# 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:** 864
**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 31, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17267 "2019-12-31T20:14:26Z")
We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17268 "2020-01-01T00:32:49Z")
Come on, you’re driving like a old lady. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17269 "2020-01-02T14:48:05Z")
A bear in his natural environment. A Studebaker. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17270 "2020-01-03T03:45:23Z")
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17271 "2020-01-03T13:48:20Z")
Now, we’re sure this is our shrunken building and not someone else’s, right? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17272 "2020-01-03T21:55:29Z")
A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose! ---
**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:** [January 4, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17273 "2020-01-04T19:11:35Z")
Welcome, to another edition of Thunderdome! ---
**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:** [January 4, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17274 "2020-01-04T21:12:35Z")
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. That sounds like somethin’. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17275 "2020-01-05T02:18:22Z")
This court sentences you to be hung by the neck until dead. And I’m fining you an extra ten bucks for perjury. Let 'em out. Be down at the old oak tree near Boot Hill at twelve o’clock sharp for your hanging. And bring your own rope. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17276 "2020-01-05T17:20:08Z")
Sure would like me a chaw of tobacco. Whats the matter, hangman; afraid I’ll choke to death and you’ll lose your hangin’ fee? ---
**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:** [January 5, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17277 "2020-01-05T23:57:49Z")
I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1,200 human beings a day. 1,200 people! We’re talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women and children. I mean, there’s Attila, Genghis and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17278 "2020-01-06T14:28:51Z")
There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17279 "2020-01-08T00:00:51Z")
We can’t level, you crazy bastard, we’re in advertising! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17280 "2020-01-08T00:02:27Z")
You did quite a bit of silent farting in the car, so you’re not perfect either. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17281 "2020-01-08T21:57:34Z")
It’s the perfect storm. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17282 "2020-01-09T21:16:56Z")
I gotta go Julia, we got cows. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17283 "2020-01-09T23:25:34Z")
You have no right to turn up your nose. Your life’s no closed book. No one’s scot free. After all, the whole world knows about you and Julia. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17284 "2020-01-12T13:13:13Z")
The Julia Child in your head is perfect. The Julia Child that doesn’t understand what you’re doing is not perfect. The one in your head is the one that matters. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17285 "2020-01-12T17:55:28Z")
It’s my head, Schwartz, and I will see you in court! ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17286 "2020-01-13T19:54:23Z")
The odds of a plaintiff’s lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against. Think about that for a second. Your odds of surviving a game of Russian roulette are better than winning a case at trial. 12 times better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=863) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=865)