# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> “That’s a bold move, Cotton.”

Dodgeball!

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> “No one makes me bleed my own blood.”

Ben Stiller in Dodgeball

> [@Smapti](#):
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> My mom’s the only other woman I’ve ever known who could take a sandwich like that.

Chris Farley in Coneheads

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
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That’s not his blood.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/265 "2022-04-04T13:47:00Z")

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Which one of you wants to be a general?

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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
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> [@Galactus](#):
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> Lighten up, Francis. -

Stripes.

“Did she change her hair?”

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/267 "2022-04-04T13:55:35Z")

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She lives in God’s house with Jesus and Mary and the ghost and the long-eared donkey and Joseph and the talking walnut.

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**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/268 "2022-04-04T14:18:01Z")

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> [@Nars\_Glinley](#):
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> “Did she change her hair?”

_Star Trek II_.

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Hmm let’s add another from the same movie:

“‘Embezzling’ is such an ugly word, Mr. Bradley.”

“Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for three years ago.”

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/269 "2022-04-04T14:24:47Z")

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> [@Jack\_Burden](#):
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> “Wow, 18 years of nothing, and now twice in one day! What a place!”

Heavy Metal

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**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/270 "2022-04-04T14:48:09Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Which one of you wants to be a general?

Dirty Dozen?

(I’ll reserve my NFL for later.)

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/271 "2022-04-04T14:57:37Z")

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> [@Kzbre5m](#):
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> Dirty Dozen?

Yes!  
With the great reply “I’d rather be a civilian sir.”

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/272 "2022-04-04T15:01:46Z")

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Yes! (And probably not “non-famous” enough, seeing as how @SwissMan got it in six minutes!)

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**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/273 "2022-04-04T15:33:44Z")

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“i just, uh, cut them up like regular chickens?”

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**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/274 "2022-04-04T16:00:47Z")

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> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> But when you dig up the loot under the big W will you change your mind?

That’s gotta be from [_It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/) (1963).

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/275 "2022-04-04T16:22:43Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Game over man! Game over!

Aliens

Try this one:

“Boy, when I die, I hope I go to Accra!”

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/276 "2022-04-04T16:37:47Z")

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“It defeats its own purpose.”

j

ETA

> [@Crane](#):
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> “…You ever think of that?”

Grrr - I know this - it’s…it’s…it’s

Is it from True Confessions?

ETA 2: Or Blade Runner?

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/277 "2022-04-04T16:39:33Z")

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“Laugh it up, fuzz ball!”

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Which one of you wants to be a general?

Lee Marvin in _ **The Dirty Dozen** _.

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/279 "2022-04-04T16:44:57Z")

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> [@psiekier](#):
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> > [@Ponderoid](#):
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> > But when you dig up the loot under the big W will you change your mind?
> 
> That’s gotta be from [_It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/) (1963).

I think this was in response to the “I didn’t want to move to California” line.

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**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\
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> [@Treppenwitz](#):
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> Is it from True Confessions?

Naw…I reposted it up thread:

“Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. Did you ever think of that?”

Stalag 17

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/281 "2022-04-04T16:50:33Z")

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Ah - missed that, sorry. There’s a lot going on in this thread.

j

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