# 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: ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16725 "2019-07-30T21:17:26Z")

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Oh boy.

Oh boy what?

You’re fucked.

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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: [July 31, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16726 "2019-07-31T02:12:11Z")

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The Almighty tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he’s pretty sure you’re fucked.

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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: [July 31, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16727 "2019-07-31T16:26:45Z")

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Next time, Jack, write a goddamn memo.

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### 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: [July 31, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16728 "2019-07-31T18:20:50Z")

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Kid - the next time I say, ‘Let’s go someplace like Bolivia,’ let’s go someplace like Bolivia.

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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: [July 31, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16729 "2019-07-31T23:07:29Z")

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Who are those guys?

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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: [July 31, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16730 "2019-07-31T23:22:54Z")

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Railroad men… bounty hunters…

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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: [July 31, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16731 "2019-07-31T23:25:25Z")

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You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

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### 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: [July 31, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16732 "2019-07-31T23:33:00Z")

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Are they ill-tempered?

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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 1, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16733 "2019-08-01T16:19:04Z")

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First of all, keep him out of the light, he hates bright light, especially sunlight, it’ll kill him. Second, don’t give him any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never feed him after midnight.

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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 1, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16734 "2019-08-01T16:22:19Z")

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We meant no harm. Filippa and I merely wanted to grant Babette’s wish. We had no idea where it might lead. And now we’ve exposed ourselves to dangerous forces that may bring evil upon us. I can’t even tell you what you may be given to eat and drink.

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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 1, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16735 "2019-08-01T21:24:19Z")

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Just tell me what it is the rat wants to cook.

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### Author: ![Taesahnim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taesahnim/32/84_2.png) [@Taesahnim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taesahnim)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16736 "2019-08-01T21:46:16Z")

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Willard! There are rats in the basement!

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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 2, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16737 "2019-08-02T11:33:31Z")

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Delbert McClintock, infestation management. Always nice to meet a colleague.

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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 2, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16738 "2019-08-02T13:52:41Z")

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I’ve activated the Squeak Seeker 2000.

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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 2, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16739 "2019-08-02T22:32:46Z")

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This thing is like any intelligence. It needs to grow, to advance. Right now it’s settling somewhere it thinks it’s safe from outside threats. Somewhere its massive appetite for power can be met. But it will want more than that. After a while survival won’t be enough. It will expand, evolve, influence - perhaps the entire world.

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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 2, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16740 "2019-08-02T22:49:11Z")

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The organism is growing at a geometric rate. By all accounts, it’s at least a thousand times its original mass.

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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 2, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16741 "2019-08-02T23:04:47Z")

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But when you’re an overweight child, in a society that demands perfection, your sense of right and wrong, fair and unfair will always be tragically skewed…

[farts]

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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 3, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16742 "2019-08-03T01:19:50Z")

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Tell him about the Twinkie.

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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 3, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16743 "2019-08-03T13:29:05Z")

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Out of the bars and into the streets! Anita Bryant is coming for you!

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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 3, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16744 "2019-08-03T13:39:36Z")

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I’m a princess! P to the R to the IN to the CESS!

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