# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 276
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5502 "2023-09-09T20:25:03Z")
Ooooohhhh. Shit! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5503 "2023-09-09T21:28:17Z")
Language. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5504 "2023-09-09T22:37:26Z")
It’s gibberish. Grown-up gibberish. Baby-talk gibberish. Do they understand one word of it to start? Somehow they begin to if they hear it. I’m letting Helen hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5505 "2023-09-09T22:42:30Z")
Now who can argue with that? I think we’re all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I’m particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5506 "2023-09-10T12:38:30Z")
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5507 "2023-09-10T13:24:37Z")
I see. You want to play it safe, eh? You want to give us your standard, conventinal Richard. Well, I can’t argue with that Elliot they’ve been doing it that way for 400 years. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5508 "2023-09-10T14:05:57Z")
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5509 "2023-09-10T16:12:43Z")
Stoop, Romans, stoop, and let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood up to the elbows, and besmear our swords ---
**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:** [September 10, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5510 "2023-09-10T18:50:51Z")
Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5511 "2023-09-10T19:03:05Z")
You don’t have to be in a war to see people get killed for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5512 "2023-09-11T13:52:42Z")
Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow ---
**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:** [September 11, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5513 "2023-09-11T14:38:36Z")
If you know what women want, you can rule! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5514 "2023-09-11T15:04:01Z")
Melvin, do you know where you’re lucky? You know who you want. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5515 "2023-09-11T15:11:25Z")
Deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5516 "2023-09-11T22:18:41Z")
Yes, but he’s got the faith of a child. Simple. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5517 "2023-09-12T15:51:59Z")
My idea of Heaven is a solid white nightclub with me as a headliner for all eternity, and they _love_ me. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5518 "2023-09-12T20:26:55Z")
I sing, tell a few jokes. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5519 "2023-09-12T21:01:38Z")
We’re hoping that you’ll sign a contract agreeing to appear 5 times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We’re counting on you, Johnny. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5520 "2023-09-13T16:10:52Z")
**Ted Hanover:** [reading] Come out and relax on a farm, music, dancing, home cooking. Open holidays only. [skeptical] Open holiday’s only? Say, how many of them are there? **Jim Hardy:** [excited] About 15. That gives me 350 days to kick around in! **Ted Hanover:** [laughing] You would think of that! ---
**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:** [September 13, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5521 "2023-09-13T18:42:08Z")
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