# 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\
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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/121 "2003-03-10T15:42:42Z")

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“…single dollar of my hard-earned money to those so-called ‘charities.’”

“If you walked a mile in my shoes…”

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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:** [March 10, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/122 "2003-03-10T15:58:13Z")

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“… you would be a mile away and I would have no shoes”

“The thing I can’t stand about Monday is …”

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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/123 "2003-03-10T16:13:28Z")

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“…how confusing it is that his name is the same as a day of the week.”  
“Houston, we have a…”

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/124 "2003-03-10T16:33:04Z")

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“…guy at the door here trying to deliver a pepperoni pizza.”

“Baby, I was born to …”

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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/125 "2003-03-10T16:40:43Z")

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“… A three-legged bear and a wombat. That’s why I look so funny.”  
“Like a bridge over troubled water, I will…”

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/126 "2003-03-10T16:45:50Z")

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“…freeze first in cold weather.”

“Do, or do not. There is no…”

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/127 "2003-03-10T22:01:49Z")

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“…doobie doobie doo”

“It was the best of times, …”

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**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:** [March 10, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/128 "2003-03-10T22:13:44Z")

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“but on the other hand, it rerally wasn’t the best of times.”

“I got a postcard…”

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**Author:** ![auntnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@auntnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntnut)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/129 "2003-03-11T00:40:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Earl of Sandwhich \*  
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> “I got a postcard…” \*\*

It was from the mods on this board congratulating me for being able to post!

“I have just about had it with you…”

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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:** [March 11, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/130 "2003-03-11T01:07:39Z")

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“… but I am still a virgin”

“There once was a man from Nantuckett…”

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**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:** [March 11, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/131 "2003-03-11T01:55:01Z")

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“who was unclear on the concept of rhyming.”

“Who was it who said…”

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/132 "2003-03-11T02:04:06Z")

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Beware of Greeks looking gift horses in the mouth?

He who would be a man must…

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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:** [March 11, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/133 "2003-03-11T02:11:17Z")

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“…first perform the appropriate surgery.”

“Many times it’s the _bear_ that loses the…”

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**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/134 "2003-03-11T03:46:53Z")

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place to s\*it in the woods"  
Go ahead…make my

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**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/135 "2003-03-11T04:32:32Z")

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“…salad”

“He made his bed, now he has to…”

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**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/136 "2003-03-11T04:47:10Z")

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“clean up his room in less than 205.6 seconds to win the gold medal in the Teenage Olympics”

“I expect you to follow my instructions…”

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**Author:** ![it\_sjustme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@it\_sjustme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/it_sjustme)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/137 "2003-03-11T04:57:56Z")

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“…because, frankly, I can’t read my own writing.”  
“Three out of four dentists surveyed…”

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**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/138 "2003-03-11T05:07:21Z")

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“…the battlefield at Gettysburg and were shot by trained soldiers with rifles.”

“I never understood what makes people so…”

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/139 "2003-03-11T05:47:21Z")

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…well, _people_-like!

“Feelings…nothing more than feelings, trying to forget my feelings of…”

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**Author:** ![it\_sjustme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@it\_sjustme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/it_sjustme)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/140 "2003-03-11T05:54:38Z")

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“…I’m sorry…Umm, I, uhh…I forgot what I was saying”

“I don’t care what all your friends are doing! As long as you live under my roof you…”

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