O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[Edward]

Reminds me of a running joke I can remember with my grandmother as far back as.... well, as far back as I can remember, to the end of her life. Any gift would be presented with the comment "that's not out of Woolworth's, you know". It's been carried on since she died in 2005, even after the store disappeared. I don't even know the origin (I think it *might* have been something my dad or aunt said as a kid, in all seriousness - I must ask them), but it was a standard, the joke being, essentially, "I spent real money on that!".

 

[MisterCairo]

Pete:
"I had TWO WEEKS left on my sentence!"
"They ADDED fifty YEARS to my sentence! I won't get out till, 19.... 87! I'll be 84 years old!"

Delmar:
"Well I guess they'll add fifty years to my sentence too. But hey, I'll only be 82!"

 

[MisterCairo]

Delmar O'Donnell: You work for the railroad, Grampa?
Blind Seer: I work for no man.
Delmar O'Donnell: Got a name, do you?
Blind Seer: I have no name.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, that right there may be the reason you've had difficulty findin' gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce...
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/?qt0404018

 

[Haversack]

Being a fan of the works of writer/director Preston Sturges, I really enjoyed the Coen Bros. OBWAT, (book by Sinclair Beckstein). It was a little awkward watching it in the theatre for the first time. I found myself laughing at odd moments at all of the visual quotes from Sturges' Sullivan's Travels.

 

[DNO]

That's it...I'm digging my copy out of my basement and popping it into the DVD player. Suffering from O Brother withdrawal.

 

[Rats Riley]

The other day we were eating a pot roast and one of my little monsters said, "It must be some kind of congregation... Care for some gopher?" Excellent!

 

[MisterCairo]

That's it...I'm digging my copy out of my basement and popping it into the DVD player. Suffering from O Brother withdrawal.

You keep it in the BASEMENT! I keep mine in a roll-top desk!

 

[conrad5157]

What's interesting is there were performers in Country and Western music from the '30's thru the '50's with no more unusual names than the "Soggy Bottom Boys". Names like "The Trough Sloppers", "The Fruit Jar Drinkers", "Roy Acuff and his Crazy Tenneseeans"," Arky the Arkansas Wood Chopper", and the list goes on.

And my all time favorite "The Skillet Lickers".

 

[DNO]

You keep it in the BASEMENT! I keep mine in a roll-top desk!

Don't want it floating away if there's a flood!

 

[DanielJones]

My favorite Everett line & I paraphrase it liberally.

"You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers."

Now I'm going to have to dig out my copy soon for a viewing.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Rats Riley]

Hold it right cha'r!

You men from the bank?

You Wash's boy?

Yes sir! Papa told me I could shoot whose ever from the bank!

Well we ain't from the bank young fella...

Yes sir! Papa told me I could als'a shoot anyone serving papers!

Well we ain't got no papers neither....

I nicked a census man!

Now there's a good boy... ahm...is your daddy around?

 

[MisterCairo]

"Well, it didn't look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly."

 

[DNO]

"I seen 'em first!"

 

[MisterCairo]

Sad news about Daniel von Bargen, who played Sheriff Cooley (i.e. "The Devil") in OBWAT. He's a diabetic, and attempted suicide recently. Let's hope he recovers, physically, mentally and spiritually:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-actor-critical-condition-shooting-head.html

 

[MisterCairo]

"I seen 'em first!"

I seen 'em too! So, which one is your favourite???

 

[Feraud]

Sad news about Daniel von Bargen, who played Sheriff Cooley (i.e. "The Devil") in OBWAT. He's a diabetic, and attempted suicide recently. Let's hope he recovers, physically, mentally and spiritually:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-actor-critical-condition-shooting-head.html

That is unfortunate news. He is quite the character actor.

 

[AmateisGal]

This was on AMC the other night. Of course, I watched it again...

 

[DNO]

I seen 'em too! So, which one is your favourite???

Musetta Vander...now there's a siren!

Awful news about Daniel von Bargen.

 

[MisterCairo]

Musetta Vander...now there's a siren!

Awful news about Daniel von Bargen.

Agreed on both points...

 

[Chaps]

"He's bonafide"