I says...

8/22/2008 12:36:27 PM

SHUT THE FUCK UP

8/22/2008 12:37:00 PM

Quote :

"SHUT THE FUCK UP"

8/22/2008 12:38:24 PM

You're mean, chembob!

8/22/2008 12:38:33 PM

I'll continue this later.

8/22/2008 12:38:52 PM

I says I don't even like ham!

8/22/2008 12:42:25 PM

tww is not a blog.

8/22/2008 12:47:57 PM

I can't believe I googled this. For all the Simpsons I've watched, I ought to be ashamed.

8/22/2008 12:48:43 PM

tww is whatever gotham needs it to be

8/22/2008 12:49:21 PM

Mr. Joshua

I so laffed

8/22/2008 12:49:59 PM

I'm going to see that movie a fourth time.

8/22/2008 12:53:16 PM

one of my favorite things to say

gg sir

8/22/2008 1:47:05 PM

"I'll finish this later."

and then he listens to Homer

and then he says, again, "So I says to Mabel, I says..."

and they cut away

it's my favorite Simpsons line of all time

second place is "It was finger Ling-Ling good!"

8/22/2008 1:50:33 PM

it's got nothing on Hank Doodle.

8/22/2008 1:52:02 PM

Was this line a reference to any other show or entertainment medium or was it simply an absurd, trivial, tangent within the Simpsons canon?

8/22/2008 2:17:00 PM

it's from gatsby

8/22/2008 2:18:42 PM

The Simpsons writers are literate. How do you like that?

8/22/2008 2:25:37 PM

Quote :

"Bart uses the line "So I says to Mabel, I says" in El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer. What is this in reference to? Some a.t.s. readers have attributed this quote to George Burns and Gracie Allen, as some kind of old vaudeville routine. Others have speculated that it is the type of thing you would hear an old gossipy housewife use on a 1950s sitcom and that Bart's use of it is the joke, much like his use of Cockney phrases or those of an 1890s prospector. Consarnit. One fan reports to have also heard the phrase on a 1995 Monty Python CD-ROM game. But the mystery of the actual reference has been revealed at last - or at least it seems - by a reader named Funkychuck: "It's actually from [the book] The Great Gatsby. The main character meets these two women who are already deep in conversation and the one says 'so I says to Mabel, I says' as he walks in. They have a short, pointless back and forth, the main character leaves, and the lady resumes the conversation with the same line over again. I'm not 100% on this, but I had just read the book when that episode aired and I remember feeling quite smart at having caught such an obscure reference. Unless I'm completely wrong, in which case I can resume feeling stupid. Hope this helps!""

8/22/2008 3:35:01 PM

nice

8/22/2008 3:39:17 PM

Check all the sluts up in this piece.

8/22/2008 4:03:12 PM

It's not in Gatsby
http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/95/t/000858.html

8/22/2008 4:11:40 PM

pwnt, i suppose

but i fucking hate gatsby

so it's no surprise that i didn't know that

8/22/2008 4:17:52 PM

FUCK GATSBY

8/22/2008 4:19:34 PM

the concept of jordan baker and the original cover art are the only redeeming factors of that fucking piece of shit

8/22/2008 4:26:23 PM

8/22/2008 9:11:40 PM

8/25/2008 7:39:04 PM

SHUT THE FUCK UP

8/25/2008 8:18:52 PM