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- From: a0s5108@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly)
- Subject: Re: High Explosives Quote Results=Frustration--Help!
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:20:33 GMT
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- In article <1648@hydra.bucknell.edu> norbeck@castor.cs.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93) writes:
- >
- >
- >Anyway, in case this might strike someone as being familiar, here
- >is the quote again:
- >
- > "There are very few personal problems that can't be solved
- > with a suitable application of high explosives."
- >
- >The contestants for the origin of the quote are as follows:
- >
- >Apocalypse Now
- >Uncommon Valor
- >Monty Python's Flying Circus
- >Heathers
- >A few authors (no specific books as far as I can recall) such as
- > Martin Amis
- >
- >
- >Could anyone tell me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, where this quote
- >is from? Choice is wonderful, but this is a little ridiculous..
- >
- >Thanks..
- >
- >Nancy
- >
-
- I cannot speak to the quotes inclusion in the other films mentioned, but it
- is most definitely in Uncommon Valor, or at least the VHS copy I rented last
- night. Got curious myself, and found a movie with someone my wife doesn't
- mind watching (Swayze) so we rented it. Blaster delivers the line during
- the teams re-training session. It's delivered in a Fred Rogers kind of
- tone that had me ROTFL.
-
- Hope it helps...
-
- -Neal
-
- "It's a hand grenade..." -Frankenstien, _Death Race 2000_
-