# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614 "2020-07-07T13:50:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5062 "2023-06-19T18:57:53Z")

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This could get a lot of very important people into a lot of very important trouble.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5063 "2023-06-19T20:58:45Z")

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**Mission Control:**  
Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?

**Buckaroo Banzai:**  
Tell him yes on one and no on two.

**Mission Control:**  
Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia… or number 2?

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5064 "2023-06-19T21:45:45Z")

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Well now, what happened is… ahm… one of our base commanders, he had a sort of… well, he went a little funny in the head… you know… just a little… funny. And, ah… he went and did a silly thing… Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes… to attack your country…

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5065 "2023-06-20T00:54:40Z")

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This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they’re very much mistaken. Since you’ve taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5066 "2023-06-20T11:31:51Z")

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How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but where did they ever scrape you up?

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5067 "2023-06-20T11:48:36Z")

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You are without doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5068 "2023-06-20T19:48:41Z")

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I never flew the skull and crossed bones. That’s for your fictioneers.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5069 "2023-06-20T23:05:43Z")

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And this’ll be young Master Hawkins, I’ll be bound. Hawkins - 'tis a proper seafaring name, too.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5070 "2023-06-21T01:35:27Z")

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He’s in command now! If they order him to launch, we’ll launch, and we’ll blow 'em all to hell. But, I rather go down myself then get this one wrong.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5071 "2023-06-21T20:49:10Z")

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It…it is what I thought. But I am thinking now that we were thinking wrong.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5072 "2023-06-21T21:56:26Z")

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[Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face](https://genius.com/9019771/Noel-harrison-the-windmills-of-your-mind/Like-a-clock-whose-hands-are-sweeping-past-the-minutes-of-its-face)  
[And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space](https://genius.com/1674842/Noel-harrison-the-windmills-of-your-mind/And-the-world-is-like-an-apple-whirling-silently-in-space)  
[Like the circles that you find  
In the windmills of your mind](https://genius.com/10073138/Noel-harrison-the-windmills-of-your-mind/Like-the-circles-that-you-find-in-the-windmills-of-your-mind)

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5073 "2023-06-21T23:56:39Z")

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Don Quixote: Dost not see? A monstrous giant of infamous repute whom I intend to encounter.

Sancho Panza: It’s a windmill.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5074 "2023-06-22T02:02:56Z")

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Why does he go messing around an old, ruined windmill, when he has a decent house, a bath, good food and drink and a darned pretty girl to come back to?

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5075 "2023-06-22T11:19:35Z")

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He’s trying to help avert a war, a dreadful war, and this is just the sort of thing to discredit him. I know you care nothing about our work. All you’re interested in is having fun with windmills and hotel bathrooms.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5076 "2023-06-22T15:08:03Z")

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There’s a peace only to be found on the other side of war. If that war should come I will fight it!

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**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:** [June 22, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5077 "2023-06-22T16:22:11Z")

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RUN AWAY! Run away!

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5078 "2023-06-23T02:03:55Z")

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Captain Smek is genius and best at running away.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5079 "2023-06-23T13:30:14Z")

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Wun, you wascawwy wabbit!

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5080 "2023-06-23T14:34:10Z")

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You better run, squirrel.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5081 "2023-06-23T14:37:52Z")

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Running is like drinking. It’s a good idea to take a day off.

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