# You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731 "2000-07-25T04:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/21 "2000-07-25T06:58:44Z")
ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH! **surgoshan!** You messed it up! It’s Inigo: “Who are you?” Man in Black: “No one of _consequence_.” Inigo: “I must know.” Man in Black: “Get used to disappointment.” Inigo: “Okay…” Now that we have THAT cleared up, how about these quotes? **Funniest:** The King: “What was that for?” Buttercup: “Because you have always been so kind to me, and I won’t be seeing you again since I’m killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite.” The King: “Won’t that be nice. She kissed me!” **My Favorite:** Fezzik: “You never said anything about killing anyone!” Vizzini: “I’ve hired you to help me start a war! It’s a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.” Fezzik: “I just don’t think it’s right, killing an innocent girl.” Vizzini: “Am I going MAD, or did the word “think” just escape your lips?! You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic LAND MASS!” **OP quote** Vizzini: “HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE!” Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I donna think it means what you think it means.” **Quote that describes my luck with women before meeting soulmate** Inigo Montoya: "I donna suppose you could espeed things up?? Westley: "If you’re in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something else useful to do. Inigo Montoya: "I could do that. I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only only waiting around to kill you. Westley: “That does put a damper on our relationship.” **Quote that reminds me of Alphagene** Vizzini: “I can’t compete with you physically, and you’re no match for my brains.” Westley: “You’re that smart?” Vizzini: “Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?” Westley: “Yes.” Vizzini: “Morons.” **Quote that pretty sums up my outlook on life** Buttercup: "You mock my pain! Westley: “Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.” **Quote that reminds me of my current relationship** Miracle Max: “Get back, witch!” Valerie: “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife! And after what you just said, I’m not even sure I want to be that any more!” **Quote that reminds me of my finely honed negotiation skills** Westley: “Give us the gate key.” Yellin: “I have no gate key.” Inigo Montoya: “Fezzik, tear his arms off.” Yellin: “Oh, you mean _this_ gate key.” **Quote that almost everyone knows** Inigo Montoya: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” I love this movie. This last quote, though not my favorite, is the best, I think: Grandfather (narrating): “Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses that were rated the most pure, the most passionate. This one left them all behind.” ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/22 "2000-07-25T07:02:20Z")
the best scene didn’t make the transition from book to movie – “I am Inigo Montoya and still the Wizard. Come at me!” Damn that was cool. Inigo was making the descent into Prince Humperdink’s dungeon, and had to fight countless bats in the stairwell – bats from whom the slightest harm would be lethal – in complete darkness. This movie is one of the best book-to-movie transitions I’ve ever seen. I’ve noticed that if the book’s author is the same person to write the screenplay, the movie will be just as good as the book. I know there’s at least one other example of this out there, and I’m tearing my hair out trying to remember what it was . . . :mad: “You have six fingers on your right hand. I know someone who’s been looking for you.” anybody want a peanut? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/23 "2000-07-25T08:00:43Z")
Lexicon, you know better than to get all hoity-toity about someone messing up and then go and mess up yourself… sheesh… > [@](#): > > Grandfather (narrating): “Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses that were rated the most pure, the most passionate. This one left them all behind.” It goes “…there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure…” ::poke poke:: Don’t do it again 😃 By the way… what were the other five kisses? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/24 "2000-07-25T08:10:29Z")
Tomndebb, thanks for the new sig. ---
**Author:** ![untateve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@untateve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/untateve)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/25 "2000-07-25T12:34:13Z")
Everytime my computer does something it’s not supposed to or I attempt to go to a web site that does not exist, my computer says Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/26 "2000-07-25T12:52:16Z")
Have fun stormin’ the castle, boys! I agree with Daniel, one of the BEST book to movie adaptations, including casting. go back and read the book, too. (I’d read it first and was amazed at how well the movie caught the story)… ---
**Author:** ![realidad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@realidad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realidad)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/27 "2000-07-25T12:57:03Z")
Man in black: Frankly, I think the odds are slightly in your favor at hand fighting. Fezzik: It’s not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don’t even exercise. … Vizzini: There’s nothing to explain. You’re trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen. … Westley: Well, one thing I will say; the fire swamp certainly does keep you on your toes. … Max: Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world; except for a nice MLT - Mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich - when the Mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato’s ripe. They’re so perky. I love that. … As you wish ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/28 "2000-07-25T12:59:07Z")
Damn, this is what happens when I come late into a thread. Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies of all time. The lines that come to mind that haven’t been mentioned: Do you want me to send you back to where I found you? Unemployed? In GREENLAND? Lier! Lier! You are a LIER! He said TRUE LOVE! My father does a fairly good impression of Carol Kane shouting the above line in a killer falsetto. And he’s never seen the movie. He thinks he’s just mocking my sister and I when WE do our impression of Carol Kane. ::shrug:: ---
**Author:** ![wacky\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58956e/32.png) [@wacky\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wacky_ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/29 "2000-07-25T13:35:24Z")
BOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOO! you can’t quite type it out the way she says it. Farm boy, fetch me that pitcher. As you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/30 "2000-07-25T13:41:56Z")
Good night Westley, good work. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/31 "2000-07-25T14:15:12Z")
No one would surrender to “the Dread Pirate Wesley.” Inigo: You are using Bonetti’s defense against me. Wesley: I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain. Inigo: Then you must know that I would counter with Capo Ferro. Wesley: But I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro --don’t you? Someone call the Brute Squad! I’m on the Brute Squad! You ARE the Brute Squad? Boo! Boo! Boo! Why do you mock me? Because you had true love in your hands, and you gave it up for garbage. True love saved her in the Fire Swamp! So bow if you want to, bow down to the queen of lies, the queen of garbabe, of filth, of putresence, boo, boo, boo! ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/32 "2000-07-25T14:32:34Z")
Grandfather:That’s right, when I was your age, Television was called Books… Buttercup was raised on a small farm in the country of Florin. Her favorite past-times were riding her horse and tormenting the farm boy that worked there. His name was Westley. But she never called him that. Isn’t that a wonderful beginning? ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/33 "2000-07-25T14:43:05Z")
I thought from the title that this was going to be a “titmouse” thread. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/34 "2000-07-25T14:46:30Z")
…and to finish, or rather start off the rhyme theme already started…[ul] Vizzini, he can…fuss. Fuss, fuss, I think he likes to scream at us. Probably he means no…harm. He’s very very short on…charm. You have a great gift for rhyme. Yes, yes, some of the time.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/35 "2000-07-25T14:54:35Z")
“You cannot tell because I’m wearing a mask but I am smiling also.” “Why?” “Because I am not left handed either.” (or something like that) Yeah it was an excellent book. Another one I found to make a pretty good transistion from book to movie was “Sleepers”, of course anything with DeNiro and Hoffman should be good, right? ---
**Author:** ![SkySlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SkySlash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkySlash)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/36 "2000-07-25T15:37:08Z")
I get told every time I meet someone new that has seen the movie, that I like look just like Cary Elwes in that role. I have an aquaintance that laughingly refers to me as The Dread Pirate Roberts when he sees me… I’m not complaining! -SS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkySlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SkySlash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkySlash)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/37 "2000-07-25T15:41:46Z")
Wesley: “There is a shortage of perfect breasts in the world…it’d be a pity to destroy yours!” Buttercup: “Oh my sweet Wesley…I knew you’d come!” Wesley: “GENTLY!!!” -SS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/38 "2000-07-25T15:45:30Z")
“I am waiting for Vizzini!” “I want my father back, you son of a bitch” “Iocane. I’d bet my life on it.” ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/39 "2000-07-25T16:16:40Z")
Rugen: “Would you like to come down?” Humperdinck: “You know how I love watching you work, but I have my country’s 200th anniversary to plan, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped!” Rugen: “Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731/40 "2000-07-25T16:17:30Z")
I agree the book made for a good movie, but I don’t think it was made clear in the movie what a dim bulb Buttercup was supposed to be. If you’re looking for the signs, you can see, them, like when she sort of seems to be vaguely following Westley’s story in the fire swamp. But after seeing the movie 4 gazillion times before ever reading the book, I must say I do prefer the movie. Andre the Giant is just precious. There’s some good lines between the grandfather and the grandson (whom I must always refer to as Kevin, from the Wonder Years) – “Killed by pirates sounds good” “See? I knew she wasn’t going to marry that rotten old Prince Humperdink!” “Yes you’re very smart. Shut up.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/26731.md?page=3)