Banter lines

[mysterygal]

What are some of your favorite banter lines? Phrases we use to tease guys or girls? Here are a couple of my favorite lines...
'you don't get out much, do you?'
'you're cute, like my little brother'

 

[Andykev]

I am past bantering other than with my wife.

What possible "banter" line can a man use, approaching 50, married for 16 years use? "Honey, do these pants make me look fat?" "No dear, you look as beautiful as the day I met you". "You never listen"! "You know honey, you're absolutely right".

When I "banter or tease" the young twenty something at the coffee shop, my wife knowingly wispers in my ear "You are old enough to be her father".lol

 

[Paisley]

To my best friend: "All right, Elaine," in reference to Seinfeld.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"It must be hard on your mother, not having any kids..."

(Appropriated from Ginger Rogers in '42nd Street')

 

[Andykev]

Ok here is one..

I sometimes do this: pull out a coin from my pocket..

"Here's a quarter. Call someone who cares".

I know, it's mean. But it is reserved for special circumstances, and special "Jerks".

 

[The Bingstress]

Clever quips

Now that I've lived in Texas for nearly three years, I have picked up the saying from my husband Craig, "I tell you what!"

It doesn't translate that well here, but when said with the right intonation, it can mean anything from, "You moron" to "I was just about to smack someone." It's a great exclamation for any occasion.

I also heard a funny one in a classic film a couple weeks back: "You're just a loud noise on two legs." Not sure the name of the movie -- it was black and white and from the late 30s/early 40s. Really cute comedy with a happless, Harold Lloyd-like leading man. Those classic films are the ultimate resource for clever banter.

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[Lauren]

Anything from The Thin Man.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" Gets a laugh every time. lol

 

[Hannigan Reilly]

"Sell Crazy somewhere else!"

Bingstress, I know just what you mean.
I also picked up "I Tell you What" from a Bill Murray appearance on Letterman years ago. It's about all he said anytime Dave asked him a question. It was hilarious.

Dave: "So you got a new movie coming out, right?"
Bill, nodding and drawling: "I tell you WHAT."

And any one liners from Fargo, Raising Arizona, and Full Metal Jacket.

 

[Novella]

Anything from The Thin Man.

Definitely!

 

[WEEGEE]

A few years ago

I was out with my wife and some friends at a local watering hole.


This guy was being through words and actions very disrespectful to

the woman he was with...so i told him so and to please stop.

Well next thing you know he wants to take it outside.

I just looked him deep in the eyes and said so calmly and direct "Man you got nice hair"

He blew a fuse turned and ran from the bar.


On the other hand from the television show Twinpeaks

Man- When did you start smoking

Women-When i got tense

Man-When did you get tense

Women-When i started smoking

 

[scotrace]

Two very quotable films

"you're eighty? Man that's really.... old."
"You should meet my father."
"Your father's still alive?!!"
"No. But you should meet him."

On Golden Pond​

"If you and your undershirt would take two paces backward, I could enter this dwelling."

"May I please have some aspirins? You'll find them in the medicine cabinet, behind the untouched can of shaving cream."

"What should I wear?"
"Steal something casual."

All from Arthur​

 

[scotrace]

And since I don't really understand the original question

The other response I thought of. My very favorite "line:"





"C'mere..."

 

[photobyalan]

I have to admit, I stole this from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Any time someone tells me that something I just said is a good idea, I say:

"Of course it's a good idea!"

:eusa_doh:

Well, it's funny to me.

 

[CharlieH.]

- Hoooooooowle is she!!

- What in the name of Eleanor Roosevelt are you doing!?!?

- I died once....

- You're as entertaining as buffalo stew

- Either the class is over or Sinatra's in town.

- Ye know, at some point I was actually a happy person

- I want to take off my vest
- Then take it off
-Nah, I don't want to

- The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She said she was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France. (From Murder By Death)

- Hellooooo Nurse! (I have yet to come up with the sand to yell that one though)

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Surely banter is simply light hearted discussion, generally engaged in by acquaintances, and by its very nature is unplanned and off-the-cuff, if you will. It's about being quick, and original.

Are we talking banter, or flirting, or put-downs in this thread?

bk

 

[Fred G.]

Occasionally if a female acquaintance seems to be following me around (at work, shopping, wherever) I will make a comment about it. Then, I say, "It's OK, pretty girls have been following me around all my life..."

Sometimes I just tell the ladies they're hotter than the hinges of hell.

I call many lady friends "sunshine" once in a while, which once got me into a little trouble when I did this on the phone-- I thought it was my daughter calling, instead it was very upset customer!

 

[mysterygal]

Surely banter is simply light hearted discussion, generally engaged in by acquaintances, and by its very nature is unplanned and off-the-cuff, if you will. It's about being quick, and original.

Are we talking banter, or flirting, or put-downs in this thread?

bk

no negatives! just light hearted stuff/lines you kid around with.
This has been fun to read! Me and the mister say lines from Forest Gump all the time (and of course talk like he did )

 

[magneto]

From Flaming Youth: "Why not start something, Sally?"
(more amusing if said to a boy)

 

[mysterygal]

oh yeah, and we also say lines from 'The wedding singer' all the time, especially the line, "they were cones!" (goes good whenever I do something clutzy )