doubleofive said:

My wife has been playing Skyrim for several hours and has never heard anyone say "took an arrow to the knee". It's not as common as the meme would have you believe.

I've watched my room mate play it for hours on end, I've heard it uttered a few times... but obviously not enough times that I didn't have to look up the quote to figure out what it was from.

Every common guard will eventually say that line if you keep talking to them enough times (and my room mate feels the need to talk to EVERYBODY! Watching him play that game makes me want to beat my head into the wall... I am sure it would be intensely exciting if I were the one playing, but after a month of him constantly playing it, I have lost all interest in touching that game anytime in the near future).