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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 2:45PM

Great American Debate Questions

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I have assembled some of the great questions of American history, questions which we have pondered through the generations, and humbly submit them as potential questions in the upcoming debates. Extra points if you can match the questions to the great Americans who first posed them:

1. "What do you hear? What do you say?"

2. "Have you ever been stung by a dead bee?"

3. "Of all the gin joints in all the world, why did she have to come into mine?"

4. " Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?"

5. "What's your angle sister? What bank do you want me to stick up? Who do you want killed? and what do you want me to do first?"

6. "You know how to whistle don't you?"

7. "Who's on First?"

8 . " That would be a terrible job to tackle. Just how would you cut up a human body?"

9 "Are you with us, or Agin us?"

10. Who's on First?"

11. "Whats de Matter U?"

12. "I'm suppossed to spend half my life in church hearing how I'm going to go to hell?"

13. "Can you spare a fellow American a dime?"

14. Well if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what can you believe?"

15.  What? Me worry?"

16. "Yes, how many years can some people exist, Before they're allowed to be free?"

17. "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"

18.  "Aren't I a man and your brother?"

19. "Do you know what an Abomb is?"

20.  and, for me, the definitive American question. "What's up, Doc?"

 

 

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That's such a tough list I ain't even going to try... I'd be lucky to get ten or twelve right... evil post my friend, evil ;-)
i'll post them tomorrow unless I forjget. you have seen into my soul jmac. "I have seen the enemy and they are us".
1. Cagney 3. Bogey 6. Bacall 7. A & C 9. Ditto 10. Ditto

11. Chico 15. AEN 16. Dylan 20. Bugs

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excellent Jonathan: 1.Cagney "Angels with Dirty Faces", 2. Walter Brennan " To Have and to Have Not" (also Bacall later in same film) 3. Bogart "Casablanca" -not exact I was working from memory 4. Homer Simpson 5. Jimmy Cagney "Roaring Twenties" 6. Bacall "To Have and to Have Not" 7. Abbot and Costello 8. Jimmy Stewart "Rear Window" 9. I though Sergeant York but turns out a classic Americana Line possibly first recorded when townspeople of Frederick Virginia confronted the relocated Yankee store Owner Frank Stralman regarding secession. 10.errata , my apologies 11. Chico Marx 12. Homer Simpson 13. Humphrey Bogart "High Sierra" 14. Bullwinkle Moose 15. Alfred E. Newman 16. Bob Dylan 17. I have drawn a complete blank 18. classic Abolitionist quote most famous for the Wedgewood plate 19. Rocky Squirrel- Bullwinkle's reply "Most people think this show is one. 20. Bugs Bunny. sorry about number 17, its such a great debate question, i can't picture the scene