Context

This misquoted line is spoken by Lady Lou, played by Mae West, in the film She Done Him Wrong, directed by Lowell Sherman (1933).

Mae West was a delicious dame whose husky voice and sultry attitude is often imitated, so it's ironic that everyone imitates her wrong. In the film She Done Him Wrong, the bawdy Lady Lou, played by West, tells Cary Grant's character, "Why don't you come up sometime 'n' see me?" But many people rearrange the words as, "Why don't you come up 'n' see me sometime?"

For what? Eating Goldfish crackers and playing cribbage?

Where you've heard it

You've heard this if someone is inviting you over for Goldfish crackers and cribbage. Or you're heard it from Mae West herself, who turned her misquote into a song in 1933.

There's an album of songs by Mae West that takes this misquote as its title.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

The misquote is actually more popular than the original quote, so you kind of sound pretentious if you say it right, like pronouncing "sauna" as "sow-na."