09-14-2003, 10:30 AM
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| Obscure Quotes
Earn a star sticker next to your name by guessing the origin of my obscure quotes!
I'll start things off with a few:
"I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
"Klaatu barada nicto"
"average airspeed....." | 
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09-14-2003, 10:50 AM
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| Re: Obscure Quotes
Quote: Originally posted by zeidolon
Earn a star sticker next to your name by guessing the origin of my obscure quotes!
I'll start things off with a few:
"I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
"Klaatu barada nicto"
"average airspeed....." | ?
Day the Earth Stood Still
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09-14-2003, 11:00 AM
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| Two stars for mollusk!
Good job. Most people attribute the klattu quote to Army of Darkness (which was paying tribute to the old sci fi movie).
Note: quotes are not all necessarily from movies.
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09-14-2003, 11:09 AM
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| I later "Googled" the first quote, so I now know where it comes from. I don't think that is in the spirit of the thread, though. | |
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09-14-2003, 01:19 PM
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| Hrm, why not? It is an obscure quote. I know a lot of people that can recite the whole bit and all I have to say is "vogon poetry". Maybe its too obscure.... | |
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09-14-2003, 02:12 PM
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I love that book!  | |
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09-14-2003, 03:01 PM
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| And here I was thinking Lewis Carroll... | |
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09-14-2003, 03:32 PM
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| The full quote:
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't! "
- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
If you have never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you should. Please, dont judge the book by the poem. It is one of those classics that everyone should read. Very funny and witty as hell.
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You know you have a drinking problem when you wake up in Idaho and don't remember how many aliens it took to get you there.
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09-14-2003, 05:12 PM
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| And it has great advice to fencers on the cover:
Don't Panic! | |
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09-14-2003, 08:59 PM
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| funny, i was thinking lewis carrol as well.
and i've read hitchhikers guide....
my school library put the guide in the non-fic section of the library | |
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09-15-2003, 08:35 AM
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| Hichhiker Rules!! 
"It hovered above the ground much in the way that bricks don't."
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09-15-2003, 02:41 PM
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| "Life, don't talk to me about life."
"... Repeat! This is your captain speaking, so stop whatever you are doing and pay attention... All planetary leaves are canceled. I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anyone else should have a good time!"
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Maybe, perhaps, likely, possibly, probably, potentially.
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09-15-2003, 06:54 PM
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09-15-2003, 09:12 PM
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| "Much int he way bricks don't"
AHAHAHAHA! I love it.
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09-15-2003, 09:22 PM
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09-15-2003, 10:11 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Peach
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09-15-2003, 10:13 PM
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| "`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"
-- Zaphod.
"There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"
-- The Guide.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-- The Guide. | |
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09-15-2003, 10:34 PM
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| Does everyone here make sure to bring their towel with them to competitions? You never know after all...
heheheheh
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09-15-2003, 10:57 PM
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| Here are some of may favorite quotes, although not particularly obscure. There is a thematic element that ties them together.
"The police are not there to create disorder!
The police are there to preserve disorder."
"We have been childhood friends all of our lives."
"To higher and higher platitudes."
Those that aren't of the Veteran's age may not have any idea what these are about.
(I used to live in Chicago.) | |
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09-16-2003, 02:45 PM
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| the second quote is from army of darkness, (I think that's the name, I always mix it up with one other movie) it's when he is going to lift the book of the altar, and he needs to say the words but forgets the last one.
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