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I've been reading a book which has tons of good quotes (see my signature).  So I thought, everybody should post their favourite quotes/passages/stories here.  No real rules, but I like to laugh.

I'll start us off:

QuoteIt was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc [the world where they live] was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to athiests' houses and smashing their windows.

-Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

QuoteThe key to eating a black and white cookie is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet, still, somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.

- Jerry Seinfeld

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Author's Introduction to Slaughterhouse Five

This is not my favorite quote of all time (I'll really have to think about that), but this is my favorite movie quote:

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Ruben: You're Bobby Caldwell's kid, right?  From Chicago?
Linus: Yeah, that's right.
Ruben: It's nice there.  You like it?
Linus: Yeah.
Ruben: That's wonderful.  Get in the goddamn house.

--Ocean's Eleven (modern version)

"I think I'll stop here."
- Andrew Wiles, 1994

Quote from: K on February 13, 2004, 03:19 PM

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Author's Introduction to Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five has to be one of the best books I have read in my college career consisting of 1 semester and a 5 weeks (15 weeks altogether).

Quote from: kamakazie on February 13, 2004, 05:44 PM

Quote from: K on February 13, 2004, 03:19 PM

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Author's Introduction to Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five has to be one of the best books I have read in my college career consisting of 1 semester and a 5 weeks (15 weeks altogether).

Agreed, although I read it in highschool.  Recently I've read Welcome to the Monkey House, Slapstick, Cat's Cradle, and The Sirens of Titan.  Of the full novels, Slaughterhouse 5 was the best; the short story collections were both excellent too.

"You'll get over it."
-Yoni (I think he started it, if not please correct me )

Quote from: hismajesty on February 13, 2004, 06:16 PM
"You'll get over it."
-Yoni (I think he started it, if not please correct me )

You're correct.

Quote from: Yoni on February 13, 2004, 06:36 PM

Quote from: hismajesty on February 13, 2004, 06:16 PM
"You'll get over it."
-Yoni (I think he started it, if not please correct me )

You're correct.

Earlier I posted

QuoteCat

a quote from Spht - Someone removed it though

Quote from: UserLoser. on February 13, 2004, 06:52 PM
Earlier I posted

Quote from: someone

- Someone removed it though

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And you didn't get the hint?

Quote from: Grok on February 13, 2004, 06:56 PM

Quote from: UserLoser. on February 13, 2004, 06:52 PM
Earlier I posted

Quote from: someone

- Someone removed it though

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And you didn't get the hint?

I don't see how it's any different than someone posting a quote of Yoni, since Spht isn't even a moderator of this forum he couldn't have removed it

Hint?

QuoteThere are no stupid questions.  Only stupid people.

I've always been quite fond of the one Kp uses as a signature:

Quote[19:20:23] (BotNet) <[vL]Kp> Any idiot can make a bot with CSB, and many do!

"I'm going to kill me a bugger" - Ender's Game