# 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:** 11
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/201 "2016-05-07T00:11:34Z")
The quality of mercy is kind of lumpy… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/202 "2016-05-07T00:38:37Z")
> [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](#): > > The quality of mercy is kind of lumpy… I’d say this is the winner so far. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/203 "2016-05-07T00:51:28Z")
I’ll have the mushroom risotto, and I must say, the standards of decorum in this restaurant are rather low. ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/204 "2016-05-07T02:10:20Z")
Space, the place we’re currently exploring… ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/205 "2016-05-07T02:36:19Z")
“To baldly go where no man has gone before!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/206 "2016-05-07T14:46:41Z")
Jesus Christ, pretty nice all around guy. Joseph and his absolutely _fabulous_ coat. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/207 "2016-05-07T18:51:28Z")
All’s well that ends without going sideways. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/208 "2016-05-07T18:54:31Z")
Watson, get your ass in here. I ate his two all liver patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles on a sesame seed bun. ---
**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 7, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/209 "2016-05-07T22:27:29Z")
Hope I die before I get to be 150 years old ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/210 "2016-05-08T23:55:24Z")
87 years ago… ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/211 "2016-05-09T02:37:47Z")
Us the men, in order to make a better confederation… ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/212 "2016-05-09T02:42:09Z")
Fighting ignorance since the early 70s, It ain’t been fixed yet. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/213 "2016-05-09T03:16:42Z")
The Slave-Owning Confederacy of America. “One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice…” Wait a minute… Willkommen, Bagrisuneg, Welcome! Don’t touch me, you stupid ape! How will you make it on you own? This world is awfully big, and girl this time you’re on your own, but you’re an intelligent adult, with an education, and it might be 1970, but you’re white, so really, what the hell are we worried about? Plus, you’re attractive, and will probably nail the first interview you get. Throw the hat. In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two equally important, but unequally compensated groups, the police who put their lives on the line for peanuts, and the lawyers, who drive European cars. These are their stories. ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/214 "2016-05-09T07:32:48Z")
“I came here to bury Caesar – now who brought the shovels?” “Ask not what your country can do for you unless there’s no one else to ask.” “Four score and seven years ago, some guys made a nation.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/215 "2016-05-09T13:19:56Z")
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, to put me in charge. What a great country! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/216 "2016-05-09T13:29:04Z")
[Nero bagpiped while Rome burned](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19316960&postcount=29297) ---
**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 9, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/217 "2016-05-09T13:37:58Z")
We have an urge, an urge to experience high accelerations. I am the candidate and damn right I meant to say that. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all property-owning literate Protestant white men are created equal… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/218 "2016-05-09T13:57:32Z")
Moi? Boink that cow Lewinsky? Hardly. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/219 "2016-05-09T14:13:35Z")
Be thus informed, fellow Maia, that progress beyond this point is prohibited. FLAME OF UDUN! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/220 "2016-05-09T14:26:10Z")
I made him a really, really, really fair offer that I thought he couldn’t refuse. He refused it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=12)