# Quote...  ...unquote game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 7, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792 "2003-03-07T20:52:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 62

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1222 "2003-06-26T20:53:48Z")

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“…I don’t have to wear clothes outdoors for the next three months!”

“Sometimes, when I look at the clouds…”

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1223 "2003-06-26T20:56:48Z")

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“… I wonder, what bugger has stolen my tent.”

"The penalty for resurecting threads is …

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1224 "2003-06-26T21:14:50Z")

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“…five minutes in the BBQ Pit.”

“Hey! What’s that cat…”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1225 "2003-06-27T02:35:17Z")

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“…doing in my sister’s underpants?”

“After his first trip to Baltimore, Wilbur knew that he should…”

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1226 "2003-06-27T03:08:57Z")

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" . . . have listed to what his mother told him."

“You may not recognize me, but . . .”

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1227 "2003-06-27T12:59:18Z")

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“…I’m you’re mom.”

“If you would only look in the right place…”

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1228 "2003-06-27T14:51:24Z")

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“…we’d avoid all of this unpleasantness when you disturb the Ancient Old Ones.”

“Plug it in, man… plug it IN…”

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1229 "2003-06-27T15:42:22Z")

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“… no not up there, ugghhh. In the wall socket! Now how the devil are we going to get it clean, no I’m not touching it, not after you plugged it up there.”

“How can you make an ommlette, without …”

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1230 "2003-06-27T18:39:10Z")

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“…a spel checkk.” 😉

“I can’t tell. Is that a lump of mashed potatos, a roadkill, or…”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1231 "2003-06-27T20:35:54Z")

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“…Marv Albert’s last date.”

“After bringing home and connecting her new 8 in 1 office assistant, Paige realized that she should have bought the software upgrade that would enable the unit to…”

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1232 "2003-06-27T21:28:41Z")

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“…simultaneously balance the spreadsheet, sweep the floors, run the front desk, interview new employees, issue press releases, negotiate contracts, pay suppliers, and make coffee, but there was already enough labour unrest in the area.”

“Ultraviolet pigment is nature’s way of…”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1233 "2003-06-29T17:23:25Z")

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“…saying you look good in purple.”

“Although it took years to train his poodle to walk upright in low heels, she was a hit at the next…”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1234 "2003-07-04T03:07:13Z")

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“…Walking Poodles Thread Revival Society meeting and Gala Ball.”

“Are you kids gonna come up with some ideas, or do I have to…”

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**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1235 "2003-07-04T03:58:45Z")

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“…walk you to school barefoot uphill both ways in a foot of snow **again**?”  
“You can lead a horse to water, but…”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1236 "2003-07-04T21:00:23Z")

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“…teaching him to scuba dive requires a large weight belt and very strange looking flippers.”

“As Wayne lowered the pink control rods into the reactor vessel, he spotted the label **Bazooka Joe** ™ on one of them and wondered…”

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1237 "2003-07-05T05:49:05Z")

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“…why the damn control rods couldn’t have been Big Red. He really needed a cinnamon fix.”

“Someone said there was a belly-dancer in here, but all I can see is …”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1238 "2003-07-06T16:46:12Z")

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“…a sumo-type guy lying down while a Shirley Temple style kid tap dances on his stomach.”

“Flipper was released from military duty once it was learned that he and other dolphins had…”

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**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1239 "2003-07-06T19:14:47Z")

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been swimming in their own feces in that dang pool"  
“He huffed and Puffed, but that budged was…”

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**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1240 "2003-07-06T19:16:06Z")

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- but all that moved was…"

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1241 "2003-07-06T23:57:46Z")

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