# Movie lines you inadvertently blurt out in public **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 7, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748 "2024-01-07T22:09:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/141 "2024-01-25T21:42:59Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > “Always with the negative waves!” Ah. It’s been awhile since I saw that. > [@carrps](#): > > It’s completely standard, and has been for decades, for “guys” to refer to a mixed gender group in California. I never even notice it. Heck, it can refer to an all-female group, too. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/142 "2024-01-25T21:57:36Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Heck, it can refer to an all-female group, too. Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/143 "2024-01-25T22:32:38Z")
Does anyone under the age of maybe 70 ever unironically call women “gals”? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/144 "2024-01-26T00:01:21Z")
Let me explain. No, there Is too much. Let me sum up. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/145 "2024-01-26T00:41:42Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > _"That_ escalated quickly!" > > “Milk was a bad choice!” Hehe, I use both of those often as well. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/146 "2024-01-26T01:17:06Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Let me explain. No, there Is too much. Let me sum up. This word, I do not think it means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/147 "2024-01-26T03:36:40Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Does anyone under the age of maybe 70 ever unironically call women “gals”? Being a bog musical theater fan, I call them “Dolls”. 😉 ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/148 "2024-01-26T03:56:14Z")
“You just keep thinkin’ Butch, thats what you’re good at.” “I think this boy’s cheese has done slid off his cracker.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/149 "2024-01-26T04:03:31Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Does anyone under the age of maybe 70 ever unironically call women “gals”? Arrrrgh! HUGE pet peeve! I’m a guy (under 70). My even-younger brother constantly makes comments like “these gals at the party…” or “the gals at the office”. . Which brought back memories of my dad doing the same thing: “The gals at the office” was ALWAYS the term for women. It was short for “The interchangeable chicks that can type and file and chitchat with clients and make coffee.” So, quite a lack of respect inherent in the term. . He even told me, an impressionable young’un, that he “really didn’t like to hire gals, because sooner or later, they’ll get married… and if they don’t leave the company then, they will when they get pregnant.” ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/150 "2024-01-26T04:36:00Z")
“It looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/151 "2024-01-26T21:58:40Z")
“Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife; doomed is your soul and damned is your life.” Usually under my breath or in the car in my best Emilo Lizardo voice, but sometimes… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/152 "2024-01-28T18:59:06Z")
Just to mix it up, one line from television that I find myself using a lot: on LOIS & CLARK, there was a Superman villain — Tempus — who was so confident it graduated to ‘so cocky as to be relaxed about it’: just stating, in a matter-of-fact manner, that everything is going his way. And the gag is, once our hero shows up and spectacularly foils the evil plan, well, now it’s obvious that it’s all over, right? And so it’d make sense to be just as matter-of-fact about noting _that._ _“Too late; you’d need an abort code to…”_ [SMASH!] _“…or that, you could do that.”_ And so, whenever someone opts for the obvious right in front of me, I can’t resist. “Man, I really need to start my day with some protein.” “Well, I could stop by your place every morning and fry you one egg.” “Uh, I was thinking I’d just buy some protein bars.” “Or that. You could do that.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/153 "2024-01-28T21:15:33Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Does anyone under the age of maybe 70 ever unironically call women “gals”? Only if you say something like " hey guys & gals" and even that would be hardly ever. Altho i am getting close to that number. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > Let me explain. No, there Is too much. Let me sum up. Good one. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > This word, I do not think it means what you think it means. I use this on the SDMB even. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/154 "2024-01-30T00:19:44Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “Man, I really need to start my day with some protein.” “Well, I could stop by your place every morning and fry you one egg.” “Uh, I was thinking I’d just buy some protein bars.” “Or that. You could do that.” From Archer: “That’s… that’s _way_ better, actually.” (“Stir-Friday?”) “Do you want X? This is how we get X.” Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/155 "2024-01-30T01:44:56Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not a line, but a gesture - whenever I face an automatic door, I do this little semicircular motion with my hand as if I’m opening it with the Force. It’s reached the point that I barely notice myself doing it. I sometimes say “Shhhhh” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/156 "2024-01-30T12:20:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not a line, but a gesture - whenever I face an automatic door, I do this little semicircular motion with my hand as if I’m opening it with the Force. It’s reached the point that I barely notice myself doing it. Unrelated to the movie line theme/topic, but ever since I worked at Meijer in the 1990’s, I call these doors “Automatic Caution Doors” because they had these signs on them: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71DQxm0D7oL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71DQxm0D7oL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/157 "2024-01-30T15:05:34Z")
Speaking of Automatic Caution Doors, I loved how, when Bart Simpson sold his soul, the doors didn’t work for him. So as I approach those, I think to myself “So, do I still have a soul? …_[fwwwt]_… Oh, good!” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/158 "2024-01-30T16:19:59Z")
Milhouse, there is no such thing as a soul. It’s just something parents made up to scare children, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/159 "2024-01-30T23:46:17Z")
I’m walkin’ here! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748/160 "2024-01-31T04:03:19Z")
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