# 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:** 627
**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:** [December 3, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12524 "2016-12-03T13:23:10Z")
Compared to what? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12525 "2016-12-03T13:30:23Z")
You be the good cop. I’ll be the bad cop. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12526 "2016-12-04T00:19:08Z")
He ain’t gonna try it. Right, cop? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12527 "2016-12-04T11:37:21Z")
There are rules for policemen. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12528 "2016-12-04T12:54:21Z")
Stop! Or my Mom will shoot! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12529 "2016-12-04T23:34:04Z")
You ever talk that way to my kid again… I’m knockin’ you out! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12530 "2016-12-04T23:46:30Z")
I know, Ma. You do all the barkin’, but it’s me that’s always in the doghouse. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12531 "2016-12-05T01:24:23Z")
We’re goldfish people, we’re antfarm people. We’re not dog people. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12532 "2016-12-05T01:44:58Z")
Dogs don’t like to be left alone. It’s not like, when you leave, he goes, “Great, time to finish writing my novel!” No, when their humans leave, dogs get depressed, and they show it. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12533 "2016-12-05T02:17:54Z")
What’s the moral? Other than dog people should marry dog people and cat people, cat people. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12534 "2016-12-05T03:41:28Z")
Dogs and cats living together! _Mass hysteria!_ ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12535 "2016-12-06T00:36:28Z")
Katie is a dog person, and dog persons do inexplicable things, like get dogs instead of cats. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12536 "2016-12-06T00:40:20Z")
Everybody wants to be a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12537 "2016-12-06T01:18:15Z")
But I don’t want to go among mad people, Oh, you can’t help that, we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. How do you know I’m mad? You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12538 "2016-12-06T13:32:42Z")
I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light. Crazy thing is… it’s true. The Force. The Jedi… All of it… It’s all true. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12539 "2016-12-06T17:38:54Z")
He told me this whole story about when a Jew is on the show, he always loses to a Gentile, and then the Gentile wins more money. I mean, who could dream up a scheme like that? The thing of it is, I looked it up: it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12540 "2016-12-06T17:43:47Z")
Were not in Kansas anymore ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12541 "2016-12-06T17:56:23Z")
Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12542 "2016-12-06T18:59:52Z")
I grew up in Kansas, General. I’m about as American as it gets. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12543 "2016-12-07T01:27:02Z")
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