# Quote... ...unquote game **URL:** \ **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:** 66
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1302 "2003-08-18T01:48:27Z")
“it’s a career that offers stability, a good salary, and benefits.” “If I had my way, we would send every…” ---
**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:** [August 18, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1303 "2003-08-18T02:10:37Z")
“…cube of neutronium back to the Larry Niven book it came from.” “This evening, the Premier went on the radio and announced that every business would have to halve its usage of…” ---
**Author:** ![benthames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@benthames](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benthames)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1304 "2003-08-18T03:28:21Z")
“deliberately obfuscating jargon.” “I’m not in this game for the money…” ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1305 "2003-08-18T04:15:14Z")
“…I merely want to protect the voting rights of chickens everywhere.” “Look, I messed up too. I should have taken…” ---
**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:** [August 20, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1306 "2003-08-20T16:55:29Z")
“…the money and run. Instead I stuck around and tried to open a chequing account for us all, and gave ID and everything, so of course they caught us. But is that any reason for those lead pipes and rubber h—” “My mouse is…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1307 "2003-08-21T05:48:38Z")
“…rather cute, but I must report that his last noted location is within my kitty.” “Once the translation of the tape is run, everyone will understand that…” ---
**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:** [August 22, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1308 "2003-08-22T14:42:53Z")
“…fnord sqwolly yang ipple ack pfft.” “What the HELL is this Post-it Note doing up my…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1309 "2003-08-24T02:40:34Z")
“…golden retriever’s arse?” “The unmanned high-altitude surveillance vehicle will finally allow the NSA, CIA, FBI, AFL, CIO, and NBA to see…” ---
**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 24, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1310 "2003-08-24T05:12:56Z")
“…where I lost my keys.” “Now if I could just find out where I lost my…” ---
**Author:** ![\_DaTman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/da6949/32.png) [@\_DaTman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_DaTman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1311 "2003-08-24T13:51:08Z")
“…ability to reason with a bank officer when discussing my certificate of deposit, and the low interest that it earned in the last quarter.” " How about all those times you had me …" * * * I’d rather have a bottle in front a me than a frontal labotomy ---
**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:** [August 24, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1312 "2003-08-24T14:01:43Z")
“…on top of the dining-room table? Don’t those count for anything?” “Okay, so now that I have a DVD recorder, my first step will be to…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1313 "2003-08-24T23:23:01Z")
“…get the TV back from the pawn shop and cable these buggers together.” “The anesthesiologist wondered if he should mention the spare parts that the surgeon seemed to be overlooking, but then…” ---
**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 24, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1314 "2003-08-24T23:37:08Z")
“…she just tossed them into a jar of fermaldehyde with my other keepsakes.” “It says right here on the bottle to only take 2 pills every four hours, but what if I…” ---
**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:** [August 25, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1315 "2003-08-25T02:19:33Z")
“…crush them _all_ and mix them into some Chunky Beef Supreme and give them to the 174 feral chihuahuas that live in that house down the street? Then, Teratogen City!!! It’d be like Jurassic Park 2 all over again! Cooolll!!!” “Mom! _MMooom!!!_…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1316 "2003-08-30T08:10:23Z")
“…_MMoom, mmoom, I’m deranged_” (to the tune of Home on the Range) “Perhaps if the sheep were more familiar with weightlessness then…” ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1317 "2003-08-30T20:03:04Z")
“…they would better understand why clover is bad in large quantities” “Considering television rots the mind…” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1318 "2003-08-31T00:49:56Z")
“and unicycling to work will get you labelled an eccentric, it’s best to avoid both.” “After I had my wisdom teeth removed…” ---
**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:** [August 31, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1319 "2003-08-31T03:25:14Z")
“…people stopped paying attention to my punditry, and I have no idea why.” “The greatest features of so many tourist attractions are their unparallelled oppurtunities to wait…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1320 "2003-08-31T05:07:00Z")
“…in long lines to buy overpriced trinkets, or use the can.” “Seeing that the necessary temperature was reached in the reactor vessel, Mitch secured his harness and awaited…” ---
**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:** [August 31, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1321 "2003-08-31T05:37:44Z")
“…the application of the radioactive butter to his chest. Then, inevitably, the isotope weasels would appear.” “Tall, blonde, and handsome, the transvestite stepped…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792.md?page=67)