# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/621 "2012-08-13T13:58:20Z")
I think I got a, a, an entertaining bug… from my grandfather… uh, Chaim Pearlgut, who was very very big in the, um, Yiddish, uh, theater, back in New York. He was in the, the very… the sardonically irreverent… “Dybbuk Shmybbuk, I Said ‘More Ham’”… and that revue I believe was 1914, and that revue was what made him famous. Incidentally, the song “Bubbe Made A Kishke” came from that revue. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/622 "2012-08-13T16:30:23Z")
You, you, you’re like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y’know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper…stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/623 "2012-08-13T16:51:46Z")
Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/624 "2012-08-13T16:55:15Z")
The sun’ll come out tomorrow, so you gotta hang on till tomorrow. Come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow. You’re only a day away. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/625 "2012-08-13T16:58:48Z")
This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/626 "2012-08-13T17:12:06Z")
Brad, for 14 years I’ve been a whore for the advertising industry. The only way I could save myself now is if I start firebombing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/627 "2012-08-13T17:24:46Z")
Smile when you say it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/628 "2012-08-13T17:38:51Z")
You will have the good taste not to mention that I spoke to you, right? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/629 "2012-08-13T17:56:36Z")
Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I… was never here. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/630 "2012-08-13T18:12:07Z")
I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The Universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/631 "2012-08-13T19:20:43Z")
Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/632 "2012-08-13T19:53:21Z")
This is your thirty-fifth attempt to elicit an emotional response from me. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/633 "2012-08-13T20:13:03Z")
If I were human, I believe my response would be “go to Hell.” If I were human. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/634 "2012-08-13T20:26:42Z")
Oh, I’ve been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/635 "2012-08-14T01:15:38Z")
Had your chance; muffed it. Good morning! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/636 "2012-08-14T01:28:10Z")
“Last chance… your place or mine?” “Despite my rejection of most Judeo-Christian ethics, I remain, within the framework of the baseball season… monogamous.” ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/637 "2012-08-14T02:46:40Z")
People don’t start playing ball at your age, they retire! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/638 "2012-08-14T04:12:39Z")
Aren’t grownup people just little children at heart? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/639 "2012-08-14T04:19:52Z")
We figured there was too much happiness here for just the two of us, so we figured the next logical step was to have us a critter. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/640 "2012-08-14T04:20:09Z")
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