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Fat chance!

 
 

87. Freudian Slips

 
 
 

The more you are in contact with the youngest parts of yourself — The aim for the artist! — the more people feel entitled to attack you. They'd rather you stay inside a hardened shell! Try to say things you couldn't say as a child without getting clobbered. The slang expression "—Fat chance!" (meaning, "Very little or no chance,") might have been regarded too fresh for a child in a proper WASP family. However, for an adult, out in the real world, it may be spot on! (–Source: taxi1010.com stargate84)

 

"God damn, I bet your dad'd be really shamed by you!" [A History of Violence, 2005]
—Fat chance!
—I was a man of action as a child.

 

"Yeah, pussRun away!" [A History of Violence, 2005]
—Fat chance!
—Stay close, boys, and I'll think of something! ... Exactly what those little kids in grammar school hate, that's what you are!

 

"You're my big baby!"
—Fat chance!
—One family's enough.

 

"Baby! Baby! You are a baby!"
—Fat chance!
—So oppressive.

 

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face."
—Fat chance!
—What's it like?

 

"Don't forget who you're talking to!"
—Fat chance!
—I don't know why, for a couple of thousand years, people can't see there's no god.

 

"You're a nigger yourself."
—Fat chance!
—You're much too plantation oriented – And who isn't?

 

"The Polytechnic is history. Vietnam is history. Auschwitz is history. Hippies are history. Punks are history. God is history. Hollywood is history. The Soviet Union is history. My parents are history. My friend Joe is becoming history. I will become history. This fucking shithole planet will become history. Take more drugs." (–Christos Tsiolkas, extract from Loaded)
—Fat chance!
—They always miss one thing ... I can endure.

 

"I don't believe the Holocaust ever happened."
—Fat chance!
—You're not only mixed up, but you're a nincompoop.

 

"Blow me — It's show business."
—Fat chance!
—You can't be grown-up.

 

"Some people think they have to put on the glitter."
—Fat chance!
—There's only so much you can do.

 

"Yeah! Tell it like it is, baby!"
—Fat chance!
—Okay, so? ... Did we do anything wrong?

 

["This is not an asthma symphony!" After asking you one question about your asthma, your mother thinks she can proceed with an unrelenting barrage of intimate questions about your asthma in front of your girlfriend]
—Fat chance!
—It's good when people know what they can't do.

 

[Someone reciting poetry in your face. (You can see this as one of the compulsive utterances of Tourette's syndrome) What they really want is attention; it's up to you which way you pay attention to them]
—Fat chance!
—In a hundred years it will be fabulous.

 

"Can you call me a cab? — You've got a radio."
—Fat chance!
—I must be delusional.

 

"Are you a candidate for sainthood?" [From a well-dressed gentleman ambushing you at your car with an elaborate, swiftly changing story]
—Fat chance!
—Aaron T. Beck says, "There is more to the surface than meets the eye."

 

"Then they go into the rest room and swap tickets with one of their buddies — That's why he's all angry."
—Fat chance!
—It's so nice out, I could leave it out all day.

 

"What? You're leaving now? Aren't you going to stay and help with the dishes?"
—Fat chance!
—I learned it from you!

 

"You're getting spoiled."
—Fat chance!
—Why do I feel like a baby when I sense myself?

 

"taxi1010 stupid! You're doing it wrong."
—Fat chance!
—Is this really evil?

 

"Life is a compromise."
—Fat chance!
—It's always better not to do anything permanent at first.

 

"Is there any compromise?"
—Fat chance!
—I hope you don't mind – I get angry, too.

 

"Compromise."
—Fat chance!
—There's safety in slowland, right?

 

"Do I know you from someplace?"
—Fat chance!
—Let that be a lesson to you.

 

"You'll forget the way I look the minute ship leaves port."
—Fat chance!
—You and me, babe – how 'bout it?

 

["Three weeks after I got married, I knew it was a mistake."] "Was that in San Francisco?" [Codeword for "Are you gay?"]
—Fat chance!
—That's a lot of real estate.

 

"If you're so rich, you can treat me again."
—Fat chance!
—I like to feel I'm taking care of myself, but I know it's a delusion.

 

"Sorry to bore you."
—Fat chance!
—It all depends on what you take seriously.

 

"Don't spend it all in one place."
—Fat chance!
—The wishing well.

 
 

 

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