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[–] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The Silent Generation: "When life hands you lemons... Don't Take the Lemons! GET MAD! Demand life take the lemons back! Ask to see life's manager! Do you know who I am? I'M THE MAN WHOSE GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN. WITH THE LEMONS.

I've tasked the boys down in the lab to assemble some incendiary lemon grenades."

[–] restingboredface 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the only version of this idiom that I will ever use or subscribe to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I like the Bruce Greenwood version from Fall of the House of Usher.

https://youtu.be/rIK-q6JoOeU?si=t8ev4HawXZHGco6y

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this a Cave Johnson quote or am I misremembering

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah more or less, I wrote it down by memory so a few words might be off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Regardless, good quote and good execution :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Their parents and grand parents were literally getting into gunfights over worker's rights.