# 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:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/221 "2012-07-27T00:32:16Z")

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Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/222 "2012-07-27T00:39:14Z")

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That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/223 "2012-07-27T01:29:38Z")

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Are you talking to me? Are you talking to ME? They call me MISTER Piiiig!

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/224 "2012-07-27T01:40:34Z")

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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/225 "2012-07-27T01:42:40Z")

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Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don’t think about elephants. What are you thinking about?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/226 "2012-07-27T01:45:48Z")

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/227 "2012-07-27T02:03:29Z")

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The point is, how do you know the fairy isn’t a crazy glue sniffer? “Building model airplanes” says the little fairy; well, we’re not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that’s all it takes. The next thing you know, there’s money missing off the dresser, and your daughter’s knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/228 "2012-07-27T05:49:41Z")

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They’re um… tooth fairies. Black Forest, 3rd century. They feed mostly on calcium: bones, skin, organs… But they do usually go after the teeth first. Hence the name, “tooth fairy”.

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/229 "2012-07-27T11:04:02Z")

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All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/230 "2012-07-27T11:21:51Z")

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Rape, torture, fire, animals, religion. Am I missing anything?

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/231 "2012-07-27T11:23:35Z")

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I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/232 "2012-07-27T11:30:55Z")

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What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/233 "2012-07-27T14:13:48Z")

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I don’t know. A prisoner has the right to escape, hasn’t he? And a guest don’t need to.

I guess that makes us a little bit of both, huh?

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/234 "2012-07-27T15:23:23Z")

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One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/235 "2012-07-27T15:37:37Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/236 "2012-07-27T15:53:58Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Then you are either very brave … or very foolish! :dubious:

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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:** [July 27, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/237 "2012-07-27T16:20:40Z")

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I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that you could possibly infer.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/238 "2012-07-27T17:55:41Z")

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What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/239 "2012-07-27T18:24:32Z")

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Ah! He plays with Death as if it were a toy!

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/240 "2012-07-27T18:39:22Z")

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And over here, our bass player, the Duke of Spook, the Doc of Shock, The Man with No Tan, please say hello to Death himself, the Grim Reaper.

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