# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/381 "2016-05-26T13:57:06Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Plus, even on a pretty day, it can get kinda windy. Hell, summer clears out before the rent comes due. ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/382 "2016-05-26T13:59:22Z")
Would you kindly remove your derriere from the coach cushion I always sit on? ---
**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 26, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/383 "2016-05-26T14:14:10Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Hell, summer clears out before the rent comes due. And I sweat like a pig. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/384 "2016-05-26T14:30:44Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > And I sweat like a pig. Is that for “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,” or is your AC out? 😃 In any event, it’s a pleasure dancing with you, RivkahChaya! ---
**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 26, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/385 "2016-05-26T14:36:01Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Is that for “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,” or is your AC out? 😃 Nah, sometimes it’s overcast, but it’s still humid. ---
**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 26, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/386 "2016-05-26T14:41:24Z")
Detroit’s football and baseball teams and Chicago’s football team? Oh, my! ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/387 "2016-05-26T14:46:53Z")
Hey, everybody needs some “work” done, right? ---
**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 26, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/388 "2016-05-26T15:00:09Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Hey, everybody needs some “work” done, right? Even pretty days, they fade, so, bad idea for a comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/389 "2016-05-26T15:09:36Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Even pretty days, they fade, so, bad idea for a comparison. (OnetwothreeOnetwothree) Who knows what could randomly spoil it? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/390 "2016-05-26T23:16:44Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Forget it, Jake - it’s downtown San Francisco. > > Or maybe > > Toodles, > Shodan Okay, it’s now _three weeks later_ and I’m digging dandelions… Listening to a book, spacing out, and it occurs to me, “Shodan changed his sig in the ‘first drafts of famous lines’ thread! That’s great!” ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/391 "2016-05-27T00:45:21Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > (OnetwothreeOnetwothree) Who knows what could randomly spoil it? Heck, you’re so cool, you probably won’t even die. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/392 "2016-05-27T11:17:25Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Heck, you’re so cool, you probably won’t even die. You’ll always be so beautiful…to me. ---
**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 27, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/393 "2016-05-27T11:20:02Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > You’ll always be so beautiful…to me. So as long as people breathe or see, ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/394 "2016-05-27T15:43:23Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > So as long as people breathe or see, They’ll read this poem, and think of the… sea? flea? pea? bee? knee? tree? Dammit…(scratches head with quill) ---
**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 27, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/395 "2016-05-27T17:10:35Z")
It may surprise you to know that, although I never ask them to, ghosts appear to me with some regularity. ---
**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 28, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/396 "2016-05-28T00:03:55Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > They’ll read this poem, and think of the… > > sea? > flea? > pea? > bee? > knee? > tree? > Dammit…(scratches head with quill) Excellent. 😃 ---
**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 28, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/397 "2016-05-28T15:16:49Z")
Sing us a song, that’s what we pay you for As we sit here and slowly get stoned. You’ll be in this bar for the rest of your life. As far as talent goes, you have none. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/398 "2016-05-28T15:23:54Z")
“I am serious, and stop calling me Murgatroyd.” “I’m currently ambulating in this location! I’m currently ambulating in this location!” ---
**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 28, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/399 "2016-05-28T17:54:35Z")
I’d much prefer to rumpus rather than undergo any metamorphosis. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/400 "2016-05-29T01:53:01Z")
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