[Prospero]

"You can’t cry ‘fire’ in a crowded theater."

Every time someone quotes, I think it's Justice Holmes, and repeats this most stale conventional wisdom I have to ask what immediately comes to mind. What if the theater is on fire?

And I'm sympathetic to this Rick and 'tother.

[magritte]

Or when you shout “Fire” and everybody tells you to sit down and shut up...