# 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:** ![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:** [August 15, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8942 "2026-08-15T19:20:28Z")

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This sarcasm, if I may call it such, does not become you, my little brothers.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8943 "2026-08-19T11:28:39Z")

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Can you define “irony”?  
It’s when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.

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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:** [August 19, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8944 "2026-08-19T16:53:37Z")

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Well, if you say you haven’t, then you’re a prude. If you say you have, then you’re a slut. It’s a trap.

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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:** [August 19, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8945 "2026-08-19T21:17:17Z")

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This whole concert? It’s a trap.

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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:** [August 20, 2026, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8946 "2026-08-20T05:52:43Z")

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It’s a trap!

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**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:** [August 20, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8947 "2026-08-20T15:05:28Z")

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It was an ambush!

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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:** [August 20, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8948 "2026-08-20T22:23:02Z")

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Helen, you’ve been the victim of an alcoholic Pearl Harbor. It’s amazing you survived at all.

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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:** [August 21, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8949 "2026-08-21T00:48:52Z")

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I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made _Pearl Harbor_.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [August 21, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8950 "2026-08-21T01:33:01Z")

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

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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:** [August 21, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8951 "2026-08-21T13:46:30Z")

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“This is a real attack, not a maneuver. The Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor.”

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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:** [August 21, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8952 "2026-08-21T16:13:04Z")

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Keep away from the windows!

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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:** [August 23, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8953 "2026-08-23T18:11:44Z")

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Roll your window down. Start there. See, you got to hear the street.

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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:** [August 24, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8954 "2026-08-24T12:25:59Z")

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Don’t fall out of any windows!

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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:** [August 24, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8955 "2026-08-24T15:06:02Z")

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Twice the pride, double the fall.

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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:** [August 24, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8956 "2026-08-24T15:10:56Z")

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Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

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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:** [August 25, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8957 "2026-08-25T18:19:25Z")

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I through with taking falls.

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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:** [August 26, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8958 "2026-08-26T14:20:01Z")

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We’ve got to have a fall guy!  
… Let’s give 'em the gunsel.

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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:** [August 26, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8959 "2026-08-26T16:10:59Z")

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Give us Barabbas!

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8960 "2026-08-26T21:33:58Z")

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Wewease Wodewick!

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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:** [August 28, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8961 "2026-08-28T14:07:06Z")

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I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.

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