# Lines that always spell trouble **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383 "2009-04-17T04:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/1 "2009-04-17T04:19:19Z")
“Peoples of the Earth…” “Hey you; yeh, YOU, I’m talking to YOU!” “All right, if you insist…” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/2 "2009-04-17T04:37:12Z")
“The boss wants to see you in his office.” “Remember that one-night stand we had nine months ago?” “After that big fight we had, I went over to my ex’s house, and one thing led to another…” “We can’t discuss your test results over the phone. Can you come to the doctor’s office today?” “I’m from the IRS. About your tax return…” “Police! Open up!” And the all-time classic: “We need to talk.” ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/3 "2009-04-17T05:06:03Z")
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…” ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/4 "2009-04-17T05:14:59Z")
“I’ll be right back.” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/5 "2009-04-17T05:22:55Z")
“I can…almost…reach it…” “Ohhh! He looks so cute!” “Just four more weeks 'till retirement!” “What does this button do?” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/6 "2009-04-17T05:25:11Z")
If anyone asks you, “You haven’t told anyone else about this, have you?” that person is about to kill you. So go ahead and have a little fun – say that you told your worst enemy. If you’re going to die, why not take your worst enemy with you? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/7 "2009-04-17T06:29:37Z")
“I have good news, and I have bad news.” Nobody cares about the good news. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/8 "2009-04-17T06:35:24Z")
Maybe not so much in movies, but any time there’s drinking going on and someone says, “I gotta catch up!” that’s lights out for that person. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/9 "2009-04-17T06:56:07Z")
“He’s only one man !” “Bah, she’s only a woman !” “I . . . am . . . a . . . GOD ! !” ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/10 "2009-04-17T07:12:10Z")
“What’s THAT supposed to mean?” or “WHAT did you say?!” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/11 "2009-04-17T07:28:39Z")
“We’re in Barney” ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/12 "2009-04-17T07:38:47Z")
Barney?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/13 "2009-04-17T07:51:45Z")
“We’ll just be a few moments.” These were the words that were spoken to a friend of mine by police, prior to his house being raided for drugs. (Fortunately, he escaped major legal trouble - and is now making a lot of money as a programmer.) To this day, that line fills him with dread. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/14 "2009-04-17T08:03:51Z")
> [@Tamara+](#): > > Barney?😕 “Barney Rubble” rhymes with “trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/15 "2009-04-17T08:04:41Z")
“It’s quiet” Always followed of course by “yeah, too quiet…” Just one of these times I want someone to instead reply “Yeah, the optimal amount of quiet” ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/16 "2009-04-17T08:15:42Z")
“Werewolf? What werewolf?” “I am invincible!” “Directed by Uwe Boll” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/17 "2009-04-17T08:18:11Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > “Barney Rubble” rhymes with “trouble.” British rhyming slang? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/18 "2009-04-17T08:23:47Z")
As spoken by Basher (Don Cheadle) in **Ocean’s Eleven**. Whether it was in circulation before that, I know not. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/19 "2009-04-17T08:25:36Z")
The rest of us behave like everythings… OK? Think about it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383/20 "2009-04-17T08:34:56Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > British rhyming slang? Don’t tell the trouble and strife! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383.md?page=2)