# 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:** 412
**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:** [November 23, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8222 "2025-11-23T14:46:35Z")
Training waived, location approval, Just like that, you’re officially in the Peace Corps. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8223 "2025-11-24T21:17:12Z")
If Patton were alive, he would slap your face! ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8224 "2025-11-24T22:20:52Z")
Lighten up, Francis. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8225 "2025-11-25T19:59:40Z")
Then I shall faint for you, dear Francis. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8226 "2025-11-25T23:13:38Z")
She doesn’t need an ambulance. She’s drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8227 "2025-11-26T06:10:06Z")
Susan: A real woman could stop you from drinking. Arthur: It’d have to be a real BIG woman ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8228 "2025-11-26T14:33:51Z")
That’s a problem, isn’t it. That nice young man who drinks and a high class young lady and how did she ever get mixed up with him? And why does he drink? And why doesn’t he stop? That’s my novel, Nat. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8229 "2025-11-26T19:05:52Z")
From the beginning you hated the Navy. And then you thought up this whole idea. And you managed to keep your skirts nice, and starched, and clean, even in the court martial. Steve Maryk will always be remembered as a mutineer. But you, you’ll publish your novel, you’ll make a million bucks, you’ll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you’ll live with your conscience, if you have any. Now here’s to the \*real\* author of “The \*Caine\* Mutiny.” Here’s TO you, Mr. Keefer. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8230 "2025-11-27T01:22:01Z")
No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we’ve gotta go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8231 "2025-11-27T06:38:43Z")
‘Maggot’ this, ‘maggot’ that… Marines are really assholes, you know that? It takes a certain kind of a sadistic temperament to be a Marine. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8232 "2025-11-27T18:22:55Z")
- Time to get up and give this place the goin’ over. It looks like the marines have landed. - Well, that bunch last night was high enough to take over the marines and the navy! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8233 "2025-11-27T19:21:18Z")
Oh, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans. (Beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans.) ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8234 "2025-11-28T21:37:28Z")
- I had a rifle company in the 1st Battalion and 7th in '68. - Well, we sure as hell chewed some of the same dirt, sir. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8235 "2025-11-28T23:37:50Z")
In a way, commanding a battalion is a question of compromise, keeping a team together. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8236 "2025-11-29T14:55:22Z")
We’re putting the band back together. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8237 "2025-11-29T18:52:16Z")
Together again. Gee, it’s great to be together again. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8238 "2025-11-29T21:45:10Z")
We spend our lives in search of the other half. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8239 "2025-11-29T21:55:25Z")
And you never paid for drugs. Not once. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8240 "2025-11-29T22:04:33Z")
What the fuck are you? A drug counsellor… or a drug dealer? If you don’t deal your own product, what kind of businessman are you? ---
**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:** [November 30, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8241 "2025-11-30T12:28:23Z")
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