# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 20, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882 "2012-07-20T20:16:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2102 "2012-10-14T04:00:30Z")

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Well, I do know one joke. There was this mollusk, and he walks up to this sea cucumber. Normally, they don’t talk, sea cucumbers, but in a joke everyone talks. So the sea mollusk says to the cucumber…

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2103 "2012-10-14T05:15:30Z")

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I’d give real money if he’d shut up.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2104 "2012-10-14T08:29:31Z")

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Your destiny can be your doom.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2105 "2012-10-14T10:27:52Z")

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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.  
[URL=“[The Matrix (1999) - Quotes - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?qt0324249)”]

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2106 "2012-10-14T14:45:06Z")

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Y’know, people are always putting New Jersey down. None of my friends can believe I live here. But that’s because they don’t get it: I’m living in a state of irony.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2107 "2012-10-14T16:38:14Z")

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All right! You have all completed the written exam. However, you must now pass the obstacle course to be admitted into the training program. And remember- survive this and you are on front lines of keeping New Jersey safe!

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**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2108 "2012-10-14T20:29:58Z")

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Noah was a drunk, look what he accomplished. And no one’s asking you to build an ark. All you’ve got to do is go to New Jersey.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2109 "2012-10-14T21:15:56Z")

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“They were sent to Hell?”  
“Worse. Wisconsin.”

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2110 "2012-10-15T00:13:52Z")

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And somewhere along the line, Jim picked up a protégé, a cute political kid from Wisconsin,

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2111 "2012-10-15T02:40:37Z")

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Snowhill, get your Wisconsin ass back in the barracks.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2112 "2012-10-15T04:12:34Z")

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Wrong! I’m fucking running the Green Bay Packers!

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2113 "2012-10-15T05:01:49Z")

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Is this _your_ team, or is it your _daddy’s_ team?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2114 "2012-10-15T15:43:59Z")

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Daddy does oil. And all that that implies.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2115 "2012-10-15T15:47:12Z")

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You take a look at her. Cause once you step on that bus you aint got your mama no more. You got your brothers on the team and you got your daddy.

You know who your daddy is, doncha? Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy? Who’s your daddy, Gary? Who’s your daddy?

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2116 "2012-10-15T15:51:25Z")

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My father and I don’t get along, he doesn’t approve of my lifestyle and, needless to say, I don’t approve of his. Still, I hardly wish to make my father’s embezzlement a police matter, so I’m proposing that you try to recover the money from the people you delivered it to.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2117 "2012-10-15T16:24:26Z")

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What’s a six-letter word meaning “embezzlement”?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2118 "2012-10-15T16:44:57Z")

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What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? Spell it out? Don’t ever ask me! Long as you live, don’t ever ask me more.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2119 "2012-10-15T17:31:17Z")

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If my answers frighten you, Vincent, perhaps you should cease asking scary questions.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2120 "2012-10-15T19:01:49Z")

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If my life has a single point, it’s this- I have learned to be unafraid of death but never to be unafraid of failure.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2121 "2012-10-15T19:35:01Z")

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Yes. Yes! To Obi-Wan, you listen!

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