well I ain't building no bookcase
a sarcastic response to the query "what are you doing?""what are you doing with that" when your exact intentions are clearly obvious
comes from a
line from a line in the 4th episode of the HBO series BOARDWALK EMPIRE by bootlegger Chalky White as played by Michael K. Williams (
Omar from The Wire) orating the grand wizerd of the
kkk about the lynching
death of his father shortly before torturing him
Chalky's
dead father was a carpentor.Chalky whips out his old carpentry tools, the klansman responds "what are you going to do with them?" chalky responds
"well I ain't building no bookcase"