# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/321 "2012-08-01T11:19:57Z")
Can’t nothing live out in space. Not even germs. No atmosphere. ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/322 "2012-08-01T12:21:31Z")
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whiz as fast as it can go the speed of light you know twelve million miles a minute and thats the fastest speed there is so remember when your feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there intelligent life somewhere up in space cause theres bugger all down here on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/323 "2012-08-01T13:03:29Z")
The twins keep us on Centaurian time - standard thirty-seven hour day. Give it a few months. You’ll get used to it… or you’ll have a psychotic episode. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/324 "2012-08-01T13:08:18Z")
The fool, the meddling idiot! As though his ape’s brain could contain the secrets of the Krell! ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/325 "2012-08-01T13:13:09Z")
Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/326 "2012-08-01T13:42:39Z")
The satellite is a present over Kansas. If we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/327 "2012-08-01T15:02:46Z")
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/328 "2012-08-01T23:50:05Z")
Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain’t much of a hand at makin’ speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin’ on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin’. Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human bein’s if you didn’t have some pretty strong personal feelin’s about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin’ on you and by golly, we ain’t about to let 'em down. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/329 "2012-08-01T23:57:29Z")
You’re listening to a _machine_! Do the world a favor and don’t act like one. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/330 "2012-08-02T02:34:32Z")
Now I have a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/331 "2012-08-02T03:20:36Z")
Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/332 "2012-08-02T03:55:17Z")
Aw come on, you’re not gonna say that now! You’re not gonna say that now! You’re gonna pull that hen house shit? Now when the vote… the Chief just voted - it was 10 to 9. Now I want that television set turned on _right now_! ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/333 "2012-08-02T04:09:14Z")
Denied ---
**Author:** ![lurkedtolong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@lurkedtolong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkedtolong)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/334 "2012-08-02T04:33:11Z")
I know you thought this was a managable situation, but some situations are unmanagable. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/335 "2012-08-02T05:08:49Z")
What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men, you just can’t reach. So, you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it ! And I don’t like it any more than you, men. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/336 "2012-08-02T06:19:07Z")
Well, does that - does that mean my brothers are OK? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/337 "2012-08-02T06:46:56Z")
Dead as Dillinger. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/338 "2012-08-02T12:04:51Z")
Say 'ello to my l’il friend! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/339 "2012-08-02T12:32:20Z")
I crap bigger than you. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/340 "2012-08-02T12:43:13Z")
I’m not kiddin’. I’ve got a crap on deck that could choke a donkey. Aww, it’s SQUIDGY. Christ, I’m gettin’ all emotional from it, ya know? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=18)