# 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:** 25
**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 27, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/481 "2014-07-27T18:38:31Z")
There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I’ll spare your lives. Just walk away and we’ll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. ---
**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 27, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/482 "2014-07-27T19:20:24Z")
Hold on a second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. ---
**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 27, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/483 "2014-07-27T19:24:49Z")
Keith, you talk as if this _thing_ was a personal friend of yours! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/484 "2014-07-27T19:58:22Z")
D’ya think that thing wanted to be an animal? No dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don’t understand! That thing wanted to be US! If a cell gets out, it could imitate everything on the FACE OF THE EARTH! AAAAND NOTHING can stop it! ---
**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 27, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/485 "2014-07-27T20:06:45Z")
Beware of the Blob. It leaps and creeps, and slides right through the door, the floor. ---
**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 27, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/486 "2014-07-27T20:23:51Z")
You gotta be fuckin’ kidding. ---
**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 27, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/487 "2014-07-27T20:40:07Z")
As a matter of fact, I think you’re the bravest man I have ever known. ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/488 "2014-07-28T02:00:12Z")
You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you’d be surprised how many there are. Intelligent but savage. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/489 "2014-07-28T02:52:13Z")
“Lazy. A survival type, but lazy. He doesn’t start to use his brain until he’s in obvious, overt trouble. But he’s got pride.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/490 "2014-07-28T05:36:00Z")
Rumor had it that some of the earlier Lazy Guns, at least, had shown what looked suspiciously like humor when they had been used; criminals saved from firing squads so that they could be the subjects of experiments had died under a hail of bullets, all hitting their hearts at the same time; an obsolete submarine had been straddled by depth charges; a mad king obsessed with metals had been smothered under a deluge of mercury. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/491 "2014-07-28T05:52:17Z")
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now _concentrate_! ---
**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 28, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/492 "2014-07-28T11:37:29Z")
I’m sure it will function–that is, it will deliver a man back into time. ---
**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 28, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/493 "2014-07-28T12:12:54Z")
Take your journey on your contraption. What would you become? A Greek, a Roman, one of the pharaohs? ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/494 "2014-07-28T14:53:05Z")
Well it sure ain’t Temple Beth Israel. ---
**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 28, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/495 "2014-07-28T22:57:04Z")
Well, Beth’s nice, but I’m too old to be looked after by a nurse. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/496 "2014-07-29T02:58:07Z")
I don’t know what the hell I’m doing here. I’m 237 years old, I should be collecting social security. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/497 "2014-07-29T04:20:53Z")
Hell was always for other people. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/498 "2014-07-29T04:43:51Z")
The Worldmind recommends removing his arms. ---
**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 29, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/499 "2014-07-29T11:33:53Z")
The bioengineering included a lot of metabolic changes, but the most spectacular alteration was, they have a second set of arms where their legs should be. ---
**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 29, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/500 "2014-07-29T13:06:28Z")
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