# 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:** 186
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3704 "2013-07-30T19:24:28Z")
What have I got to be worked up about? I’ve only got a stole horse; everybody except the Coast Guard is after me; I’ve got nothin’ but miles of open country to cross; and now I’m carrying a crazy woman around wearin’ shoes from Bloomingbirds who thinks she’s seen a rattlesnake round up. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3705 "2013-07-30T19:28:17Z")
Ah, you’re wasting your time. They can’t track us over rocks. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3706 "2013-07-31T09:21:12Z")
If we ride together, we ride for justice. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3707 "2013-07-31T11:59:51Z")
Hey, Cisco, wait a minute! What about the gold mine? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3708 "2013-07-31T17:30:12Z")
Donovan, this is just a half portion of a town, but we do have certain what you might call rules to live by! You don’t jump another man’s claim; you don’t steal his wife, woman or whiskey; you don’t strike a bargain and then entertain second thoughts about the matter. Any one of these offenses could make you the exalted guest of honor at a hemp party. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3709 "2013-07-31T17:39:48Z")
I intend to see that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3710 "2013-07-31T19:03:16Z")
Hold, monsters! Ere your pirate caravanserai proceed, against our will, to wed us all, just bear in mind that we are Wards in Chancery, and our father is a Major-General! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3711 "2013-07-31T19:07:26Z")
Away to the ship and hoist up that chain doodad! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3712 "2013-07-31T19:19:59Z")
Behind every captain, there’s a crew. Sure, some of you are as ugly as a sea cucumber, some of you are closer to being a chair or coat rack than a pirate, and some of you are fish I’ve just dressed up in a hat. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3713 "2013-07-31T19:21:23Z")
[del]First, we’re gonna stuff her pretty face with pancakes, then tie her to the flagpole in her bra and undies and watch the humiliation begin.[/del] Will someone tell me what kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press? ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3714 "2013-07-31T19:25:27Z")
You are a Catwoman. Every sight, every smell, every sound, incredibly heightened. Fierce independence, total confidence, inhuman reflexes. You spent a lifetime caged, by accepting who you are, all of who you are, you can be free, and freedom is power. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3715 "2013-07-31T21:40:53Z")
That is all… cats rule. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3716 "2013-07-31T23:23:48Z")
Go ahead and follow that cat. And when you find him, do me a favor. The both of you just please just stay there! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3717 "2013-07-31T23:25:04Z")
His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3718 "2013-07-31T23:39:46Z")
One question we had was what happens to the human brain when it is filled to capacity. \>\>What does happen? It leaks. ---
**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, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3719 "2013-08-01T00:31:00Z")
It will ooze a bit. Heads do. But I can live with that. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3720 "2013-08-01T01:35:29Z")
Show me the law on bringing a head out of the country, ah? It ain’t a fruit, it ain’t a vegetable, it ain’t even a plant, goddamm it! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3721 "2013-08-01T11:19:29Z")
I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it’d die! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3722 "2013-08-01T12:36:24Z")
No, I said “'allo,” but that’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3723 "2013-08-01T20:49:27Z")
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