# Speak to me only in Science Fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 12, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621 "2014-06-12T13:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [June 25, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/221 "2014-06-25T00:12:00Z")
Yeah, well… I’m gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the park! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/222 "2014-06-25T01:00:56Z")
Oh, yeah, “ooh, aah”, that’s how it always starts. But then later there’s running and screaming. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/223 "2014-06-25T01:30:21Z")
In space, no one can hear you scream. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/224 "2014-06-25T13:53:52Z")
It happened so quickly, so unexpectedly, that Little Jon’s cry was almost instantly cut short as the blackness closed over him. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/225 "2014-06-25T14:14:12Z")
I know how alone you feel… alone in all that cold blackness… but I’m there in the dark with you. Oh Bud you’re not alone… ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/226 "2014-06-25T15:16:38Z")
They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I’m still awake. Transporting me with civilians. Sounded like 40, 40-plus. Heard an Arab voice. Some hoodoo holy man, probably on his way to New Mecca. But what route? What route? I smelt a woman. Sweat, boots, tool belt, leather. Prospector type. Free settlers. And they only take the back roads. And here’s my real problem. Mr. Johns… the blue-eyed devil. Planning on taking me back to slam… only this time he picked a ghost lane. A long time between stops. A long time for something to go wrong… ---
**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:** [June 25, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/227 "2014-06-25T19:18:35Z")
Before I can telephone you to your friend in Kansas City, Miss Lane, I have to take all the air out from in between your atoms and start you vibrating. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/228 "2014-06-25T22:57:10Z")
Shell-people did not, strictly speaking, breathe. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/229 "2014-06-26T12:48:01Z")
They were still in vacuum…thicker vacuum that was heating up. If there wasn’t enough air to give bite to the control surfaces, a pilot must call it vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/230 "2014-06-26T14:51:38Z")
I have seen some strange, bizarre drivers, but you. You will be awarded a cake. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/231 "2014-06-26T16:12:52Z")
Captain, you are an excellent starship captain. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/232 "2014-06-27T02:56:41Z")
Welcome to Johnnycab. Please state the street and number. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/233 "2014-06-27T03:27:52Z")
We better get back, 'cause it’ll be dark soon and they mostly come at night. Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/234 "2014-06-27T03:40:22Z")
Did you feed them after midnight? ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/235 "2014-06-27T04:19:00Z")
Lawri spoke of a citizen’s last duty, to feed the tree. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/236 "2014-06-27T13:51:00Z")
Citizens don’t lay a hand to me without they got permission or provocation. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/237 "2014-06-27T16:54:02Z")
Greetings, Citizen! Happiness is mandatory! Are you happy? ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/238 "2014-06-27T17:07:46Z")
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/239 "2014-06-27T18:50:17Z")
Mellow greetings, citizen. What seems to be your boggle? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/240 "2014-06-27T18:51:56Z")
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