Hmm. thinking of disconnected quotes - film/tv ones that've entered language without people necessarily knowing their original context or having seen the source.

Everyone knows the classics like 'On top of the world, ma' 'Nobody's perfect' 'Here's looking at you kid' etc.

However, now there's new ones. Here's a sample, name some others :

'First rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club.'
'Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparklemotion.' (often misquoted as 'You doubt my commitment to sparklemotion?')
'I'll be in my bunk.'

Had a thought for an unconnected ficlet bit, caused by the narnia bunnies wif teef ike iss that squat in my brain. essentially, the whole thing of people claiming to be legendary/famous figures and getting others to believe them. However, what of the ones where the people claiming to be said people but are conmen or pressured into acting it? That looped around to the 'taking on the characteristics/becoming the person' problem. I can think of three well-done cases of this - Simon R. Green's Blood and Honour (actor hired by people out for a coup to impersonate an heir, they cast a glamour spell on him to change appearance, he gets caught up in it and it turns out the glamour spell also changed his blood characteristics so he was the same down to the dna - which equalled the powers), one Merlin RPS fic where Bradley swaps with Arthur. After he realises it's not a dream (plus they can only keep the 'he's sick/memory problems' going for so long), Merlin et al make the decision that Bradley needs to pretend he's Arthur to stop Uther freaking out and executing Bradley... just until Arthur gets back. Starts as funny crack, only it gets to the point that Bradley's actions (including negotiations with Mercia using lines from The Godfather) are actually becoming those of history, and one Supernatural fic (started before we knew Michael was a complete tosser) where Dean fakes being Michael - and because he's designated vessel, can wield the sword, get through Michael's wards and his aura/whatever really, really resembles Michael's.

Anyone got any more examples of this?

And now, back to nerves about footie. 3pm approacheth.