# 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:** 257
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5124 "2013-12-03T19:54:06Z")
You are trying to seduce me, aren’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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5125 "2013-12-03T20:16:11Z")
Was that a pass? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5126 "2013-12-03T20:23:04Z")
You had better learn how to play the game, and I don’t mean just the game of football. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5127 "2013-12-03T20:32:42Z")
Discovering the object of the game _is_ the object of the game. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5128 "2013-12-03T20:36:36Z")
So who’s ready to learn? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5129 "2013-12-03T20:42:30Z")
I’m Professor Wagstaff of Huxley College. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5130 "2013-12-03T20:45:21Z")
Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5131 "2013-12-03T20:52:18Z")
I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling! I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5132 "2013-12-03T21:04:42Z")
“In response to the question, ‘What were you doing in Central Park, in Bethesda Fountain, at 1 in the morning, naked?’, Swann replied, ‘The back stroke.’” ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5133 "2013-12-03T21:15:47Z")
You reckon I could swim from here to America? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5134 "2013-12-04T19:21:03Z")
A summer girl goes swimming, swims out a little far. She tires, fishing boat comes along… ---
**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:** [December 4, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5135 "2013-12-04T19:24:42Z")
Why, Judith Tremaine! Fancy meeting you here! ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5136 "2013-12-04T19:34:36Z")
Well I must say, I haven’t seen so many lawyers and politicians gathered together in one place since confession this morning. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5137 "2013-12-04T19:59:39Z")
You know, I can spot a commandment-breaker from, like, a mile away. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5138 "2013-12-04T20:10:49Z")
Don’t fight me, child. I’m the messenger of God and I only want to heal you. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5139 "2013-12-04T20:13:32Z")
I was crippled, and now I walk! ---
**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:** [December 6, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5140 "2013-12-06T19:28:21Z")
John, you can dance! ---
**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:** [December 6, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5141 "2013-12-06T19:41:49Z")
Heaven I’m in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly speak And I seem to find The happiness I seek When we’re out together Dancing cheek to cheek ---
**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:** [December 6, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5142 "2013-12-06T19:49:53Z")
Tell us, are you the Messiah? The Son of the living God? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5143 "2013-12-06T20:48:06Z")
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