# 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:** 15
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/281 "2014-07-03T01:57:05Z")
All right, Bub, your fuckin’ head is coming right off. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/282 "2014-07-03T01:59:49Z")
Do you know you’re all my very best friends? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/283 "2014-07-03T02:12:33Z")
Jinx put Max in space. Jinx can get Max back. ---
**Author:** ![ST93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@ST93](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ST93)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/284 "2014-07-03T03:26:50Z")
That’s a lot of fish. ---
**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 3, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/285 "2014-07-03T12:53:38Z")
I want to be a jump pilot, and go places. ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/286 "2014-07-03T14:37:04Z")
“What’s it like out there?” ---
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/287 "2014-07-03T14:49:26Z")
No words to describe it. Poetry! They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful… I had no idea. ---
**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 3, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/288 "2014-07-03T16:12:04Z")
We’ve tried each spinning space mote And reckoned its true worth Take us back again to the homes of men On the cool green hills of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/289 "2014-07-03T17:31:58Z")
(note - I didn’t add the caps) . . . YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. “So we can believe the big ones?” YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. “They’re not the same at all!” YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. “Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—” MY POINT EXACTLY.” ---
**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 3, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/290 "2014-07-03T19:07:11Z")
Note: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is brilliant, but is it science fiction? On game: He had the kind of questing eyes that said he hadn’t seen it all yet, and neither had you. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/291 "2014-07-03T19:15:27Z")
I’m not anyone, I’m just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I’m something you can’t help. ---
**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 3, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/292 "2014-07-03T21:03:05Z")
Hauser: Howdy, stranger! This is Hauser. If things have gone wrong, I’m talking to myself and you don’t have a wet towel around your head. Now, whatever your name is, get ready for the big surprise. You are not you, you’re me. Douglas Quaid: [to himself] No shit. Hauser: All my life, I worked for Mars Intelligence, I did Cohaagen’s dirty work. But then I met someone, a woman. She taught me a few things, like I was playing for the wrong team. All I can do now is make up for it. You see… [Points to his head] Hauser: …there’s enough shit in here to fuck Cohaagen good. But if you’re hearing this, it means is that he’s got to me first. Now, here comes the hard part, old buddy. Now it is all up to you. Douglas Quaid: [displeased] Great… Hauser: Now, let’s start by getting that bug out of your head. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/293 "2014-07-03T21:56:48Z")
Looks like love at first sight to me. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/294 "2014-07-03T23:06:20Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Note: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is brilliant, but is it science fiction? . . . . Ah. Thought fantasy was included - or was the quote on feeding after midnight not from Gremlins? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/295 "2014-07-03T23:13:28Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Ah. Thought fantasy was included - or was the quote on feeding after midnight not from Gremlins? I messed up when I quoted from My Little Ponies, but many here are aware I don’t know the difference between six and seven, so I think they kindly overlooked it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/296 "2014-07-03T23:32:45Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Looks like love at first sight to me. My God, it’s full of stars! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/297 "2014-07-04T00:52:08Z")
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.” ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/298 "2014-07-04T14:29:21Z")
There are only three stars on Orion’s belt! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/299 "2014-07-04T14:44:00Z")
The galaxy is on Orion’s belt. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/300 "2014-07-04T15:01:15Z")
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