# 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:** 5
**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, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/81 "2016-05-04T06:58:06Z")
Socrates: “I drank what?” ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/82 "2016-05-04T07:16:57Z")
If a bro is out of step with his homeboys, maybe it’s cause he’s listening to an alternative percussionist. ---
**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 4, 2016, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/83 "2016-05-04T07:45:32Z")
Your lack of faith bothers me! Use the transporter to get me back on board, Mr. Scott. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/84 "2016-05-04T07:46:03Z")
You went full intellectually disadvantaged, man. _Never_ go full intellectually disadvantaged. Is it it factually accurate what popular opinion maintains about you people? It’s factually accurate! It’s factually accurate! ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/85 "2016-05-04T09:47:24Z")
Houston - we’re in the shit. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/86 "2016-05-04T12:17:46Z")
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was sawing a woman in half. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/87 "2016-05-04T12:44:46Z")
Do you think you are fortuitous enough to wager on what will happen if I pull the trigger once more, young hooligan? ---
**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, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/88 "2016-05-04T13:10:17Z")
It’s an old Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the dishes. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/89 "2016-05-04T13:27:00Z")
“Christ, it’s fucking obvious Watson.” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/90 "2016-05-04T13:33:08Z")
“Mr. Hyneman expresses a desire to witness a notably energetic exothermic reaction.” ---
**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, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/91 "2016-05-04T13:41:52Z")
War. War is tediously unvarying, don’t you agree? ---
**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 4, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/92 "2016-05-04T14:05:01Z")
Look, Luke, try your best to do it. You’ll either do it or you won’t. But try to do it and if you can’t, there’s always an alternate way to get it done. ---
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/93 "2016-05-04T14:29:14Z")
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird…no, wait I don’t think it’s a bird, after all…I can’t quite make out what it is…can you see it clearly? I wish I had a pair of binoculars…oh, it’s gone now, whatever it was. ---
**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 4, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/94 "2016-05-04T14:32:38Z")
I’m a weird billionaire by day, but at night I go around fighting very strange criminals. And I have a pathological fixation with bats, dressing up like one and having all my accessories start with “bat.” ---
**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, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/95 "2016-05-04T14:33:01Z")
What we’ve got here is… failure to speak clearly. ---
**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, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/96 "2016-05-04T15:08:02Z")
You’ll suffer serious eye damage, kid. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/97 "2016-05-04T15:13:03Z")
Excuse me, I am trying to cross this busy NYC street. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/98 "2016-05-04T15:14:40Z")
Are singling me out in your vision? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/99 "2016-05-04T15:15:40Z")
I am not aware of anyone else I should murder. ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786/100 "2016-05-04T15:15:43Z")
Look, Scotty, I’m in real trouble here. Really, really, really bad trouble. The Klingons have already attacked and killed Ensign Klondike and gotten blood all over his red shirt. So will you please go to your work station, zero in on my coordinates and pull the level that will activate the system that will take me to the transporter pads on the ship? Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-first-drafts-of-famous-lines/753786.md?page=6)