# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
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**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:** ![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:** [July 21, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7484 "2014-07-21T18:36:47Z")

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I’ve heard that many Englishmen have that same difficulty.

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**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:** [July 21, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7485 "2014-07-21T20:02:43Z")

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The King of England and his Ambassadors can drown themselves in what they are impertinent enough to call their English channel.

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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:** [July 21, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7486 "2014-07-21T20:40:59Z")

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I used to hate the water…

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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:** [July 21, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7487 "2014-07-21T20:46:05Z")

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In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.

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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:** [July 21, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7488 "2014-07-21T21:20:06Z")

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Don’t be a fool, Striker, you know what a landing like this means, you more than anybody. I’m ordering you to stay up there.

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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:** [July 21, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7489 "2014-07-21T21:27:18Z")

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I’ve been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again.

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**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:** [July 21, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7490 "2014-07-21T23:58:15Z")

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I reckon the folks’d be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can’t say I would.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7491 "2014-07-22T00:55:59Z")

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Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7492 "2014-07-22T01:05:28Z")

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I’m sensing you have trust issues.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7493 "2014-07-22T03:26:18Z")

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I was born a poor black child.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7494 "2014-07-22T13:01:08Z")

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I only work in black and sometimes very, very dark grey.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7495 "2014-07-22T13:17:37Z")

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Yes! We’re black AND we’re dentists. Let’s not make an issue out of it.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7496 "2014-07-22T14:38:29Z")

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You’ll be a dentist. You’ll be a success.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7497 "2014-07-22T14:57:08Z")

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In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7498 "2014-07-22T15:02:15Z")

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You couldn’t be more wrong if you called it a Canadian Goose.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7499 "2014-07-22T15:25:29Z")

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The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7500 "2014-07-22T17:54:25Z")

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Calling you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7501 "2014-07-22T18:02:45Z")

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You have sunk below the deepest layer of prehistoric frog shit at the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7502 "2014-07-22T18:38:15Z")

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You will go with the men in the life rafts. The officers and I will submerge beneath you, and scuttle the ship.

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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:** [July 22, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7503 "2014-07-22T19:17:05Z")

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Let’s pee down his air hose.

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