'Objects In Space'
This thread is for Buffista quotage. Posts that are profound, witty, or otherwise deserving of immortality go here. This is also Shrift's source for the BRQG, so be aware that if your words end up here, they'll also end up there. Finally, please note which thread spawned the quotage and please white-out anything that might be spoilery to Un-Americans.
Gudanov in Natter:
Isn't caffeine the engine of productivity? What will happen to the economy without caffeine? What about customer service? Do you want to call Dell's customer support and hear "Brrrraaaaaiiiiiiiinnnns"? Okay, bad example, I doubt Dell's customer support is actually in this country. How about calling IB....okay another bad example. How about calling your state agen....Okay, that might be another bad example. I can't think, I need caffeine.
Topic!Cindy: Natter, thread. A thread barely alive...Buffistas, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic thread. Natter will be that thread. Better than it was before, stronger, faster...
ita: Please god, not faster.
Bwah! I was just copy/pasting that as I moved to this thread.
From Natter:
Emily: But, honestly, when your political philosophy rests on Cleopatra 2525? Maybe wanna rethink it.
Topic!Cindy: Dick Clark's still not dead, and not one person here called him Schroedinger's Dick. It's like I don't even know you people, any more.
In dog Strider:
Kathy Astrom posted a snippet of a report on the talk Peter Jackson gave about the Miramax 1 film version of LotR (the one that PJ absolutely refused to do):
it essentially had the name ‘Lord of the Rings’, and not much more than that. For example, the whole Moria sequence was gone, the idea being that they’d pick the story up on the other side and Frodo would say ‘Well, damn, weren’t those caves/orcs something. Pity about Gandalf.’ Applying the ‘Tell not Show’ principle, obviously. Gondor and Rohan were to be collapsed into one country, ruled over by a synthesis of Theoden and Denethor. The mind just boggles.
Calli: Just how would one do this? Put Theothor on a horse, set both on fire, pitch them out of Minas Tirith, and have 'em take out a bunch of orcs when they land?
(And still I say: "Flammminnnngg Death!"--A Bug's Life)
DX, in the Lost thread, context be damned:
Probably just as well you didn't. I'm pretty sure people who burst into flames on airplanes get put on a special watch list.
Aimée:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife's iPod.
Thou shalt not bear false witness to the iPod.
Thou shalt not take the iPod's name in vain.
Thou shalt honor thy Mother's and Father's iPod.
Thou shalt keep the iPod day holy.
Thou shalt not murder thy iPod by letting the battery run out.
Thou shalt not have any other iPods before this one.
Thou shalt not have any graven image of the iPod, ie that HP crap.
Thou shalt not steal music for your iPod.
You shall not commit adultery by using someone else's iPod.
These are laws.
... And those tablets can NOT be returned - they are engraved.
Emily:
Okay, I tried to post this right after shrift, but then my browser did the thing where it won't load the board anymore, so I'm a little late. Whatever.
While I was pondering this question, I thought, well, the Buddha would only need one song, or no song at all, and maybe that goes for Christ as well. But maybe in fact Jesus would want all songs, loving all of human creation. Which means, either way, that divine beings (does Buddha count as divine? how about incarnations?) wouldn't use the iProduct currently on the market, because only humans need something between all and nothing. Which is much like a system of two algebraic equations -- it can have no answers, all answers, or one answer. Humans would have one answer, but Higher Powers would be either parallel but separate lines or overlapping on all points.
Maybe I shouldn't do religion right after algebra quizzes
Aimee, in Bitches:
I am putting everything in writing. What I want done, what I don't want done, what funeral I want (none), what I want done with my remains (use every single usable part. Take it all if it can be used. Let someone else benefit and live. Let that be my legacy. Burn the rest. And if you keep my ashes to be paired with Joe's later on, keep me in a Wizard of Oz cookie jar, for Heaven's sake. Hell, keep it in the kitchen so that people reach in and grab a handful of me. It'll be a great joke. Specially for the grandkids. "You're holding Grandma! You're holding Grandma!" I forgot why I used the parentheses.)