# 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:** 778
**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 6, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15545 "2018-10-06T13:50:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > The Shadow knows. I’m Batman. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15546 "2018-10-06T15:29:06Z")
Mel? God? Neely?.. NEEEEEEELYYY O’HARAAAAAAAA! ---
**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 6, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15547 "2018-10-06T16:49:10Z")
Now all I have to teach you is one word - everything. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15548 "2018-10-06T17:37:19Z")
You must unlearn what you have learned. ---
**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 6, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15549 "2018-10-06T23:36:40Z")
We will empty your mind as you would your pockets. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15550 "2018-10-07T00:35:24Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ If you’re asking which movie it’s from–Hellboy. [sorry, and this applies to all such queries…if I truly don’t get the track, here, unless “Hellboy” gives it, which I still don’t get but I only get one chance, all that need be supplied is a word or two hint, not so much the title, unless that gives me an obvious _headsmack_. If it’s a Chinese/laundry/Jack Nicholson/Irish Mafia, or whatever the heck sparked you, I try my best, but if I can’t even see it in the words, at least, that’s when I query. Just for more fun. For others too, I think. Carry on. ] ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15551 "2018-10-07T00:37:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > We will empty your mind as you would your pockets. Technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it’s on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15552 "2018-10-07T10:11:11Z")
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said, “If you gotta go, go with a smile!” ---
**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 7, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15553 "2018-10-07T19:49:52Z")
You’re never fully dressed without a smile. ---
**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 8, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15554 "2018-10-08T20:44:29Z")
Smile, you son of a bitch! ---
**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 8, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15555 "2018-10-08T21:42:14Z")
When you call me that, smile. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15556 "2018-10-08T23:52:39Z")
Now you just gotta learn how guys talk. You just listen to the way Martin and I banter it back and forth. You OK? You’re ready? ---
**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 9, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15557 "2018-10-09T01:04:50Z")
There’s something in your voice that’s so right for selling cheese. ---
**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 9, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15558 "2018-10-09T11:06:59Z")
I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15559 "2018-10-09T11:23:02Z")
“There was evidence she used barbiturates.” “Brilliant detective work. There were pills all over the place.” ---
**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 9, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15560 "2018-10-09T16:24:23Z")
I know what you’re thinking, 'cause right now I’m thinking the same thing. Actually, I’ve been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn’t I take the _blue_ pill? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15561 "2018-10-09T18:05:49Z")
–Mr. Blue is dead? –Dead as Dillinger. ---
**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 9, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15562 "2018-10-09T20:09:10Z")
They say you’re the man who shot him. ---
**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 10, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15563 "2018-10-10T10:52:47Z")
Oh, Paulie … won’t see him no more. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/15564 "2018-10-10T15:02:48Z")
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