Its one of those jokes where having the context before you read it helps a lot, but it is still pretty funny once you look it up and put the whole thing together.
I didn't fall off my chair or anything, but I did get a chuckle out of that. A gilded rhinoceros horn would make an excellent MacGuffin, every bit as good as a microdot, a Maltese Falcon, or battle plans wrapped around three cigars.
I got a sealed envelope marked with a date two weeks in the future, a broken wristwatch and a quarter -- apparently I'll "know what it's for when the time comes." I just wanted a sammich ...
Its one of those jokes where having the context before you read it helps a lot, but it is still pretty funny once you look it up and put the whole thing together.
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Does it come with fries?
ReplyDelete(I know, it was a totally expected and cliche response but it's early yet and dammit, I'm hungry.)
I think you've tamalanched his server into submission. Error 503 awaits....
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ReplyDeleteI didn't fall off my chair or anything, but I did get a chuckle out of that. A gilded rhinoceros horn would make an excellent MacGuffin, every bit as good as a microdot, a Maltese Falcon, or battle plans wrapped around three cigars.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Hitchcock! That man could do more and better with a shadow and minor chords than others could with an entire movie and FX department.
ReplyDeletew/v = tzergerr. Professor Tzergerr had to be protected from the KGB at all costs!
Did a chase scene ensue?
ReplyDeletegvi
Heh!
ReplyDeleteI lol'd. Helps that I'm a tropes wiki addict.
ReplyDeleteWeird. When I ordered it, they gave me a wine bottle filled with black granules.
ReplyDeleteI got a sealed envelope marked with a date two weeks in the future, a broken wristwatch and a quarter -- apparently I'll "know what it's for when the time comes." I just wanted a sammich ...
ReplyDeleteHad a vision of Groucho and Bogart drinking in a dingy corner bar, late on a foggy night....
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