# 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:** ![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 21, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8344 "2014-10-21T21:07:29Z")

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More tea, anyone?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8345 "2014-10-24T20:02:18Z")

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Please, serve me today, and I’ll never come in here again. If I do, you can 86 me.

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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:** [October 24, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8346 "2014-10-24T20:06:02Z")

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I ask for so little. Just fear me. Love me. Do as I ask, and I shall be your slave.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8347 "2014-10-24T20:17:58Z")

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Because he’s _nuts_! That’s why he’s dangerous. I mean, if he was porking her, then I could talk with him, man-to-man, but this is… this is fruitcake love here.

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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:** [October 24, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8348 "2014-10-24T21:19:37Z")

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My line of work, you meet some real wackos.

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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:** [October 26, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8349 "2014-10-26T03:33:40Z")

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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin’? Well you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walkin’ around on the streets and that’s it.

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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:** [October 26, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8350 "2014-10-26T03:43:14Z")

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I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth, and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.

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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:** [October 26, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8351 "2014-10-26T03:48:18Z")

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nm

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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:** [October 27, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8352 "2014-10-27T18:37:47Z")

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Gentlemen, gentlemen… I’ll never understand. All these books, a world of knowledge at your fingertips. What do you do? You play poker all night.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8353 "2014-10-28T00:07:32Z")

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That’s right. When I was your age, television was called books.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8354 "2014-10-28T00:14:11Z")

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Your books are safe. While you’re reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8355 "2014-10-28T00:29:45Z")

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Robinson Crusoe not real? And Friday? And the parrot, with green body and yellow tail, not real?

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8356 "2014-10-28T00:38:54Z")

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Don’t worry Wilson, I’ll do all the paddling. You just hang on.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8357 "2014-10-28T00:51:13Z")

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Did you shoot an aspirin into Mr.Wilson’s mouth?

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8358 "2014-10-28T00:54:00Z")

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Armand: What are you giving him drugs for? What the hell are Pirin tablets?

Agador: It’s aspirin with the “A” and the “S” scraped off.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8359 "2014-10-28T01:01:15Z")

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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8360 "2014-10-28T15:37:39Z")

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You got a _big_ surprise coming to you. You’re not going anywhere! Go check out the Snow Cat and the radio and you’ll see what I mean. Go check it out. _Go!_ Go check it out!

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8361 "2014-10-28T15:56:19Z")

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Mankind survived the last ice age. We’re certainly capable of surviving this one. All depends on whether or not we’re able to learn from our mistakes?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8362 "2014-10-28T16:14:24Z")

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I guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living…or get busy dying.

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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:** [October 28, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8363 "2014-10-28T16:40:50Z")

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Dying is easy. _Comedy_ is hard.

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