# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
**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\
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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15245 "2018-08-10T14:32:42Z")

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This guy next to me is doing something very weird in his raincoat.

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15246 "2018-08-10T14:59:39Z")

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Explain? What I’m doing in the bushes with a little boy? With my hands in his pockets? They’d give me 10-20 years.

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15247 "2018-08-10T15:22:07Z")

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What has it got in its pockets?

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15248 "2018-08-10T17:33:45Z")

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Jack says you’ve got a great big cock.

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15249 "2018-08-10T20:21:25Z")

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Jack? Jack! Wake up, you lazy good for nothing!

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15250 "2018-08-10T20:30:28Z")

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I don’t know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.

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**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15251 "2018-08-10T21:45:56Z")

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You’re gonna need a bigger boat…

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**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:** [August 10, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15252 "2018-08-10T22:30:01Z")

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But it seems to me… that a ship like that one, makes this one here seem a bit superfluous, really.

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**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:** [August 11, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15253 "2018-08-11T15:07:28Z")

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Please tell me we are taking this boat to a bigger boat.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15254 "2018-08-12T01:34:18Z")

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Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

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**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:** [August 12, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15255 "2018-08-12T02:33:06Z")

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Hi, Bobby, you’re somewhere out there, on the deep blue goddamn sea, and I’m writing this on a box two semi-down pillows, that I secretly bought for us at Penny’s, and I’m smiling at myself because the surprise I have in store for you… I’m talking removal, from our dungeons in the Crow’s Nest… to our own place… It’s no great shakes but… but ya gotta begin with a baby shake… right? Forever love Bobby… I’m in this for the long run…

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**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:** [August 12, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15256 "2018-08-12T03:01:42Z")

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You know what they say about these waters: if the Jamaican pirates don’t get you, it’ll be the cold embrace of the sea. And that’s no lover’s kiss.

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**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15257 "2018-08-12T03:54:24Z")

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Do me a favor, will you? Keep away from the windows. Somebody might…blow you a kiss.

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**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:** [August 12, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15258 "2018-08-12T13:25:40Z")

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That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.

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**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:** [August 12, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15259 "2018-08-12T13:41:49Z")

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Because yesterday… she didn’t. But today… she does.

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**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15260 "2018-08-12T15:48:04Z")

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I’ll have what she’s having…

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**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:** [August 13, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15261 "2018-08-13T13:34:46Z")

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He asks if you want a drink. You smile and say, ‘Vodka soda.’ If you already have a drink, you down it.

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**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:** [August 14, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15262 "2018-08-14T01:07:58Z")

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A medium dry martini, lemon peel, shaken, not stirred.

Vodka?

Of course.

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**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:** [August 14, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15263 "2018-08-14T14:56:43Z")

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What I’m trying to say is: I’m not a drinker; I’m a drunk.

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**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:** [August 14, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15264 "2018-08-14T16:07:23Z")

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It shrinks my liver, doesn’t it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does it do to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar.

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