# Let's make up first drafts of famous lines

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786>\
**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:** 7\
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**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:** [January 19, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/421 "2017-01-19T15:44:24Z")

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I swear to protect and defend the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America.

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**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:** [January 19, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/422 "2017-01-19T15:50:25Z")

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Give me liberty or give me a sex robot and a pound of cocaine.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/423 "2017-01-19T21:08:59Z")

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In a hole in the ground there lived a funny little creature which I just made up.

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**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/424 "2017-01-20T01:04:14Z")

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The only thing we have to fear is…THAT THING!

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/425 "2017-01-20T01:50:06Z")

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When I was just a little yahoo, my dad told me something I can’t never forget: “When you see someone mooning over some idiot with a green light”, he said, “remember that some people were born dirt poor and never got no good education, other than maybe in rum-running.”

My God, April is a real fucking bitch, raining all the damned time and making the ground look like shit by melting all the fucking snow. Let me sleep!

i am way too fixated  
on

a red  
wheelbarrow

bought cheap  
from kmart

full of knick-knacks  
you picked up at Pier 1

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/426 "2017-01-20T01:54:52Z")

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“God made everything, and that was just for openers.”

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/427 "2017-01-20T02:57:19Z")

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T-800 to the desk cop: “I will try again later”

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