Life “When Did I Become Elisabeth Shue?!”
posted by on April 14 at 10:11 AM
This weekend brought a beguiling eyewitness report and equally beguiling follow-up question from Slog tipper Skweetis:
I’m posing an honest question that requires your expertise. I’ll try to make it quick. Late Saturday night, in the parking lot on 2nd and Virginia, there was a low-grade domestic dispute between two girls and either a guy or a real butch dyke. It had a Three Stooges flavor, where the guy/dyke would climb into the giant parked truck, there would be a little tussle, and then he or she would get kicked back out of the passenger side door. Then there would be some yelling and throwing of things across the parking lot and then the cycle would repeat. Suddenly, the girl in the driver’s seat yells, “When did I become Elizabeth Shue?!” She was clearly proud of the line and dissatisfied with her companions’ reactions because she proceeded to repeat it in different configurations: “What am I, Elizabeth Shue?”, “Hey, I’m not Elizabeth Shue over here!”, etc.My question is, what the hell does that expression mean? And should I be incorporating this into my vernacular? (BTW, I’m not evil. It didn’t look like anyone was really in any danger. Pretty mild by downtown, late-night-skirmish standards.)
Thank you, Skweetis. As for your questions, I put it to the people:
To what does the hollering lady’s Elisabeth Shue reference refer?
I dunno. But Elisabeth Shue is hot. I'd do her.
OMG! I wish I would have been privy to that little scuffle... It's best that I wasn't though. They probably all would have kicked my ass because I would have been laughing so hard. I'm going to start using that: "WTF! When did I become Elizabeth Shue?!" That is too funny...
Maybe she was referring to Elisabeth's attempts to become a professional tennis player even though she's in her 40's.
Perhaps she was referring to Elisabeth's star turn as Ralph Macchio's loyal girlfriend in "Karate Kid", and the two fighters were the tournament finalists -- Daniel Larusso and the evil Cobra Kai blonde fascist kid. (Sorry, it was on TV this weekend, and so is fresh in my mind).
Muren beat me to it. You should go back to the list so we could vote on it. (BTW She was also starred in The Saint.
@4 beat me to it. Except for the part about watching that movie this weekend. "The Karate Kid" is always fresh in my mind.
maybe it Leaving Las Vagas but just the "lonely hooker with a heart of Gold"
The celebrity my wife looks most like is Elizabeth Shue. I am one lucky motherfucker.
oh please- it's her hooching it up with tom cruise and getting knocked up with twins in Cocktail!
Andrew Shue is hot-ish
@8:
WoW! No wonder you are a Hillary supporter...
I think this definitely referring to Adventures in Babysitting, but not necessarily in reference to the kids.
It could be because:
A. Chris (Elizabeth Shue) catches her boyfriend cheating on her.
B. She gets stuck in a car she can’t start.
C. Maybe she has the Babysitting Blues.
Sorry, this movie is the reason I convinced my parents to get a VCR.
elizabeth shue was my first girl-on-girl crush, when i was 5, in adventures in babysitting. sigh. she's still hot.
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