# 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:** 3
**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 3, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/41 "2016-05-03T18:57:54Z")
It was a dim and tumultuous night. ---
**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 3, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/42 "2016-05-03T18:58:54Z")
I could have been competitive for the championship! ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/43 "2016-05-03T19:00:33Z")
You know how to trill, do you not, Steve? You just put your facial labia in close proximity and expel air from your lungs. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/44 "2016-05-03T19:01:51Z")
Call me Fishmeal. Shit, we forgot the cannoli. Now I’ll have to pick up some more or my wife will have a fit. ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/45 "2016-05-03T19:18:52Z")
Why do you keep saying “inconceivable”? It isn’t! People are going to talk for a long time about how last Sunday the 7th was a really bad day. ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/46 "2016-05-03T19:41:57Z")
Im mad as hell and I have to take it because I have a mortgage and two kids in college. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/47 "2016-05-03T20:15:39Z")
“I’m gonna make him an offer he’ll definitely want to take.” “Soylent Brown is poop!” And, most infuriatingly, “Frankly, my dear, I could care less.” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/48 "2016-05-03T20:19:27Z")
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times! ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/49 "2016-05-03T20:25:04Z")
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that rich single men lurve the ladies. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/50 "2016-05-03T20:31:17Z")
Badges? Badges?? We were told we didn’t need them. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/51 "2016-05-03T20:41:47Z")
Here’s Jack Torrance! ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/52 "2016-05-03T20:43:59Z")
My thumbs itch, Macbeth must be here. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/53 "2016-05-03T20:49:39Z")
_“Rosebutt…”_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/54 "2016-05-03T20:57:06Z")
This one’s from an old cartoon on Playboy: “Eight dozen minus nine years ago… no, no, no — thirteen years less than a century ago… No. I need something better…” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/55 "2016-05-03T21:00:55Z")
“What is transpiring, Doctor?” “If this continues, the Hulk will be compelled to do serious damage to things.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/56 "2016-05-03T21:13:00Z")
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Dave Bowman: What’s the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: I have encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to me. This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart me. ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/57 "2016-05-03T23:32:48Z")
End of Star Wars EP 3 Vader : YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/58 "2016-05-03T23:45:17Z")
“Call me…Steve.” “I shall return in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.” “First rule: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule: Free coffee and Mallomars on Sundays.” “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a pink bunny slipper manufacturer; but that didn’t pan out, so I became a gangster instead.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/59 "2016-05-04T00:54:23Z")
I did not have…cigars…with that woman. ---
**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 4, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/60 "2016-05-04T01:17:06Z")
“Fuck you, Shane!” “Bond. Jimmy Bond,” “Old MacDonald had a farm: F-J-F-J-P.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=4)