

I don't have a copy at hand but I recall the last 200 pages of volume 3 was an Encyclopedia, including who's who and who was who...

 

[hmmm27]

I don't have a copy at hand but I recall the last 200 pages of volume 3 was an Encyclopedia, including who's who and who was who...

Not the most efficient placement, for a first-time reader.

 

[gmax137]

Not the most efficient placement, for a first-time reader.

You're kidding, right? If JRR had put his encyclopedia at the start of volume 1, he would have died and remained forever an unknown obscure academic. One in ten thousand readers would have read past page 25.

 

[hmmm27]

One in ten thousand readers would have read past page 25.

I think I'd have started reading around page 201. I don't recall if I bought all 3 volumes at the same time or no, but I also don't recall thinking "Let me see if there's an encylopaedia built into book 3" (or for that matter the existence of the encyclopaedia, but that was quite awhile ago, and most of what I remember is "Why do all the character/place-names begin with 'G' ?")

 

[strangerep]

"Why do all the character/place-names begin with 'G' ?")

There are plenty that start with F and T also.
Try List of Tolkien Names.

I'm impressed that JRR could keep them sorted in his mind.

 

[pinball1970]

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

Good job you didnt try out the Silmarillion!

 

[pinball1970]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

On the Silmarillion and G, house of Feanor not a G in site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fëanor

 

[hmmm27]

Good job you didnt try out the Silmarillion!

I did... didn't get too far ; again, twelve. I haven't read The Hobbit either, though I imagine it's a comparatively easy read.