Important Austin Powers Question!

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We've been pondering this question in my office this afternnoon. In Goldmember, Austin Power's father (Michael Caine) is judo chopping his way through Dr. Evil's henchman and Mini-Me sneaks up behind him with a gun. Caine stops, looks down and says "I thought I smelled cabbage".

What does that mean? And why did I laugh when I heard it?
 
There's a scene in the first Austin Powers movie that goes something like this:

Austin Powers: There are only two things in this world that scares me and one is nuclear war.
Basil: What's the other?
Austin Powers: Huh?
Basil: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

In "Goldmember" Nigel Powers could be referencing Mini-Me to a carnie, with small hands, who smells like cabbage.

:confused:
 
That reminds me of the 2 things that scare Nigel Powers:
People who are intolerant of other people's culture, and the Dutch. :D
 
I'm a huge fan of the first two movies( a little less on the third) and I think Centaur has it right. It may just mean that Nigel thinks they stink, metaphorically.

The again, Mike Meyers has said that a ton of of the jokes in the movies are private ones, things he heard his father or family or friends say (like when Dr. Evil gives his bio during the group session in the first movie--that's apparently a bit MM's father would do, just make up outrageous stuff) so it may be just plain weird :rolleyes: Either way it was pretty funny.
 
JohnG said:
(The again, Mike Meyers has said that a ton of of the jokes in the movies are private ones, things he heard his father or family or friends say (like when Dr. Evil gives his bio during the group session in the first movie--that's apparently a bit MM's father would do, just make up outrageous stuff) so it may be just plain weird :rolleyes: Either way it was pretty funny.
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You mean this one:

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. "
 
freddy1 said:
hilarious! :D
do you have the remaining of the interview somewhere?
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I think that's the end of the quote.

Source: Internet Movie Database.
 
Centaur said:
I think that's the end of the quote.

Source: Internet Movie Database.
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Yup. it was in Maxim or one of those magazines recently as one of the funniest movie lines of all times. The quote was from his group therapy, and he later had the group killed because they were insolent.
 
I don't believe it! Some lowlife tried to give me a negative rep point for posting the Dr Evil quote! Luckily, he/she has a low post count, and it didn't amount to anything. :barf:
 
Centaur said:
I don't believe it! Some lowlife tried to give me a negative rep point for posting the Dr Evil quote! Luckily, he/she has a low post count, and it didn't amount to anything. :barf:
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It was probably someone who tried shaving his scrotum and decided to blame you for the "accident" :D

Roger
 
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