We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.

Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'


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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


Burrell - Nov 20, 2005 5:35:58 am PST #6344 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I'm not a donut girl, but I'll probably make pancakes this morning. My FiL is here, although really the pancakes are for Franny.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 20, 2005 5:56:56 am PST #6345 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So that's how it's called in English. That's the new thing I've learned today.

Also memorable because it's what Kennedy loudly announced himself to be to the citizens of Berlin due to a flub with German translation.


Pix - Nov 20, 2005 7:16:02 am PST #6346 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

I am a freak who doesn't like donuts.


Nilly - Nov 20, 2005 7:17:47 am PST #6347 of 10001
Swouncing

what Kennedy loudly announced himself to be to the citizens of Berlin due to a flub with German translation

Um, what did he try to say?


Polter-Cow - Nov 20, 2005 7:18:58 am PST #6348 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

"Ich bin ein Berliner" != "I am a citizen of Berlin"


Jesse - Nov 20, 2005 7:19:17 am PST #6349 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, I love this one! He meant to say "I'm a Berliner," like "I'm one of you." Except in Berlin, a berliner is a jelly donut, so you have to say "Ich bin Berliner" to mean a person and he said "Ich bin ein Berliner," calling himself a donut.


bon bon - Nov 20, 2005 7:38:40 am PST #6350 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Not so different from saying "I am a Danish"


Tom Scola - Nov 20, 2005 7:39:09 am PST #6351 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It's sort of similar, syntactically, to saying "I am a Danish" as opposed to "I am Danish".

[x-post, of course]


Jesse - Nov 20, 2005 7:39:48 am PST #6352 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Just like that. "I am a Dane" = person. "I am Danish" = person. "I am a Danish" = pastry.


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2005 7:42:05 am PST #6353 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"I am a Danish" = pastry.

And song lyric.