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*** The main version of the story ends with the Sultan ending the custom of executing his wives thanks to Scheherezade, so it should be for good. Some later writers did add a DownerEnding, though.
*** The main version of the story ends with the Sultan ending the custom of executing his wives thanks to Scheherezade, so it should be for good. Some later writers did add a DownerEnding, though.
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* In the first [[MenInBlack Men In Black]] film, Agent J does this (and takes quite a beating) while Agent K "goes to get his gun". [[spoiler: After the Big Bad swallowed it.]]
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->"Now, I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal privilege, that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. In other words, I've got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it."\\
--'''Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), [[MrSmithGoesToWashington Mr. Smith Goes To Washington]]'''
--'''Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), [[MrSmithGoesToWashington Mr. Smith Goes To Washington]]'''
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--'''Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), [[MrSmithGoesToWashington Mr. Smith Goes To Washington]]'''
-->-- '''Jefferson Smith''', '''''MrSmithGoesToWashington'''''
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* MJ in the Sensational Annual. During Civil War she's caught by a SHIELD agent, she starts talking about her and Peter's relationship, about how they got together. At one point the agent calls her on it, tell her she's in trouble, that this isn't a time time to reminisce. When he pulls her up he sees a spider tracer lying on the bench she was sitting on. And Spider-Man's about to come through the window. Turns out MJ was just stalling time for Peter to be able to get there to save her.
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* MJ in the Sensational Annual. During Civil War she's caught by a SHIELD agent, she starts talking about her and Peter's relationship, about how they got together. At one point the agent calls her on it, tell her she's in trouble, that this isn't a time time to reminisce. When he pulls her up he sees a spider tracer lying on the bench she was sitting on. And Spider-Man's about to come through the window. Turns out MJ was just stalling time for Peter to be able to get there to save her.
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* In the Marvel Universe, MJ in the Sensational Annual. During Civil War she's caught by a SHIELD agent, she starts talking about her and Peter's relationship, about how they got together. At one point the agent calls her on it, tell her she's in trouble, that this isn't a time time to reminisce. When he pulls her up he sees a spider tracer lying on the bench she was sitting on. And Spider-Man's about to come through the window. Turns out MJ was just stalling time for Peter to be able to get there to save her.
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** The MostTriumphantExample might be a German football match. The two commentators had to hold the floor for above an hour since one of the goals had just broken down and fallen, while the second goal they got was too small. The commentators even earned an award for their performance and their filibuster had more views than the actual game.
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** The MostTriumphantExample might be There was a German football match. The match where two commentators had to hold the floor for above an hour since one of the goals had just broken down and fallen, while the second goal they got was too small. The commentators even earned an award for their performance and their filibuster had more views than the actual game.
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* Every kind of delay in simulcasts results in the commentators doing this.
** The MostTriumphantExample might be a German football match. The two commentators had to hold the floor for above an hour since one of the goals had just broken down and fallen, while the second goal they got was too small. The commentators even earned an award for their performance and their filibuster had more views than the actual game.
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* Every kind of delay in simulcasts results in the commentators doing this.
** The MostTriumphantExample might be a German football match. The two commentators had to hold the floor for above an hour since one of the goals had just broken down and fallen, while the second goal they got was too small. The commentators even earned an award for their performance and their filibuster had more views than the actual game.
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->Timon: [[DarkActionGirl Shenzi]] [[OverlyLongName Marie Predatora Veldetta Jacquelina Hyena]]...would you do me the honor of becoming...my bride?
->Pumbaa: JawDrop.
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->Pumbaa: JawDrop.
-->'''Pumbaa:''' ''*JawDrop*''
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Arlo Guthrie was opening for some other band. They hadn't shown up yet. So, Arlo created and performed the (rather long) song ''Alice's Restaurant'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome right there on the spot]].
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* Arlo Guthrie was opening for some other band. They hadn't shown up yet. So, Arlo created and performed the (rather long) song ''Alice's Restaurant'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome right there on the spot]].
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Compare WeNeedADistraction, DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu. Contrast TalkingIsAFreeAction.
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Compare WeNeedADistraction, DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu. May be part of a ScheherazadeGambit. Contrast TalkingIsAFreeAction.
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* On ''ParksAndRecreation'', Leslie holds a town hall meeting to get public support for her plan to turn Lot 48 into a park, but the only people who show up hate the idea. To avoid an inevitable negative vote, she gives a brief history of the town which eventually degenerates into her attempting to read ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' aloud in its entirety.
-->'''Paul''': My god, she's filibustering her own meeting!
-->'''Paul''': My god, she's filibustering her own meeting!
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* ''Muertitos'': Ankhmutes' mother has to ask her to continue the filibuster while she goes to the bathroom. Since she has no interest in what's being discussed, she just reads her fanfics aloud instead.
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* Atticus, from ToKillAMockingBird has to give a fillibuster in court...because, well, he's a lawyer. An incredibly awesome speech it is, too.
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* Senator Ted Kennedy mentions in his biography that President Reagan once pulled something like this on him. At one point, when called to a meeting with Kennedy and several other senators on the subject of shoe and textile import limits, Reagan [[http://reason.com/blog/2009/09/03/real-men-know-that-shoes-are-m asked Kennedy about his shoes and then rambled on about how he used to sell shoes for his father for over 20 minutes.]] The policies in question never did get discussed. Kennedy does not seem to have realized that Reagan may well have been employing a Presidential filibuster so that he could kill their policy proposal without having to reject it outright.
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Arlo Guthrie was opening for some other band. They hadn't shown up yet. So, Arlo created and performed the (rather long) song ''Alice's Restaurant'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome right there on the spot]].
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Arlo Guthrie was opening for some other band. They hadn't shown up yet. So, Arlo created and performed the (rather long) song ''Alice's Restaurant'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome right there on the spot]].
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* In the eighth book of ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, Klaus and Sunny disguise themselves as surgeons (yes, Sunny's a baby and no, no one notices) to try to stop the "cranioectomy" (read: decapitation) about to be performed on an anesthetized Violet at the hospital by Count Olaf and his henchmen. However, once they enter the operating theater, they realize they have no direct way of stopping the plan, so they try to explain the "surgery" to be performed to the observers in great detail to give Violet the chance to wake up and escape. They end up having to explain the history of the knife, among other things, in order to stall for time.
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** In the ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Looking for ''Par'mach'' in all the Wrong Places", Quark demands the Ferengi Right of Statement during a duel with a Klingon to give Worf and Dax the opportunity to fix the mechanism that allows them to remote control Quark's body during the duel. The Klingons give it to him as he has respected their traditions and they should respect his.
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** In the ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Looking for ''Par'mach'' in all the Wrong Places", Quark demands the Ferengi Right of Statement Proclamation during a duel with a Klingon to give Worf and Dax the opportunity to fix the mechanism that allows them to remote control Quark's body during the duel. The Klingons give it to him as he has respected their traditions and they should respect his.
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* Left wing Labour MP Dennis Skinner (and several others asking questions) [[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/jan/20/richmond-yorks-by-election spent several hours on 20th January 1989 moving a writ for a by-election in order to stop an anti-abortion bill being debated.]]
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** A somewhat silly example in that [[RedLetterMedia the initial conversation takes exactly as long as the distraction that follows it]].
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** [=McCoy=] also does this in ''Vulcan's Forge'', again with Romulans.
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** [=McCoy=] also does this in ''Vulcan's Forge'', ''Spock's World'', again with Romulans.
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* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]], a character who embodies this method of dealing with an imminent crap/fan gestalt, lampshades this trope in the series 5 episode "Blood and Stone". As the Weeping Angels are closing in on him inside the crashed ship, he buys himself time to escape by Holding the Floor. As he runs off amid their confusion, he actually yells back to them, “And I'll tell you something else. Never let me talk.”
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* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]], a character who embodies this method of dealing with an imminent crap/fan gestalt, lampshades this trope in the series 5 episode "Blood "Flesh and Stone". As the Weeping Angels are closing in on him inside the crashed ship, he buys himself time to escape by Holding the Floor. As he runs off amid their confusion, he actually yells back to them, “And I'll tell you something else. Never let me talk.”
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** McCoy also does this in ''Vulcan's Forge'', again with Romulans.
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* In ''King Solomon's Mines'', the heroes take advantage of a ConvenientEclipse to impress an African tribe with their power to "kill the moon". At the time of the eclipse they pretend to perform a ritual, which (banking on the natives not knowing English) in fact consists of long nonsense speeches strung together for as long as the eclipse lasts.
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-->'''Crusher:''' Twenty Borg are about to break through that door and we need a distraction!
-->'''EMH:''' That's not part of my program.
-->'''Crusher:''' I don't care! Do a dance, tell a story, I don't care!
-->'''EMH:''' That's not part of my program.
-->'''Crusher:''' I don't care! Do a dance, tell a story, I don't care!
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-->'''Crusher:''' Twenty Borg are about to break through that door and we door. We need a distraction!
-->'''EMH:''' That's not part of my program. \n I'm a doctor, not a doorstop.
-->'''Crusher:'''I don't care! Do a dance, tell a story, I don't care!care! We only need a few seconds.
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-->'''EMH:''' According to Starfleet medical records, Borg implants are supposed to irritate the skin.cause severe skin irritation. Would you like an analgesic cream?
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* In Mike Reed's FlameWarriors, "[[http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/filibuster.htm Filibuster]]" is the person who will defeat his opponents by posting long WallsOfText and letting no one else speak.
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* In Mike Reed's FlameWarriors, Flame Warriors, "[[http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/filibuster.htm Filibuster]]" is the person who will defeat his opponents by posting long WallsOfText and letting no one else speak.
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* In Mike Reed's FlameWarriors, "[[http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/filibuster.htm Filibuster]]" is the person who will defeat his opponents by posting long WallsOfText and letting no one else speak.
* In Mike Reed's FlameWarriors, "[[http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/filibuster.htm Filibuster]]" is the person who will defeat his opponents by posting long WallsOfText and letting no one else speak.
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*In ''Ocean's Thirteen", Basher dresses up as a stunt man that Willy Bank has hired for his grand opening and yells at Bank about the nature of his payment in order to distract Bank from the fact that Virgil is hacking in and digitally altering the photos of the gang that are being sent to him.
