Remember my brother’s contest here to come up with favorite movie lines he could carve into signs? Well, he’s picked two of mine so far. Not, of course, that it will do me a bit of good as he’s sheltering-in-place in California, and I’m under lockdown on a tiny island that hasn’t seen passenger ferry service for going on three months.
Instead, his neighbors get to enjoy the signs. [All sign photos shown are © Terry Figel, 2020]
But it did get me thinking about how movie classics from BC (Before Covid) would change if they could be made (in a responsible, socially distant, and completely safe way of course) now?
Here are some thoughts, accompanied by my brother’s signs (if completed yet).
[image credit: the brilliant Danielle Guenther says it all. No, seriously. You’ve got to look here. ]
“I’m just a girl, standing 6 feet away from a boy. Asking him to maybe move back another foot. Thanks.” #SocialDistancingPickUpLines pic.twitter.com/IV7lT1Nnl3
— Hollywood Exposed (@AndstuffL) March 19, 2020
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Barb Taub 
I love these so much! especially the Clint Eastwood one, made me spit my coffee
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I’m really really sorry about the coffee. I owe you a cup. If I ever get off this island, of course.
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or I’ll come and see you there if you make me a cup of island coffee.
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Deal! They say we should have ferry service by mid-August. Maybe…
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Excellent news
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Love the Dirty Harry one… Here are a couple from one classic movie – “Here’s looking at you from six feet away, kid” and “We might not be able to leave the house now, but we’ll always have Paris”. OK, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine without a mask.”
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Haha! I would ABSOLUTELY award you this sign!
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I’ll come right over and pick it up. Hmm, on second thought, maybe not – it might be a long swim.
The signs are great
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The man not in the iron mask ( everybody is ).
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Did you ever think you’d see the day where you’re afraid of the man NOT in the mask?
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Loved all the signs. Your brother is quite talented as well. 😉 I cannot imagine being trapped on an island for so long. But then…we are all trapped behind the mask. ;(
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Our little group here on Arran has made over 1600 facemasks. I’m SO over facemasks…
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It would be wonderful to get to the point of not needing them again but there is no cure for stupid and it’s rampant here. ;(
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good stock of toilette paper, must be in want of a wife.”
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Especially if she brings a hope chest full of hand sanitizer!
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Those signs are cool. Your brother has some talent there. But I think the contest is rigged. His family members, anyone who works for your brother, and their family members should be barred from the contest. I find it a bit suspicious that he picked TWO of yours. Just sayin’. (And sayin’ you can’t get the prize because you’re too far away, and virus, and islands, and blah, blah, blah, doesn’t wash with me either.)
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See, that’s the really great thing about having a family bigger than some countries. We don’t need to let anyone else into our contests. And we can make up ALL the rules. In my brother’s case, all he has to do is bring on his secret weapons—two of the cutest 10-year-olds on the planet—and we’re helpless to disagree with anything they say.
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These are great, Barb. Kudos to your brother!
Even Kansas isn’t in Kansas any more. 🙀. Hugs on the wing!
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By the pricking of my thumbs, masked and fitted this way comes. (I tried. But my PPDs got in the way. 😉 )
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Some of my favorite movies/quotes too (nice to see Monty Python And The Holy Grail featured) and wonderfully created as signs. There must be a huge global market to make and sell these.
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Naturally, I can’t limit myself to having only a single favorite. But the first to pop into my head upon seeing this post comes from the Deli scene in When Harry Met Sally. “I’ll have what she’s having.” 🤣
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One of my favorite scenes EVER. (That was the director’s mom, BTW)
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Absolutely and she certainly stole the scene. Another quote from a film that has become a favorite is from The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. “Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse. Seeking to find those old familiar faces.” – Charles Lamb
BTW, it has reshaped my summer reading as I dive into the works of Charles and Mary Lamb.
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