# The reply is a Floyd quote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 22, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337 "2010-05-22T04:10:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/1 "2010-05-22T04:10:49Z")

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Like the recent Python thread-each response needs to be relevant in some way to the previous one.

“One of these days I will cut you into a million pieces!”

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/2 "2010-05-22T04:19:34Z")

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You raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me till I’m sane

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/3 "2010-05-22T04:23:28Z")

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I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been mad

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/4 "2010-05-22T04:33:11Z")

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But in the town it was well known whey they got home at night their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches if their lives.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/5 "2010-05-22T04:39:43Z")

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Black, black, black, black, black, black, black, and blue, blue, blue, blue, blue,  
And who knows which is which, and who is who?

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/6 "2010-05-22T05:22:48Z")

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I am just a new boy  
Stranger in this town  
Where are all the good times?  
Who’s gonna show this stranger around?

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/7 "2010-05-22T06:31:11Z")

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Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you’re gonna go far.

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/8 "2010-05-22T06:40:22Z")

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Do you think that I know something you don’t know  
What do you want from me  
If I don’t promise you the answers would you go  
What do you want from me

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/9 "2010-05-22T06:53:43Z")

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Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/10 "2010-05-22T07:44:56Z")

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A soul in tension that’s learning to fly

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/11 "2010-05-22T07:55:07Z")

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“Look mummy, there’s an aeroplane up in the sky”

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**Author:** ![pojimba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@pojimba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pojimba)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/12 "2010-05-22T08:39:59Z")

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“And far from flying high in clear blue skies, I’m spiralling down, to the hole in the ground where I hide”

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/13 "2010-05-22T08:54:13Z")

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_Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?_

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/14 "2010-05-22T08:54:52Z")

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oops, beaten to the punch, try again

Cos if they catch you in the back seat  
Trying to pick her locks  
They’re gonna send you back to mother  
In a cardboard box  
You better run

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/15 "2010-05-22T11:38:18Z")

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She’s on the run  
Down by the riverside  
Feeding ducks in the afternoon tide  
apples and oranges.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/16 "2010-05-22T13:42:09Z")

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Seamus, my old hound, was outside  
Well, the sun sinks slowly  
But my old hound done sat right down and cried.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/17 "2010-05-22T14:04:44Z")

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The Sun is the same  
In a relative way  
but you’re older  
Shorter of breath  
and one day closer to death

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/18 "2010-05-22T16:56:06Z")

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Balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave

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**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/19 "2010-05-22T18:23:06Z")

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“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.”

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-floyd-quote/540337/20 "2010-05-22T19:00:59Z")

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You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their backs on you, you’ll get the chance to put the knife in.

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