I Drink Your Milkshake!
I Drink Your Milkshake!
#1I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:28am
I don't see myself ever using this phrase. Does that make me un-hip?
Bloggers have been touting the phrase for months, since Blood began screening for critics in early December. Jeff Wells was telling Paramount in early January they ought to use the phrase as a marketing tool, while the New York Magazine Culture Vulture blog wrote a guide to proper usage around the same time. Samples: “Let’s face it. The Celtics drank the Knicks’ milkshake last night.” Or how about, “You best back down before I drink your milkshake, bitch.” I guess that if the Giants had a more decisive Superbowl victory, it could have been a chance to bring the phrase to the masses.
New idiom for 2008
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#2re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:30amclick and read my love.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#3re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:32am
la la la la la Warm it up
la la la la la The boys are waiting
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#4re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:39am
I did. I just don't quite understand why people feel the need to take incomprehensible sayings and turn them into catchphrases.
At least silly catchphrases is days of yore made a bit of sense: Sit on it. Up your nose with a rubber hose. Kiss my grits. Eat my shorts. Talk to the hand.
Those I understood. It's the more recent ones that leave me scratching my head.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:44amHaving not seen the movie may I say that--ahem-- OIL drilling is not really the image this metaphor conjures?
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:48amHate the movie. Hate the phrase.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#7re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:48am
"Did you drink his milkshake last night?"
"Fo sho bra, he. gots. beat!"
I am SO using this phrase.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:54amSee I hear it more like "Maria, she means nothing to me! You know I let just anybody drink my milkshake, but YOU are my baby mama!"
#9re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 12:29pmRobbie, just FYI, Anderson didn't come up with the phrase. He found it in old Congressional testimony of an oil tycoon talking about drainage in oil drilling,
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#10re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 12:32pm
Catchphrases should just happen.
If you talk about it before it truly becomes mainstream, then you have corrupted the process. Thus, catchphrase status is denied.
#11re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 12:32pmAnderson also adds a great tidbit, which is that the phrase came from a real-life Senate hearing, during the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920’s. Senator Albert Fall explained oil drilling in this way, Anderson explained: ”'Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake. I just took this insane concept and used it." Will the transformation of a brilliant epic into a T-shirt-ready catchphrase diminish its accomplishments? Probably not. After all, we say “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” without tarnishing the reputation of The Godfather. The final scene in Blood may go down as more like Scarface’s over-the-top antics than the quiet saga of the Corleones, but for now, shouting the phrase in Daniel Day-Lewis’ booming baritone is just as much fun as watching the scene itself.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 12:33pm
Well...I guess I should say I don't hate the grouping of those particular words together. But to sit through a movie that aggressively annoyed me for 2 hours and 33 minutes to come to the big reveal of "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE" just ticked me off more than you can ever know.
#13re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 12:34pmIt's certainly no "you sunk my battleship."
Chevstriss
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/03
#14re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:00pm
the image it brings to mind is someone stealing private time w/ my wetnurse
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#15re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:09pmand I thought it was something involving Harris' cows.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#16re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:30pmUgh, I heard this on election coverage last night. I'm losing hope in humanity.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#17re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:39pmMy milkshake has always brought the boys to my yard.
#18re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:40pmDamn you, theatrediva! I was just about to go there!
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#19re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:41pm
um, I already brought it there the third comment!
You Milkshake Chuggers!
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:54pm
I didn't get Mateo's reference either.
Like, I really know that song... *eye roll*
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#22re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:55pmLOL, you bitches!
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#23re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 2:05pm
I have never been so bored with a movie in my entire life. It was
painful to sit through. If I had known that it wasn't going to get any better, I'd have walked out after the first hour -- and I NEVER do that.
Weird phrase. It seemed too contemporary/bizarre in the movie (even though logically, I know it was valid), so I guess it makes sense that it's caught on.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#24re: I Drink Your Milkshake!
Posted: 2/6/08 at 2:05pm
Hell, I'm over 40 and would be rather embarrassed if I knew the words.
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