Comments on: that’s not an X; this is an X http://snowclones.org/2007/09/21/thats-not-an-x-this-is-an-x/ Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Tue, 15 May 2012 22:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ray Girvan http://snowclones.org/2007/09/21/thats-not-an-x-this-is-an-x/#comment-2856 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:16:34 +0000 http://snowclones.org/?p=43#comment-2856 Most people connect this with Dundee’s line in Crocodile Dundee…

Or second-hand through “Wolf Creek”, which recycled it verbatim to darkly ironic effect. The serial murderer (who is essentially an evil Crocodile Dundee pastiche) quotes it before using his big knife to chop off the fingers of another character trying to defend herself with a small penknife.

]]> By: chris http://snowclones.org/2007/09/21/thats-not-an-x-this-is-an-x/#comment-2602 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:43:41 +0000 http://snowclones.org/?p=43#comment-2602 I prefer the Flight of the Conchords version, something like-

“That’s not a knife.”

“Actually, it is a knife. Run!”

]]> By: coimheadai http://snowclones.org/2007/09/21/thats-not-an-x-this-is-an-x/#comment-1746 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:23:36 +0000 http://snowclones.org/?p=43#comment-1746 “That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife!”

“No it’s not, thats a spoon”

“ah, I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before!”

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