Groucho Marx appreciation thread (30 years gone)

[Bennyboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvz8y_DUSY&NR=1 Hello, I must be Going....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. "Remember, fellows, we're fighting for this woman's honor...

which is a lot more than she ever did."

[Burma Jones]

3. Excuse me while I have a strange interlude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5Wuv1l1aI

[skygazer]

4. I was just thinking about Groucho last night

and remarking that my SO and I ought to have a Marx Brothers film festival.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas, how the elephant

got into my pajamas is anyone's guess.


I'm going to Alabama where the Tusks are Looser

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I don't know what they have to say

It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I'm against it
No matter what it is or who commenced it
I'm against it

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood
Whatever it is, I'm against it
And even when you've changed it or condensed it
I'm against it

I'm opposed to it
On general principles I'm opposed to it

(He's opposed to it
In fact, in word, in deed
He's opposed to it)

For months before my son was born
I used to yell from night till morn
Whatever it is, I'm against it
And I've kept yelling since I first commenced it
I'm against it



"Anything further, father"? That can't be right!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. "Well, you go Uruguay and I'll go mine"

"And remember there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post."

Julius, you gave me my love of language. Thank you.

[Faygo Kid]

8. Whatever It Is, I'm Against It (except for Lydia, oh Lydia)

On her back is the Battle of Waterloo.

Beside it the wreck of the Hesperus, too.

And proudly above waves the Red, White, and Blue,

You can learn a lot from Lydia.

[bridgit]

9. Esther Muir: "Oh, hold me closer! Closer!", Groucho...

"If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you" :spray:

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel.

Well, I'll go further than that. I'll get off at the depot. The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

[CBHagman]

11. "I haven't seen so much mud-slinging since the last election."

Chico: "You leave, it's over my dead body."

Groucho: "Well, that's a very pleasant way to travel."

Groucho fans, you owe it to yourselves to get a copy of The Portable Curmudgeon, which has a section devoted to You-Know-Who (no, not He Who Must Not Be Named!).