# 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:** 629
**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 10, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12564 "2016-12-10T22:24:13Z")
Consider it a parting gift. ---
**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 11, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12565 "2016-12-11T01:25:01Z")
Hasta la vista, Baby. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12566 "2016-12-11T15:29:09Z")
Your clothes. Give them to me now! ---
**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 11, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12567 "2016-12-11T21:57:32Z")
You know what just kills me, is the clothes you are going to get. You don’t deserve them. I mean, you eat carbs. ---
**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 11, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12568 "2016-12-11T23:17:03Z")
Say, Jim. That’s a bad outfit. Whooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12569 "2016-12-11T23:28:00Z")
Nice hat harry. . ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12570 "2016-12-12T01:11:26Z")
The next time you appear in my court, you will look lawyerly. And I mean you comb your hair, and wear a suit and tie. And that suit had better be made out of some sort of… cloth. ---
**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 12, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12571 "2016-12-12T22:04:29Z")
Kings, prime ministers, archbishops, even barristers have stood in the dock. ---
**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 12, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12572 "2016-12-12T22:27:29Z")
Kingsfield drove him mad. He’s driven a lot of lawyers mad over the past 40 years that he’s been teaching here. I heard he ripped up a 1-L this morning so bad, the guy lost his breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12573 "2016-12-13T06:53:36Z")
Oh, sweetheart, you don’t need law school. Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. And you, button, are none of those things. . ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12574 "2016-12-13T15:29:04Z")
In case you people have forgotten, this block operates under the same rules as the rest of the city. Ma-Ma is not the law… I am the law. ---
**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 13, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12575 "2016-12-13T16:03:39Z")
There are rules here? Oh no, there are no rules here. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12576 "2016-12-13T17:11:49Z")
There are rules for policemen. ---
**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 13, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12577 "2016-12-13T22:51:09Z")
I wanna make detective. ---
**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 13, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12578 "2016-12-13T23:06:28Z")
You’re the dick. ---
**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 14, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12579 "2016-12-14T12:55:26Z")
Wish you’d stop being so good to me, Captain. ---
**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 14, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12580 "2016-12-14T15:42:36Z")
“O Captain, my Captain.” Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now, in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, “O Captain my Captain.” ---
**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 14, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12581 "2016-12-14T18:21:15Z")
Captain’s not called Lucky Jack for no reason. ---
**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 14, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12582 "2016-12-14T23:23:01Z")
There should have been a “Captain” in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12583 "2016-12-14T23:52:22Z")
You was my brother, Charley.You shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me, just a little bit, so I wouldn’t have to take them dives for the short-end money…I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=628) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=630)