I frequently find myself saying this to people (even including my daughter when she say doesn't cry when you change her nappy).

But I can't remember where it comes from, and it's so often re/mis-quoted that a google search was useless.

So does anyone know where it originally came from, or even a more popular iteration which might be where I know it from.

Ta

Matt

This is just a wild stab, Matt, but how about Billy Crystal in 'City Slickers' ?

Good luck with your search, anyway

I think David might have hit it...though it might be City Slickers 2. I think Billy Crystal says it of "Curly."

Could have an earlier source though.

I take it back. For him to say it in City Slickers II would be too literal and unfunny.

Maybe Bill Murray said it to the possessed Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters?

Thanks guys,

The fact that all of those are sort of comedies suggests they are spoofing something earlier I reckon.

Anyone else know what?

Matt

PS - I have found it was used in Red Dwarf once, which means that's probably where I got it from, but I still wonder what it spoofs.

You're welcome.

I wonder if it was something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?


( I've just checked the IMDB notes for the 1956 version, though, and the lines aren't cited as a quotation.. )

I actually first coined this expression sometime in 1983. It's amazing how these things get around.