# 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:** ![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:** [May 14, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3164 "2013-05-14T12:35:05Z")

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Check out the big brain on Brett! You’re a smart motherfucker.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3165 "2013-05-14T12:51:12Z")

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Someone once said, “If it was raining brains, Roxy Robinson wouldn’t even get wet.” Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you’s me, he should’ve never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido’s Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3166 "2013-05-14T12:53:22Z")

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You seem a decent fellow… I hate to kill you.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3167 "2013-05-14T12:54:46Z")

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You seem a decent fellow… I hate to die.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3168 "2013-05-14T12:56:53Z")

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(Nicely played, **Professor** )  
In-play: “Houston, we have a problem.”

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3169 "2013-05-14T12:59:04Z")

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If the Martians land, the’re gonna need a place to stay. Just like everybody else.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3170 "2013-05-14T13:04:11Z")

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A UFO landed in my pool and they captured me but we made friends and I fed them Pop-Tarts and, um, they’re here now, but Ted’s coming home tonight so you’ve got to cut their hair.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3171 "2013-05-14T13:17:22Z")

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Ted and Tami-Lynn continued their torrid love affair for quite some time. One afternoon Ted was caught behind the deli counter eating potato salad off of Tami- Lynn’s bare bottom. He was instantly promoted to store manager.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3172 "2013-05-14T13:29:04Z")

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Sexual tension is an elusive thing, but Kathy had pretty good radar for it. It was like someone had turned a knob to the right, and the radio station clicked in so loud and clear it almost knocked her over.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3173 "2013-05-14T13:34:56Z")

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She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing 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:** [May 14, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3174 "2013-05-14T13:39:55Z")

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I know what goes where, and why.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3175 "2013-05-14T13:51:33Z")

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She’s just old enough. She’s the finest delicacy New Orleans has to offer, and it’s her wish that one of you gentleman be the first.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3176 "2013-05-14T14:25:15Z")

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No women, no kids. That’s the rule.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3177 "2013-05-14T15:02:10Z")

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Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3178 "2013-05-14T15:41:36Z")

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Aye, the wild is no place for gentle folk who can neither fight nor fend for themselves.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3179 "2013-05-14T16:09:34Z")

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He’s a nice, quiet, peace-loving man, come home to Ireland to forget his troubles.

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3180 "2013-05-14T16:37:18Z")

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I just want to say this to the British Government… You know what you’ve just done, don’t you? You’ve destroyed the civil rights movement, and you’ve given the IRA the biggest victory it will ever have. All over this city tonight, young men… boys will be joining the IRA, and you will reap a whirlwind.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3181 "2013-05-14T16:55:53Z")

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A blight has fallen over Ireland!

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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:** [May 14, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3182 "2013-05-14T17:29:58Z")

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I wouldn’t worry about them. Didn’t I tell ya before? It’s _my_ island.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3183 "2013-05-14T17:38:38Z")

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For 17 years I have been striving to create a… some measure of refinement in the human species you see. And it is here, on this very island, that I sir, have found the very essence of the Devil.

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