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- While the full saying we always use is “We have ways of making you talk,” this is actually a misquote from the movie, The Lives of Bengal Lancer (1935) The actual movie quote was: "Well, gentlemen. We have ways to make men talk." The line was spoken by the evil Mohammed Kahn, played by Douglas Dumbrillea.
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I ask someone if they know where my missing item is. They say they don't know where it is. I then might jokingly reply, "Vee have vays..." (especially if I think they really know where my item is)
Submitted by TriplePurple on August 25, 2024
Modified by TriplePurple on August 25, 2024
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you have beautiful eyeswhere have you beenthe ayes have itsome people have all the luckwho are you and what have you done with…not have the faintestthose who will not when they may, when …to have a brush withyou could have fooled mewe will have no wine before it's t…truer words have never been spokenwe have ways of making you talksome mothers do have themwe have ways
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