Category: Quote

“English is not a language.  English is a bad habit shared between Norman invaders and Saxon barmaids.”

— Frog, IRC

“Look, I’m serious dammit.  Woudl I have crossposted to alt.religion.kibology if I wasn’t?”

— Hong Oi

<Owen> Argh, where did my memory card go?

<Keith> Am I the only one who sees the irony in his forgetting where he put this item?

— IRC

“Y’know, I’m screwed if Cthulhu is real… I’ve seen too many plushies, so many pics that make him look like an adorable squishy squid thing I just wanna hug…”

— Saras

“The path of elegance is littered with the corpses of half-implemented code.”

— Devon, PCGen mailing list

“Kittens have this bright-eyed and mad intensity mixed with the fact that they’re a tiny ball of clumsy fluff.”

— Genarti, IRC

(after giving my two year old daughter a strawberry):

Naomi: “Strawberry!”

Me: “What do you say?”

Naomi: “My strawberry!”

“Your ability to bang your head against reality in the hope that reality will crack first is impressive, but futile.”

— Geoffrey Brent, in rec.games.frp.dnd

“You just can’t argue with a moron. It’s like handling Nuclear waste. It’s not good, it’s not evil, but for Christ’s sake, don’t get any on you!!”

— Chuck, PCGen mailing list

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
– James D. Nicoll