# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
**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\
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**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 22, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4724 "2013-10-22T18:00:46Z")

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Do you know who the attorney for the Archdiocese is? Ed Concannon! Heh, heh, he’s the Prince of fucking Darkness! He’ll have people testifying they saw her waterskiing in Marblehead last summer. Now look, Frank, don’t \*fuck with this case!

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**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 22, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4725 "2013-10-22T18:08:44Z")

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There’s to be a ball, in honor of His Highness, the Prince. And, by royal command, every eligible maiden is to attend.

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**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 22, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4726 "2013-10-22T18:09:54Z")

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nm

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**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 22, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4727 "2013-10-22T18:12:27Z")

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We’re just planning a little get-together, nothing fancy. Just family, a few close friends… and all the eligible young women in the kingdom. We’re only talking four or five hundred at the most.

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**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 22, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4728 "2013-10-22T18:36:14Z")

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I bring 500 from the Westfold, my lord.

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**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 22, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4729 "2013-10-22T18:41:59Z")

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Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers… knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of three hundred. Yet they stare now across the plain at _ten thousand_ Spartans commanding thirty thousand free Greeks!

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**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 22, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4730 "2013-10-22T19:08:50Z")

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Hey Ian, we’re gonna kill ya! Opa!

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**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:** [October 22, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4731 "2013-10-22T19:09:07Z")

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Well, thank you for a lovely lunch and enema.

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**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 22, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4732 "2013-10-22T19:19:36Z")

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Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon and forced to live under French rule. Do you want them to eat that rich food and those heavy sauces?

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**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 22, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4733 "2013-10-22T20:39:14Z")

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Oh, no. Alan hates French food.

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**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 23, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4734 "2013-10-23T12:04:17Z")

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I’m Julia Child. Bon appetit!

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**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 23, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4735 "2013-10-23T16:26:18Z")

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I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.

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**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 23, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4736 "2013-10-23T16:35:20Z")

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_Silence of the Lambs_  
Are you gonna finish that?

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**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 23, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4737 "2013-10-23T20:03:17Z")

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Can I interest you in some dessert?

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**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 23, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4738 "2013-10-23T20:05:59Z")

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Try some more. The strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.

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**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 23, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4739 "2013-10-23T20:14:16Z")

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A true story about fortune cookies. They look Chinese. They sound… Chinese. But they’re actually an American invention. Which is why they’re hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in the mouth.

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**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 23, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4740 "2013-10-23T20:23:02Z")

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I’m sorry, I thought you were the murderer.

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**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 23, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4741 "2013-10-23T20:27:04Z")

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Now I must go and wrestle with my report to the police and with my conscience.

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**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 23, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4742 "2013-10-23T20:30:26Z")

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Where were you on the night of January 16th?

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**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 23, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4743 "2013-10-23T20:52:38Z")

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Are you suggesting that I killed my wife? Are you saying that I crushed her skull and that I shot her? How dare you! When I came home, there was a man in my house. I fought with this man. He had a mechanical arm. You find this man. You find this man.

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