# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/321 "2016-05-17T13:45:17Z")
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**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 17, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/322 "2016-05-17T13:48:39Z")
A Bus Goes Really, Really, Really Fast. Airplane! This time with Snakes on it! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/323 "2016-05-17T15:57:52Z")
I confess I really am rather vexed by the substantial number of dangerous serpents on this aerial conveyance. ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/324 "2016-05-17T16:07:40Z")
Every time you hear a bell ring, an angel gets its wang. ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/325 "2016-05-17T16:24:44Z")
One night to bang cock makes a hard man tumble ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/326 "2016-05-17T16:51:59Z")
Be Bop a Lula is my girlfriend ---
**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:** [May 17, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/327 "2016-05-17T21:47:08Z")
Don’t carry your stick softly; we have Viagra for that. You’re dead, Jim. What? A landfill? It was dark. It was raining. And the wind was blowing pretty hard. Text me, Ishmael. ---
**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 18, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/328 "2016-05-18T07:16:17Z")
I am strangely comfortable with the motherfucking newts on this motherfucking helicopter ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/329 "2016-05-18T13:48:29Z")
Sam, would you be so kind as to once again play that tune? You know, the one you played for us in Paris? That’d be super. Aim carefully and just squeeze the trigger, fellows, so as to carry out this execution well. I wouldn’t rely on that targeting computer if I were you, Luke. Just sayin’. ---
**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 18, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/330 "2016-05-18T14:01:09Z")
Darn those torpedoes! Proceed at maximum velocity! I shall come back some day to the Philippines, when it is safer. ---
**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 18, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/331 "2016-05-18T14:12:23Z")
Old soldiers don’t die until they’re really old. They just get paler and paler and less relevant to everyone else until they seem to disappear altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/332 "2016-05-18T21:03:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Life is like a box of chocolates: stupid people don’t notice the obvious, like the guide inside the box cover that tells you what’s in each one. Funny thing, the literal first draft of this line, from the book, was: “Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.” ---
**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 18, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/333 "2016-05-18T23:16:45Z")
You will never go bust if you bet against the intelligence of the everyday Thrump supporter. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/334 "2016-05-19T12:12:07Z")
“The ring can only be destroyed in the fiery heat of a blacksmiths forge.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/335 "2016-05-19T12:34:21Z")
“Tora! Tora!, I say, my good man, Tora!” ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/336 "2016-05-19T12:49:58Z")
“I’m _Flying Marsupial Man_” ---
**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 19, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/337 "2016-05-19T13:35:09Z")
Who you gonna call? People who believe they can get rid of spirits, though most people know there’s no such thing. They will help get rid of some of your cash, though. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/338 "2016-05-19T13:48:54Z")
Conducting an orbital bombardment with nuclear weapons would be, in my considered judgment, the best method of ensuring the destruction of the xenomorphs. ---
**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 19, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/339 "2016-05-19T14:52:39Z")
Yesterday was a date that will live in unfamousness! ---
**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 19, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/340 "2016-05-19T14:55:12Z")
I’m singing in the drizzle, Just singing in the drizzle, What a glorious feeling, I’m happy with schnitzel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=18)