# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/441 "2012-08-07T00:27:10Z")
No, I’m a mocker. ---
**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 7, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/442 "2012-08-07T01:08:59Z")
It’s Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he’s Ethel Merman. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/443 "2012-08-07T01:44:14Z")
To arrive at this moment, he had traveled vast distances enduring many hardships. Abject poverty, starvation, show tunes, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/444 "2012-08-07T01:54:15Z")
There you go again with those negative waves! Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/445 "2012-08-07T02:04:43Z")
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/446 "2012-08-07T02:15:04Z")
The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/447 "2012-08-07T02:18:34Z")
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/448 "2012-08-07T02:27:42Z")
I am transparent. I am like the window. I am see-through. I’m like Saran Wrap. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/449 "2012-08-07T02:30:05Z")
Where have I seen that guy before? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/450 "2012-08-07T02:56:55Z")
You don’t remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I TOLD you I would find you. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/451 "2012-08-07T03:34:29Z")
So where can a guy find some action? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/452 "2012-08-07T03:51:51Z")
Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. ---
**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 7, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/453 "2012-08-07T04:17:18Z")
This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/454 "2012-08-07T05:24:35Z")
I’m shakin’ the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then I’m comin’ back here to go to college and see what they know. And then I’m gonna build things. I’m gonna build airfields, I’m gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I’m gonna build bridges a mile long! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/455 "2012-08-07T06:23:10Z")
Made it, Ma! Top of the world! ---
**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 7, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/456 "2012-08-07T08:13:29Z")
Don’t get too cocky my boy. No matter how good you are, don’t ever let them see you coming. That’s the gaffe, my friend ! You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. You know, the nerd… the leper… shit-kickin’ surfer. Look at me : underestimated from day one. You’d never think I was a master of the universe, now would ya? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/457 "2012-08-07T12:50:16Z")
I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies. Six hours he’s riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A. People on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/458 "2012-08-07T13:35:52Z")
Hey! Are you the stiff’s daughter? ---
**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 7, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/459 "2012-08-07T14:13:14Z")
He vas my boyfriend! ---
**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 7, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/460 "2012-08-07T15:15:38Z")
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