# Quotable Conversation - A Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300 "2002-08-17T04:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/1 "2002-08-17T04:55:35Z")
Okay, here are the rules: Enter one of your favorite quotes (from a book, movie, song, TV show, conversation with a friend, your diary, or wherever) as the next as the next bit of a conversation, just make sure it somehow “flows” from the last bit (as a response, a continuation, or even the entrance of a new speaker). I’ll start with: “My name…is Muerte,” ---
**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/2 "2002-08-17T05:15:37Z")
“I see dead people” ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/3 "2002-08-17T05:23:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sundog66 \* > \*\*“I see dead people” \*\* “The dead know only one thing… it is better to be alive.” ---
**Author:** ![Jemidex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Jemidex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jemidex)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/4 "2002-08-17T05:24:11Z")
_A bell clanks in the distance…_ “Bring out your dead!” echoes down the street ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/5 "2002-08-17T07:09:42Z")
“It’s a Dead Man’s Party. Who could ask for more?” ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/6 "2002-08-17T07:15:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > \*\*“It’s a Dead Man’s Party. Who could ask for more?” \*\* “I want it all. I want it all. I want it all, and I want it now!” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/7 "2002-08-17T07:29:36Z")
It’s mine! My own! My precioussssss… [sub]I’ve been going around all day freaking people out with that :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/8 "2002-08-17T07:43:57Z")
“Show me the moneeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/9 "2002-08-17T08:00:34Z")
“Money changes everything.” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/10 "2002-08-17T08:07:49Z")
Change is inevitable… except from vending machines. ---
**Author:** ![erin\_uh\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@erin\_uh\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erin_uh_oh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/11 "2002-08-17T08:10:08Z")
time may change me but you can’t change time. (i know it’s “trace” time, but i always thought it would make more sense this way.) ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/12 "2002-08-17T10:01:15Z")
“I am the Lizard King… I can do **anything**!” ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/13 "2002-08-17T10:59:02Z")
“but I failed to make the chess team because of my height.” egg ---
**Author:** ![Blackhawkeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@Blackhawkeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackhawkeye)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/14 "2002-08-17T13:58:27Z")
“I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her” ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/15 "2002-08-18T01:59:32Z")
“I wish I may, I wish I might, to have this wish I wish tonight.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/16 "2002-08-18T02:08:18Z")
“Yeah? Well, it occurs to the captain that you’re out of reason tall.” ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/17 "2002-08-18T02:14:21Z")
“A man always has two reasons for doing something: a good reason an the real reason.” ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/18 "2002-08-18T04:14:09Z")
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.” ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/19 "2002-08-18T05:55:23Z")
“Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore’.” ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300/20 "2002-08-18T06:02:07Z")
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” “Be that our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-conversation-a-game/124300.md?page=2)