# One-liners that suggest a great story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606 "2015-06-04T03:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/81 "2015-06-07T13:39:51Z")
"Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that’s an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana? " ---
**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:** [June 8, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/82 "2015-06-08T01:02:08Z")
“Thou hast committed/ Fornication: but that was in another country,/ And besides, the wench is dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/83 "2015-06-08T03:19:34Z")
“No, it wasn’t my hands. It was my…my misunderstanding.” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/84 "2015-06-08T03:34:44Z")
For sale: baby shoes. Never worn. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/85 "2015-06-08T11:14:51Z")
Second biggest one of those I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/86 "2015-06-08T11:32:43Z")
Character Bronn from Game Of Thrones in an early episode: “I’ve been beyond the wall” This has never been elaborated on, but from what we later see it must have a good story behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/87 "2015-06-08T12:38:42Z")
“This is just like Budapest!” “You and I remember Budapest very differently.” ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/88 "2015-06-08T13:05:40Z")
The entire family stared in horror at the growing lump beneath the carpet. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/89 "2015-06-08T15:15:28Z")
I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/90 "2015-06-08T16:07:45Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > “This is just like Budapest!” > “You and I remember Budapest very differently.” See Post #9. ---
**Author:** ![Tara57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tara57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tara57)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/91 "2015-06-08T23:37:32Z")
You only got one finger left And it’s pointing at the door - Beck ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/92 "2015-06-09T19:35:49Z")
“They say you should never put metal in a microwave. They’re right.” – Steven Wright ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/93 "2015-06-09T19:41:34Z")
“Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead!” ---
**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:** [June 9, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/94 "2015-06-09T19:46:07Z")
The Rooster Crowed At Midnight ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/95 "2015-06-09T19:58:29Z")
Richard Boone’s character to John Wayne’s in _Big Jake_:“I thought you was dead!” Wayne: “Not hardly.” ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/96 "2015-06-09T21:26:44Z")
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/97 "2015-06-10T13:34:48Z")
One from They Might be Giants: “Something grabbed a hold of my hand… That’s when all my troubles began.” One that’s been kicking around in my head for a couple of decades, but I still haven’t found the story behind it: “He was almost there, but the box kept getting heavier.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/98 "2015-06-10T16:04:12Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > The Rooster Crowed At Midnight I see what you did there. Maurice did it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bppubjr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@bppubjr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bppubjr)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/99 "2015-06-10T17:34:46Z")
“Oh,” I said, delighted. “They come in pairs!” ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-liners-that-suggest-a-great-story/721606/100 "2015-06-10T23:10:12Z")
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