# The Eerily Appropriate Fake Quote Thread:  a CF Game

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 11, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eerily-appropriate-fake-quote-thread-a-cf-game/284206 "2005-01-11T14:00:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eerily-appropriate-fake-quote-thread-a-cf-game/284206/1 "2005-01-11T14:00:32Z")

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I think this thread belongs in Café Society, not MPSIMS, because it depends on literary (in a broad sense) references, some of which may require being explained. If mods. disagree, please move it.

The object of the game is to come up with a quotation, probably using a common idiom or cliché, and attribute it to a fictional character in whose mouth it gains a whole different meaning.

Four examples to get the game going:

“It’s been one of **those** days!” – Jack Bauer

“Well, it’s been fun trading riddles with you, but I gotta get going. Give me a ring if you’re ever down my way.” – Bilbo Baggins, to Gollum

“The butler did it” – Scarlett O’Hara, pregnant

“The robot monkey butler did it.” – one of the Dingellian boys, in David Gerrold’s _Jumping off the Planet_ and sequels

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eerily-appropriate-fake-quote-thread-a-cf-game/284206/2 "2005-01-11T14:16:11Z")

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The Maurice Chevalier advance-homage from Casablanca:

Rick: “I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.”  
Ilsa: “I wore red.”  
Rick (singing):“Ah, yes, I remember it well.”

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eerily-appropriate-fake-quote-thread-a-cf-game/284206/3 "2005-01-12T07:06:00Z")

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Johnny, to Senor Wences: “Talk to the hand…”  
Winnie the Pooh: “Hi, Honey, I’m home!”