# 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:** 4
**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 4, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/61 "2016-05-04T01:19:29Z")
“Look, Daddy! Teacher says, every time a bell rings, an angel punks a banker.” ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/62 "2016-05-04T01:24:16Z")
Be vewy quiet…I’m hunting pwostitutes! ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/63 "2016-05-04T01:28:34Z")
The Sheriff is pretty close! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/64 "2016-05-04T02:05:41Z")
Mos Eisley Spaceport. This place is basically jerktown. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/65 "2016-05-04T02:13:39Z")
“Prune danishes are for closers!” ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/66 "2016-05-04T02:35:16Z")
Hello. My name is Ishmael. Nice to meet you. I’m sure this sea voyage will be a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/67 "2016-05-04T02:49:55Z")
My name is Inigo Montoya. Pleased to meet you. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/68 "2016-05-04T02:50:25Z")
The sky above the port was the electric blue of a television tuned to a dead HDMI channel. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/69 "2016-05-04T02:52:16Z")
I’m the best at what I do, and what I do is, quite frankly, unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/70 "2016-05-04T03:31:37Z")
I can’t carry the ring for you, Master Frodo…so hop in the wheelbarrow, and let’s trundle! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/71 "2016-05-04T03:39:36Z")
I know what you’re thinking- did he fire 6 shots or only 5? But seeing as how this is a 44 Magnum and would blow your head clean off, you have to ask yourself: 'Gee, I wonder if he still has any bullets left." ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/72 "2016-05-04T03:48:30Z")
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic cheese Danish. ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/73 "2016-05-04T03:50:35Z")
Howard Dork laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/74 "2016-05-04T03:55:29Z")
“What is it?” “The, ah, stuff, ah, I’m guessing lead with a coat of black enamel.” “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, we’ve screwed up and have to print a correction.” “I would be grateful if you would let me observe the filthy lucre.” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/75 "2016-05-04T04:10:20Z")
Luke… I bonked your mother. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/76 "2016-05-04T04:57:20Z")
Luke . . . I’m your second cousin, once removed. Toto . . . I don’t know where we are, maybe somewhere outside Wichita. Frankly my dear . . . wait, what did you say? I am Bond. But you can call me Jimmy. Howard Roard stubbed his toe. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/77 "2016-05-04T05:10:41Z")
“Where’s my fucking sled?” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/78 "2016-05-04T05:44:58Z")
“What we’ve got here is a failure to mime naked, all slathered in fish oil.” “You’re a sometimes obtuse, peevish-minded, devious fucking fuckstick…Mr. Grinch.” "I know what Aunt Doris (who recently had a bad fall) is thinking: Will Dotty bring over five marigold flower seedlings, or six? And goodness to gracious, in all the hullaballoo of their next-door neighbour Winnie’s humming-along garage sale, poor old Aunt Doris just couldn’t _quite_ remember. But being that Dotty is also packing heat, of apparently some considerable power (so old Ned Biggams told her, anyway), and would apparently cause some damage to her pyracntha and fuschia trellice, Aunt Doris had to speculate, well, basically one conundrum: as to whether or not the rest of her day would bring her the good fortune and serene resonance that so often filled her wonderfully-sun-setted days. ‘Well, do you, Aunt Doris?’ she pondered. The hesitant, nerdish, wussy, scared-shitless butt-tarts come out to PLAAAYY-AYY!!! ---
**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, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/79 "2016-05-04T05:45:10Z")
“I’m late, I’m late, for a very important appointment.” “To be the first to see new places. Boldly.” “‘To be, or not to be’; is that a question?” ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/80 "2016-05-04T05:59:33Z")
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