{"id":22,"date":"2010-11-29T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/celebrate-a-life-leslie-nielsens-funniest-quotes.html"},"modified":"2010-11-29T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:38:38","slug":"celebrate-a-life-leslie-nielsens-funniest-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/celebrate-a-life-leslie-nielsens-funniest-quotes.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate a Life: Leslie Nielsen&#8217;s Funniest Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/leslie%20nielsen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"leslie nielsen.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/210\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/leslie nielsen-thumb-200x249-19751.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8220;Cheer up, Ed. This is not goodbye. It&#8217;s just I won&#8217;t ever see you again.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><strong>Rumack:<\/strong>&nbsp;Can you fly this plane, and land it?<br \/><strong>Ted Striker:<\/strong>&nbsp;Surely you can&#8217;t be serious.&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Rumack:<\/strong>&nbsp;I am serious &#8230; and don&#8217;t call me Shirley.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><strong>Lt. Frank Drebin:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jane, since I&#8217;ve met you, I&#8217;ve noticed things that I never knew were there before&#8230; birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 16px\">This is Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements here: one, guns to be thrown down; two, come on out!<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheer up, Ed. This is not goodbye. 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Frank Drebin:&nbsp;Jane, since I&#8217;ve met you, I&#8217;ve noticed things that I never knew were there before&#8230; birds singing,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny-leslie-nielsen-quotes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrate a Life: Leslie Nielsen&#039;s Funniest Quotes - Good News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/celebrate-a-life-leslie-nielsens-funniest-quotes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrate a Life: Leslie Nielsen&#039;s Funniest Quotes - Good News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Cheer up, Ed. 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