Film
Cab Dispatcher: Where are you going?
Neal: Chicago.
Cab Dispatcher: Chicago?
Neal: Yeah, Chicago.
Cab Dispatcher: You know you're in St. Louis?
Neal: Yes I do.
Cab Dispatcher: Why don't you try the airlines? It's faster and you get a free meal.
Neal: If I wanted a joke, I'd follow you into the john and watch you take a leak. Now are you gonna help me or are you gonna stand there like a slab of meat with mittens?
[Cab dispatcher punches Neal in the face.]
Neal: Chicago.
Cab Dispatcher: Chicago?
Neal: Yeah, Chicago.
Cab Dispatcher: You know you're in St. Louis?
Neal: Yes I do.
Cab Dispatcher: Why don't you try the airlines? It's faster and you get a free meal.
Neal: If I wanted a joke, I'd follow you into the john and watch you take a leak. Now are you gonna help me or are you gonna stand there like a slab of meat with mittens?
[Cab dispatcher punches Neal in the face.]
Aurelio: The owner of that car, did you kill him or what?
Iosef: No. I sure as hell fucked up his dog [laughs]
Aurelio: You fucked up his dog? That's what you did? You fucked up his dog? [laughs nervously] That's crazy shit, man... [he decks Iosef with one furious punch]
Iosef: No. I sure as hell fucked up his dog [laughs]
Aurelio: You fucked up his dog? That's what you did? You fucked up his dog? [laughs nervously] That's crazy shit, man... [he decks Iosef with one furious punch]
Literature
A fool's lips walk into contention,
And his mouth calls for blows.
And his mouth calls for blows.
— Proverbs 18:6
"I am Baron Udo Kruger!" a sharp voice rose from behind the fortified face of the gatehouse. "Wisborg is under my protection and I have no words to waste with heretic scum!"
Wulfrik laughed at the baron's rebuke. "Protect your town then! I only came here to see your wife and my children!"
There was an inarticulate screech of rage from within the gatehouse.
Wulfrik laughed at the baron's rebuke. "Protect your town then! I only came here to see your wife and my children!"
There was an inarticulate screech of rage from within the gatehouse.
Live-Action TV
Klingon: Of course, I'd say that Captain Kirk deserves his ship. We like the Enterprise. We—(chuckles) we really do. That sagging, old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow. [Scotty puts his drink down as his face hardens] Half the quadrant knows it. That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese! (laughs)
Chekov: [sees the look on Scotty's face] Mister Scott!
Scotty: [death glare] Laddie... don't you think you should... rephrase that?
Klingon: [imitating Scotty's brogue] Yerr right. I should. [normal voice] I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage. [laughs]
[Scotty slowly stands up and punches the Klingon; Bar Brawl ensues]
Chekov: [sees the look on Scotty's face] Mister Scott!
Scotty: [death glare] Laddie... don't you think you should... rephrase that?
Klingon: [imitating Scotty's brogue] Yerr right. I should. [normal voice] I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage. [laughs]
[Scotty slowly stands up and punches the Klingon; Bar Brawl ensues]
Drew: Things to say that will always start a fight.
Ryan: Guys, wanna fight?
Ryan: Guys, wanna fight?
Tabletop Games
Bretonnian beer, on the other hand, is a byword for undrinkable swill throughout the Old World. Asking an Imperial landlord if his brewer is Bretonnian is a good way to start a fight.
— Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Knights of the Grail
"Face me if you dare, stunted whelp, or do you lack even an elven maid's courage? I thought the Sons of Grungni were great warriors, but perhaps you are no true Dwarf. Indeed, maybe you are instead some breed of bearded Goblin, though in truth I have seen a finer beard on a Troll's back-side."
— Wulfrik the Wanderer invoking this against a Dwarf king, Warhammer Fantasy
Video Games
Wambus: You think these walkin' vegetables are your family? I got news for you, Gramble: Bugsnax will never love you.
Gramble: You don't know a thing about love! That's why your wife left you!
Wambus: I'm gonna do violence to ya.
— Bugsnax
Western Animation
Yosemite Sam: Now, you dog-blasted, ornery, no-account, long-eared varmint!
Bugs: Hey, just a minute, you! Dem's fightin' woids!
Yosemite Sam: Yeah, dem's fightin' words!
Bugs: I dash ya to step across dis line. [traces line along edge of diving board]
Yosemite Sam: I'm a-stepping. [steps over line and off board]
Bugs: Hey, just a minute, you! Dem's fightin' woids!
Yosemite Sam: Yeah, dem's fightin' words!
Bugs: I dash ya to step across dis line. [traces line along edge of diving board]
Yosemite Sam: I'm a-stepping. [steps over line and off board]
Redneck 1: Let's fight.
Redneck 2: Them's fightin' words!
Redneck 2: Them's fightin' words!
