# 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:** ![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 22, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7504 "2014-07-22T19:21:16Z")

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Somebody find Buckman, launch him out a torpedo tube.

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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, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7505 "2014-07-22T19:49:06Z")

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Is it safe?

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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, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7506 "2014-07-22T20:23:31Z")

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Ah! This is obviously some strange use of the word “safe” that I wasn’t previously aware of.

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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, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7507 "2014-07-22T20:26:51Z")

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nm

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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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7508 "2014-07-22T20:30:57Z")

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For a primitive species we have our points.

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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, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7509 "2014-07-22T20:53:38Z")

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If you’re so smart, tell me something, how come you go to M.I.T. for 8 years to become a cable repairman?

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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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7510 "2014-07-22T20:58:08Z")

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It’s all right. You’ve never been out of Boston.

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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 23, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7511 "2014-07-23T05:07:25Z")

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You guys should be in every major city. This is some heavy shit. This is, like, Lone Ranger heavy, man.

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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 23, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7512 "2014-07-23T05:34:12Z")

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Tess… this is not what it looks like. I mean, it _is_ what it looks like, but I can explain. Well, not exactly explain…

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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 23, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7513 "2014-07-23T13:59:41Z")

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After a couple of years no one will even remember.

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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 23, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7514 "2014-07-23T14:23:40Z")

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I’ve forgotten the question.

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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 23, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7515 "2014-07-23T15:32:45Z")

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Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

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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 23, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7516 "2014-07-23T15:39:44Z")

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Plastics.

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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 23, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7517 "2014-07-23T16:30:38Z")

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I’m sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

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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 23, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7518 "2014-07-23T19:02:26Z")

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I’m the star. It’s my big dick and I say when we roll.

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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 23, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7519 "2014-07-23T19:11:59Z")

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Yeah, you came late yesterday, you came late today. I don’t need you. You’re fired.

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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 23, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7520 "2014-07-23T19:27:29Z")

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Some people say that I’m a bad guy, they may be right, they may be right. But it’s not as if I don’t try, I just fuck up, try as I might. But I can change, I can change! I can learn to keep my promises I swear it.

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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 23, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7521 "2014-07-23T20:13:21Z")

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You don’t have to be the bad guy. You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things. Because you are the Special.

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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 23, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7522 "2014-07-23T20:22:36Z")

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Check out the big brain on Brett. You one smart motherfucker.

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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 23, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7523 "2014-07-23T20:42:15Z")

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I know there’s something weird going on with you and that brain!

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