Anyone remember the 1979 movie called THE JERK?

[tuvor]

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Steve Martin?

[gater]

2. "I was born a poor black child..."

[merwin]

9. That's my favorite line of ANY movie ever!

[NightTrain]

3. Fer chrissake, I've encountered freepers with more originality than this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2485107

:eyes:

[tuvor]

6. Hey, being original is hard work!

See? Everything's a recycled cliche.

[gater]

8. Comparing your fellow lefties to freepers? Pistols at dawn sir!

[hollywood926]

4. My mommy took me to see that when I was 13...

and covered my eves when his weiner was sticking out of the bathtub.

Funny movie.

[General Zod]

5. "I was born a poor black child"

Love Steve Martin

[spanone]

7. Navin Johnson....

[seriousstan]

10. Get away from the cans!!

[RoeBear]

17. He hates cans!

Your turn"

"What do you take us for?"

[mondo joe]

11. I don't need anything except this ashtray.

I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need you. I don't need anything except this ashtray.

[gater]

13. "...and this lamp. But that's all I need!"

[notadmblnd]

12. I'm picking out a thermos for you...

no ordinary thermos will do....

The new phone books are here... the new phone books are here.

that guy hates oil cans.

[Kat45]

14. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee outside the shed singing,

"Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton.
Jump down, turn around, pick a bale a day..."

That was the first time I heard that song since first grade! Our first grade teacher used to have us sing it, complete with the motions of jump down, turn around, etc. I almost fell over when they started singing it in the movie. That's when I realized that it must be an old slave song. Pretty weird song to be doing in first grade, doncha think?

[GregD]

20. Brownie's 80th birthday party

I'm in the SF Bay Area and we have a club called Yoshi's. It's in Jack London Square today, but it used to be in north Oakland (or south Berkeley). It was a sushi bar, of all things, that featured Jazz and Blues.

I have a friend named Big Bones (www.bigbonesblues.com) who had a radio program at that time on KPOO, that gave me tickets to Brownie McGee's 80th birthday party at Yoshi's. There were many performers who were each given time for 2 of Sonny & Brownie's songs. What an amazing night.

[PurityOfEssence]

15. Mmmm...cup 'o pizza

Who IS Navin Johnson?

[DainBramaged]

16. The new phone book's here

Priceless.

[StaggerLee]

18. I've heard of this...

CAT JUGGLING!!
:)

[MrSlayer]

19. Bring us some fresh wine from THIS Year!

What's with all this old stuff?