# 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:** 288
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5744 "2014-02-19T14:18:33Z")
Tell me more about this man Houdini. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5745 "2014-02-19T15:07:06Z")
I know him. He’ll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning… ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5746 "2014-02-19T15:12:17Z")
In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5747 "2014-02-19T15:18:50Z")
We’re a couple of swells. We stop at the best hotels. But we prefer the country far away from the city smells. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5748 "2014-02-19T18:51:50Z")
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as a elephant’s eye, And it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky. ---
**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 19, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5749 "2014-02-19T19:39:11Z")
Thank Lord Frith! ---
**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 19, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5750 "2014-02-19T19:51:23Z")
Here comes the Sun, and I say, it’s all right. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5751 "2014-02-19T20:43:21Z")
He’s a good looking boy. Do you mind if I keep this picture? ---
**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 19, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5752 "2014-02-19T20:54:55Z")
Come with me if you want to live. ---
**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 19, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5753 "2014-02-19T20:59:57Z")
Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m dead. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5754 "2014-02-19T21:05:01Z")
I thought of the words Marlowe had said to me over fifteen years ago: Dead men don’t wear plaid. Huh. Dead men don’t wear plaid. I still don’t know what it means. ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5755 "2014-02-19T21:08:17Z")
Ohhh, that feels so… over! ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5756 "2014-02-19T21:10:02Z")
All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn’t work, so your plane couldn’t take off. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5757 "2014-02-19T21:18:30Z")
Barb, honey… we’re dead. I don’t think we have very much to worry about anymore. ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5758 "2014-02-19T21:43:00Z")
Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It’s dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out… ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you’re dead. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5759 "2014-02-19T21:46:43Z")
Ah… flashback humor. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5760 "2014-02-19T22:08:56Z")
Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny? ---
**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 19, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5761 "2014-02-19T22:10:07Z")
Why are you wearing that stupid bunny costume? ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5762 "2014-02-19T22:14:34Z")
And what’s with that stupid grin? ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5763 "2014-02-20T13:44:48Z")
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