# 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:** ![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 16, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/741 "2012-08-16T12:56:53Z")

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Help me… help you! Help me… help you!

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/742 "2012-08-16T14:12:53Z")

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Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I’m in a transitional period so I don’t wanna kill you.

I wanna help you.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/743 "2012-08-16T14:15:26Z")

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I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.

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**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 16, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/744 "2012-08-16T14:17:28Z")

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And we’re just the ones to do it! Eggnog?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/745 "2012-08-16T15:09:04Z")

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Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/746 "2012-08-16T15:29:11Z")

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I really don’t mind you being an asshole, you really can’t help that, but I do mind you lying to me like I was a fool.

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**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 16, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/747 "2012-08-16T16:07:30Z")

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Stupid is as stupid does.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/748 "2012-08-16T16:27:03Z")

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But why me? Why not Fenster, MacManus or Hockney? Why me? I’m stupid. I’m a cripple. Why me?

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**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 16, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/749 "2012-08-16T16:37:28Z")

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You wanna know?! OK, I’m gonna tell you! Because you had the talent to be a good fighter, and instead of that, you became a leg-breaker for some cheap, two-bit loan shark!

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**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 16, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/750 "2012-08-16T16:37:45Z")

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You ask too many questions.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/751 "2012-08-16T18:16:25Z")

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You’re a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses.

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**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 16, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/752 "2012-08-16T18:49:48Z")

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Well, they say a slice off a cut loaf’s never missed.

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**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 16, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/753 "2012-08-16T19:43:16Z")

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Go pinch that loaf, dawg.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/754 "2012-08-16T19:55:35Z")

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Excuse me if this off the subject a little bit, but just take a guess at how much I can bench press.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/755 "2012-08-16T20:42:34Z")

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Still using all the muscles except the one that matters?

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**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 16, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/756 "2012-08-16T20:47:28Z")

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Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/757 "2012-08-16T21:07:30Z")

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He was wondering how a man weighing 600 pounds could teach people about self-discipline.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/758 "2012-08-16T21:07:43Z")

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Once you’ve had fat, you never go back!

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**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 16, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/759 "2012-08-16T21:22:48Z")

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I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can’t see the stove.

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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:** [August 16, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/760 "2012-08-16T22:50:35Z")

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Y’know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain’t never seen no phantom Russian submarine.

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