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The Slice: Spring break multiple choice
Which of these modified classic movie lines best capture your attitude?
1) “Spring break? We didn’t have no spring break. Kids don’t need no spring break. I don’t have to show you any stinking spring break!”
2) “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty spring break.”
3) “I am big! It’s spring break that got small.”
4) “You can’t handle the spring break!”
5) “May the spring break be with you.”
6) “My mama always said spring break was like a box of chocolates.”
7) “Say ‘hello’ to my little spring break.”
8) “Forget about it, Jake, it’s spring break.”
9) “I have always depended on the kindness of spring break.”
10) “Hasta la vista, spring break.”
11) “Soylent Green is spring break!”
12) “Open the spring break doors, please, HAL.”
13) “Listen to them. Children of the spring break. What music they make.”
14) “Oh, no. It wasn’t the airplanes. It was spring break that killed the beast.”
15) “Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become spring break champion.”
16) “Spring break is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
17) “I feel the need … the need for spring break.”
18) “Carpe diem. Seize the spring break, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
19) “Nobody puts spring break in a corner.”
20) “I’ll get you, spring break, and your little dog, too.”
21) “I’m the king of spring break!”
22) “Here’s looking at you, spring break.”
23) “Go ahead, make my spring break.”
24) “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in spring break anymore.”
25) “You’re gonna need a bigger spring break.”
26) “Frankly, spring break, I don’t give a damn.”
27) “You had me at ‘spring break.’ ”
28) “I see spring break people.”
29) “We’ll always have spring break.”
30) “Spring break! Spring break! Come back.”
Today’s Slice question: Ever take another family member’s pills by mistake?
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