# "Don't scream, until I stop."

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013 "2019-08-21T18:51:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013/1 "2019-08-21T18:51:27Z")

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This wandered into my head as a sort of punchline looking for a setup, but I have no idea what to do with it. It sounds like a music lyric to me. Maybe from a Death Metal tune or a particularly rude Punk love song. I’m leaning more toward a Death Cab For Cutie song–slow and melodic, verse after subtle verse sung to an unnamed but extremely codependent “You” detailing increasingly egregious slights, insults, and abuses that “You” maybe hate yourself for craving; every verse ending in “Don’t scream until I stop” except for the last verse which tacks on “breathing”.  
Or it could be a bumper sticker aimed at tailgaters, I dunno. How would you use the phrase?

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**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013/2 "2019-08-22T00:29:25Z")

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I like your bumpersticker idea best, but I’m also hearing it in my head as a very specific lyric to a very vague thrash metal song, maybe by Slayer, or Metal Church, but mmm seems more early Overkill or early Megadethish to me. If it were something slow and melodic, I’m hearing it in a song by W.A.S.P.

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**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013/3 "2019-08-23T18:59:33Z")

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I can picture a ham-fisted dental hygienist saying this a lot.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-scream-until-i-stop/839013/4 "2019-08-23T19:07:13Z")

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Sounds like something Blahzay Rose would sing.

[Toolbox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMC9bpRjzs) is quite disturbing.

[She was signed with ICP. I know they’re douches, but the girl’s got talent]