# 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:** 222
**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:** [September 11, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4424 "2013-09-11T18:51:56Z")
Cat Ballou, wicked through and through / They’ll now be hanging Cat Ballou. ---
**Author:** ![General\_Apathy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@General\_Apathy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/General_Apathy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4425 "2013-09-11T18:53:06Z")
…take him to the tower and teach him the error of false pride. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4426 "2013-09-11T18:56:18Z")
[whistles for horse] ---
**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:** [September 11, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4427 "2013-09-11T20:07:58Z")
Listen to me, Potter. Your pal Diggory? By your age he could turn a whistle into a watch and have it sing you the time ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4428 "2013-09-11T21:34:07Z")
You know how to whistle, don’t you? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4429 "2013-09-11T23:18:32Z")
I’m sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too… humiliating. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4430 "2013-09-12T00:30:09Z")
Don’t waste your pucker on some all day sucker And don’t try a toffee or cream If you seek perfection in sugar confection Well there’s something new on the scene A mouth full of cheer A sweet without peer A musical morsel supreme! Toot Sweets! Toot Sweets! The candies you whistle, the whistles you eat. Toot Sweets! Toot Sweets! The eatable, tweetable treats! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4431 "2013-09-12T18:02:10Z")
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down In a most delightful way. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4432 "2013-09-12T18:09:24Z")
A little dab’ll do ya. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4433 "2013-09-12T22:52:27Z")
It’s only three inches tall! ---
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4434 "2013-09-12T23:29:35Z")
Where the Smurf are we? ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4435 "2013-09-13T00:11:42Z")
We’re not in Kansas anymore. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4436 "2013-09-13T00:26:03Z")
In the decade of the 1930s, even the great city of Metropolis was not spared the ravages of the worldwide depression. In times of fear and confusion, the job of informing the public was the responsibility of the Daily Planet, a great metropolitan newspaper whose reputation for clarity and truth had become the symbol for hope in the city of Metropolis… ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4437 "2013-09-13T02:40:57Z")
Decent people shouldn’t live here. They’d be happier someplace else. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4438 "2013-09-13T14:19:57Z")
What’s outside of Pleasantville? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4439 "2013-09-13T14:58:54Z")
Well, Dan, that’s a question that scientists and philosophers have been asking for a million years. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4440 "2013-09-13T15:02:12Z")
Who are you really, and what were you before? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4441 "2013-09-13T15:10:41Z")
I’m the one who brings the Christmas candy. Now tell me, who’s your daddy? I’m the one who brings the devil’s brandy. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4442 "2013-09-13T15:12:57Z")
I love you, Daddy Warbucks. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4443 "2013-09-13T15:18:59Z")
We never were a very happy family. There just wasn’t much joy in this house. It wasn’t Big Daddy’s fault. It was just… you know how some families are happy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=221) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=223)