# 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:** 723
**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:** [March 15, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14445 "2018-03-15T19:52:44Z")
All this for a loaf of bread? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14446 "2018-03-16T06:26:50Z")
Ian, can I have a word with you a minute? There’s, uh… a couple of problems with the, uh, arrangements backstage. There’s some problems here. I don’t even know where to start… Look, this. This miniature bread, it’s like… I’ve been working with this now for about half an hour, I can’t figure out… let’s say I wanted a bite, right? You got this… exactly. I don’t understand how… well no, then it’s half the size… Yeah, but then it breaks up. It breaks apart like this… But then if you keep folding it, then it keeps breaking… and then everything has to be folded. And then it’s _this_. And I don’t want _this_. I want LARGE BREAD, so that I can put _this_, so then it’s like _this_. But _this_ doesn’t work, because then it’s all… Look! would you be holding this? No! Alright, A. Exhibit, exhibit A. And now we move onto this… Look, look; Who’s in here? No one. And in here, there’s a little guy, look! So, it’s a complete catastrophe! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14447 "2018-03-16T13:10:27Z")
We want bread. But we want roses too. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14448 "2018-03-16T13:11:17Z")
I’m a man, so I married. Wife, children, house. Everything. The full catastrophe. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14449 "2018-03-16T14:08:44Z")
Yeah. I say, give me somethin’ that says, ‘I get up every morning at 5:30 and commute for an hour and a half to some bullshit job where my jag-off boss expects me to kiss his balls all day just so I can afford to keep my ungrateful, screaming kids decked out in Dora the explorer shit and my wife up to her fat ass in self-help videos until the day I get up the courage to put a shotgun in my mouth.’ ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14450 "2018-03-17T15:17:11Z")
What is your major malfunction? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14451 "2018-03-17T20:34:35Z")
Oh, nothing, I was just thinking about how my dad said he wired this place with video surveillance. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14452 "2018-03-17T20:42:29Z")
220, 221. Whatever it takes. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14453 "2018-03-18T15:29:40Z")
I have no time for this. Simply and clearly, if you’re not out of this apartment by noon today, our lawyers will petition the police to have… ---
**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:** [March 18, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14454 "2018-03-18T18:05:15Z")
Daniel, I see they made you master of this Sanctum. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14455 "2018-03-19T00:30:41Z")
Organized? Have you walked around this place? It’s pure anarchy! And I wouldn’t have it any other fucking way! ---
**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:** [March 19, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14456 "2018-03-19T01:17:43Z")
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14457 "2018-03-19T02:43:20Z")
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell 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:** [March 19, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14458 "2018-03-19T17:56:02Z")
But it’s a hot spot. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14459 "2018-03-19T21:58:24Z")
Lava? Right here in L.A? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14460 "2018-03-19T22:02:08Z")
it-it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths… Heathing… ---
**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:** [March 19, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14461 "2018-03-19T22:28:38Z")
Rage… taking over… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14462 "2018-03-20T01:43:34Z")
Hulk? Smash! ---
**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:** [March 20, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14463 "2018-03-20T14:39:02Z")
I know you don’t agree with this. But my first priority is to safeguard our citizens. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14464 "2018-03-20T14:55:35Z")
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