# 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:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7284 "2014-06-27T21:49:14Z")

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A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it’s turning into a bad day in Bosnia.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7285 "2014-06-27T23:19:49Z")

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Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That’s really the key to the benefit program.

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**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:** [June 27, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7286 "2014-06-27T23:25:42Z")

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The hard part about playing chicken is knowin’ when to flinch.

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7287 "2014-06-28T00:41:51Z")

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Hey Ren! When this hat flies in the air, you better have your butt in gear  
\<cue Bonnie Tyler singing “I need a hero”\>

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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:** [June 28, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7288 "2014-06-28T18:10:30Z")

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That’s Ren and Stimpy. They’re way existential.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7289 "2014-06-28T18:21:36Z")

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Toga! Toga!

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**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:** [June 28, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7290 "2014-06-28T19:04:23Z")

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Joe, you and I both know Freetown’s a shithole.

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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:** [June 28, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7291 "2014-06-28T19:12:21Z")

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We could do it in the… butt, if you want.

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7292 "2014-06-28T19:16:22Z")

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I am most seriously displeased.

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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:** [June 28, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7293 "2014-06-28T19:39:06Z")

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It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don’t give it any help, it knows too much already.

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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:** [June 29, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7294 "2014-06-29T04:17:12Z")

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Do you want to see something really scary?

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7295 "2014-06-29T14:52:22Z")

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That doesn’t interest me Doctor and frankly, it’s, it’s the sort of thing that Miggs would say.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7296 "2014-06-29T15:50:44Z")

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You know what else can kill you? Doctors!

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7297 "2014-06-29T15:58:11Z")

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His is the hand that makes. His is the hand that hurts. His is the hand that heals. His is the House of Pain. His is the House of Pain. His is the House of Pain. He who breaks the law shall be punished back to the House of Pain.

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7298 "2014-06-29T16:04:51Z")

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Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers HAS been approved.

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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:** [June 29, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7299 "2014-06-29T16:50:31Z")

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This is a 44. Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it could blow your head clean off. Do you feel lucky?

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7300 "2014-06-29T17:31:09Z")

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You’re lucky, he’s lucky, I’m lucky, we’re all lucky!

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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:** [June 29, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7301 "2014-06-29T17:51:00Z")

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Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7302 "2014-06-29T18:31:50Z")

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Crucifixtion , you lucky lucky bastard!

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**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:** [June 29, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7303 "2014-06-29T21:06:06Z")

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“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war…”

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