# Let's make up first drafts of famous lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786 "2016-05-03T16:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/181 "2016-05-06T04:52:55Z")
“Eat, drink, and do Mary!” “Hey, look me over, lend me your rear!” ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/182 "2016-05-06T08:09:47Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > This one’s a Far Side cartoon: > Two scientists doing an experiment. One scientist is pouring various substances onto a duck’s back while the second one is at a blackboard writing down the results: > > “Milk off a duck’s back” > “Water off a duck’s back” > “Acid off a duck’s back” (crossed out) That makes two _Far Side_ cartoons with this shtick, then—see [post 119](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19306075&postcount=119). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/183 "2016-05-06T14:01:23Z")
Pay close attention to my words. You had better do a good job of convincing me we need to raise greater revenues. You know how everyone tells you things were so good in the old days? Let’s do something hoooooge to have that once more. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/184 "2016-05-06T14:47:44Z")
Rose garden! (Drops snowglobe with melted snowman) ---
**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:** [May 6, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/185 "2016-05-06T16:19:22Z")
I’m in the Mojave on a yet to be named filly. Chartreuse precipitation, chartreuse precipitation There’s this particular woman acquaintance of mine who is so rich she thinks she can purchase a blessed afterlife ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/186 "2016-05-06T16:57:31Z")
"A - Always B- Be C- Considerate! Always be considerate!" ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/187 "2016-05-06T16:58:23Z")
Forget it, Jake. Its Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/188 "2016-05-06T17:52:31Z")
Love means having to say you’re sorry. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/189 "2016-05-06T18:24:28Z")
“You are, Number Six!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/190 "2016-05-06T18:28:00Z")
“Ask not what your country can do \*\*for \*\*you, ask what your country can do \*\*to \*\*you!” ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/191 "2016-05-06T18:35:58Z")
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do your country for. Love means never having to say you’re sorry when you end too soon. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/192 "2016-05-06T18:37:07Z")
Friends, Romans, Countrymen – Listen Up! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/193 "2016-05-06T19:08:09Z")
Lili Von Shtupp: Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are… gifted? [sound of zipper opening] Lili Von Shtupp: Oh, not twue, not twue!!! ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/194 "2016-05-06T19:21:50Z")
My apologies Dave, no f’ing way can I do that. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/195 "2016-05-06T19:32:23Z")
You’ve never heard of the _Millennium Falcon_? It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in 57 Galactic Standard Years from the frame of reference of someone on Kessel, but due to time dilation effects the passengers and crew on board the ship experienced that less than 0.4 Galactic Standard Years had passed in their frame of reference. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/196 "2016-05-06T19:38:11Z")
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his dong. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/197 "2016-05-06T21:24:30Z")
W-T-F, Brutus That is so lame, Brutus Dude, that’s not what, “having my back” means, Brutus ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/198 "2016-05-06T21:49:40Z")
“Odd humans after hours, staring at each other, calculating as to how likely intercourse would be” ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/199 "2016-05-06T21:53:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “You are, Number Six!” I am not a digit!! I am a wandering biped!! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/200 "2016-05-06T23:41:50Z")
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