"Bill & Ted's" Quotations

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks for reminding me, Bill. i'd forgotten about it. Too bad that it
couldn't have stayed that way! ;-)

Actually, to tell it like it was, after I got out of Fort Leonard Wood
and away from Fort Devens, my years in The War were rather enjyoyable.
"Three hots and a cot and they even give you  clothes," as one version
of the saying goes.

-Wilson

On 10/20/05, Mullins, Bill <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> A common military exhortation is "OUT-standing!" (with a pause between
> syllables, almost as if it were two words), often used when things
> aren't actually outstanding.
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> > B & T use "triumphant" as well. This is unique in my experience.
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> > JL
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> > Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:30:16 -0700, Dave Wilton wrote:
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> > [I wrote:]
> > >> Just had a chance to refamiliarize myself with _B&T_.
> > Interjectional
> > >> "excellent" is used near the beginning of the film,
> > uttered in unison
> > >> by Bill and Ted and accompanied by an air-guitar flourish:
> > >
> > >Yes, but the simple exclamation "excellent!" is neither original to,
> > >nor especially emblematic of the film. "Excellent!" was in my
> > >vocabulary during high school in the late 70s.
> >
> > True, it wasn't original to the movie, but to many fans it
> > was indeed emblematic. See, e.g.:
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> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=excellent-air-guitar
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> >
> > --Ben Zimmer
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-Wilson Gray