# 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:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17187 "2019-12-08T00:31:21Z")

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Modern medicine can only do so much.

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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:** [December 8, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17188 "2019-12-08T02:51:57Z")

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It is all rubbish isn’t it? I mean… transplants, antibodies. We manufacture genes. We can produce birth ectogenetically. We can practically clone people like carrots, and half the kids in this ghetto haven’t even been inoculated for polio. We have established the most enormous medical… entity ever conceived, and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! The whole goddamn wretched world, strangulating in front of our eyes.

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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:** [December 8, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17189 "2019-12-08T15:28:30Z")

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Attention. Tonight’s movie has been “M_A_S\*H.” Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs - [chuckles] operating as bombs and bullets burst around them; snatching laughs and love between amputaions and penicillin.

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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:** [December 8, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17190 "2019-12-08T16:08:46Z")

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Woof, woof, woof! That’s my other dog imitation.

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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:** [December 9, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17191 "2019-12-09T00:10:04Z")

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Well, we’re all fools sometimes. Only you choose such awkward times.

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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:** [December 9, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17192 "2019-12-09T13:17:07Z")

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Frau Blücher : I came to tell you that your fiance should be arriving any second!

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : [shirtless] Elizabeth! Here, tonight?

Frau Blücher : I suggest you put on a tie!

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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:** [December 9, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17193 "2019-12-09T22:25:38Z")

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Come here, sweetheart, let me look at you. Boy, it’s good to see 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:** [December 9, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17194 "2019-12-09T22:56:55Z")

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Is that a ten gallon hat or are you just happy to see me?

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**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17195 "2019-12-10T00:08:22Z")

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When I’m good, I’m very good, and when I’m bad, I’m better.

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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:** [December 10, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17196 "2019-12-10T15:01:43Z")

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Yes, that would be better. Let me see.

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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:** [December 10, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17197 "2019-12-10T16:35:09Z")

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Come up and see me sometime.

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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:** [December 11, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17198 "2019-12-11T03:19:34Z")

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He looks like a Fifty-Fifty Bar!

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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:** [December 11, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17199 "2019-12-11T17:50:38Z")

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I remember ordering a draught, barkeep. What, are you out of brew, or has that lobotomy finally taken hold?

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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:** [December 11, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17200 "2019-12-11T20:44:25Z")

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Professor Nemur, why didn’t you tell me the success of the operation was only temporary?

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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:** [December 11, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17201 "2019-12-11T22:30:50Z")

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It’s…it’s so difficult.

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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:** [December 12, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17202 "2019-12-12T14:15:21Z")

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Mongo not know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.

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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:** [December 12, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17203 "2019-12-12T14:32:56Z")

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_Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I’ve found you!_

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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:** [December 12, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17204 "2019-12-12T21:52:46Z")

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How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?

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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:** [December 12, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17205 "2019-12-12T22:42:26Z")

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I’m disciplined and organized. I use habit and routine to make my life possible.

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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:** [December 12, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17206 "2019-12-12T23:29:42Z")

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Who the _fuck_ does she think she is??

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