# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/101 "2014-06-16T21:39:04Z")
ninja’d now the quote doesn’t fit. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/102 "2014-06-16T22:48:26Z")
_“I’ll take you home again, Kathleen!”_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/103 "2014-06-16T23:06:10Z")
“Your money and ambition paved the way,” said the man from Mars, “but sentiment was the vital factor that sent me to you. You see – I wanted to go home.” ---
**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 16, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/104 "2014-06-16T23:29:22Z")
Phone home. ---
**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 16, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/105 "2014-06-16T23:42:56Z")
Greetings. This is a recorded announcement as we are all out at the moment. The Commercial Council of Magrathea thanks you for your esteemed visit but regrets that the entire planet is temporarily closed. If you would like to leave your name and a planet where you can be contacted, kindly do so at the tone. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/106 "2014-06-17T00:29:22Z")
Six thousand million kilometers beyond the orbit of Pluto, Karellen sat before a suddenly darkened screen. The record was complete, the mission ended; he was homeward bound for the world he had left so long ago. The weight of centuries was upon him, and a sadness that no logic could dispel. He did not mourn for Man: his sorrow was for his own race, forever barred from greatness by forces it could not overcome. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/107 "2014-06-17T01:22:11Z")
“He’s spending a year dead for tax reasons.” ---
**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 17, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/108 "2014-06-17T01:32:55Z")
Longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think! ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/109 "2014-06-17T02:14:46Z")
Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway. ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/110 "2014-06-17T05:53:48Z")
Prepare your mind for a new scale of physical scientific values, gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/111 "2014-06-17T11:33:19Z")
You can either fight alongside me or get CRUSHED UNDER MY HEEL, but you WILL NOT stand in my way! ---
**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 17, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/112 "2014-06-17T12:36:48Z")
You really think you can do all that bullshit you just said? ---
**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:** [June 17, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/113 "2014-06-17T13:24:55Z")
Whoa. ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/114 "2014-06-17T14:09:26Z")
Eat hot photons, laser breath. Eat hot photons now! ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/115 "2014-06-17T14:39:31Z")
Technically, ImpSec personnel on duty were not supposed to eat anything but ImpSec-issued rations, to avoid any attacks through ingestible drugs or poisons. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/116 "2014-06-17T14:54:20Z")
Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means “soldier,” but don’t let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn’t going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/117 "2014-06-17T14:56:53Z")
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost… in time… like… tears… in rain. Time… to die. ---
**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 17, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/118 "2014-06-17T15:12:56Z")
Sex and death - two things that come once in a lifetime… but at least after death, you’re not nauseous. ---
**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 17, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/119 "2014-06-17T15:25:18Z")
A million deaths were not enough for Yueh! ---
**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 17, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/120 "2014-06-17T16:25:54Z")
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