# 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:** 26
**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, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/501 "2014-07-29T13:27:03Z")
Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men? ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/502 "2014-07-29T14:30:15Z")
Now, fight like apes! ---
**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, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/503 "2014-07-29T18:00:03Z")
King Kong can’t make a monkey out of us! ---
**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, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/504 "2014-07-29T18:03:52Z")
I’m about to marry a girl who’s liable to have gorillas for bridesmaids. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/505 "2014-07-29T22:47:00Z")
Look! I’m engaged! Isn’t she pretty? She asked me. She’s smart, too. ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/506 "2014-07-29T22:48:40Z")
We are Smart. ---
**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 30, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/507 "2014-07-30T11:05:13Z")
I use forty-eight percent of my brain. Do you know how much you use? ---
**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 30, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/508 "2014-07-30T11:10:37Z")
It means you have a strong mental aura. ---
**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 30, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/509 "2014-07-30T11:36:37Z")
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/510 "2014-07-30T12:54:48Z")
I don’t know. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just not making myself clear. ---
**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 30, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/511 "2014-07-30T15:23:22Z")
1nce thi sky woz ful ov birds;used 2 go blak wif birds it did & birdz roold thi air(wel,apart from thi insectz)but thas has all changed now;hoomins came along & stard shootin & trappin & killen them & evin if they’ve mostly stoppd doin that sort ov fing now theyr stil top ov thi roost partlly coz they kild off so meny speesheez & partly coz they make stuf fly. ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/512 "2014-07-30T16:57:36Z")
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books. ---
**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 30, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/513 "2014-07-30T17:21:49Z")
As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do. ---
**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 30, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/514 "2014-07-30T17:46:47Z")
Well, I’d certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste. ---
**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 30, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/515 "2014-07-30T22:53:43Z")
Precedent was held subordinate to the judgment of the man on the spot. Alas, the man on the spot was himself. ---
**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 30, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/516 "2014-07-30T23:02:14Z")
Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia? Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two. ---
**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 31, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/517 "2014-07-31T01:39:22Z")
Nuke 'em. Let’s nuke the bastards. ---
**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 31, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/518 "2014-07-31T01:46:51Z")
All right. I’d just as soon leave it for somebody else to do. If there was anybody else here to do 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 31, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/519 "2014-07-31T03:50:54Z")
I am from a warrior race. We EXIST for battle. Our creed is to live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending. ---
**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 31, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/520 "2014-07-31T04:43:08Z")
“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621.md?page=27)