# Distort a famous quote (game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547 "2003-11-27T07:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![That\_Insufferable\_Jerk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@That\_Insufferable\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Insufferable_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/1 "2003-11-27T07:49:45Z")
The point of the game s to completely change the meaning of a famous quote using as few words as possible. I’ll go first of course… Brad Pitt to Ed Norton, Fight Club “Hit ON me as hard as you can.” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/2 "2003-11-27T08:38:06Z")
“Do not go gentle into that good _k_night.” ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/3 "2003-11-27T08:54:06Z")
“Friends, Romans, Hovercraft…” ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/4 "2003-11-27T09:02:09Z")
“One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a party.” ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/5 "2003-11-27T09:17:47Z")
“I did not have sexual relations with that Mormon…” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/6 "2003-11-27T11:55:59Z")
“It is fun to be in the same arcade with you.” **Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill** ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/7 "2003-11-27T11:59:20Z")
“Ask not what I can do for you, but what you can do for me” ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/8 "2003-11-27T12:01:46Z")
“We shall bite them on the features” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/9 "2003-11-27T12:05:32Z")
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their birthdays.” **John F. Kennedy** ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/10 "2003-11-27T14:34:07Z")
A small step for a man, a giant sheep for mankind **Neil Armstrong** I have in my hand a piece of leper **Neville Chamberlain** Don’t make me Ang Lee. You won’t like me when I’m Ang Lee **Bruce Banner** ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/11 "2003-11-27T14:38:19Z")
“Who bares grins” **SAS motto** ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/12 "2003-11-27T14:38:37Z")
Never have so many done so little so that so few could prosper. I have nothing to offer but booze, oil, beers, and sweets. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/13 "2003-11-27T14:38:42Z")
“Four whores and seven beers ago…” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/14 "2003-11-27T14:49:35Z")
“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then honesty.” **Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)** ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/15 "2003-11-27T15:17:33Z")
“Revenge is a dish best served microwaved.” “Shirley is a date that will live in infamy.” “What baseball thru yonder window breaks…” ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/16 "2003-11-27T15:25:52Z")
“Discretion is the better part of being a cab driver.” ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/17 "2003-11-27T15:41:31Z")
Best World War I slogan: “Making the world safe from democracy.” ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/18 "2003-11-27T15:45:17Z")
“The road to hell is paved with a silver lining.” “People who live in glass houses, shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/19 "2003-11-27T16:07:50Z")
“Read my lips. Several new taxes” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/20 "2003-11-27T16:33:26Z")
Veni, video, vici. [I came, I taped, I conquered] **Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547.md?page=2)