# Quote... ...Unquote game!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 26, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356 "2008-08-26T22:15:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/41 "2008-08-27T14:31:09Z")

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[QUOTE=cornflakes]  
Geddy–which is the better bassist?

“Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me,”  
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“…‘Son, you’ll go blind.’”

“The best way to get to Carnegie Hall is to…”

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/42 "2008-08-27T14:38:11Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
“…‘Son, you’ll go blind.’”

“The best way to get to Carnegie Hall is to…”  
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“Sneak in with Sally through the alley.”

“The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman legions. The Carthaginians were proud and brave but they…”

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/43 "2008-08-27T15:42:17Z")

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[QUOTE=cornflakes]

“The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman legions. The Carthaginians were proud and brave but they…”  
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brought a knife to a gunfight.

“Near, far, wherever you are  
I believe…”

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/44 "2008-08-27T15:49:38Z")

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[QUOTE=kunilou]

“Near, far, wherever you are  
I believe…”  
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…the cops will still enforce that restraining order.

Two’s company, three’s a…

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/45 "2008-08-27T15:59:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Hoopy Frood]  
…the cops will still enforce that restraining order.

Two’s company, three’s a…  
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…menage a trois.

“One man’s trash is another man’s…”

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**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/46 "2008-08-27T16:09:18Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
…menage a trois.

“One man’s trash is another man’s…”  
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… menage a trois.

“Is this a dagger…”

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/47 "2008-08-27T16:11:41Z")

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“…or are you chust enchoying the show?”

“I may be drunk, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still…”

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/48 "2008-08-27T16:20:00Z")

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…be all that you can be!"

“Nine out of ten dentists recommend…”

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/49 "2008-08-27T16:20:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
“…or are you chust enchoying the show?”

“I may be drunk, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still…”  
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look the same.

Don’t pitch a…

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/50 "2008-08-27T17:48:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
“Nine out of ten dentists recommend…”  
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Folger’s Crystals

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who . . .

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**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/51 "2008-08-27T17:52:02Z")

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[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]  
Folger’s Crystals

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups. The police who investigate crime, and the district attorney who . . .  
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…ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

“We the people, in order to form…”

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/52 "2008-08-27T18:36:12Z")

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[QUOTE=fachverwirrt]  
…ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

“We the people, in order to form…”  
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“…of a sea lion! (Jayna)” “Shape of.. an ice bucket! (Zann)” “Glbdgldglbdglb. (Gleek)”  
“You ain’t nothin’ but a…”

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/53 "2008-08-27T19:08:56Z")

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[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]  
“You ain’t nothin’ but a…”  
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good cigar is a smoke."

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute/  
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run… "

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/54 "2008-08-27T20:02:23Z")

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“…you’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.”

“This is the sort of errant pedantry…”

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/55 "2008-08-27T20:10:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
“This is the sort of errant pedantry…”  
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“upon which I shall build my church.”

“If you want peace…”

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/56 "2008-08-27T20:15:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Bayard]  
“upon which I shall build my church.”

“If you want peace…”  
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You got to, got to, got to TRYYYYYYYYYY a little tenderness!"

“Frankly my dear, I don’t…”

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**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/57 "2008-08-27T20:33:09Z")

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[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]  
You got to, got to, got to TRYYYYYYYYYY a little tenderness!"

“Frankly my dear, I don’t…”  
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..wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener.

“If I were a rich man…”

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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/58 "2008-08-27T20:39:05Z")

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[QUOTE=fachverwirrt]  
..wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener.

“If I were a rich man…”  
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“…Obla dee Obla da!”

“No, Luke. I am…”

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/59 "2008-08-27T20:42:33Z")

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[QUOTE=IntelSoldier]  
“…Obla dee Obla da!”

“No, Luke. I am…”  
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…woman! Here me roar! I am STRONG! I am invincible! I AM WOMAN!"  
“All the world’s a…”

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-unquote-game/461356/60 "2008-08-27T21:16:15Z")

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“…Ronco Cap Snaffler - and it REALLY REALLY WORKS!!!”

Will you still need me,  
Will you still feed me,  
When I’m

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