I held an impromptu movie quote trivia contest recently with the prize being the right/honor/punishment/opportunity to write a guest entry here. My close personal friend and former coworker Gavin won, and then promptly dropped the ball and didn’t write me an entry. It’s been almost two weeks now and he’s barely updating his own journal, let alone writing for mine, so I’m farming the job out. I’m offering his guest entry to someone else — preferably someone who’ll actually write one.

I think we’ll have another movie quote contest to choose Gavin’s replacement since the last contest worked so well. I’ll even do you a favor this time and use a quote with the character’s name in it. Identify the movie this quote comes from and you’ll be the big winner. First place is a guest entry here. Second place is you don’t have to write one. No fair Googling. Go:

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yes sir, the check is in the mail.”

Hear it in .mp3.