# 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:** 68
**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:** [September 14, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1342 "2003-09-14T02:58:15Z")
“…just ignore that huge giant with the ship on his head, who is walking out of the sea straight towards this house.” “Aw Mooom! I don’t _wanna_ eat this…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1343 "2003-09-14T14:18:28Z")
“…until you show me how to get rid of the wriggly bits, make it stop staring at me, and tell me what’s for afters.” “Hark! Hark! The larks…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1344 "2003-09-14T17:23:49Z")
“…have learnt to bark!” “Oh give me a tome, near the wool-weavers comb, where the beers are not cloudy in May…” ---
**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:** [September 14, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1345 "2003-09-14T18:08:40Z")
“…where never is found an un-paid-for round, and the suds run freely all day…” 🙂 “Badger badger badger…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1346 "2003-09-14T20:21:35Z")
“… burning bright, in the fo-no, wait a minute, that’s not it at all. My apologies for wasting your time. Sincerely, Willy Blake” ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1347 "2003-09-14T22:50:25Z")
‘Dear Sir, i was apalled by your…’ ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1348 "2003-09-14T23:43:33Z")
“…being appalled by all the appalling things I’ve been up to lately.” “It was a dark and stormy morning…” ---
**Author:** ![Fnoonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Fnoonf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fnoonf)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1349 "2003-09-15T00:35:06Z")
“… in St. Petersburg, made even darker and stormier by the pervasive darkness and the terrible storm. As I was in Phoenix, however, I didn’t much care. I just laughed.” "This truly must be the most astounding group of… " ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1350 "2003-09-15T01:17:00Z")
“…poopy headed people this second grader has ever seen.” “After energizing the time machine, and advancing the time control to FULL, Max realized 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:** [September 15, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1351 "2003-09-15T04:24:58Z")
"…he’d forgotten to close the peeper valve. As a result, the time machine started to go backwards and forwards at the same time. Since the dimensional stabiliser was on, this meant that the occupants were actually getting bigger. Now, with a head approximately sixty thousand miles in diameter, Max is one of the few people who can handle the Triganic Ningi, and he is assured of a lucrative career at one of the Galactibanks. “Mr. Johnson. There is a package for you at the…” ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1352 "2003-09-15T13:30:49Z")
‘…bottom of this lake. if you would kindly allow us to encase your feet with this concrete, we’ll lower you down so you can get it.’ ‘Jim wondered why he was having such problems sticking…’ ---
**Author:** ![Fnoonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Fnoonf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fnoonf)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1353 "2003-09-15T14:03:53Z")
“… to the side of the building’s surface, even with the Spider-Man outfit on. It had looked so easy in the animated instruction manual.” “Butu sped through the jungle with uncanny swiftness, his…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1354 "2003-09-15T23:58:15Z")
“…moped whining like a dog whose testicles were caught in the pet door.” “Unless somebody fesses up to taking the last can of corned beef hash…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1355 "2003-09-16T00:54:06Z")
“… there’ll be no more corned beef hash and nectarine gumbo for breakfast.” “Gathered round the old man’s bed, he asked us, one by one,where…” ---
**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:** [September 16, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1356 "2003-09-16T01:12:39Z")
“…the heck he’d put his immortality pills. Or was that the memory pills…?” “Dietary fibre is a good source of…” ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1357 "2003-09-16T07:02:22Z")
" … a fibered diet?" "Farglestabeed! i … " ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1358 "2003-09-16T10:15:33Z")
"… ncorrect usage of the pluperfect subjunctive. Let’s all say it together-F-a-r-g-l-e-s-t-a-b-e-e-d-I-X! “And oft when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1359 "2003-09-16T15:08:21Z")
“…the clothing gnomes consume my tie, mistaking it for snacky food.” “It appears that the turtles have started their planned…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1360 "2003-09-17T01:35:41Z")
"…makeover of that Portugeuse man-of-war with the appalling fashion sense and the housekeeping aptitude of rogue sea urchins. “Roses would be nice, but their SO predictable, how about…” ---
**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:** [September 17, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1361 "2003-09-17T01:46:53Z")
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