# 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:** 235
**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:** [October 14, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4684 "2013-10-14T21:56:49Z")
Keep your head together! Don’t look down! ---
**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:** [October 14, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4685 "2013-10-14T22:09:40Z")
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4686 "2013-10-15T15:30:40Z")
I’ve been watching you, Jack. You’re curious. What are you looking for in those books? Do they bring back old memories ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4687 "2013-10-15T15:32:52Z")
No. Memory imprints. I’ve seen 'em - a buddy of mine is a programmer at the institute, he showed me. There’s only, like, twelve stories, they change around little details, but they’re all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the ‘contamination’ - it never happened. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4688 "2013-10-15T15:39:35Z")
Foreign contaminant! Foreign contaminant! Foreign contaminant! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4689 "2013-10-15T15:46:56Z")
When the bomb goes off there’ll be a thousand mutations! Andromeda will spread everywhere! They’ll never be rid of it! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4690 "2013-10-15T16:20:08Z")
Well let me tell you. There are worse things than death. ---
**Author:** ![Cerridwyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Cerridwyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerridwyn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4691 "2013-10-18T15:19:12Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money. “The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people” ---
**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:** [October 18, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4692 "2013-10-18T15:31:56Z")
Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn’t both get rich and put y’all in the poor house at the same time. He didn’t think we could do it. I won. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4693 "2013-10-18T18:54:41Z")
Everybody thought I had a duster. Y’all thought ol’ Spindletop Burke and Burnett was all the oil there was, didn’t ya? Well, I’m here to tell you that it ain’t, boy! It’s here, and there ain’t a dang thing you gonna do about it! My well came in big, so big, Bick and there’s more down there and there’s bigger wells. I’m rich, Bick. I’m a rich ‘un. I’m a rich boy. Me, I’m gonna have more money than you ever _thought_ you could have - you and all the rest of you stinkin’ sons of… Benedicts! ---
**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:** [October 18, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4694 "2013-10-18T18:59:37Z")
We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I’m fixed like no other company in this field and that’s because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the derrick; such things go by friendship in a rush like this. And this is why I can guarantee to start drilling and put up the cash to back my word. I assure you, whatever the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won’t be there… ---
**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:** [October 18, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4695 "2013-10-18T22:12:20Z")
Bond. James Bond. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4696 "2013-10-19T15:50:28Z")
I gave him the limp. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4697 "2013-10-20T16:07:06Z")
Young man, are you sure you’re trying that shoe on the right foot? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4698 "2013-10-21T12:32:48Z")
Your bogus ingenuousness is straining my equanimity. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4699 "2013-10-21T12:39:50Z")
The central message of Buddhism is NOT “Every man for himself”… ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4700 "2013-10-21T12:47:01Z")
_A Fish Named Wanda_ I speak of Intimacy, or Into-Me-I-See ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4701 "2013-10-21T15:38:58Z")
I sing the body electric. I celebrate the me yet to come. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4702 "2013-10-21T15:42:51Z")
_Fame_ Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to join the warrior elite of the MCP. You will each receive an identity disc. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disc. If you lose your disc, or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disc. If you lose your disc, or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4703 "2013-10-21T15:57:45Z")
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