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MORE Forrest Gump??? By popular Request... More Realtor Metaphors

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 A little while ago I wrote a post about Forrest Gump - A Metaphor for Realtors...I had several requests for 2nds..........but now I'm wondering if it was for MORE Forrest Gump Quotes or MORE Chocolates!

                                           

Well here we go.....!

                   

             

Its a fascinating story and an interesting challenging to us as Realtors......No matter what the handicap.....Forrest is able to run like the wind, and is able to stumble his way through his country's various turning points and crises, cushioned and fueled by his mothers simply aphorisms.......There aren't too many lines here that we can't relate to!  :-)

1)~Ever been somewhere, in the middle of a negotiation, showing your 42nd houre....your tootsies needing a massage?  Ever thought, in the words of Young Jenny Curran: "Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here."?

2) ~Drill Sargeant:  Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army? Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant! Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump.  Listen up, people... Every wondered what your purpose in life was? Life can surprise you - and you never know where you're going to find your ‘niche' and what you're going to excel at. We do know that it doesn't matter what your IQ is order to be....ummm A Gifted Realtor !

 3)~On Frustration...   Abbie Hoffman: "Tell us a little bit about the war, man". Forrest Gump: "The war in Vietnam? "Abbie Hoffman: [to audience] War in Viet-F***ing-Nam!"  Forrest:  "and he liked to say the "F" word. A lot. "F" this and "F" that." 

                                                                                                                  

4)~ Forrest Gump:  "When I was in China on the All-American Ping Pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle."  Soldier: "Now the secret to this game is, no matter what happens, never, never take your eye off the ball!"  Forrest: "For some reason, ping pong came very natural to me,  So I started playing it all the time!  ~Do you have a favorite Realtor ‘tool', a special pen...........maybe your Blackberry? We all have our favorite .....something that can put us in the Zone.

 

 5.)~ Forrest: "And cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doin it so much, I cut that grass for free."  To those whom much has been given, much is expected! Do YOU cut grass for free?

 

6.) ~ Bubba: "Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich.

                                                                                                          

That- that's about it. "In Real Estate we can call them, cabins, townhomes, condo's, townhouses, ranchers, 2 levels, bungalows, mansions, basement entries...or we just call them ‘homes'.

                                                 

7.)~On Neighbourhood Watch -Forest Gump: [in the Watergate hotel; on phone with security]" Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man over to that office across the way. The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box, 'cause them flashlights, they keep me awake."

                                          Watergate Bldg

                                                              

 

8)~On the New Realtor in the Office ... Old Man in the Barbershop: " that boy sure is a runnin' fool!"

                                                                

9) ~On making it simple and de-jargonizing your Real Estate Lingo...~ Forrest Gump:  "Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them..."

                                                                                                      

10)~Young Forrest Gump:  "Mama....What's a Vacation? " Mrs. Gump: " Vacation's when you go somewhere...and never come back"....Don't you wish?

11)~ On Office Tours......Forrest Gump:  "the best thing about visiting the president is the food!  Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers!"

 

                                      

12)~On those Realtors from Active Rain - especially those ‘fav' Texans of mine![Forrest Gump listing some of his comrades] Forrest Gump: Now, I don't know much about anything, but I think some of American's best young men served in this war. There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex... well, I don't remember where Tex come from.

13) On watching T.V. Real Estate shows -  Pvt. Dallas from Phoenix: [Forrest is watching "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."] Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? Turn it off.

 

                                                  

 

14)~On spending the day touring houses and finally making a sale ~John F. Kennedy: Congratulations, how do you feel?  Forrest Gump: I gotta pee. John F. Kennedy: [turning to camera] I believe he said he had to go pee. Heh heh.

 

14)~On Market Conditions...Mrs. Gump: What's normal anyways?  

14)~On the Weather in Vancouver...Forrest Gump:  "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath".

 

 

 15)~Thinking of advising your clients on investments?  Forrest Gump: "Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So, I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan. Though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, " That's good. One less thing."

                                                  

                                                      

                                                         And as a Bonus - Some Forrest Trivia

Did you know...

 *The lake behind the Gump house in Alabama is the same lake the Forrest rests his buddies at when he rescues them in Vietnam. Arguably a mistake, but it's not noticeably the same lake - just interesting to know.

 *The park bench that Tom Hanks sits on for much of the movie was located in Savannah, GA, at Chippewa Square. The fiberglass bench he sat on has since been removed and placed into a museum to avoid being destroyed by the weather. The church where the feather first falls is about 100 yards just down the street from his bench.

 *While Forrest is running across America the camera shows some wide shots of him running, That man in those shots is really Jim Hanks (Tom Hanks' brother in real life). 

 *While Forrest is running across America the camera shows some wide shots of him running, That man in those shots is really Jim Hanks (Tom Hanks' brother in real life).

 *When Forrest tell lt. Dan he is going to be a shrimp boat captain, Lt. Dan says "yeah, and I'm an astronaut." The next movie Tom Hanks and Gary Sinese made together was Apollo 13 where they were both astronauts...

 *Forrest's son is played by Haley Joel Osment, the adorable kid that later achieved great fame as the troubled Cole in the "The Sixth Sense".

 *12 minutes into the film, when young Forrest is on the School Bus, the little girl that shakes her head 'no' is Elisabeth Hanks, daughter of Tom Hanks.

 *Forrest has his eyes closed on every picture you see of him in the film.

 *In the original script, every member of Forrest's platoon in Vietnam was supposed to be mildly retarded like him. This was an experimental practice of the Army in the Vietnam War; the Army tried allowing soldiers with lower IQs to enlist, but put them all in platoons together. Because this led to so many discipline problems, the Army is not particularly proud of it and threatened not to work with the filmmakers at all if they left the platoon like that. As a result, only Forrest and Bubba are noticeably below average intelligence

 *Before Tom Hanks was cast as Forrest, Bill Murray was interested in the part.

 *The helicopters in the first Vietnam camp scene consist of one helicopter being superimposed many times over. All the helicopters are fake.

 

 And Thats All I have to Say About That.....:-)

 

If you or someone you know is thinking of buying or selling property in Chilliwack or the Fraser Valley Area of B.C., please give Liz Moras, Associate Broker & REALTOR® of Re/Max Nyda Realty, a call!  Call Liz at 604-799-0459 or e-mail at lizmoras@shaw.ca. Be sure to check out Liz's website www.lizmoras.com and blog at www.lizmoras.activerain.com.

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