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| 934.1 | SNL | XANADU::RECKARD | Jon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63 | Mon Dec 02 1991 09:05 | 17 |
| The only Saturday Night Live (American TV show) I've seen in ten years
or so (a repeat) contained a sketch done by Billy Crystal and Martin
Short(?). They chat back and forth about things that have happened to
them recently. One example (not *remotely* a quote):
C: and when the sink stopped up and I tried to remove the faucet with
one of those ... uhh ...
S: Reverse-polarity cord-less left-handed flange lifters.
C: Yeah, that's it! And the faucet comes off and water's going
everywhere and I try to stop the water with my tongue and it gets
stuck and I try to pull it out and it rips apart and I try to stop
the bleeding with some pliers and I have to go the hospital ...
S: Don't you hate it when that happens?
{repeat with minor alterations ad infinitum}
I don't know who "coined" it, but I'd guess it was on that show - that
would-be paragon of comedic-phrase-coinage.
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| 934.2 | nit: no "it" | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Mon Dec 02 1991 11:44 | 1 |
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| 934.3 | n | POWDML::SATOW | | Mon Dec 02 1991 12:29 | 8 |
| re: .2
Is this some kinda word puzzle?
nit: no "it" = n
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| 934.4 | re .3 re .2 (good grief) | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Mon Dec 02 1991 13:11 | 17 |
| *Sigh*
> re: .2
> Is this some kinda word puzzle?
> nit: no "it" = n
I thought I could say it all in the caption.
People are quoting the phrase as "I hate it when that happens".
^^
The NIT that I'm picking is: there's no "it" in the (SNL) phrase.
^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^
Sheesh, I shoulda stood in bed (kinda)!
Leslie
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| 934.5 | | POWDML::SATOW | | Mon Dec 02 1991 19:21 | 15 |
| > I thought I could say it all in the caption.
> People are quoting the phrase as "I hate it when that happens".
^^
> The NIT that I'm picking is: there's no "it" in the (SNL) phrase.
^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^
> Sheesh, I shoulda stood in bed (kinda)!
> Leslie
I knew it all along. Forgot the smiley face. I hate it when that happens.
Whoops! I hate when that happens.
;^)
Clay
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| 934.6 | OK kiddies, kiss & make up... :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially Sage, and Rarely On Time | Mon Dec 02 1991 19:56 | 18 |
| And as long as we're pickin nits, the following excerpt from .5 has a
coupla ripe ones...
===== begin nitridden text =====
> I thought I could say it all in the caption.
> People are quoting the phrase as "I hate it when that happens".
^^
> The NIT that I'm picking is: there's no "it" in the (SNL) phrase.
^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^
===== end nitridden text =====
In Fewcha, please add an extra space to the two lines containing ^s to
compensate for your quote-indicating >s on the preceding lines.
ThankYewVeryMuch!!
Gee, that felt GREAT. I love when that happens!! :-)
/s/ a virtual fan of SNL, 'twould seem... Pity I didn't have a VCR in
the good old days...
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| 934.7 | Getting it right | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Tue Dec 03 1991 04:16 | 5 |
| Maybe the intrusive `it' comes from over here. There's a fairly current
series of ads in the UK that all end with the line `Don't you just hate
it when that happens?'
b
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| 934.8 | | SMAUG::MILLER | Valerie Miller | Tue Dec 03 1991 07:39 | 22 |
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I've heard this phrase (and the related "don't you just hate [it] when
that happens?") mostly in situations where a person is either
describing an absurd, low-probability event that did in fact happen, or
is going crazy worrying about a nearly impossibly scenario, e.g.
person A: I just know that on the way home from work today, the car
will break down in the middle of the highway, I'll have
to hike 10 miles to find a phone, the tow truck will take
2 hours to get there, I won't have enough money anyway,
and I won't get home until next week!
person B: Don't you just hate it when that happens? (laughing)
The humor seems to be in the fact that the event in question does not
in fact ever (or very often) happen, and the phrase implies that it
happens often -- pointing out to the person that the event they fear is
rare although they are acting as if it is common.
[BTW: I have heard the phrase both with the "it" and without.]
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| 934.9 | | POWDML::COHEN_R | | Tue Dec 03 1991 08:20 | 14 |
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Re: Leslie
Virgo to Virgo -- you are correct.
"I hate when that happens."
"I know what ya mean."
This is the proper sequence from SNL to the best of my
recollection.
Ralph
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| 934.10 | | MICKY::SIMPSON | | Wed Dec 18 1991 03:51 | 2 |
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And I thought that the SOAPBOX was the bastion of mindless drivel�!!!!
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| 934.11 | Not anymore... WELCOME, Sir Simp! :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | (-: Celebraturi Te Salutamus! :-) | Wed Dec 18 1991 10:12 | 1 |
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| 934.12 | | MICKY::SIMPSON | | Thu Dec 19 1991 04:50 | 2 |
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At last I've found a sanctuary for my mindless drivel.
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| 934.13 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Thu Dec 19 1991 07:48 | 1 |
| Welcome to the club.
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| 934.14 | | MICKY::SIMPSON | | Tue Dec 24 1991 02:46 | 6 |
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It is so nice to be welcomed in this chummy notes file. Not like them
cretins in Soapbox. All they ever do is have a go at people.....
It's nice to know that there is like minded morons who can indulge
themselves with a diet of twaddle, drivel and bullsheet.
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| 934.15 | | MR4DEC::EGRACE | bounce! bounce! bounce! *DENT*! | Thu Dec 26 1991 09:13 | 9 |
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>...All they ever do is have a go at people.....
I hate it when that happens.
E Grace
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| 934.16 | Before SNL | EXCENT::CALLAHAN | | Wed Jan 22 1992 11:13 | 8 |
| This goes back much further than SNL. I recall it being a standard joke on
Jack Benny TV shows.
- Jack does some careless thing that, through a series of improbable
coincidences, immediately has disastrous consequences.
- Jack says "I hate it ...", implying that this isn't the first time.
Joe
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| 934.17 | two years later..... | CALS::GELINEAU | | Thu Dec 23 1993 07:37 | 10 |
| re: .1
It was Christopher Guest (a.k.a. Mr.Jamie Lee Curtis) who appeared in the
"hate when that happens/know what you mean" sketches with Billy Crystal.
You can find Mr. Guest playing the six-fingered man in "The Princess Bride"
and Nigel in "This is Spinal Tap".
--angela
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