Topic: Quotes (Read 148693 times)

Thad · « **Reply #1040 on:** March 15, 2012, 06:56:35 AM »

...wait. How'd I get to be Lottel's Boyd?

Is Brent going around betting me in poker games again?

Classic · « **Reply #1041 on:** March 15, 2012, 11:57:34 AM »

There are other Boyds in the sky man. Don't give me a run for my solipsism dollars.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1042 on:** March 15, 2012, 08:31:00 PM »

Quote

"Land snails will squirm around in your hand and try to eat you."

Thad · « **Reply #1043 on:** March 18, 2012, 04:36:57 PM »

Spin, July 1991:

Quote from: Frank Zappa

I've called two political consultants in Washington and we're just gonna do a little feasibility study to see what it would take. The idea is to run as a nonpartisan candidate and urge other people around the country to not only run but resign from the Democratic and the Republican parties because the Democrats stand for nothing except "I wish I was a Republican" and the Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. So that's really not much of a choice and it's nauseating to watch Democrats make speeches because they all wish they were Republicans.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1044 on:** March 18, 2012, 05:17:59 PM »

If only that interview felt dated.

Thad · « **Reply #1045 on:** March 19, 2012, 07:40:16 AM »

I've always wanted a Zappa for President T-shirt.

EDIT: It really is worth reading the whole thing, as much as anything for how eerily accurate it all still is. (Holy fuck, he even talks about "the transference of goods and services from the cloud to your living room".) MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but replace it with "American Idol" and you've still got a music industry that rewards pretty people over talented ones. His comments about rap and punk are good ("Well I liked the attitude of punk, I didn't necessarily like it from a musical standpoint; it is anti-musical. The whole idea was we're gonna play shitty and fast and so what? The so what part I always like. But anybody who's against music I don't like. I don't like people who smash instruments. I don't like the abuse of things that could produce beautiful results.") but his comments about world affairs are really impressive.

The guy really was a genius and it's a shame we lost him. I don't agree with him on everything (the flat tax thing is a sour note), but he'd seriously and only-slightly-ironically have my vote if he were alive and running today. RIP.

EDIT 2: Just to add: the guy was way ahead of the curve on technology, too. There's a chapter in The Real Frank Zappa Book where he talks about ideas he's pitched that were rejected; one of them is a music download service -- in the goddamn mid-1980's. I don't think there's anyone at the RIAA smart enough to think "If only we'd listened to Frank Zappa", but honest to Christ he pitched them a plan that would have headed Napster off at the pass, and he did it in the days of 1200bps dialup.

Lottel · « **Reply #1046 on:** March 21, 2012, 05:03:31 AM »

[08:03] <Elfin> I wonder what a Krogan dong looks like.
[08:04] <Sede> like a helmeted warrior
[08:05] <yeoz> there's fanart for that kind of thing
[08:05] <+Ridley> all ME aliens are fully sexually compatible with humans
[08:05] <+Ridley> they just didn't give us options with all of them yet
[08:08] <Sede> they're all sexually compatible, some we just haven't figured out how to penetrate..... yet
[08:09] <+Esperath> !haiku
[08:09] <Upthorn> Haiku Novicework: Cover your poopers! / fuck me like you fucked that horse / Onwards and Upwards!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1047 on:** March 28, 2012, 08:32:01 AM »

<Iteration> I discovered that instead of ironing or dry cleaning my work shirts, I can just toss them in the drier for a few minutes before leaving
<zephyr> How old are you?
<Baz> Wait, people actually iron their clothes? lol
<artificial> try dampening a cloth, and throwing it in there with the shirt
<QED> ^ this, but with a slice of ham

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1048 on:** March 28, 2012, 09:07:01 AM »

You need to throw in a damp washcloth or something similar for that to really work.

EDIT: I somehow did not read the entire quote.

R^2 · « **Reply #1049 on:** March 28, 2012, 12:06:40 PM »

Or a slice of ham.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1050 on:** March 28, 2012, 12:43:32 PM »

A damp slice of ham.

Friday · « **Reply #1051 on:** March 29, 2012, 11:29:58 PM »

<@Friday> I think OoE is an amazing game
<@Friday> the level design is indeed ____________________________ but
<@Friday> apart from that I feel it is the strongest castlevania
<@Friday> er
<+Kayin> Yeah. I think they really wante dto do better with the level design too. It had to be money.
<@Friday> metroidvania
<@Friday> Aria is probably my second choice
<@Friday> SotN my third, then PoR, then DoS
<@patito> they wanted to do more than just a castle with PoR and OoE
<+Kayin> PoR also seemed like a 'ran out of money' game
<@patito> but I feel PoR did that better
<+Kayin> But it ran out of money less..... severely.
<@patito> and oddly enough the castle was the best level in OoE
<@Friday> hahah
<+Kayin> PoR was sorta just lacking in details.
<@Friday> Kayin remember when I ran the hottest girl ever and like
<@Friday> Shanoa made it to final four
<@Friday> wtf
<+Kayin> I'd love Shanoa if her characterization wasn't so bad.
<+Kayin> Well no I lvoe her anyways
<@Friday> I love Shanoa anyway
<@Friday> her sprite is so fucking amazing
<Elfin> Yes.
<@Friday> like it may be my all time favorite animated 2d sprite
<+Kayin> So instead I write Shanoa fanfiction in my imagination
<Elfin> Yes it is.
<+Kayin> and yeha, it's amazing.
<@Friday> but here is her character:
<@Friday> :|
<@Friday> :|
<@Friday> :|
<@Friday> :|
<@Friday> ...
<@Friday> :)
<@Friday> THE END
<@patito> her character is a perfect mirror of her game's level design

Thad · « **Reply #1052 on:** April 02, 2012, 10:16:53 AM »

Vonnegut writes to a schoolboard head who burned Slaughterhouse-Five:

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I gather from what I read in the papers and hear on television that you imagine me, and some other writers, too, as being sort of ratlike people who enjoy making money from poisoning the minds of young people. I am in fact a large, strong person, fifty-one years old, who did a lot of farm work as a boy, who is good with tools. I have raised six children, three my own and three adopted. They have all turned out well. Two of them are farmers. I am a combat infantry veteran from World War II, and hold a Purple Heart. I have earned whatever I own by hard work. I have never been arrested or sued for anything. I am so much trusted with young people and by young people that I have served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, Harvard, and the City College of New York. Every year I receive at least a dozen invitations to be commencement speaker at colleges and high schools. My books are probably more widely used in schools than those of any other living American fiction writer.

If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.

After I have said all this, I am sure you are still ready to respond, in effect, “Yes, yes–but it still remains our right and our responsibility to decide what books our children are going to be made to read in our community.” This is surely so. But it is also true that if you exercise that right and fulfill that responsibility in an ignorant, harsh, un-American manner, then people are entitled to call you bad citizens and fools. Even your own children are entitled to call you that.

Brentai · « **Reply #1053 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:31:09 PM »

rainwarrior   Ridley: someone said something about your house earlier, trying to see if nyao has learned about your house yet.
rainwarrior   it hadn't at the time
Brentai   nyao, experience Ridley's house
Brentai   Also what about it?
Smiler      #markov ridley's house
rainwarrior   nyao is silent on the issue
nyao      Error: You must be registered to use this command. If you are already registered, you must either identify (using the identify command) or add a hostmask matching your current hostmask (using the "hostmask add" command).
rainwarrior   Brentai: Looks like a party was suggested, then a haiku, according to my logs.
Brentai   !haiku for Ridley's butt
Upthorn   Haiku Novicework: Mmm i want to try / the cherry blossoms drift down / And shut the door tight.
Brentai   I mean house! House!
myew      Then shut the door tight.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1054 on:** April 05, 2012, 07:40:53 PM »

<TedBelmont> Although of course there will always be jerks
<Renekton> It is the internet afterall
<Renekton> If there's no jerks
<Renekton> That's how you tell you've been disconnected

Mongrel · « **Reply #1055 on:** April 06, 2012, 07:44:19 PM »

Nick: Usually the Medal of Honor is prehumorous
Nick: or whatever that word is

Roger · « **Reply #1056 on:** April 07, 2012, 01:57:55 AM »

<Brentai> I love Captain N though. It's like a love letter to Nintendo that was actually written by a five year old.

<Caithness> my english dictionary doesn't have corn as a verb, but the japanese one does
<Lady> what does it mean to corn?
<Brentai> I assume it means the same thing as every other Japanese verb.
<Brentai> "To feel intense shame."

Brentai · « **Reply #1057 on:** April 07, 2012, 08:54:42 PM »

<yeoz> (13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
<Romosome> an AMULET
<Romosome> you will gain a fucking MAGICAL TOKEN to ABSOLVE YOU OF ACCUSATION BY OTHER PEOPLE
<Romosome> You could START by proceeding into the CHAMBER OF DARKIES, and assemble the silver monkey to proceed into the PIT OF RACISM

Mongrel · « **Reply #1058 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:34:12 PM »

... the fuck, yeoz?

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1059 on:** April 07, 2012, 10:09:46 PM »

I belive he was quoting this fine fellow.

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