Question of the Day

What object or word or wev that you occasionally or frequently encounter in daily life inescapably invokes for you a movie scene or quote?

Earlier today, I happened to see an abandoned wooden wagon wheel, and every single time I see a wagon wheel, I hear Billy Crystal saying: "THIS STUPID WAGON WHEEL ROY ROGERS GARAGE SALE COFFEE TABLE!" from When Harry Met Sally. It is impossible for me to lay eyes on a wagon wheel without the memory of that line firing off in the recesses of my brain pan.

I know A LOT of people who cannot hear the word "inconceivable" without hearing Wallace Shawn's voice exclaiming "Inconceivable!" or Mandy Patinkin's voice observing: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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