# 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:** 443
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8844 "2015-02-16T12:56:28Z")
I didn’t ask her to change you into a bear! I just asked her to change…you. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8845 "2015-02-16T13:09:29Z")
No, Ace. Just you. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8846 "2015-02-16T13:33:31Z")
Well, yeah. That’s why I’m here, ya know? To change. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8847 "2015-02-16T15:16:26Z")
We are who we choose to be. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8848 "2015-02-16T21:23:09Z")
How do you like me now? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8849 "2015-02-16T21:49:36Z")
There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. You’re the worst kind; you’re high maintenance, but you think you’re low maintenance. You don’t see that? _“Waiter, I’ll begin with a house salad, but I don’t want the regular dressing. I’ll have the balsamic vinegar and oil - but on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce - but I want the mustard sauce on the side.”_ “On the side” is a very big thing for you. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8850 "2015-02-16T22:02:47Z")
God knows, you girls keep trying. Treating your men like side dishes. Stick a fork in when needed-just like men used to treat us. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8851 "2015-02-17T12:43:27Z")
Yes, I think a trial period will be quite in order. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8852 "2015-02-17T19:48:06Z")
No, Justice Scalia, I would say there is no line between the two. Because really, what you’re talking about a matter of taste, not law. As you yourself said, I believe, in Pope vs. Illinois, “It’s useless to argue about taste and even more useless to litigate it.” And that is the case here. The jury has already determined for us that this is a matter of taste and not a matter of law, because they’ve said there’s no libelous speech - that nobody could reasonably believe that Hustler was actually suggesting Jerry Falwell had sex with his mother. Hustler puts him and his mother together in a example of literary travesty, if you will. It serves the same public purpose as Garry Trudeau saying Reagan has no brain, or that George Bush is a wimp. It lets us look at public figures a little bit differently. We have a long tradition in this country of satiric commentary. Now, if Jerry Falwell can sue when there has been no libelous speech, purely on the grounds of emotional distress, then so can other public figures. Imagine, if you will, suits against people like Garry Trudeau, and Johnny Carson for what he says on The Tonight Show. Obviously, when people criticize public figures, they’re going to experience emotional distress. We all know that. It’s easiest thing in the world to claim and it’s impossible to refute, and that’s what makes it a meaningless standard. Really, all it does is allow us to punish unpopular speech. This country is founded, at least in part, on the firm belief that unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8853 "2015-02-17T20:20:58Z")
Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8854 "2015-02-18T01:19:56Z")
Even before you start . . . that was a pre-emptive shh. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8855 "2015-02-18T01:28:22Z")
Something awful happened here. I can feel it. Something awful. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8856 "2015-02-18T01:42:41Z")
It’s not that bad. Well, I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8857 "2015-02-18T04:41:28Z")
If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8858 "2015-02-18T14:46:20Z")
In this replacement Earth we’re building they’ve given me Africa to do and of course I’m doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I’m old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it’s not equatorial enough. Equatorial! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8859 "2015-02-18T14:46:50Z")
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8860 "2015-02-18T15:24:29Z")
Cue the deer. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8861 "2015-02-18T15:27:19Z")
See the moose? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8862 "2015-02-19T14:14:18Z")
Have you liquidated moose and squirrel? ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8863 "2015-02-20T03:31:37Z")
Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=442) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=444)