# 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:** 695
**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:** [October 17, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13884 "2017-10-17T00:08:37Z")
Why am I here? Because I just came down with a serious case of inadequacy. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13885 "2017-10-17T01:15:16Z")
I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you _were_ a swell guy. A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you’re not so slow, but you’re not so swell either. And it looks like you’re an imbecile after all! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13886 "2017-10-17T15:21:12Z")
If you’re as guilty, as I think you are, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13887 "2017-10-17T15:48:33Z")
You… you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13888 "2017-10-17T21:39:40Z")
Don’t talk to me like that, assface. I don’t work for you yet. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13889 "2017-10-18T20:09:27Z")
Then it’s straight to the orphanage with you! You’ll learn a thing or two there. I certainly did. How to follow orders, how to keep to yourself. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13890 "2017-10-18T20:21:14Z")
Look at him. What a shame it is. With his face he could pick old ladies’ pockets in church. His face could be a fortune to us. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13891 "2017-10-18T22:21:09Z")
Doctors… Lawyers… never get past 60 thousand rupees. He’s won 10 million. What the hell can a slumdog possibly know? ---
**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:** [October 18, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13892 "2017-10-18T22:38:06Z")
They gave you the answers… they gave YOU the answers? ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13893 "2017-10-19T11:17:00Z")
Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It’s your weight and my I.Q. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13894 "2017-10-19T22:09:55Z")
There are patterns in everything. The color in light, the reflections in water… in math, these patterns reveal themselves in the most incredible form. It’s quite beautiful. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13895 "2017-10-19T23:13:03Z")
Clarice, doesn’t this random scattering of sites seem desperately random – like the elaborations of a bad liar? ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13896 "2017-10-19T23:15:02Z")
I showed the green glass thing to mom. She thought it was a paperweight. Maybe other people don’t see what we see. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13897 "2017-10-20T19:23:44Z")
Oh, and is there any question as to why that is? Let’s explore that, shall we? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13898 "2017-10-21T04:57:04Z")
I’m sorry, I was all the way over here. I couldn’t hear you. Did you say you were a fast cook? That’s it? Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth? Well, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Were these _magic_ grits? I mean, did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13899 "2017-10-21T18:32:52Z")
Secret’s in the sauce. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13900 "2017-10-21T22:54:57Z")
They all lacked that one thing… that makes McDonald’s special. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13901 "2017-10-21T22:58:53Z")
Carl’s Jr.: Fuck You, I’m Eating. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13902 "2017-10-22T01:51:02Z")
Go 'way! 'Bating! ---
**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:** [October 22, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/13903 "2017-10-22T02:40:45Z")
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