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2006-09-18, 2:01 AM #1
Always good to have one around.

"I don't actually know what 'Macaca' means, Jon, but it sure as **** sounds racist. Here in Virginia, still not certain if that helps or hurts a guy."
-Rob Cordry, The Daily Show

"Not all Paladins have to be Detective Stabler. Most can mantain as Lennie Brisco without losing their powers."
-My gaming group on how to play Paladins

"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 revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

"Well, you'd certainly have the Muda-muda-muda-muda, but you'd need an extra step up or two to achieve Za Warudo!"
-4chan's /b/ on Relativity

-Post Quotes please.
2006-09-18, 3:47 AM #2
Karl Pilkington (they're a lot better put into context of the podcasts/radio shows):
Regarding a question posed to him as to how he's spend a day with an exact clone of himself - "How would I know which one was me?"

When trying to get his head around the 'infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters for infinity, eventually writing the complete works of Shakespeare' - "It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey."

On the evolution of giraffes - Why didn't evolution give them genes to make them good at carpentry then, so they could build a ladder instead of growing long necks?

After being told that there is a frog, which (if boiled down) contains enough poison to kill a thousand men - "Why is this frog that angry it's going around, biting someone and killing a thousand men?"




And a few of his sayings:
"Don't be chucking that out. You might need that later" - Karl interprets the phrase "Waste not, want not".
-Podcast Series 1, Episode Four

"If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about." - Karl interprets the phrase "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
-Podcast Series 1, Episode Six

"People who live in a glass house have to answer the door" - Karl invents his own phrase based on "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
-Podcast Series 1, Episode Six

"Whoop, there's an elephant in the room"
-Podcast Series 1, Episode Six

"You don't have to do it straight away, but just do it before it gets really bad" - Karl re-evaluates the phrase "A stitch in time saves nine".
-Podcast Series 1, Episode Seven

"The best thing you can do is look after yourself. Get on with it".
-Podcast Series 2, Episode Five

"Treat the world like a head".
-Podcast Series 2, Episode Five
m u r t a
2006-09-18, 5:53 AM #3
Perl is a stalker's language. I can imagine stalkers coding in Perl... Everytime I see a Perl bumper-sticker, I say "hey, theres a stalker!"...
-- Nigel Mull

"I'd buy a Yugo, and pick up women in it... ..And I'd trick out my Yugo... Stereo, tinted windows, automatic start..."
-- Jefferson Wagner

You just haven't lived until you've written your own scripting language.
-- Nigel Mull

Let me tell you something, buddy, my 30 dollar copy of Windows ME justifies my pirated copy of XP Pro.
-- Donald Whitely


More here
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2006-09-18, 6:09 AM #4
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -Blaise Pascal

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
2006-09-18, 6:48 AM #5
"What's the point of having an internet connection if your not using it to look up weird ****ed up pictures of dirty sex you'd never have yourself?" - Randal Graves, Clerks 2

"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something." - Mitch Hedberg

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get ahold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly." - Mitch Hedberg

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose." - Douglas Adams

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." - Edmund Burke
"It sounds like an epidemic."
"Look, I don't know what that means. But it happens all the time." - Penny Arcade
Last.fm
2006-09-18, 7:45 AM #6
Originally posted by MFalse:
"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something." - Mitch Hedberg

That's good. But it also annoys me that someone is passing that off as an original quote on bash :P

"You can't mount and dismount the moral high horse when it suits you. Either saddle up for good or just stick to walking."
- Rerun (Massassi)

"You do not distinguish between the wise and the foolish, which is to have foul vision; you have never read the Odes or the Histories, which is to have foul speech; you are deaf to honest words, which is to have foul ears; you are unable to reconcile antiquity with today, which is to be foul without; you cannot tolerate the nobles, which is to be foul within; you harbour thoughts of rebellion, which is to have a foul heart. I am the most famous scholar in the world and you make me a drummer boy, that is as Yang Huo belittling Confucius or Tsang Ts'ang vilifying Mencius. You desire to be chief and arbitator of great nobles, yet you treat me thus!"
- Mi Heng (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)

And on a lighter note...
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

- George Carlin
2006-09-18, 9:28 AM #7
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -Terry Pratchett

For some reason I liked this contortion a lot. Such ironic humour.
Frozen in the past by ICARUS
2006-09-18, 10:29 AM #8
"No, just *A* Zaphod Beeblebrox. Didn't you hear? I come in six-packs."
-Zaphod Beeblebrox

"I was in the bottom of a dark hole. I left because i started to like to too much."
-Marvin the Paranoid Android

"To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem."
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2006-09-18, 10:52 AM #9
"You are remembered for the rules you break." - MacArthur

"drop it like it's hot" - rap music star
2006-09-18, 11:03 AM #10
"A good pun is its own reword." — Anon.

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting" - Ernest Rutherford
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2006-09-18, 11:04 AM #11
"**** me hard." - Alexis Amore

"Its a peace of cake to bake a pretty cake." Cakegirl (Brian)

"I'm gay." - BSG
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-09-18, 12:17 PM #12
"The shortest distance between two puns is a straight-line." - anon
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2006-09-18, 12:27 PM #13
"Drugs are bad, mmmkay?"
The cake is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
2006-09-18, 5:43 PM #14
"You can't make an omelet..."
"... Without killing a few people."


-Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, the Old Firm, Neverwhere
2006-09-18, 5:45 PM #15
not that I necessarily believe this, but I'm writing a paper that's due tomorrow on the french revolution so here:

"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike"

which was actually said by Thomas Jefferson, so it was misquoted by my professor (which explains my frustration while trying to find the author of said quote :()
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2006-09-18, 8:22 PM #16
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
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Ye Olde Galactic Empire Mission Editor (X-wing, TIE, XvT/BoP, XWA)
2006-09-18, 8:26 PM #17
"... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."
-- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter Preposterous Words

I love gbk's collection of quotes. I've pestered him about it multiple times. :)

Edit: Hey, look. Our very own Jon is famous!

I think the best thing you can possibly do, as a guy, is to express your deepest heartfelt emotions for her. Let her know how much you love her and how in touch you, a man, are with your feminine side. . . . . *snicker* . . . .
-Jon`C, "I dunno why I would post a problem like this but...", 12/20/2002
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2006-09-19, 10:44 AM #18
Originally posted by sugarless5:
not that I necessarily believe this, but I'm writing a paper that's due tomorrow on the french revolution so here:

"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike"

which was actually said by Thomas Jefferson, so it was misquoted by my professor (which explains my frustration while trying to find the author of said quote :()

"'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' Thomas Jefferson."
"'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious,' according to Oscar Wilde."

<3 The Rock. I think of it every time I see those quotes.
2006-09-19, 11:57 AM #19
I've got lots :-p

“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

“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

“Escalators are cool. They can never break, just become stairs.”
-Mitch Hedberg

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

“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

“Alcoholism is a disease right? But alcoholism is the only disease I know of that you can be yelled at for having.”
-Mitch Hedberg

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

“The World is made up of the big things that happen, and the small ones. And the part that’s so unfair is that we call them big or small. Because when something happens to you, and you lose something or someone that you care about, that’s all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don’t care about that. You don’t care about that at all.”
-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

“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

“Look upward, and share the wonders I’ve seen”
-Farscape

“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


“If I buy duct tape, the terrorists win!!”
-John Stewart

“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

“If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit”
-Mitch Hedberg

“When someone hands me a flyer, its like saying, ‘Here, you throw this away’”
-Mitch Hedberg

“Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a weak guy, all day. If your wearing a turtleneck and a backpack, its like a midget’s trying to take you down.”
-Mitch Hedberg

“We're three million years into deep space. Where the smeg did I get a traffic cone?”
-Red Dwarf

"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

"There is no escape, Scorpius. Even into death. For as you are making your agonizing retreat, I will capture your soul. And with it, everything you know about wormholes.”
-Stark

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

“Death is just the beginning of one’s journey”
-Scar

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

“I'll stick with Chess, the real game of war.”
-Chaz

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

“The next time someone starts talking about how bad Vice City is, as though it were the only game in existence, as though game consoles were only capable of that single experience and nothing peripheral to it, I really do want the opportunity to ask them - please, name another game. Name one other game that you know about. No, it's not a trick question. Well, it is, if by "trick question" you mean "question designed to make you look like an idiot." I wonder if they even know that far, far from Vice City, past even the Vice suburbs, the same machine can allow a father and son - separated by three hundred miles and thirty years - the chance to play a round of golf together, for no good reason other than its being Tuesday.”
-Tycho, Penny Arcade

“You already know what the media is saying about it, so I don't need to go into that. They're drawing parallels between their activity and Grand Theft Auto. I am making this note because my position of unwavering criticism of media coverage has been amended to include something else: that there are young men stupid enough to emulate these games. I have a very low opinion of high school, and the sorts of clean, effortlessly beautiful human beings one encounters there. I know that it is a source of torment. And I know that your **** is all tortured, because I've read your poems and seen that rendered skull spinning there on your page with the fire on it. I feel it. I was a black coat and some eyeliner away from emulating your existence. But the second you load a ****ing weapon, I can't empathize with you anymore. I can't protect you. And I can't defend you.”
-Tycho, Penny Arcade

"God, my brilliance is becoming a bit of a burden. Get back to me on that."
-Dr. Cox

“The hatchling walks among us. Are these dreams? Memories? Foretellings? Time and reality swirl together like estuary waters, and we Chozo know not what to believe. She appears as ghostlike as the Chozo, but at times the mists clear. We see her wounded eyes, and remember the child we found so long ago. What has she become, this Newborn? Clad in Chozo armor, wielding weapons our hands once held, does she dream of the Chozo as we once were? Does she long for her parents, lost to the same creatures that even now defile our sacred home? Does she still live?”
-Chozo Lore

“*stretches out in the watch tower, looking over the land of Prayer Forum and glad that the Religious Forum War is over. He pulls out a bottle of beer and sips it, then looks out on the horizon and sees a dust cloud. He pulls out his binoculars and examines the cloud, seeing tanks, artillery, and APC's.* Oh ****, the atheists are coming!”
-Kieran Horn

“Latest research: ~100% of violent criminals have consumed water. Water is therefore responsible for violent crimes.”
-Run

“The boatman's waiting for us, men. I say we make him wait a little longer!”
-Troy

“Oh thoughtless mortals! Ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected and too soon elate.
Sudden, these honors shall be snatched away,
And cursed forever this victorious day.”
-Alexander Pope

“I like girls. Most of my very best friends are girls. Occasionally I have been known to have something known as a "Girlfriend". Rare and beautiful creatures that massage ego, make cups of tea, and share a good curry/film with you.”
-Martyn

"One day, I would have liked to live in peace, Geb. Thrown away the Cold War rhetoric, the nuclear arsenal, the demonic fiends, the plots and betrayals…I would have lived in a never-ending world with you, and Krig, and Losien, and all the rest of them…can you believe that was the reason I came back from Heaven? Paradise itself? I thought that paradise was here. That we could make it right here, among all the craziness and doughnuts and whatever else popped up. A fool’s idea. But aren’t all of the best ideas seemingly foolish, at first?"
-TLTE

“A fairy tale is a dream”
-Gebohq

“Art, as often said today, is life, but art is not just life. Art is an ever-lasting reality, life is an evanescent reflection.”
-Gebohq

“Relationships don’t work the way they do on television and in the movies. Will they, won’t they, and then they finally do and their happy forever. Give me a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones that get married get divorced anyway and I’m telling you right now through all this stuff I have not become a cynic, I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, you know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker; I don’t care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line, couples that are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time, if its right, and their real lucky. One of them will say something.”
-Dr. Cox
A Knight's Tail
Exile: A Tale of Light in Dark
The Never Ending Story²
"I consume the life essence itself!... Preferably medium rare" - Mauldis

-----@%
2006-09-19, 12:15 PM #20
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

"Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends. "

-Fight Club

"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."

- Max Payne
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2006-09-19, 12:20 PM #21
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
-Zapp Brannigan
2006-09-19, 2:33 PM #22
Futurama quotes! Good Idea Helle.

"They are commanded by the brain balls. They've got a lot of brains, and they've got a lot of chutzpah."
Stuff
2006-09-19, 5:53 PM #23
If you have a friend who's a tightrope walker, and he's walking on the sidewalk, and he falls, that is totally unacceptable
-Mitch Hedberg
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Ye Olde Galactic Empire Mission Editor (X-wing, TIE, XvT/BoP, XWA)
2006-09-19, 6:56 PM #24
"You know, Max, Father Chistmas can squeeze is entire body through any size hole he can get his head into." -Sam
Why do the heathens rage behind the firehouse?
2006-09-19, 11:53 PM #25
"... 'The Dude abides'... I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude, taken 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals. Well'p, that about does 'er. Wraps 'er all up.
Things seem'd to have work'd out pretty good fer the Dude and Walter. And it was a pretty good story, don't you think? Made me laugh to beat the band. Parts, anyway. I didn't like seein' Donnie go... But, then, I happen to know that there's a 'little Lebowski' on the way.
I guess that's the way the whole dern human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself, down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we... ah, look at me, I'm ramblin' again. Well, I hope you folks enjoyed yerselves. Catch yer later on down the trail...
Say friend, got any more of that good sarsparilla?
"

-The Stranger, The Big Lebowski
2006-09-20, 5:27 AM #26
Kaylee: "Everybody's got somebody..." (wistfully) "Wash, tell me I'm pretty..."
Wash: "Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion."
Kaylee: " 'Cause I'm pretty?"
Wash: " 'Cause you're pretty."
-Firefly
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2006-09-20, 6:20 AM #27
"Because I have respect for animals I know they will never stab me in the back" - Steve Irwin.
2006-09-20, 8:22 AM #28
Originally posted by Slayder:
"Because I have respect for animals I know they will never stab me in the back" - Steve Irwin.

Didn't say anything about stabbing him in the heart :(
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Ye Olde Galactic Empire Mission Editor (X-wing, TIE, XvT/BoP, XWA)
2006-09-20, 8:57 AM #29
"A SPECIAL ring of hell." - Sheperd Book
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-09-21, 2:12 AM #30
"It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people."

-Dwight, The Big Fat Kill
2006-09-21, 2:17 AM #31
"Oh, yeah, [Emperor Voice]I have forseen that this level will be played on the Zone alot... once Microsoft gets off their friggin butts and fixes the .NET Passport too-many-ppl thing[/Emperor Voice]"
-Mzzt
一个大西瓜
2006-09-21, 2:37 AM #32
Originally posted by Steven:
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
-Zapp Brannigan


"She's built like a steak-house, but she handles like a bistro!"
"Well ain't that a merry jelly." - FastGamerr

"You can actually see the waves of me not caring in the air." - fishstickz

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