“It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!”
“I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.”
“YOU DON'T SMELL FIRE," I yelled. YOU SMELL SMOKE.”
“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”
“I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?""He became engulfed in fire.""Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?”
“Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away”