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Jetée · 05-23-2007, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psycho Dad

I'm am going to hunt all of you that brought this thread back to life and made this phrase stick in my brain too.

Damn you. Damn you all I say.

It was the newbie, not I.

Just found this thread to be a riot and a half.
Aliens and Congenital Conspiracies.

dirtyrascal7 · 05-23-2007, 06:16 PM

We need to form a support group... or better yet, a club.

And every good club needs T-Shirts. And it just so happens I came across these... definitely part of the conspiracy to mock us. Way too coincidental.

http://www.cafepress.com/atlasgymwea...32?pid=2529374

edit -- By the way... I know Lord Humungus said something about a Russian Accent, but I keep picturing a Native American saying this line.

Halx · 05-23-2007, 07:20 PM

DIGG this to get the world to help. We have to figure it out.

biznatch · 05-24-2007, 01:07 AM

(hey, dont say that!)

BuDDaH · 05-24-2007, 09:31 AM

Heh, I think I got the answer. I'll give you a hint..
There are two references, one's definite, the other is debatable.

1) Definite:
It wasn't a woman, it was Robert Duvall..
Movie: Colors (1988)
He noticed Pac-Man (Sean Penn) watching the latinas hard and said " You need to get you one, they'll make you strong, like bull.."
Do not confuse this with the OTHER bull reference he used, about to old bull and the young bull on the hill..

2) Debatable: Depending on the director's cut or not, Denzel Washington used the reference that made the DC's DVD and not the release of "Training Day". The reference was on his ability to please a woman and sire only sons..

But I think the "Blazing Saddles" reference is the closest..
Just someone think a woman said it and it got screwed up..

uncle phil · 05-24-2007, 12:09 PM

i can remember "make you strong, like ox," back in the early 70s...

longbough · 05-24-2007, 04:30 PM

deleted due to irrelevance

Lord Humungus · 05-24-2007, 09:16 PM

it is debatable as to whether or not what we remember is a russian accent or a native american accent. Perhaps it was referenced in Colors like it was in There's Something About Mary and French Kiss but I feel really strong about it being a Russian Accent. I really feel exactly what willravel said. When I say it to myself outloud....I ain't ashamed...i say it all the time hoping a synapse in my brain will fire and unlock this deep rooted evil that has penetrated my soul...I say it exactly as described. It's gotta be one of those movies like "Gotcha!" or something. Some small time budget film we've all seen a millions times. Or maybe something like "Cant buy me love" that has that character who shows up and scores all the chicks because hes from a different country. I don't know and sob.....I was just starting to let this fade. It's like a curse. I swear. Just when I start to get passed it a little.... it pops back up. "Drink.... make you strong... like bull."

Quote:

Originally Posted by willravel

Well this thread is quite something. I also remember this quote, so it can't be too old (which rules out Make Room for Daddy altogether, as I'm 100% sure I've not seen any of that). I was born in 1983, and I remember it from between 1984 and 1989, I'm almost 100% sure. It was around the time I used to watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks. A masculine Russian or Eastern European woman hands someone, presumably the protagonist, a glass of something green and says, something like Drink "It make you strong....like bull!"

Are you saying it was used in Blazzing Saddles? Are you absolutely positive of this? What scene? It very well could be from a Mel Brooks film.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BuDDaH

Heh, I think I got the answer. I'll give you a hint..
There are two references, one's definite, the other is debatable.

1) Definite:
It wasn't a woman, it was Robert Duvall..
Movie: Colors (1988)
He noticed Pac-Man (Sean Penn) watching the latinas hard and said " You need to get you one, they'll make you strong, like bull.."
Do not confuse this with the OTHER bull reference he used, about to old bull and the young bull on the hill..

2) Debatable: Depending on the director's cut or not, Denzel Washington used the reference that made the DC's DVD and not the release of "Training Day". The reference was on his ability to please a woman and sire only sons..

But I think the "Blazing Saddles" reference is the closest..
Just someone think a woman said it and it got screwed up..

BuDDaH · 05-25-2007, 12:19 AM

Blazing Saddles.....

Alex Karras' character 'Mongo'.

" Mongo strong, like bull "

Lord Humungus · 05-25-2007, 07:29 AM

Can you tell me the exact scene please, if possible?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BuDDaH

Blazing Saddles.....

Alex Karras' character 'Mongo'.

" Mongo strong, like bull "

Jetée · 06-12-2007, 04:16 PM

Has the issue been resolved as of yet?!

We need crack experts to track down this infamous quote...

Lord Humungus · 06-12-2007, 06:48 PM

it hasn't been resolved and i just don't think it ever will be. Maybe the answer is on a sign at the pearly gates and thats the only way to ever find out. *buys a gun*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetstream

Has the issue been resolved as of yet?!

We need crack experts to track down this infamous quote...

ItWasMe · 06-13-2007, 01:23 AM

Was it a James Bond movie? There are many countries/accents in those. Just a thought.

Ripsaw · 06-13-2007, 07:35 AM

Moscow on the Hudson? Robin Williams as a defecting Russian?

http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/u...02691/p/1.html

Lord Humungus · 06-13-2007, 10:36 AM

It's not Moscow on the hudson. I watched it awhile ago thinking it might be. There is a scene where he tries to sell this powder stuff but he says "Give you di#k of death".

Thanks for playing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ripsaw

Moscow on the Hudson? Robin Williams as a defecting Russian?

http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/u...02691/p/1.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by ItWasMe

Was it a James Bond movie? There are many countries/accents in those. Just a thought.

im fairly certain its not a Bond movie

iansanderson · 06-21-2007, 07:15 AM

rob schneider in "big daddy"

Zeraph · 06-23-2007, 02:40 PM

Sorry, nothing helpful to say here. I just think it's really funny with all this info at our fingertips that we can't find the origin of an infamous quote.

PS Just had a thought that may help. I think I may have heard the quote from a Venture Bros episode, not that that would be the origin since its a new show but they make fun of a lot of old cartoons. So maybe the origin was an old cartoon.

Ch'i · 06-23-2007, 04:38 PM

Yeah but the Venture Bros. also parody movies and television shows on just as regular a basis.

Zeraph · 06-24-2007, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ch'i

Yeah but the Venture Bros. also parody movies and television shows on just as regular a basis.

I didn't mean to say that Venture Bro's is what would lead to answer, just that maybe no one has found it yet because they haven't looked at old cartoons.

ItWasMe · 08-24-2007, 01:53 AM

*bumpers!*

Did anyone figure out where the quote came from?

OP, is it possibly Arnald Schwarzenegger?

Lord Humungus · 09-19-2007, 06:17 PM

Sorry. No dice yet.

somastar · 04-03-2009, 06:18 PM

I teach the novel, OF MICE AND MEN, and the phrase "strong as a bull" is used. Not the same thing, but this book was written in the 1930s, so perhaps the phrase has been around at least that long.

What about Charles Bronson movies? I was thinking maybe "The Magnificent Seven"? "Dirty Dozen"? "The Great Escape?"

Hope this helps!

Jetée · 08-22-2009, 01:34 PM

I got the urge to research this abit, now that time has passed, and to find more like minds that are still pondering on the origin of this elusive quote.

I've come up with these:

snopes.com: Strong Like Bull?

Google Answers: Strong, like bull (a good explanation is provided here, but has not been corroborated as of yet)

Both articles/questions come around to a semi-plausible answer that television actor Hans Conried originally coined the term in film, though this is still debatable as some recall the phrase being uttered even before the mid-1950s.

pyropheonix · 09-29-2009, 12:21 PM

Mongo does say Mongo Strong, Like Bull, after he pulls off the chains the next morning. I think it was before he says Mongo only pawn, in game of life.

Davidwr99 · 12-02-2009, 01:36 AM

There was a TV show that originally ran from 1965-1967 Called " F Troop". It was rerun into the ground during syndication from the 70's all the way through the 90's. In one episode there was a character called "Col. Dimitri Agarnoff" played by Larry Storch the character was Russian and he said to the main character, Sergeant O'Rourke, "Drink this it make you strong like bull" later in the same episode a American Indian character played by the same actor Larry Storch says it again, word for word. Of course that is part of the joke. It was a very funny episode and would have stuck in peoples minds. This would explain why it spans generations and is remembered as being said by a Russian and by an American Indian.

boink · 12-07-2009, 03:38 PM

sounds like a line Larry Storch would say. or maybe a line Micky Dolenz in "the Monkees" TV show.

maybe it was a comercial on TV ?
or
Joe Goldmark, "Strong Like Bull but Sensitive Like Squirrel" - Hmg Records (2001)

how many places have you asked this ? the first page of google results sound like you asking this question everywhere, including TFP

Xerxys · 12-07-2009, 10:03 PM

camerabug · 04-07-2010, 07:52 PM

in response to where did the phrase "strong like bull" come from- it has been driving me crazy too, but I had always thought the phrase was "strong like moose". When someone mentioned the rocky and bullwinkle show it made perfect sense- Bullwinkle is a moose and the
russian accent would fit because of Boris and Natasha but I'm still not sure. Anyone, anyone?

lionrock · 05-01-2010, 08:38 PM

I'm going with Rocky and Bullwinkle.....or my dad.

oliver9184 · 05-09-2010, 12:11 PM

I just found the following on Mikhail Baryshnikov's IMDB page:

Quote:

Boyishly cute, diminutive and strong as a bull, but as graceful as any gazelle or swan, Mikhail Baryshnikov is a household name even to non-balletomanes. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and biggest name in dance.

Lord Humungus · 07-21-2010, 09:24 PM

happy to see this thread is still alive and the fight continues!

Fremen · 07-21-2010, 09:49 PM

Even if we hit on the right movie/tv-show/book or play, I doubt we'd know if it's the right one after all this time.

Jetée · 07-21-2010, 10:42 PM

Check the (c) MCM---- to be sure, but to know, inherently which production was the most successful in propogating the saying over spans of generations, may always yet be a point of contention, now and forever.

matt1229 · 08-25-2010, 04:51 PM

I am 100% certain of the answer to your discussion "the origination of 'strong like bull'".
It is actually from a bugs bunny cartoon but bugs doesn't say it himself. It is someone else in the cartoon.
"It makes you big and strong like bull."
is the quote

Willravel · 08-25-2010, 06:48 PM

That actually sounds like it could be right. Does anyone have the Loony Tunes collection?

matt1229 · 08-25-2010, 09:06 PM

oh and just as a side note, foghorn leghorn says something similar...
"That boy's as strong as an ox"

guitarsong31 · 12-07-2010, 07:32 PM

My recollection is that "Stong like bull" was said by Yul Brynner in 1962 film, Taurus Bulba. Yul is a cossack fighing the Poles. Now I have to find it on Netflix to see if I am correct.

Hotmnkyluv · 12-07-2010, 07:39 PM

It came from early TV. A show called Make Room For Daddy, they also said it on Bullwinkle.
The Russian accent I think was from Moscow on the Hudson.

05-23-2007, 06:16 PM	#162 (permalink)
dirtyrascal7 That's what she said	We need to form a support group... or better yet, a club. And every good club needs T-Shirts. And it just so happens I came across these... definitely part of the conspiracy to mock us. Way too coincidental. http://www.cafepress.com/atlasgymwea...32?pid=2529374 edit -- By the way... I know Lord Humungus said something about a Russian Accent, but I keep picturing a Native American saying this line. __________________ "Tie yourself to your limitless potential, rather than your limiting past." "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." Last edited by dirtyrascal7; 05-23-2007 at 06:25 PM..

05-23-2007, 07:20 PM	#163 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	DIGG this to get the world to help. We have to figure it out. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

05-24-2007, 01:07 AM	#164 (permalink)
biznatch Junkie Location: France	(hey, dont say that!) __________________ Check it out: The Open Source/Freeware/Gratis Software Thread Last edited by Halx; 05-24-2007 at 03:50 AM..

05-24-2007, 09:31 AM	#165 (permalink)
BuDDaH The Matrix had a point... Moderator Emeritus Location: 10th Mountain ASB Fort Drum, N.Y.	Heh, I think I got the answer. I'll give you a hint.. There are two references, one's definite, the other is debatable. 1) Definite: It wasn't a woman, it was Robert Duvall.. Movie: Colors (1988) He noticed Pac-Man (Sean Penn) watching the latinas hard and said " You need to get you one, they'll make you strong, like bull.." Do not confuse this with the OTHER bull reference he used, about to old bull and the young bull on the hill.. 2) Debatable: Depending on the director's cut or not, Denzel Washington used the reference that made the DC's DVD and not the release of "Training Day". The reference was on his ability to please a woman and sire only sons.. But I think the "Blazing Saddles" reference is the closest.. Just someone think a woman said it and it got screwed up.. __________________ I'd hit that so hard whoever could pull me out would become King of England! Last edited by BuDDaH; 05-24-2007 at 10:23 AM..

05-24-2007, 12:09 PM	#166 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i can remember "make you strong, like ox," back in the early 70s... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-24-2007, 04:30 PM	#167 (permalink)
longbough Soylent Green is people. Location: Northern California	deleted due to irrelevance __________________ "I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence." - Mahatma Ghandi

05-25-2007, 12:19 AM	#169 (permalink)
BuDDaH The Matrix had a point... Moderator Emeritus Location: 10th Mountain ASB Fort Drum, N.Y.	Blazing Saddles..... Alex Karras' character 'Mongo'. " Mongo strong, like bull " __________________ I'd hit that so hard whoever could pull me out would become King of England!

06-12-2007, 04:16 PM	#171 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Has the issue been resolved as of yet?! We need crack experts to track down this infamous quote... __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-13-2007, 01:23 AM	#173 (permalink)
ItWasMe But You'll Never Prove It. Location: under your bed	Was it a James Bond movie? There are many countries/accents in those. Just a thought. __________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

06-13-2007, 07:35 AM	#174 (permalink)
Ripsaw Chef in Training	Moscow on the Hudson? Robin Williams as a defecting Russian? http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/u...02691/p/1.html __________________ "We are supposed to be masters of space, but we cant even line up our shoes?" One life, one chance, one opportunity.

06-21-2007, 07:15 AM	#176 (permalink)
iansanderson Upright	rob schneider in "big daddy"

06-23-2007, 02:40 PM	#177 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	Sorry, nothing helpful to say here. I just think it's really funny with all this info at our fingertips that we can't find the origin of an infamous quote. PS Just had a thought that may help. I think I may have heard the quote from a Venture Bros episode, not that that would be the origin since its a new show but they make fun of a lot of old cartoons. So maybe the origin was an old cartoon.

06-23-2007, 04:38 PM	#178 (permalink)
Ch'i Artist of Life	Yeah but the Venture Bros. also parody movies and television shows on just as regular a basis.

08-24-2007, 01:53 AM	#180 (permalink)
ItWasMe But You'll Never Prove It. Location: under your bed	bumpers! Did anyone figure out where the quote came from? OP, is it possibly Arnald Schwarzenegger? __________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

09-19-2007, 06:17 PM	#181 (permalink)
Lord Humungus Addict Location: The Outer rim of HELL	Sorry. No dice yet. __________________ I am still searching for the movie this quote was in... "Make you strong, like bull", said in a russian accent Post here if you know anything...PLEASE!

04-03-2009, 06:18 PM	#182 (permalink)
somastar Upright	Charles Bronson? Steinbeck? I teach the novel, OF MICE AND MEN, and the phrase "strong as a bull" is used. Not the same thing, but this book was written in the 1930s, so perhaps the phrase has been around at least that long. What about Charles Bronson movies? I was thinking maybe "The Magnificent Seven"? "Dirty Dozen"? "The Great Escape?" Hope this helps!

08-22-2009, 01:34 PM	#183 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	I got the urge to research this abit, now that time has passed, and to find more like minds that are still pondering on the origin of this elusive quote. I've come up with these: snopes.com: Strong Like Bull? Google Answers: Strong, like bull (a good explanation is provided here, but has not been corroborated as of yet) Both articles/questions come around to a semi-plausible answer that television actor Hans Conried originally coined the term in film, though this is still debatable as some recall the phrase being uttered even before the mid-1950s. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

09-29-2009, 12:21 PM	#184 (permalink)
pyropheonix Upright	Mongo Mongo does say Mongo Strong, Like Bull, after he pulls off the chains the next morning. I think it was before he says Mongo only pawn, in game of life.

12-02-2009, 01:36 AM	#185 (permalink)
Davidwr99 Upright	There was a TV show that originally ran from 1965-1967 Called " F Troop". It was rerun into the ground during syndication from the 70's all the way through the 90's. In one episode there was a character called "Col. Dimitri Agarnoff" played by Larry Storch the character was Russian and he said to the main character, Sergeant O'Rourke, "Drink this it make you strong like bull" later in the same episode a American Indian character played by the same actor Larry Storch says it again, word for word. Of course that is part of the joke. It was a very funny episode and would have stuck in peoples minds. This would explain why it spans generations and is remembered as being said by a Russian and by an American Indian.

12-07-2009, 03:38 PM	#186 (permalink)
boink Addict Location: Seattle	sounds like a line Larry Storch would say. or maybe a line Micky Dolenz in "the Monkees" TV show. maybe it was a comercial on TV ? or Joe Goldmark, "Strong Like Bull but Sensitive Like Squirrel" - Hmg Records (2001) how many places have you asked this ? the first page of google results sound like you asking this question everywhere, including TFP __________________ when you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain't the way. Last edited by boink; 12-07-2009 at 03:45 PM..

12-07-2009, 10:03 PM	#187 (permalink)
Xerxys Junkie Location: My head.

04-07-2010, 07:52 PM	#188 (permalink)
camerabug Upright	strong like bull in response to where did the phrase "strong like bull" come from- it has been driving me crazy too, but I had always thought the phrase was "strong like moose". When someone mentioned the rocky and bullwinkle show it made perfect sense- Bullwinkle is a moose and the russian accent would fit because of Boris and Natasha but I'm still not sure. Anyone, anyone?

05-01-2010, 08:38 PM	#189 (permalink)
lionrock Insane	I'm going with Rocky and Bullwinkle.....or my dad.

07-21-2010, 09:24 PM	#191 (permalink)
Lord Humungus Addict Location: The Outer rim of HELL	happy to see this thread is still alive and the fight continues! __________________ I am still searching for the movie this quote was in... "Make you strong, like bull", said in a russian accent Post here if you know anything...PLEASE!

07-21-2010, 09:49 PM	#192 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	Even if we hit on the right movie/tv-show/book or play, I doubt we'd know if it's the right one after all this time. __________________ Google

07-21-2010, 10:42 PM	#193 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Check the (c) MCM---- to be sure, but to know, inherently which production was the most successful in propogating the saying over spans of generations, may always yet be a point of contention, now and forever. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

08-25-2010, 04:51 PM	#194 (permalink)
matt1229 Upright	I am 100% certain of the answer to your discussion "the origination of 'strong like bull'". It is actually from a bugs bunny cartoon but bugs doesn't say it himself. It is someone else in the cartoon. "It makes you big and strong like bull." is the quote

08-25-2010, 06:48 PM	#195 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	That actually sounds like it could be right. Does anyone have the Loony Tunes collection?

08-25-2010, 09:06 PM	#196 (permalink)
matt1229 Upright	oh and just as a side note, foghorn leghorn says something similar... "That boy's as strong as an ox"

12-07-2010, 07:32 PM	#197 (permalink)
guitarsong31 Upright	My recollection is that "Stong like bull" was said by Yul Brynner in 1962 film, Taurus Bulba. Yul is a cossack fighing the Poles. Now I have to find it on Netflix to see if I am correct.

12-07-2010, 07:39 PM	#198 (permalink)
Hotmnkyluv Tilted Location: Sunny South Florida	It came from early TV. A show called Make Room For Daddy, they also said it on Bullwinkle. The Russian accent I think was from Moscow on the Hudson.