Now that you mention it ... It's a deceptively powerful phrase, that off-hand remark. It suggests permission to proceed, subject broached, time to take off the gloves.

NOW THAT I think about it, there was something noteworthy that occurred at last week's Republican presidential debate.

"From the beginning, there has been evil in the world."

He added: "Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games. The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool."

Now that I think about it, we'll probably hear it from just about anyone who gets the nod.

In the Jersey City Salvation Army Home John J. Daggett walked in his sleep, walked through a second story window, fell to the ground, awoke. He walked upstairs, reported the accident, lit a cigaret. An ambulance surgeon saw smoke escaping from John Daggett's neck, found his windpipe had been nearly severed. Said Smoker Daggett: "Now that you mention it, I noticed I wasn't getting much out of this cigaret."

The central, vexing paradox of smoking: that in return for death, cigarettes give pleasure. Justifiable pleasure? Of course not. What Kant deemed "negative pleasure"? Perhaps. But pleasure nonetheless.

"I am really tired of the way red heads are portrayed, in literature, in movies, in advertising. Now that I think about it, every off beat, quirky, venal, sadistic, bad-tempered and lascivious character is a red head."

Gillian Anderson hates TV. I mean, she really hates it. Oh, to be good at something you hate. Wait: Now that I think about it, maybe Gillian is on to something.

"Now that I think about it, it might be good with peaches," she said.

"It's a colloquialism." She compared it to a figure of speech: "Like asking someone, 'Are you high?' when you're actually saying, 'Are you serious?' "
When the term's connection to spousal abuse was pointed out, she seemed surprised. "Now that you mention it, I'm like, damn!" she said.

Now that I think about it, I guess there is an overarching design principle here. It’s sort of like elementary school architecture.

"But, now that you mention it, I’m totally up for it. Unless it was for something really offensive!"

Now that I think about it, maybe Canada would be interested in turning over responsibility of protecting those oil reserves to America.

"Now that you mention it, I am in a bit of a rush. I have so much to do today. So much to undo, rather."

Now that I think about it, forced dependency probably is the most prized gift a parent can give to their children.

"So, you're going to build a new house around old things," he says.
"Well, now that you mention it, I guess so," I reply.

It’s more fun than TV, because every time you watch television you kill brain cells. Now that I think about it, maybe the Internet is better.

Well, now that you mention it, it does ring a bell...can I have some chili cheese fries....oooooohh...with lots of extra cheese...I love cheese!

"The sport of choice is called ‘stay alive,’ and that one never ends," Wood said. "We have no time for anything organized. ... We can’t even go outside our hootches without full gear and a rifle, [but] that’d be a hell of a game actually now that I think about it."

BOETTCHER: He also referred to President George Bush as a modern-day pharaoh, which is heavily weighted in the Koranic text, a lesson that tells of the failure of arrogance and how the pharaohs fell because they thought they were equals to God. So this was a message being sent to the administration in many different ways and to U.S. allies around the world, Paula.
ZAHN: Now that you mention it, why don't we play that short portion of the tape that mentions, makes that reference, to Bush the pharaoh. Let's listen in.

At around 12 my parents sent me to this camp that - now that I think about it - was for hard-headed youth in need of some direction.

The beauty of The OuchKit is that it’s not an exercise. It’s a set of cards that help you communicate from a distance when when you're not ready to talk in-person. There are six kinds of cards: Ouch, Sorry, Thanks, You're Welcome, I've Been Wondering, Now That You Mention it. On the back of each card are fill-in-the-blank questions and checklists of emotions that help you identify and express what you’re feeling. For example, the Ouch card says, "I felt bad when you ..." "To me it meant that you ... " "If I assume the best about you, I imagine that you..." The checklist includes: hurt, unappreciated, rejected, jealous, invisible.

My dad used to actually call himself The Idea Man. He was in the advertising business, and that always kind of used to make me laugh. Now that I think about it, he reminds me of Wendell in some ways — in terms of being pumped up in the morning and really excited and always moving from one idea to the other.

But you know, now that I think about it, a clock being able to adjust itself twice a year is no great shakes.

Neal Boortz, suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution: "I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard here in Atlanta and have a job. What's that? Well, no, no, no. ... Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it ... [i]f that's the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers."

He has an aversion to strange, unknown particles of food floating around, possibly touching his hand. (Now that I think about it, it does sound gross.)

"I don’t think that I’ve ever thought that going to take a class would be a brilliant way to meet somebody. But now that you mention it ..."

Now that I think about it, YouTube’s challenges would make a great series of little videos on, well, YouTube.

In fact, now that I think about it, Detroit has behaved vis a vis Japan almost exactly as the Democratic Party has behaved vis a vis the Republican Party.

Now that I think about it, a nation’s people are its monuments.

"I have friends back at home... now that I think about it, they are more acquaintances."

Now that I think about it, they don't like me much, either.

"Hell, now that I think about it, I don't even know that many black tattoo artists."

Which, now that I think about it, would give new meaning to the phrase "stiff drink."