# 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:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1442 "2003-11-02T15:23:05Z")

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not be mistaken for anything other than what it was - the stench of the decomposing body of Fred’s neighbor in the trunk of the old Dodge."

“Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to chew…”

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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:** [November 2, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1443 "2003-11-02T15:55:26Z")

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“…on the dogs paws? You don’t know where they’ve been!”

“Thirty thousand strong, the pack of feral bunnies made their way towards…”

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**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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1444 "2003-11-02T18:56:41Z")

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“… the reviewing stands, they were next in the Feral Animal Synchronized Ice Skating Competition.”

“Those chicken fingers were the best I ever had, only…”

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**Author:** ![Fnoonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Fnoonf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fnoonf)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1445 "2003-11-03T01:18:00Z")

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“… they didn’t really go with the Corn Flakes.”

“Great care must be taken to shave…”

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1446 "2003-11-03T01:22:32Z")

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“… the wombat fur WITH the grain. Then marinade, stuff, truss and roast in the usual manner”

“A splitting headache caused me to suddenly awaken from a fitful sleep. I padded into the bathroom…”

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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:** [November 3, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1447 "2003-11-03T01:38:39Z")

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“… took a pill, hung over the toilet attempting to vomit, took a pill, staggered back out to the living room, and only then noticed the earsplitting racket the sound system was putting out.”

" ‘I scanned the sherrif! But I did not scan the deputy…’ "

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**Author:** ![Fnoonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Fnoonf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fnoonf)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1448 "2003-11-03T03:24:16Z")

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“… were the portentous last words spoken by renowned funnyman “Weird” Al Yankovic just moments before the lorry comically jack-knifed.”

“Either you sign this, or we’re gonna be forced to…”

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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:** [November 3, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1449 "2003-11-03T14:12:56Z")

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“…do some things to you that our Moms would not approve of.”

“Seconds after the missile had been launched, the Wingman realised that…”

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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:** [November 3, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1450 "2003-11-03T14:50:49Z")

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“…she was dreaming, and she had just thrown the alarm clock out the window.”

“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the…”

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**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1451 "2003-11-03T17:21:54Z")

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girl whose heart I need to put in a box today?"

“Alright, who’s the wise guy who…”

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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:** [November 3, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1452 "2003-11-03T17:36:15Z")

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“…mixed up the Ex-Lax and the Viagra?!!”

“According to _A Dullard’s History of the Twentieth Century_, the Second World War was ‘A buncha nasty dudes getting it on with tha good guys’. Critique this statement for historical…”

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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:** [November 5, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1453 "2003-11-05T00:35:42Z")

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“…accuracy, and otherwise change the names to favorably reflect upon your country of birth.”

“As Matthew strode down the empty corridor of the missle silo, keys in hand, he could only hope that history would understand that what he was about to do was…”

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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:** [November 5, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1454 "2003-11-05T03:28:57Z")

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"…a guy thing. Ultimately, finally, after all the remonstrations and arguments, after all the pleading looks and cold shoulders, after all the desperate political moves, it boiled down to one simple, elemental thing:

Stuff. Go. Boom."

“Mikhail! Where’d you put the snake…”

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**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:** [November 5, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1455 "2003-11-05T05:56:31Z")

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“…oil? We’ve got customers, boy!”

“Santa held the new prototype toy up that his chief elf had just finished. ‘No, no, this just won’t do,’ he said, 'It looks just like a…”

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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:** [November 5, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1456 "2003-11-05T06:06:00Z")

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“…copy of Britney Spears, except she’s a 38DD.”

“Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to…”

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1457 "2003-11-05T06:13:34Z")

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“… slaughter we go.”

“Sometimes, I meet myself in…”

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1458 "2003-11-05T11:54:26Z")

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“…the act of trying to lose myself. Damn those Zen classes!”

“While listening to the steady _schussing_ of the shower, Felix pondered…”

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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:** [November 5, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1459 "2003-11-05T14:58:15Z")

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“…the advisability of skiing in the bath.”

“Microbots! Listen to your…”

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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:** [November 5, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1460 "2003-11-05T15:34:02Z")

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“…program, and stop doing those stupid tricks!”

“Leslie took up a seductive pose on the couch, having disrobed and placed dollops of whipped cream on her…”

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**Author:** ![sportshoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@sportshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sportshoe)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/159792/1461 "2003-11-05T16:04:06Z")

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but she forgot to lock up the dog.  
My mother in law is so bad she …

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