# 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:** 417
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8324 "2014-10-15T00:29:27Z")
Well, do you, punk? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8325 "2014-10-15T14:28:45Z")
But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet, or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me… Because iocaine comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder’s origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me… You’ve beaten my giant, which means you’re exceptionally strong. So, you could have put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you’ve also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied. And in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me… It _has_ worked – you’ve given everything away! I know where the poison is! And I choose – what in the world can THAT be? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8326 "2014-10-15T14:34:39Z")
Life and death. Space and time. Fate and chance. Theses are the forces of the universe. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a man who has unlocked these mysteries. From the furthest corners of the world where the dark arts still hold sway he returns to us to demonstrate how nature’s laws may be bent. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8327 "2014-10-15T17:35:53Z")
Come on then, back to creation. We mustn’t waste any more time. They’ll think I’ve lost control again and put it all down to evolution. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8328 "2014-10-16T14:05:41Z")
You want a miracle? _You_ make a fish from scratch. You can’t. You think only God can make a tree? Try coming up with a mackerel. And when the last one’s gone, that’ll be that. Eighty-six on the fish, goodbye sky, so long world, over and out. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8329 "2014-10-16T14:12:19Z")
So long, and thanks for all the fish. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8330 "2014-10-16T14:24:31Z")
Let me come with you, Pontiuth. I may be of thome athithtanthe if there ith a thudden crithith! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8331 "2014-10-17T14:36:08Z")
Not you, Ken. You have a beautiful speaking voice. When it works. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8332 "2014-10-19T15:12:57Z")
I don’t need it - I don’t need ANYBODY. I got talent, Edward. BIG talent. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8333 "2014-10-19T15:16:15Z")
I wish I were big. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8334 "2014-10-19T15:28:28Z")
Because anybody that’s peed next to you knows it’s the size of a leprechaun’s pinkie. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8335 "2014-10-20T02:42:19Z")
For future reference, right-handed men don’t hold it with their left. Just one of those things. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8336 "2014-10-21T01:41:10Z")
Actually, you weren’t so bad for a guy with no penis. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8337 "2014-10-21T03:26:56Z")
Nice ascot! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8338 "2014-10-21T04:06:57Z")
Don’t look him in the eye! It challenges him! He doesn’t like that! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8339 "2014-10-21T12:46:45Z")
W-W-What’s up, Medusa? W-What’s going on? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8340 "2014-10-21T18:35:30Z")
What’s the matter with you? Is this what you’ve become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? “Oh, what do I do? What do I do?” What is that nonsense? Ridiculous! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8341 "2014-10-21T19:38:46Z")
There’s no crying in baseball! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8342 "2014-10-21T20:32:02Z")
I think the metaphor broke my spleen! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8343 "2014-10-21T20:53:37Z")
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