# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/41 "2003-11-28T01:39:30Z")
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.” ---
**Author:** ![cankerist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@cankerist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cankerist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/42 "2003-11-28T01:44:42Z")
Beer is the mind killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Frank Herbert ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/43 "2003-11-28T02:09:38Z")
“Love is all you seed” The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![cankerist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@cankerist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cankerist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/44 "2003-11-28T02:16:01Z")
Do unto others as they hath done unto you - Arthur Daley ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/45 "2003-11-28T03:40:31Z")
A whore! A whore! My kingdom for a whore! 640 billion dollars ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates I am not a Chinook. - Tricky Dick I refuse to belong to any club that will accept my member. - Groucho Marx ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/46 "2003-11-28T04:43:18Z")
Vini vidi VISA™ I came (to the mall) I saw (all the Xmas gifts for Lobsang) I charged it (to an account I set up with a stolen identity) ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/47 "2003-11-28T08:39:10Z")
Vini, vidi, Venti (I came, I saw, I ordered a cup of coffee–large) Tripler That’s about all I can think of at 1:40AM. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/48 "2003-11-28T08:52:36Z")
Winston Churchill was chastised for being drunk by Lady Astor, “Sir you’re drunk!” which drew his famous riposte “Fuck off.” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/49 "2003-11-28T11:56:59Z")
Veni, vidi, vinci. [I came, I saw, I painted] **Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)** ---
**Author:** ![Farmwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8dc957/32.png) [@Farmwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmwoman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/50 "2003-11-28T13:02:25Z")
“Do you feel plucky?” ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/51 "2003-11-28T13:15:05Z")
“where there’s a will, there’s always somebody around to break it” “don’t get mad, get evil.” ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/52 "2003-11-28T14:18:15Z")
… For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. Oliver Goldsmith: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147. ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/53 "2003-11-28T14:24:39Z")
_(Oops… wrong button :smack: must…not…drink Budweiser…at…lunchtime…)_ For he who drinks and runs away May live to drink another day; But he who is in pissed and on floor lain Can never rise and drink again. **Oliver Goldsmith: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.** ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/54 "2003-11-28T15:10:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*Vini, vidi, Venti > (I came, I saw, I ordered a cup of coffee–large) > > Tripler > \*\* Well, that made me spit my large cup of coffee over the monitor 😃 I may just have top adopt that as a sig. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distort-a-famous-quote-game/215547/55 "2003-11-28T22:20:04Z")
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