There was Red Green. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
"If it ain't broke, then you're not trying hard enough."
"If it works, don't lend it."
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.
(When all else fails, play dead.)
"If at first you don't succeed, then use more duct tape."
"It's a million dollar idea that you can make out of a $40 car."
(Red is trying to get Glenn Braxton to guess the word "work")
Red: "After breakfast, you say to your wife, 'See you later, I'm going to...'"
Glenn: "Lie down."
"Oh God, what man has put together, let no pot hole rend assuner. Amen."
"Lower your expectations, and live a happier life"
"Remember, you may have to grow old, but you don't have to mature."
"One of the things that changes as you get older is your attitude towards parties. That's because after you've been married for a while, you realize that men and women have totally different approaches to them. The woman wants to know who's coming to the party. The man just wants to know who's bringing the beer. The woman cleans up whatever is lying around the home so the guests will think she keeps a neat house. The man actually leaves tools lying around the home so the guests will help build a deck. The woman wants to know what's going on with everybody. The man avoids that information. It's safer. It prevents him from blurting out something he's not supposed to know in front of someone who's not supposed to hear it, especially if that someone is carrying one of the tools I mentioned earlier."
To teenagers:
"If you want to dress like a sack of potatoes, wait until you look like one."
Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side, a dark side and it holds the universe together.
If life gives you lemons, throw 'em into a quart of vodka.
And finally:
THE MAN'S PRAYER: "I'm a man...But I can change...If I have to...I guess."
22 comments:
I love the show but don't have it available in my area anymore. I catch it occasionally when I'm at the farm.
Red Green sounds like a wise feller...
Confession: I had never heard of Red Green until a few years ago when I stumbled across your blog and worked up the courage to start leaving a few comments. You responded to one with a Red Green Show reference and I was totally stumped. Then we got cable. There it was. Right next door to the horse riding, tractor maintenance channel, and it was then that I realized that Garrison Keilor was not only liberal, but he also had some competition for viewers. :-)
Red Green's been a family favorite for years, and is ALWAYS worth re-visiting.
what's the big deal about that "other" site, by yourself you have as many hit's here as they!
well I guess it's in your makeup to help others.
I come here for my daily help, your better than gunny Ermey.
Red's advice for life: "Keep your stick on the ice." I thought my daughter was the only woman who liked Red Green. I gotta get out more.
I love Red Green... I wish Alaska could claim him, but alas I think he's Canadian.
He comes to Fairbanks pretty often and has a big following here.
The best part of "Red Green"? Graham Greene as Edgar Montrose.
Edgar was always a hoot, but few times in my life have I laughed as hard as I did the first time Greene appeared on the show as "Edgar" and delivered this commentary on "Dances With Wolves".
"I saw that one. Now, the native guy was okay. Shoulda got the Oscar. But the rest of it was a yawn. Now, what they needed there was one of those buffalo to get backed up with methane or catch his hoof on a piece of flint and go off like a big furry grenade. KABOOM! Talk about your burgers to go!"
Edgar's solution to everything was to "increase the parts per million".
Now I have another DVD set to go find in our mountain of boxes. Please -- no "Corner Gas" quotes until after the holiday weekend.
Hey!
That looks like my van!
Ha! I love Red Green
I grew up on Red Green. Probably why I am the way I am.
My favorite saying is "It's not smart, or correct, but it's one of the things that makes us who we are."
I use it a lot...
...and with two old satellite dishes and a rusty lawn tractor, you too can make your own flying saucer... that doesn't really fly.
Dann in Ohio
Red Green is the best.
I love that show. Watched it daily when It was available in my area. Sice I have moved and miss it.
Ah yes... The infamous Red Green... :-) Always good for a laugh and a WTH moment or three!
Red Green--probably my favorite Canadian.
No... we cannot change.
The longest journey begins with not looking at the map.
(Stolen from redgreen.com)
Dori and I both enjoy it on our Saturday PBS night around here - plus I always laugh at Edgar for his bomb techniques. Professional courtesy and all!
Not surprised that you're a fan too.
The latest installment aired here Saturday night featured the Possum Lodge Word Game, with the contestant answering variations on "tube steak" for every answer; i.e, hot dog, frankfurter, kielbasa, bratwurst. Finally, Red, in disgust, said, "The answer has nothing to do with wieners!" Whereupon the contestant said brightly, "K. D. Lang!"
Red Green was a vital part of my child hood. Looking back I think that probably explains at least half of the emergency room visits and surprise fires.
I'm a little late to the game, but we always watched Red Green on the old grainy black and white TV we kept in the camper out at the farm during the summer - back when Dad was still trying to be a Corporate pilot *and* a farmstead farmer (quick hint, its not a money making proposition, but your kids will learn things all kids should have to)
Anyway, It was harvest and the night before was the episode where Red built a car with front and rear wheel stearing by cutting two Olds 88s (I think they were 88s) in half and attaching the front ends together, back to back, with what appeared to be mostly duct tape.
So, when the PTO shield came halfway off our pull type swather, when I still had a good fifteen rounds left on the field, and I had no fastener but duct tape, the result was not surprising. It was however surprisingly effective. I finished the field, even if it did look like our ugliest duckling equipment had just gone and got white trash and ghetto.
Good times.
-Jon
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