# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1422 "2003-10-26T23:43:42Z")
“…armed combatants. The French army recruits from the sewer to this day.” “In a few more minutes, the mixture should reach the appropriate self-heating temperature, and then it is time to…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1423 "2003-10-26T23:50:50Z")
“…put it into a paper bag, add berries, thumbtacks and diamond dust, swing it over your head and scream like a chicken.” “Rabid skunks are never…” ---
**Author:** ![dannyv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@dannyv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1424 "2003-10-27T03:14:50Z")
“… worth eating.” "ring around the rosie, pocket full of … " ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1425 "2003-10-28T00:06:42Z")
“…rabid skunks(finely chopped, so they’ll easily fit).” “Saturday night is the…” ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1426 "2003-10-28T02:32:55Z")
“…night that the skunks come out…” “Comics. Sexy French Comics. That’s all Myron could think of. And then, through the door…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1427 "2003-10-28T02:43:49Z")
“…thundered 50 people on their way to an open-call at the _Comedie Francaise_…” “Superhuman strength was required to lift…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1428 "2003-10-28T05:57:29Z")
“…her arm from my torso, so I could slip away, undetected. When will I learn to limit my intake of ethanol?” “At the summit conference, we need to make sure that the Estonian ambassador has access to…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1429 "2003-10-28T12:23:46Z")
“…his good lady wife. Hey, a guy gets lonely. I want anyone making decisions of possibly global importance to be nice and relaxed.” “I’ve got something stuck in my back molar, and for the life of me…” ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1430 "2003-10-28T14:09:37Z")
“…I can’t figure out how it got there or what language it’s singing in.” “Please insert your pass…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1431 "2003-10-28T15:42:41Z")
“…again, and again, and again, 'til one of our esteemed _associates_ feels like it’s time to do some work. As if.” “I swear, the next vacation day I get…” ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1432 "2003-10-28T16:17:26Z")
“…I’m gonna come in here and _do some work!!!_ You guys are _so_ gonna be puzzled!” “So. Macromedia is buying eHelp. Does this mean that…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1433 "2003-10-30T11:08:12Z")
“…the dHelp program is now obsolete? It’s about time, that thing was a piece o’ crud.” “Sitting on a park bench, in the pouring rain, he…” ---
**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:** [October 30, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1434 "2003-10-30T14:57:02Z")
“…opened his sunbrella, and basked in the warm light flooding down from it.” “I left it in the laundromat. When I went back to get it, I doscovered that…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1435 "2003-10-30T21:11:13Z")
“…That it had been washed,dried, starched, pressed and neatly hung on a padded hanger. Too bad it was a ham&cheese sandwich.” “Having been drenched by a bus going through a big puddle, the very bus he had just missed, John then …” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1436 "2003-10-31T23:22:47Z")
“…swore vengeance on the Transit Authority, and began to plot his revenge.” “Ever searching for a market niche, Elbert quickly learned that Confessionals were not a good place to advertise…” ---
**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:** [November 1, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1437 "2003-11-01T02:12:47Z")
“…personal-hygiene blogs.” “Maurice knew then that it was fate. There was no escaping it. He had no choice but to…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1438 "2003-11-01T10:46:13Z")
“…take his ELEVEN items and get out of the _10 or less_ express lane at the supermarket.” “With all the food for the party ruined, because the refrigerator door had popped open during the night, Janice and Ulysses…” ---
**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:** [November 1, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1439 "2003-11-01T15:14:51Z")
“… made soup.” “If three men can wash three cars in three days, how many…” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1440 "2003-11-02T04:34:13Z")
“… pounds of wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” “Awakening on her wedding day, Beth smiled at the recognition that…” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1441 "2003-11-02T11:43:50Z")
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