Overheard in a store

**amykhar** · #1 11-30-2002, 11:45 PM

I am posting this here because it is a literary reference. DH and ventured into downtown Reading yesterday (ick) and were window shopping in a rather crappy five and dime.

This place is so crappy that they have a guard at the door who takes all of your bags when you enter the store and then you retrieve them when you leave. Apparantly, people were giving this poor female guard a bit of grief that day.

As we were leaving, one of her friends came up behind her and said "Excuse me, you gave me the wrong bag."

She turned around, saw who it was and said "Et tu, Motherfucker?"

Ya know, I have a feeling that might be a bit closer to what Julius Caesar REALLY said when one of his dear friends stabbed him in the back

Amy

**pluckyduck** · #2 11-30-2002, 11:48 PM

I have to tell Don that. That's material for him to steal.

Andrea

brian_igo · #3 12-01-2002, 04:16 AM

Oh I love that! Bravo!!!

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #4 12-01-2002, 07:52 AM

**pluckyduck** · #5 12-01-2002, 09:03 AM

I had to google it. I thought, this is so great, it has to be a line from a movie or something. (Sounds like Shaft or something, doesn't it?)

Anyway, the only place I found "et tu, motherfucker?" was in a really bizarre piece of writing posted in two places on the web:

Quote:

And remember the words of Black Caesar:
Et tu, Motherfucker? Et tu, Bitch?

http://ontologicalmuseum.org/museum/...les/nova11.htm

http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/nova7.htm

I've never used the MF word in my life...but I love this expression so much, I'm going to have to save it for the perfect occasion.

Andrea