Posted Friday, July 6, 2007, at 6:45 PM ET Wow, you people are really keen to blow someone away, aren't you? Apparently a lot of you have been thinking about this for years, composing flinty, menacing dialogue for your fantasy shootout sequences. You frighten me deeply.
But you also crack me up. From the many hundreds of entries in the fake action-movie one-liner contest, here are a few favorites—and because contests have to have winners, a first prize selected from the short list below. I've identified entrants as they identified themselves in their e-mails, whether by first name, last name, or Fray handle.
Perhaps in tribute to Live Free or Die Hard , which imagines a terror attack waged via the Internet, several readers incorporated new media into their catchphrases. From Demolicious: "Consider this negative eBay feedback." Michael Martin provides a variation on the theme with "Myspace friend add … denied!
" Calaphin captures the latent jingoism of the genre with "Welcome to America, douche bag.
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