A "Post your..." thread. I know, I'm so ashamed.

God save us from an Earth in which all men are the same. God save us from a colony where that is the goal, or a culture that assumes that for its norm. Give me a thousand people speaking different tongues, worshiping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will make of them a greater nation than you can make with ten thousand of your gengineered duplicates. For mine will have the spark of greatness in them, while yours live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in predigested dreams.

- Reigning in Chaos: the founding of Guera Colony
(Historical Archives, Hellsgate Station)

-C.S. Friedman, "This Alien Shore"

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

-Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk

And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

-Michael Moore

Happiness is simply a matter of serotonin levels.

-??

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

-Robert Jastrow

You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die.

-Margaret Atwood

Sometimes you can cry until there is nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever God you think will listen. And still, it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent, it would not be because it cared.

-Jhonen Vasquez

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

-Gary Mark Gilmore

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

-Dion Boucicault

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

-Ambrose Bierce

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Sometimes your skeletons will dress up as beautiful Indian women and ask you to slow dance. Sometimes your skeletons will dress up as your best friend and offer you a drink, one more for the road. Sometimes your skeletons will look exactly like your parents and offer you gifts. But, no matter what they do, keep walking, keep moving. And don't wear a watch. Hell, Indians never need to wear a watch because your skeletons will always remind you about the time. See, it is always now. That's what Indian time is. The past, the future, all of it is wrapped up in the now. That's how it is. We are trapped in the now.

-Sherman Alexie, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven"

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

"I can answer all the hard questions, simple. Its that easy questions that get me."

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"Run Away!"

- Make like a tree and get the f*** out of here.

- Boondock Saints

- I'm gonna stick it up your *** and pull the trigger 'till it goes 'click'.

- Jesus

- That's right man, nobody f**** with the Jesus.

- The Big Lebowski

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

- Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I hate the sand, it's rough and sandy..like sand. I like the beach, just not the sand. But you aren't like sand, you are more like NOT sand, and that is why I love you Padme...Because you aren't like the sand, which I hate....very much.

- Star Wars Episode II

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

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"America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance—and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."
-- Ayn Rand

"Do or do not, there is no try."
-- Yoda

"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either."

-- Ben Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

- Ben Franklin

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

nt

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

"When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars."

????

"If Einstein was so smart, how come hes dead?"

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America, home of the free gift with purchase.

"Oh Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade, that with it Thou mayest blou Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy..."

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Pyro Universe The ultimate place for fireworks lovers! Learn how to put on your own show! Fireworks diagrams, instructions, pictures, safety tips, links, and a message board.

New! Fireworks T-shirts!

"Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God? Listen to me. You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. It's not the worst thing that can happen to you. We don't need him. **** damnation, man. **** redemption. We are God's unwanted children, SO BE IT! First you have to give up. First you have to know, not fear, that someday, you're going to die. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

-If you don't know, by now you'll probably NEVER know.

I'll give you a hint for those who don't though; Chuck Palahniuk.

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: Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

- The Dude

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

It's like the heimlich manoeuvre...with stripes - W. Rosenberg

I'm naked and smelling of panda love - H.J.Simpson

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THIS IS NOT 'NAM. THIS IS BOWLING. THERE ARE RULES <Pulls out a gun>

-That guy from The Big Lebowski

No matter how bad things get, northern Minnesota will always be there

-Garrison Keeler from Prarie Home Companion

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

"Say hello to my little friend!"

Ew, Rand.

Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.
- ?

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
- Eugene Debs

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
- MLK

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"Ultima ratio regum"

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Roach - Steal acceptance, lend denial.

0 of 14.

"The problem with the world is that everybody is always a few beers behind.."

-Spike Milligan

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward."
-- Søren Aaby Kierkegaard

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom."
-- Mark Twain


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"I like my women how I like my coffee, in a plastic cup." - Eddie Izzard

There's a number of quotes I'd like to throw down, but this one's the easiest to copy and paste for me at the moment:

Cervantes: (responding to the charges brought against him) “It is true I am guilty of these things-- an idealist? For I have never had the courage to believe in nothing...”
~“Man of La Mancha”



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Check out the following stories over at the Interactive Story Board:
The Never-ending Story Thread or visit the new webcomic version!
The Vision Cycle series
Featured Story: The Darkside Chronicles

"Yeah, but you know what? This was MY dream, My wish. And I'm taking it back. I'm taking them all back."

-- The Goonies.

"It's 106 miles to Arroyo. We've got a full Fusion Tank, half a pack of Rad-Away, it's dark, and I'm wearing Enclave Power Armor. Let's hit it."

-- Fallout 2

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

Meh, you stole the one I was going to take, Wolfy, so I'll just have to take another:

Someone asked, "What am I?" Guangfan answered, "There is nothing in the whole universe that is not you."
-- Zen Mondo

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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
-Robert Jastrow

if you emberresd someone:
shields down, direct hit!, BEEM HIM DOWN SCOTTY!!! Fire again!
star trek!

[scottystartrekaccent] i cant beam him down, too much interfirence with the plasma coils [/scottustartrekaccent]
Star trek! AGAIN

i am nobody, because nobody is perfect and nobody may watch in someone´s diary
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-thank you man, raly appriciate it

You mind specifiying which Jesus said that, so you don't completely expose your attempt to create flame bait? Please and thanks.

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

The same one that plays Soccer and makes nightly off-site backups...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

Anonymous

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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

That's R.D. Laing: "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

Its the "Jesus" from the Big Lebowski.. and I agree, please state which jesus if you are going to state jesus


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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Taken straight from my AIM profile...



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Do you have stairs in your house?

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"[Kabbalah is] nonsense, but it's Jewish nonsense, and the study of anything Jewish, even nonsense, is worthwhile."
-Anon.

"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
-Woody Allen

"The Jew is a desert region, but under a thin layer of rock lies the molten lava of spirit and intellect."
-Wittgenstein

"To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter."
-Wittgenstein

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Superstition brings bad luck.
-Raymond Smullyan, 5000B.C.

These quotes so far have been great. too bad i have to mess it up.

“Ever heard this story? There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived, and lived a million lives, and he was kept by various owners that he really didn’t care for. The cat wasn’t afraid to die. Then one day, the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and they spent their days happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew old and died. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, then he died. Except this time, he didn’t come back to life.”
-Spike

“I’m not going there to die. I’m going there to find out if I’m really alive.”
-Spike

“I want people to know that nature not only gave us eyes to see her wonders, but brains, to understand them.”
-Galileo Galilee

“You have to listen to your intuition. It may be the angel on your right shoulder, or the devil on your left. Or it might… just… be… Me!”
-Quicksilver

“Maybe what makes us human is that we know just enough to think we know where were going.”
-Taken

“I have this idea about why people do the terrible things they do. It’s the same reason why little kids push each other on the schoolyard. If you’re the one doing the pushing, you’re not going to be the one who gets pushed. If you’re the monster, then nothing will be waiting in the shadows to jump out at you. It’s pretty simple, really. People do the things they do, because they’re scared.”
-Taken

”Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons”
-Vicious

“The same blood runs through both of us. The blood of a beast who wanders, hunting for the blood of others”
“I’ve bled all of that kind of blood out long ago.”
“Then why are you still alive!”
-Vicious and Spike

Well, that's enough of the serious stuff.

“Its times like these when I’m sitting in a Vogon Airlock just about to be shot out into space to die of asphyxiation, that I really wished I’d listened to what my mother had told me a as a child.”
“Why, what did she tell you?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t listen!”
-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There’s a reason why men feel pain more acutely than women, and that’s because women always have a small part of their brain thinking about shoes.”
-Ardal O’Hanlon

“All of life’s a show, Keep’em laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you.”
-Monty Python

“We have finally determined that Canadian bacon is, in fact, ham”
-John Cleese, SNL Skit

“Do you know where they come from, or where they’re going?” “The domain of the King!” “King? What King?” “What do you mean, what King? The King.” “It’s just that you never mentioned a King!” “What?” “I said that you never mentioned a King!” “I didn’t say a King, I said the King.” “Where did he say we were going?” “He said something about a King” “What King?” “That’s what I said. He just said the King.” “I didn’t know there was a the King” “Nor did I” “Except of course for the King. And I don’t suppose he meant him.” “What King” “What do you mean, what King? I don’t know what King. I’m only saying he couldn’t possibly mean the King, so I don’t know what he means” “Ford, I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “ So?”
-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Jet, do you know that there are three things that I particularly hate?" "Really?" "Kids, animals, and women with attitude." "Oh." "So, tell me Jet, why do we have all of them neatly gather in our ship!!”
-Jet and Spike, Cowboy Bebop

“My sister has multiple personalities, and that’s not funny. But she called me the other day, and my caller id exploded”
-Zack Galphinakis

“I use to play golf. I never got a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. And that’s way more satisfying. Your supposed to yell, ‘Fore!’, but I was too busy muttering, ‘there’s no way that’s gonna hit him’”
-Mitch Hedberg

"Steve offers Kevin pasta at nine. If Steve is 7 years older then pudding, how many liters of candy does it take to get to Denver?"
-Mission Hill

"Why am I here? Because I am an American!!"
-John Chriton

"I don’t care if its made of your mother's bones. I need to know how to disarm it."
-Scarron Emperor

“That’s big talk for a dead man”
“I’m not dead”
“Your right. My watch is about 10 seconds fast.”
-Justice League

“One thing you have to learn, my friend. There is always time for a beer”
-D’Argo

Well, that's it for me. Enjoy.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

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"Temper is the only thing you can't get rid of by losing it." - Buddy, Anger Management

A few humorous lines:

"Worship me, and I may yet be merciful. Then again, mabye not."
-Korax, from HeXen

"I wanted the money."
-Edward Pierce, in Michaerl Chricton's "The Great Train Robbery"

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

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Bah I love these quotes. Noble outlaw, you have the leetest scope of movie/anime/book quotes I've seen yet. Farscape forever!

Just to make it official

"Anything too stupid to be said is put into song."
-Voltaire

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"Everyone, this is Gill. He works for me as an accountant, which means sometimes he has to kill people."
-Bad guy from Firestarter: Rekindled

"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."
-Don't know

"Sometimes it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel, but the circle."
-Me, when trying to explain how my program worked to a lesser programmer.

"Things aren’t different. Things are things."
-Book: Neuromancer. The Wintermute/Neuromancer constuct

"Reality is just a point of view."
-Philip K. Dick

*My favorite quote of all time below*
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-Philip K. Dick

"On average, Americans drink more soda every day than they drink water. On average, vampires drink less soda every day than they drink human blood. You be the judge of who is healthier."
-Unknown

"Question yourself. Question your questions. Question your lack of a questions."
-Forget who

"Win98 is just like a higher quality heroin. It's still not good for us."
–Capone

"These people shop at Wal-Mart’s. They drive their Mercedes. They never miss an episode of Friends. These, are Americans."
-Bad guy from some movie

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
-Unknown

"Good art comes from lack of sleep, immaturity, and recklessness as often as it comes from a meticulous process, but either way it usually comes from pain. Don’t stop until your art is so beautiful and inspired that it makes you cry, then put it on a CD and send it to everyone you can think of."
-A dev from SWG during an interview

"You mess with the best, you die like the rest."
-Zero Cool

"After learning the truth, does what is "real" matter, or is how we live our lives more important?"
-Unknown

Beating a dead horse is one thing... what you're doing it is sort of tripping the horse, running it over with a truck, backing up and running it over several more times, getting out and beating the carcass with a shovel, then watching as the shovel cries."
-Unknown

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

****.

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You're entering a world of pain.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
-- Groucho Marx

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
-- Mark Twain


"I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule."
-- Randal Graves, Clerks


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"I like my women how I like my coffee, in a plastic cup." - Eddie Izzard

Silent Leges Inter Arma
-Cicero

I have others but I'm not presently disposed to find them.

... Also, Wolfy, must you post that CS Friedman quote at every possible opportunity? It's not even terribly profound

Posted by GGbenny.<> old post on Lucus forums.

<> SUBJECT<> Why I hate rancors.
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""""Because I just do. There so clumsy there not funny alls they do is stand there and kills. i think they should be able to fly and shoot laser beams and puke that would be funny."""""

That post made me laugh so hard. BTW the thread got really far for a spamming thread.

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All your my forums. Belong too me.

"i leik ninjas becuz their cool pirates are gay i think if 100 ninja fogt 100 pirates teh ninjas wold win"
-Biography of an SWG player who won the "Outstanding Bio" badge.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
-- C.G.B. Spender


The most extraordinary of men are often tempted by the most ordinary of things.
-- C.G.B. Spender


Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last.
-- Charles DeGaulle


The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
-- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"


You wouldn't understand that, would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier
for you than I do for him, because you'll never know the things that
love can drive a man to.. The Ecstasies... The Miseries... The Broken
Rules... The Desperate Chances... The Glorious Failures... And The Glorious
Victories... All these things you'll never know...Simply because the word
'Love' isn't written into your book.
-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7


Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
-- John Lennon


Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide.
-- Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte


The working stiffs...They make $75-100k a year. That's not much to live on.
-- Jack Valenti on who piracy hurts most


The truth is just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
-- Elim Garak


Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
-- David Letterman


...Those I picked out of a list of the last hundred posted to my quotes file... I would post a link to the file itself, but the last time I did that, it was severely abused by *everyone*...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

"You think Jesus never asked John to pull his finger?" - Me

"Only on tuesdays, and certain bank holidays..." - Some cartoon with cats; can't remember the name.

"Whenever you rule out the impossible, what ever is left, no matter how improbable, must be true." - Scherlock Holmes

"She's so wide, she's so wide, I could drive my car inside!" - Jake Harvey

"I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally." - ???

"...I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda

"I'm cold, and there are wolves after me." - Grandpa Simpson

"[Kabbalah is] nonsense, but it's Jewish nonsense, and the study of anything Jewish, even nonsense, is worthwhile." -Anon. (yes, I borrowed it from stat, but I like it also)

"'God is dead' - Nietzsche, 'Nietzsche is dead' - God" - Some christian capitalist

"Any fool can critcize, condemn and complain - and most fools do." - Ben Franklin

"Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you over the head with logic" - ???

"Who's your daddy, D'Lo!?" - Jim Ross

"Your mammary glands don't impress me, Trish." - Kane (Glenn Jacobs)

"J.R.....May I call you Jimmmm? Well, you know, Jimmmm..." - Kane (Glenn Jacobs)threatening ringside announcer J.R. (Jim Ross) during an interview at the boradcast booth during a match.

From my Comp USA days...

Customer: Why does that phone cost so much more than these other ones?

Me: It's shiiiiiiiny

And one more for the road:

Me: Tastes like chicken.

Someone else: Then what does chicken taste like?

Me: Fish.

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Fear is here, where's the beer?