# 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:** 446
**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 26, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8904 "2015-02-26T00:14:33Z")
_That_ is why I won’t do two shows a night anymore, I won’t. ---
**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 26, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8905 "2015-02-26T12:50:43Z")
I didn’t bargain for that. ---
**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 26, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8906 "2015-02-26T14:01:48Z")
I can’t see you, but I know you’re there. ---
**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 26, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8907 "2015-02-26T14:51:25Z")
Being invisible is the best. ---
**Author:** ![G\_MONEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@G\_MONEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G_MONEY)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8908 "2015-02-26T19:37:45Z")
Four score andoullie sausage ago blah blah blah. ---
**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 26, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8909 "2015-02-26T21:47:26Z")
Four score and seven-- (sound of piano roll music flapping in player piano.) ---
**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 27, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8910 "2015-02-27T01:48:44Z")
Don’t Shoot The Piano Player (He’s doing the best that he can.) ---
**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 27, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8911 "2015-02-27T03:15:35Z")
You play that thing one more time, I’m gonna melt it down into hairspray. ---
**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 27, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8912 "2015-02-27T03:29:11Z")
Motown, get your Detroit juicebox jheri curl ass in this chicken shit chop-chop A-S-A-F-P! ---
**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 27, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8913 "2015-02-27T03:36:46Z")
Doctor Detroit’s movin’ in! They say we’re movin’ out! ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8914 "2015-02-27T18:29:53Z")
But I know exactly where I’m going. Getting closer and closer every day. ---
**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 27, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8915 "2015-02-27T21:45:36Z")
Okay, now you see which way you’re pointing, right? Yeah? Okay that’s good, because you see that place? See where it say “Rib Tip”? Mm-hmm. But fuck that, you don’t wanna go that way. You gonna go all the way down about half a block, and you’ll see a Torino with no wheels on it. Now inside that Torino is my cousin, Jackie. Now you tell him you’re my boy and you’re lost, and he’ll make sure you get to where your goin’ cause you don’t want to know from me, man. This ain’t even my neighborhood. I’m from the west side of Chicago, here on vacation. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8916 "2015-02-28T02:04:36Z")
Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth? ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8917 "2015-02-28T15:03:15Z")
Do they understand any of it to start? Somehow they begin to. ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8918 "2015-02-28T16:13:28Z")
Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word! ---
**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 28, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8919 "2015-02-28T18:40:41Z")
Fire? ---
**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 28, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8920 "2015-02-28T21:44:39Z")
That word is special. That word is only for something really important. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8921 "2015-03-02T21:18:44Z")
Those words mean so much to a man who scrubs garbage cans. Look, if you don’t want me in your Army, kick me out, but get off my back. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8922 "2015-03-02T22:29:24Z")
Ok, let me see if I’ve got this straight. In order to be grounded, I’ve got to be crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I’m not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/8923 "2015-03-03T00:21:54Z")
The more you try to act sane, the crazier you start to look. If you smile too much, you’re delusional or you’re stifling hysteria. And if you don’t smile, you’re depressed. If you remain neutral, you’re emotionally withdrawn, potentially catatonic. Don’t you get it? You’re a Code 12, so am I. We’re here for the exact same reasons. We both pissed off the cops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=445) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=447)