Quote of the Day, 12/23/06: A Christmas Story

This 1983 movie became an instant Christmas classic, at least in my family. Here are just a few of the many great lines from A Christmas Story.

I have since heard of people under extreme duress speaking in strange tongues. I became conscious that a steady torrent of obscenities and swearing of all kinds was pouring out of me as I screamed.
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Ralphie: I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

Santa: You'll shoot your eye out kid.
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In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
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Schwartz: I double-DOG-dare ya!

Narrator: NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare ya"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.

Schwartz: I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!

Narrator: Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!
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Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue steel beauty. The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive. Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pringing ducks on the wing and getting off spectacular hip shots.