Slowly I turn... step by step... inch by inch..

[Gothic Sponge]

Towards madness! I'm sorry to be a killjoy, but i can't wait for Christmas to be over.

[flamingyouth]

1. I can't wait either

I am exhausted. I hope I can even stay up to watch "Desperate Housewives" tonight. Last night I fell asleep on the couch - I don't even know when. These retail hours are a killer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Isn't that a line from

Firesign Theater?

[Sanity Claws]

3. I remember it from the Three Stooges

Moe did it but he seemed to be tapping into something people knew at the time.

[Gothic Sponge]

4. I'm not even sure of it's origin.

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Yes,

I believe it is The 3 Stooges

How quickly I forget.

[hickman1937]

5. Three Stooges

I can't remember the word that set them off though. I think it was a city name.

[mcscajun]

7. NI-ag-a-ra Falls! Slowly I turned...

Inch by inch...step by step...

The Stooges did it, Abbott & Costello did it...it's an old vaudeville routine.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Aha

I knew it didn't originate with the Stooges.
Well, it's still stupid, no matter where it originated.

[BlueJazz]

9. Here>>>>

: : : It's from a Three Stooges movie, "Gents Without Cents" made in 1944. Curly says
"Niagra Falls" and Moe (who was under some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion? I don't
remember) turns on him and launches into the speech. (I dunno. Seemed funny when I was
a kid.) See www.imdb.com for good sources of movie quotes, trivia, etc.

[mcscajun]

12. Also in 1944, Abbott & Costello in "Lost in a Harem"

only when they did it in that film, they used "Pokomo" in place of "Niagara Falls."

[baldguy]

8. NIAGARA FALLS!

[Gothic Sponge]

11. Slowly I turn... step by step... inch by inch..

;)

[starroute]

13. Constantinople!

Memory insists that the original trigger word back in the vaudeville days was "Constantinople."

Of course, I only know this from seeing a recreation of the act on tv when I was a kid, but I'm still sure it predates the Three Stooges version.

[CatBoreal]

14. I am so totally with you.....

5 days with my Monster-in-Law and my Freeper-in-Law is going to drive me MAD! MAD I TELL YOU!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!