# 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:** 727
**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:** [April 1, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14525 "2018-04-01T19:52:57Z")
Never speak, on my behalf, about my business, again. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14526 "2018-04-01T23:41:27Z")
That’s a fine letter, Jamison, that’s an epic. That’s dandy. Now, I want you to make two carbon copies of that letter and throw the original away. And when you get through with that, throw the carbon copies away. Just send a stamp, airmail, that’s all. You may go, Jamison. I may go too. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14527 "2018-04-01T23:55:44Z")
Anything further, Father? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14528 "2018-04-02T00:36:20Z")
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14529 "2018-04-02T01:23:20Z")
Can I ask you a question, Father? You ever get horny? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14530 "2018-04-02T02:21:59Z")
See this lot here? This lot used to be houses. In fact, there was a house over there on the corner where I kissed my first girl friend. Got her pregnant, too. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14531 "2018-04-02T16:05:43Z")
I’m not a baby. I’m a tumor. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14532 "2018-04-02T16:48:02Z")
It’s not a tumor! It’s not a tumor. At all! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14533 "2018-04-02T17:08:35Z")
Why do healthy normal cells go berserk and grow wild?.. Nobody knows. But we call them cysts and gliomas and tumors and cancers. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14534 "2018-04-02T17:19:30Z")
We all go a little mad sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14535 "2018-04-02T17:52:56Z")
Mad?! Mad they call me?! [I must confess I’m guessing on this one, but it must be out there, right?] ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14536 "2018-04-02T20:50:59Z")
[ok I’m feeling guilty. In play:] They say I’m a madman, Barton, but I’m not mad at anyone. Honest I’m not. Most guys I just feel sorry for. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14537 "2018-04-02T21:36:51Z")
Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14538 "2018-04-02T21:52:56Z")
–I’m attempting to isolate patterned reoccurrences…within periodicals over time. And you? –You talk funny, Mr. Nash. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14539 "2018-04-02T21:56:16Z")
By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14540 "2018-04-02T22:07:51Z")
[track?] ---
**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:** [April 2, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14541 "2018-04-02T22:09:49Z")
[talking funny] ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14542 "2018-04-02T22:23:38Z")
Mawwiage. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14543 "2018-04-03T18:25:41Z")
All right, everybody out on the dance floor! No exceptions! Look at all the happy couples! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14544 "2018-04-03T22:46:30Z")
You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=726) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=728)