# 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:** ![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:** [January 19, 2013, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2743 "2013-01-19T08:30:59Z")

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Only one way to find out. **[BANG! BANG!]**

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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:** [January 19, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2744 "2013-01-19T15:54:52Z")

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Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

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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:** [January 19, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2745 "2013-01-19T17:53:52Z")

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We’re not using the zed word!

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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:** [January 19, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2746 "2013-01-19T18:00:50Z")

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I remember now.

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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:** [January 20, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2747 "2013-01-20T04:16:01Z")

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Remember _me,_ Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked… _just… LIKE… **THIIIIIIIS!** _

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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2748 "2013-01-20T04:30:53Z")

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Just get me a bottle of JTS BROWN.

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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:** [January 20, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2749 "2013-01-20T07:04:21Z")

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Don’t you people keep any aspirin around here…?

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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:** [January 20, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2750 "2013-01-20T13:57:20Z")

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Jim, we’ve got a problem. I got some blood work back from the lab. Charley Duke has the measles.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2751 "2013-01-20T18:33:49Z")

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George, you’ve heard about this virus?.. Shall I cough on you, George?

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2752 "2013-01-21T13:10:24Z")

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Remind me why I keep doing this.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2753 "2013-01-21T15:29:27Z")

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I’ve got a more graceful solution to the memory problem. I’m disciplined and organized. I use habit and routine to make my life possible.

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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2754 "2013-01-22T05:24:51Z")

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You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2755 "2013-01-22T17:53:45Z")

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Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organizing that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We’re talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there’s Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel sanders of nicotine.

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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:** [January 22, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2756 "2013-01-22T18:58:10Z")

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A man can lie, steal… and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he’s still a man. All a woman has to do is slip - once. And she’s a “tramp!” Must be a great comfort to you to be a man.

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2757 "2013-01-22T19:36:43Z")

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Buzzard’s guts, man! I am the President of the United States of America! Clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2758 "2013-01-24T12:29:04Z")

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Fly, you fools!

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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:** [January 24, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2759 "2013-01-24T15:18:08Z")

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Well, you don’t see that every day of the week.

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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:** [January 25, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2760 "2013-01-25T10:29:34Z")

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I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2761 "2013-01-25T14:34:25Z")

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Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2762 "2013-01-25T23:28:20Z")

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The only snakes I know of are those of Set and his cursed towers. Their evil has spread to every city. Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now… they’re everywhere. It is said that they are deceivers… they murder people in the night… I know nothing.

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