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Published: 2008-04-11 17:00:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1379; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 3
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Some of history's most famous one-liners are about to be exposed as inventions by other writers with plenty of time to hone their prose. Hundreds of pithy remarks from "Let them eat cake" to "Elementary, my dear Watson", turn out to be adaptations of comments that were more clumsy or more boring - or which were never said by those thought to have coined them.The list includes many supposedly historical lines, such as Napoleon's "Not tonight Josephine", but also covers modern icons including Star Trek. No one ever said "Beam me up Scotty", and Mr Spock never said "It's life Jim, but not as we know it."
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I thought the line was "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
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Case in point: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
Original line: "We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
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Ha, that's neat. But they're wearing a red shirt!
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haha nice.. i noticed the referance right away to star trek and how it was never said... nice piece here
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