# 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:** 228
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4544 "2013-09-26T18:32:33Z")
We’ll just tell your mother that… we ate it all. ---
**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 26, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4545 "2013-09-26T18:33:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4546 "2013-09-26T18:54:28Z")
You look down, they know you’re lying and up, they know you don’t know the truth. Don’t use seven words when four will do. Don’t shift your weight, look always at your mark but don’t stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don’t make him laugh. He’s got to like you then forget you the moment you’ve left his side. And for God’s sake, whatever you do, don’t, under any circumstances… ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4547 "2013-09-26T19:24:48Z")
What was the part in the middle? ---
**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 26, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4548 "2013-09-26T19:37:50Z")
Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4549 "2013-09-26T19:49:12Z")
You can’t handle the truth!! ---
**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 26, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4550 "2013-09-26T19:55:39Z")
The only true law is that which sets us free. ---
**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 26, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4551 "2013-09-26T20:00:14Z")
Please! You can’t keep me in here! ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4552 "2013-09-26T20:03:44Z")
Listen, Rose. You’re gonna get out of here, you’re gonna go on and you’re gonna make lots of babies, and you’re gonna watch them grow. You’re gonna die an old… an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me? ---
**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 26, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4553 "2013-09-26T20:16:29Z")
Twelve kids… that’s nuts. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4554 "2013-09-26T20:31:25Z")
You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4555 "2013-09-26T22:50:58Z")
I’m sorry, dear, but when I chose Katie Nana, I thought she would be firm with the children. She looked so solemn and cross. ---
**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 26, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4556 "2013-09-26T23:28:32Z")
Let them hear. Let the whole world know. This [indicating Nanna] is not a nurse. This… is a dog. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4557 "2013-09-26T23:36:49Z")
Dogs got no reason to live. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4558 "2013-09-26T23:40:32Z")
It’s like I said all along, poopsie: cats rule and dogs drool. ---
**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 27, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4559 "2013-09-27T12:01:50Z")
Dogs don’t like to be left alone. It’s not like, when you leave, he goes, “Great, time to finish writing my novel!” No, when their humans leave, dogs get depressed, and they show it. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4560 "2013-09-27T17:35:15Z")
There are two dilemmas… that rattle the human skull. How do you hold onto someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go? ---
**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 27, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4561 "2013-09-27T18:11:31Z")
Going so soon? I wouldn’t hear of it. Why my little party’s just beginning. ---
**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 27, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4562 "2013-09-27T20:17:17Z")
The lords have all accepted our invitations! ---
**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 28, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4563 "2013-09-28T15:50:23Z")
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