Sunday, November 28, 2010

Well?

Not being a cretinous moron, we've never seen "My Cousin Vinny" (We'll admit it: Italian-Americans make us queasy, & that one quarter wop-a-dago in our blood-line is a perpetual embarrassment to us. Jersey Shore, anyone?*) but we would like to know if the line was "fucked-up" or "bullshit."

The PuffHo claims:
"You keep asking these presentist questions Bob. As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in My Cousin Vinny, 'that's a bullshit question!' because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what's happening today."
Yet when we grabbed it from POLITICO, the quote was presented thus:
“You keep asking these presentist questions,” said the Kenyan-born, British-accented historian. “As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in 'My Cousin Vinny,' ‘That’s a f----- up question!'” Morris said, relishing over the word as network censors bleeped him out.
(Is "relishing over" to make it clear he wasn't relishing the word under, sad-ass hack & crummy POLITICO writer Marin Cogan? And a note to the unnamed HuffPo hack: Neither "fucked up" nor "bullshit" are swearing, damn you all to hell!)

Let's go to the videotape & find out. Fun allegedly starts around (10:16).(Blame CBS for the non-performance here. How is it that the adverts always run just fine, but the actual programming is stop & go? Stupid fucking incompetent jerks. May gawd damn CBS's Internet fucks for eternity.)

OK, Morris said "bullshit." Was that the line from the movie? Do we care at this point?

*Could be worse. At least there's no bog-monkey in us.

3 comments:

Morbo said...

According to IMDB the point goes to PuffHo.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Jersey Shore, anyone?

Well, there's Italian-Americans, and there are cafones. I think you're describing cafones here... but the arbiters of pop culture seem to love them.

I haven't seen "My Cousin Vinny" in a long, long time, but Marisa Tomei was perhaps the most outrageously gorgeous thing on the planet when she made the film. Cara mia!

M. Bouffant said...

Hates "White" People Editor Is Now Informed:

Ahh, subcultures. We divide ourselves along different lines here on the Coast W/ The Most. (Do not ask us most what? We dunno.)

Is there a cafone/"Guido" difference, or is that just a technicality/ignorance thing?

IMDb. Right. We use it only to look up "Highway Patrol" episodes, but it may have other uses.