It never fails. Every time I see Jaws I go around talking like Quint for a few days. This morning I woke up and nudged the cat, who was quietly snoozing at the foot of the bed.
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women," I told Abbie in a voice not entirely unlike that of Robert Shaw's1.
"Mrp?" Abbie said, then put a paw over his head and went back to sleep.
"Bad fish," I later told Martha as I was getting ready to leave. "Not like goin' down the pond and chasin' bluegills and tommycocks. This shark'll swallow you whole. No shakin, no tenderizin. Down you go." Martha blinked, then ran away before I could tell her that I wasn't going to stand there and watch that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock. (Quint doesn't say that one, no, but it's one of those lines that sticks in your head like a marlinspike.)
By the way, under the cut I'm going to make two assumptions: One, that you've already seen Jaws and know all about the good scary bits or that you haven't and don't care if I talk about 'em, and two, that you've either already seen Spielberg's War Of The Worlds or you don't care. Or you saw it and you still don't care. Okay.
( Hooray for Jaws! )
1. My voice is not unlike Robert Shaw. I mean, it's less unlike Robert Shaw that it is unlike Shelley Winters, at least.
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women," I told Abbie in a voice not entirely unlike that of Robert Shaw's1.
"Mrp?" Abbie said, then put a paw over his head and went back to sleep.
"Bad fish," I later told Martha as I was getting ready to leave. "Not like goin' down the pond and chasin' bluegills and tommycocks. This shark'll swallow you whole. No shakin, no tenderizin. Down you go." Martha blinked, then ran away before I could tell her that I wasn't going to stand there and watch that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock. (Quint doesn't say that one, no, but it's one of those lines that sticks in your head like a marlinspike.)
By the way, under the cut I'm going to make two assumptions: One, that you've already seen Jaws and know all about the good scary bits or that you haven't and don't care if I talk about 'em, and two, that you've either already seen Spielberg's War Of The Worlds or you don't care. Or you saw it and you still don't care. Okay.
( Hooray for Jaws! )
1. My voice is not unlike Robert Shaw. I mean, it's less unlike Robert Shaw that it is unlike Shelley Winters, at least.
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