# 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://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16405 "2019-05-06T21:03:58Z")
What a maroon.
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### Author:  [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16406 "2019-05-06T23:28:54Z")
You got to be the dumbest smart kid I know.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16407 "2019-05-07T20:05:57Z")
I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16408 "2019-05-07T21:27:07Z")
Let’s see, uh… George… George… there’s a tumor in your brain, that’s spread out like a hand, threads of it, you know, everywhere. But instead of dysfunction - now here’s the mystery, George. Instead of destroying brain function, so far it’s been stimulating it. We can’t understand that. You have more area of active brain use than anybody ever tested - ever - because of those tentacles. I mean, we’ve seen tumors like this before, it’s called astrocytoma. And it explains, uh, the dizziness, and… the illusion of light. But the way it’s in there, waking up areas of the brain, it’s a… big mystery. So…
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### Author:  [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16409 "2019-05-07T23:06:27Z")
It’s not a tumor! It’s not a tumor. At all!
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16410 "2019-05-07T23:32:54Z")
Unfortunately there’s just as many diseases as there are persons. So at two days per disease, it’d take you till Judgment Day to make your diagnosis!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16411 "2019-05-08T00:10:54Z")
I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island is going to sink into the ocean. They have this mineral your father wants so he hired me to leap into their volcano.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16412 "2019-05-08T02:41:04Z")
Tell me more about this volcano. The data says it was highly volatile and if it were to erupt, it would wipe out the planet.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16413 "2019-05-08T20:22:45Z")
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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### Author:  [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16414 "2019-05-08T21:02:05Z")
Fellows, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish… And I’m not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16415 "2019-05-08T23:37:49Z")
On the water, the captain makes the decisions.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16416 "2019-05-08T23:57:02Z")
Now, is there anyone else here who does not want to serve in Her Majesty’s Navy?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16417 "2019-05-09T00:04:39Z")
Hey, Happy, ain’t that the guy who sank the Love Boat?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16418 "2019-05-09T19:58:17Z")
Open the outer doors, firing point procedures. Now if that bastard so much as twitches, I’m going to blow him straight to Mars.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16419 "2019-05-09T20:18:25Z")
You’re Nikolai… You’re the man who blew us in Greece.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16420 "2019-05-09T20:38:29Z")
You’re a Greek, you should be logical.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16421 "2019-05-09T23:06:50Z")
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16422 "2019-05-10T14:36:51Z")
I’ve seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You’re not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16423 "2019-05-10T15:11:25Z")
The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.
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### Author:  [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16424 "2019-05-10T16:35:36Z")
Chadwick has an impeccable reputation. And when students break the rules we curtail their freedom.
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