# 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:** 751
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15005 "2018-07-04T18:07:42Z")
I’m not even supposed to _be_ here today! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15006 "2018-07-04T19:15:08Z")
I could’ve been at a barbecue! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15007 "2018-07-04T19:27:06Z")
Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15008 "2018-07-04T20:40:44Z")
“It was probably a wax thing.” “No, no, it wasn’t a wax thing, it was moving and it was freaky looking!” ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15009 "2018-07-05T02:11:32Z")
Like to make a little bet? After all, you’re just a Freshman. Wait till you’re a Sophomore. That’s when you start seeing the little animals. You know that stuff about pink elephants? That’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the key holes. See that guy over there? With him, its beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him. Has to be dark though. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15010 "2018-07-05T11:00:41Z")
Everyone’s got a gimmick now! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15011 "2018-07-05T15:08:11Z")
If you’re gonna bump it, bump it with a trumpet! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15012 "2018-07-05T19:48:16Z")
“He’s trying five saxes with a trumpet lead.” “Maybe it’s good and maybe it ain’t, but it’s radical!” ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15013 "2018-07-05T21:33:05Z")
These go to eleven. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15014 "2018-07-05T21:43:06Z")
Marion, don’t look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don’t look at it, no matter what happens! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15015 "2018-07-05T23:59:02Z")
Madame Librarian…Marian, if I stumbled and I busted my what-you-may-call-it, I could lie on your floor unnoticed, 'till my body had turned to carrrrrrion…Madam Librarian. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15016 "2018-07-06T14:27:34Z")
Were you just putting that book away? I guess you didn’t know we have a system for putting books away here. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15017 "2018-07-06T16:12:40Z")
But this rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book. ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15018 "2018-07-06T21:28:17Z")
Never read a book in her life. She read one book. The Carpetbaggers. End of six months she was on page 19. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15019 "2018-07-06T21:48:56Z")
What do you get from a lot of TV? A pain in the neck and an IQ of three. Why don’t you try simply reading a book? Or could you just not bear to look? You’ll get no, You’ll get no, You’ll get no, You’ll get no, You’ll get no commercials! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15020 "2018-07-06T23:12:39Z")
[Riding in a car for the first time] This is just like television, only you can see much further. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15021 "2018-07-07T04:27:43Z")
You lack vision. I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on, all day, all night! Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly-prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see! My God, it’ll be beautiful. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15022 "2018-07-07T04:46:01Z")
What’s the law on what you can and cannot say on a billboard? I assume it’s ya can’t say nothing defamatory, and ya can’t say, ‘Fuck’ ‘Piss’ or ‘Cunt’. That right? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15023 "2018-07-07T11:39:51Z")
“Paramount Pictures presents ‘The Freak.’ This movie won’t just scare you, it will fuck you up for life.” I want to know how the fuck the word “fuck” gets in the New York fucking Times! ---
**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:** [July 7, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15024 "2018-07-07T22:29:00Z")
What’s the big deal? It’s not like it’s hurting anyone. Fuck, fuckity, fuck-fuck-fuck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=750) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=752)