# 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:** 637
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12724 "2017-01-16T22:02:51Z")
What do you expect to happen? ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12725 "2017-01-16T22:08:08Z")
Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure. That’s the story of my life, you know. Two things have always been my downfall - I have always been the most failure of anybody, and I’m too thin. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12726 "2017-01-17T07:27:53Z")
SHUT UP!!! We did not lose Vietnam. It was a tie! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12727 "2017-01-17T13:43:17Z")
Goooooood morning, Vietnam! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12728 "2017-01-17T19:30:22Z")
And what a lovely morning! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12729 "2017-01-17T23:50:37Z")
Sometimes you can just smell a horrendously shitty day on the way, can’t you? ---
**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:** [January 18, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12730 "2017-01-18T18:09:40Z")
Lock her in the closet, we must remain on schedule. OUR DAY HAS COME! ---
**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:** [January 18, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12731 "2017-01-18T21:25:27Z")
See you next Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12732 "2017-01-19T00:34:37Z")
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12733 "2017-01-19T14:43:06Z")
Wind’s in the east, mist coming in, / Like somethin’ is brewin’ and bout to begin. / Can’t put me finger on what lies in store, / But I fear what’s to happen all happened before. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12734 "2017-01-20T01:06:45Z")
Good-bye, Deja Vu. I’ll always remember you. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12735 "2017-01-20T01:18:36Z")
I don’t even know who I am. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12736 "2017-01-20T01:33:02Z")
Why, you’re Dolly Dimple, the world’s greatest female basketball player! (Have to give you the visual for this one: It’s an Abbott and Costello movie, and Costello’s in a blonde wig playing in a college girls’ basketball game. He’s just gotten conked on the head and forgotten his true identity…) ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12737 "2017-01-20T02:38:29Z")
Mr. Carlisle, I’m an actress. I’m a character actress. I can play it any way you want. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12738 "2017-01-20T03:32:20Z")
Just what the world needs, another actress. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12739 "2017-01-20T13:31:00Z")
She’s just a sex bomb. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12740 "2017-01-20T22:18:43Z")
For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12741 "2017-01-21T01:33:39Z")
Gee, get that lingo? A gentlemen would never insinuate that one of the fair sex might be lacking in honor, your Honor. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12742 "2017-01-21T22:16:40Z")
I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12743 "2017-01-21T22:29:47Z")
It’s hard for a man to be looked at by a woman. Women are used to it, of course, but for a man to submit to a woman’s gaze - it’s unsettling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=636) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=638)