# 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:** [June 1, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11704 "2016-06-01T20:34:00Z")

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> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#):
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> “I said, I don’t care!”
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> “Oh, he’s our shortstop.”

OOC: Isn’t that supposed to be, “I don’t give a damn”?

BIP:

This son of a bitch is throwing a two-hit shutout. He’s shaking me off. You believe that shit? Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.

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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:** [June 1, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11705 "2016-06-01T21:10:03Z")

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You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?

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**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:** [June 1, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11706 "2016-06-01T22:17:21Z")

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> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> OOC: Isn’t that supposed to be, “I don’t give a damn”?

The “I don’t care” version is the one that appears in the movie **The Naughty Nineties** , filmed in 1945.

Back in play:

“He can do _anything_.”

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11707 "2016-06-01T22:48:39Z")

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Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please

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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:** [June 2, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11708 "2016-06-02T15:50:42Z")

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One’s too many an’ a hundred’s not enough.

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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:** [June 2, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11709 "2016-06-02T17:43:07Z")

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After what happened to Luther, I don’t think I can get more than two, three hundred guys.

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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:** [June 2, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11710 "2016-06-02T18:58:05Z")

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Jimmy, how did Luthor get out of prison?

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11711 "2016-06-03T00:23:40Z")

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Even with all this accumulated knowledge, when will these dummies learn to use a DOOR KNOB?

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11712 "2016-06-03T00:59:50Z")

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Whoops. Broke your 335-year-old doorknob.

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**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:** [June 3, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11713 "2016-06-03T01:35:52Z")

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He broke my father’s museum. It was my father’s only museum! What have you done, Ted? What…have you done?

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11714 "2016-06-03T01:41:04Z")

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I’m a baaaaad boy.

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11715 "2016-06-03T06:08:56Z")

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I expected something a little better from you, a man of your education.

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11716 "2016-06-03T11:49:07Z")

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Yes, well, apparently you were a little… drunk at your tutorial today.

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**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:** [June 3, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11717 "2016-06-03T13:17:44Z")

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Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11718 "2016-06-03T23:25:52Z")

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We weren’t a Greek organization. We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry, we let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared, women swooned, and Gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

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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:** [June 4, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11719 "2016-06-04T01:19:50Z")

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Oh, what interesting china. It looks like young men playing leap frog.

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**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:** [June 4, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11720 "2016-06-04T11:51:33Z")

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There is no way I am kissing a frog and eating a bug on the same day.

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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:** [June 4, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11721 "2016-06-04T12:54:20Z")

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Oooh, the little cream-filled kind! _CHOMP_

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11722 "2016-06-05T00:15:09Z")

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A second family of hogs just moved out of these britches. (The Outlaw Josie Wales)

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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:** [June 5, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11723 "2016-06-05T02:09:31Z")

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I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

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