# 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:** 286
**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:** [February 14, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5704 "2014-02-14T00:30:04Z")
Oh, cool under fire, I like that. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5705 "2014-02-14T00:35:18Z")
May I ask, Captain, when we expect to reach the ice barrier? ---
**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:** [February 14, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5706 "2014-02-14T21:56:18Z")
When the clock strikes twelve… ---
**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:** [February 14, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5707 "2014-02-14T23:50:37Z")
My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5708 "2014-02-15T01:21:15Z")
“By the way, Happy New Year.” “Thank you, sir. Same to 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:** [February 15, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5709 "2014-02-15T04:00:07Z")
It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5710 "2014-02-15T23:18:38Z")
“I used to hate the water.” “I can’t imagine why.” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5711 "2014-02-16T03:24:48Z")
There’s a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5712 "2014-02-16T03:39:22Z")
No water, no food after midnight, and no bright light. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5713 "2014-02-16T04:26:02Z")
And that’s how I found out there’s no Santa Claus. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5714 "2014-02-16T04:41:42Z")
But you don’t want to be bamboozled. You don’t want to be led down the primrose path! You don’t want to be conned or duped. Have the wool pulled over your eyes. Hoodwinked! You don’t want to be taken for a ride. Railroaded! ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5715 "2014-02-16T14:58:30Z")
That’s exactly why we want to produce this play. To show the world the true Hitler, the Hitler you loved, the Hitler you knew, the Hitler with a song in his heart. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5716 "2014-02-16T15:08:59Z")
They lose me right after the bunker scene. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5717 "2014-02-16T15:30:44Z")
Well you probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5718 "2014-02-16T16:37:07Z")
We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was thrilled by the idea! The right Hitler for the right future! A Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, the 1990s, 2000! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5719 "2014-02-16T16:42:48Z")
Is it safe?.. Is it safe? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5720 "2014-02-16T18:40:55Z")
Obviously! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5721 "2014-02-16T18:45:37Z")
I was born a poor black child. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5722 "2014-02-16T19:35:06Z")
And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you’d be a maid? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5723 "2014-02-16T21:45:40Z")
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