# 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:** 601
**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:** [July 29, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12004 "2016-07-29T23:11:36Z")
It’s like that book I read in the 9th grade that said “'tis a far far better thing doing stuff for other people.” ---
**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:** [July 30, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12005 "2016-07-30T17:28:49Z")
What we done in France, we had to do. And some as done it, didn’t come back, and that kind of thing ain’t for buying and selling. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12006 "2016-07-31T01:23:54Z")
Today’s figures for operations in the urban area alone account for the elimination of a total of 2,750 pounds of conventional editions, 836 pounds of first editions, and 17 pounds of manuscripts were also destroyed. Twenty-three anti-social elements were detained, pending re-education. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12007 "2016-07-31T15:18:46Z")
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. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12008 "2016-07-31T15:48:39Z")
You know, but that’s valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12009 "2016-07-31T21:28:11Z")
There’s no present like the time. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12010 "2016-08-01T03:36:58Z")
Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue steel beauty. The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive. Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pranging ducks on the wing and getting off spectacular hip shots. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12011 "2016-08-01T12:49:41Z")
Have you guys ever seen a flock of ducks flying in perfect formation? It’s beautiful. Pretty awesome the way they all stick together. Ducks never say die. Ever seen a duck fight? No way. Why? Because the other animals are afraid. They know that if they mess with one duck, they gotta deal with the whole flock. I’m proud to be a Duck, and I’d be proud to fly with any one of you. So how about it? Who’s a Duck? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12012 "2016-08-01T18:51:55Z")
Duck, you sucker! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12013 "2016-08-01T19:36:00Z")
At power forward, The Quackster of the Court: Daffy Duck! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12014 "2016-08-01T21:19:20Z")
I’ve worked with a lot of withe-quackerth, but you are dethpicable ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12015 "2016-08-01T21:36:53Z")
Sometimes, it’s not so easy being Fearless Leader. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12016 "2016-08-02T03:18:24Z")
I asked him, how can a man be brave if he’s afraid? “That is the only time a man _can_ be brave,” he told me. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12017 "2016-08-02T11:55:23Z")
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12018 "2016-08-02T12:53:09Z")
Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12019 "2016-08-02T14:26:07Z")
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12020 "2016-08-02T16:18:51Z")
_This_ you can trust. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12021 "2016-08-02T17:06:29Z")
Trust my rage. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12022 "2016-08-02T17:33:54Z")
That’s my secret. I’m always angry. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12023 "2016-08-03T15:32:10Z")
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