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Angry Staff Officer

15 Feb, 26 tweets, 8 min read

It's time!!

#HATM

Weirdly enough, I read this book before I saw the movie. And it's one of the rare cases where the movie and book are both excellent, but for different reasons

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"Unemployed! In Greenland!"

The battlecry of a generation
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Has anyone done a nautical study on the prevailing winds near the Cliffs of Insanity that permitted the Man in Black to close in so quickly? Perhaps he was able to hold closer to the wind. A pirate AND a master mariner

#HATM

"move the thing! And the other thing!" is also the only thing I can say on a sailing ship. Technical nautical terms learned from Master and Commander leave my mind as soon as there is a requirement to do anything.

#HATM

"People in masks can not be trusted"

Whoooo boy, who ever thought that would come to have such a sinister meaning someday

#HATM

I'm with Inigo, I also hate waiting

#HATM

Every single bit of casting in this is absolutely perfect

If anyone tried to remake it, we must unite and destroy them

#HATM

"get used to disappointment"

This movie is filled with some of the best life lessons
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"I don't even exercise"

Fezzik is so wise. So very, very wise

#HATM

Vizzini is like every philosophy grad student who thinks they're being a gadfly and logical genius

#HATM

"what in the world can that be!"

Is also how fool small children into momentarily doing something else

It also, does not work

#HATM

"life is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling something"

Also, excellent life advice

#HATM

@mulaney

Due to this scene, I lived much of my childhood in fear of quicksand

As @mulaney has pointed out, it proved to be much less of a bother than I expected
#HATM

Humperdinck, such a bro douche. "May I never hunt again!"

#HATM

Christopher Guest can play anyone and anything. I'm convinced of it. His range is 360 degrees.

#HATM

"if you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything"

I say this to people, often

That so many don't know what I'm saying gives me great sadness

#hatm

Get you someone who looks at you the way Inigo looks at Fezzik

#HATM

Nearly every single one of Miracle Max's lines are completely quotable in their own right

How many characters can you say that about?
#HATM

I want positive and supportive friends like Fezzik

"You just wiggled your finger, that's wonderful!"

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Can we go back to where we learned that Count Ruegen's first name is Tyrone?

Kills me every time

#HATM

Sometimes, when we're in an hours long briefing, I want to respond "To the pain!" when someone asks how much more there is to cover

Because that's what it feels like

#HATM

"miserable vomitous mass" is one of the greatest insults in history

#HATM

Oh, Andre the Giant. He was so wonderful.

Gone far too soon

#HATM

Grandpa saying "okay, okay, okay, alright. Shalom" here reminds me of my own Jewish grandpa so much

He would literally do that, even on the phone

Makes me miss him even more

#HATM

@HerbertHistory

Oh man. I needed to watch that. Like a palate cleanser for the year

Thanks so much to @HerbertHistory for setting this up! Great "Historians at the Movies" choice for today!

#HATM

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