# 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:** 644
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12864 "2017-02-15T21:35:56Z")
Four years ago something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it, nothing. The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy and all the people in it closed their eyes, and held their tongues, and… failed the test with a whimper. And now something terrible’s going to happen again – and in a way we’re lucky, because we’ve been given a second chance. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12865 "2017-02-16T20:07:30Z")
Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12866 "2017-02-16T20:42:05Z")
Nash, if this is some plan for you to get the blond alone… ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12867 "2017-02-16T21:18:46Z")
Welcome to the Statue of Liberty. The Statue is a gift from French citizens and has come to symbolize hope for naked women everywhere. BOCCE BALLS! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12868 "2017-02-16T22:31:31Z")
Wait a bit! Know that face! Ain’t the world a remarkable place! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12869 "2017-02-16T22:44:26Z")
You have the cool, clear Eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth; Yet there’s that upturned chin And that grin of impetuous youth. Oh, I believe in you. I believe in 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:** [February 17, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12870 "2017-02-17T15:27:58Z")
The pathway to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12871 "2017-02-17T15:49:14Z")
Stay close to the candles. The stairway can be… treacherous. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12872 "2017-02-17T17:13:47Z")
I… fell down the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12873 "2017-02-17T18:40:55Z")
I feel like a pig shat in my head. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12874 "2017-02-17T22:41:09Z")
You know, if you stab a man in the dead of winter, steam will rise up from the wounds. Indians believed it was his soul escaping from his body. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12875 "2017-02-18T14:48:23Z")
If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don’t, then the police don’t know what to do. They think you’re four different people. What they really want, what makes their job so much easier, is pattern. What they call a _modus operandi._ That’s Latin. Bet you didn’t know any Latin, did you kid? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12876 "2017-02-18T14:58:12Z")
Treguna, Makoidees, Trecorum, Sadis Dee! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12877 "2017-02-18T21:05:46Z")
Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12878 "2017-02-20T02:59:16Z")
The piano, plumbing, and Billy Joe McCallister - what’ll they think of next? ---
**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:** [February 20, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12879 "2017-02-20T03:29:41Z")
There are 3 kinds of pipe. There’s what you have, which is garbage, and you can see where that’s gotten you. There’s bronze, which is pretty good, unless something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong! Then, there’s copper - which is the only pipe I use. Yes, it costs money. It costs money because it _saves_ money. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12880 "2017-02-20T04:04:19Z")
It’s what you _can’t_ see that counts in plumbing. Always remember that. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12881 "2017-02-20T12:12:26Z")
We’re not plumbers! We’re police officers! ---
**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:** [February 20, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12882 "2017-02-20T12:56:29Z")
Bad cop! No donut! ---
**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:** [February 20, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/12883 "2017-02-20T17:01:43Z")
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