I learned a meme today from Prof. Brendan Riley called troll quotes. He explains it requires “1. a well-known quote with 2. a false attribution from an equally well known person and 3. the wrong picture.” Here’s his favorite example, which I love too, but I had to contribute to the lore myself.
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A great line from the movie Network.
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I like this.
Hilarious.
Very nice! And charmingly obscure. 😀
I see that I misspelled Niagara. I’m not sure I’m going to change it though. The context seems to support such a misspelling.
Network, eh? Right.
“Slowly I turned …” was an attributionless quote I have heard since childhood. I finally found an old radio show that used it (the speaker kept getting interrupted, and had to go back to the start of his story each time) but I have no idea if even that is the true source of this particular meme.
It’s an old vaudeville bit; several acts performed it. I first heard it in a Three Stooges short (“Gents Without Cents”), but Abbott and Costello did it as well (in “Lost in a Harem”), where the magic word was Pokomoko instead of Niagara Falls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGK8TdlXf8).
Yes, I remember it from the Three Stooges, but it’s an old vaudeville act, like you said, so many people have done it.