Words of Wisdom - by Celeste

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When in danger, and in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Thank you.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]!

Where'd you dig that up? I've been saying that for years, along with:

Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to scream and die - motto of Starfleet Security

The voices in my head tell me I'm sane.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

"Normal" is a setting on a washing machine.

And other trite witticisms.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]War is like a party. If you're not invited, look for another one or start one yourself.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases, so long as he pleases the assassins.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

You can go anywhere you want in an office if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Keep your shoulder to the wheel, your eye on the ball, your ear to the ground, and your nose to the grindstone. Now try to work in that position.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I thought this might happen. ::facepalms::[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't wait your turn to fight the hero. Attack en masse.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you find a half full, ancient looking bottle of Coke in a machine shed, don't drink it, it's engine oil. Believe me, I know.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't drink engine oil. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[quote:post_uid0="Celeste"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I thought this might happen. ::facepalms::[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm personally following your first words of wisdom ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Two wrongs make a right, three rights make a left, four lefts make a circle, and five circles make the symbol for the Olympics. This is not necessarily signifigant.

[quote:post_uid0]Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.[/quote:post_uid0]
There's one I've read somewhere. "Stel niet uit tot morgen wat je vandaag door een ander kunt laten doen." Ahem. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can make someone else do today.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You can always tell a Dutchman, but you can't tell him much.

Cats were once worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]You can always tell a Dutchman, but you can't tell him much.[/quote:post_uid0]
The same goes for Americans. I don't know about Canadians yet. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If brute force doesn't work, you're not using enough.

Be kind to other people. We outnumber you six billion to one.

I am only racist if stupid qualifies as a race.

I have the Body of a God. Unfortunately, it's Buddha.

The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening all at once. It's not working.

If it ain't broken, keep playing with it.

In spite of what you may have heard, it is permissible to yell "FIRE!" in a theatre, particularly if the theater is on fire.

A good plan shouldn't be abandoned just because it violates a few natural laws.

There are thre erors in this sentence.

If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to end, they'd be a lot more comfortable.

Poverty is inconvenient, try to avoid it.

Jesus Loves You. Â I Don't. Â Get Out Of My Way.

Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do.

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid - Zedd (Sword of Truth, Book 1)

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade.
E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast, distances at, uhhh, the speed of light.

Killing your opponent(s) is half the battle, surviving is the other half.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on crackers.

Witches Guild parking: Violators will be toad.

The universe, with one trifling exception, consists solely of others.

Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen and Stupidity.

Famous last words: "What red dragon?"[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]If brute force doesn't work, you're not using enough.[/quote:post_uid0]
I think I already covered that one, Gringar.

I used to be schizophrenic but now we're ok.

Do not meddle in the afairs of wizards, for thou art combustible and conduct electricity.

Heard about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac? He lies awake all night wondering if there's a dog.

Oh, I do have a life. I just never use it.

A wise man once said, give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Get a life? Where can I download one?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you get rid of him for the weekend.

Meddle not in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your keyboard.

Keyboard not found. Think F1 to continue.

Error reading file: (A)bort, ®etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer

KlingonDOS: Strike any user to continue

* - tribble . - shaved tribble _ - tribble near a Klingon
__*_*_*) - trib-boggan[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Get a life? Where can I download one?[/quote:post_uid0]

Reminds me of:

A life? What is that? Is it blue? Is it edible? Does it run on Linux?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Give someone a fish, you feed him for one day. Teach him how to fish, and you lose a steady customer. - Ferengi Rule of Acquisition nr. 208 (I think).[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If it's a Rule of Acquisition, wouldn't it be "Sell a man a fish..."?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not officially, but it should be.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Life is short. Eat the cookie.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Why didn't I choose the blue pill?[/color:post_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sorry, I don't take pills from strange men. Good bye.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't eat yellow snow.

Don't eat any pies you find in a barnyard[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When unsure how polite the company is, swear anyway.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A day eating brains is like a day without sunshine - Ancient Illithid Proverb.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A day without eating brains is a day without developing curu/HSE. -- modern Nanid proverb.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Apocalypse soon Coming our way Ground zero at noon Halve a nice day[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't leave brain tumors untreated.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]never feed a co-worker

Edit: (chanting) I got to start page two, I got to start page two(/chanting)

you may now resume your regulary scedualed programing all ready in progress[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't lick the pig.

(Ten points to whoever knows the significance of preceeding phrase.)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]All we have to fear is fear itself and that great red wyrm.

(I don't know. Because it's disgusting?)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There is no need to outrun anything you can outwit.

(It's the name of a kid's show.)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There is no spoon. But that's only because I fed it to the Rust Monster.

(Right. I can't say I know many US/Canadian kid's shows.)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Deny the spoon!

(Neither do I, really. ;))[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with a fake?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When traveling in crocodile country, always take a friend who can't run as fast as you can.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you ever find yourself in the presence of a halfling and a really angry dragon, remember, you don't have to outrun the dragon... You just have to outrun the halfling.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If ever given the choice between being attacked by a cougar or a bear, go for the bear. 'Cos the cougar will eat you. Even without ketchup.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The water's only cold until you get in (or fall in, as the case may be).[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's amusing to make fun of Sa'ar. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, it's [b:post_uid0]very[/b:post_uid0] amusing to make fun of Sa'ar. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You derive way too much sadistic pleasure from that.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you are going to *pretend* to staple your hand to a desk, first remove the staples from the staple gun.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]If you are going to *pretend* to staple your hand to a desk, first remove the staples from the staple gun.[/quote:post_uid0]
Personal experience? Hehe

When the DM smiles, it's too late.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He who laughs last thinks slowest.

[quote:post_uid0]When the DM smiles, it's too late.[/quote:post_uid0]

Nan is discovering this.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]How many cans would a cantrip trip if a cantrip could trip cans?[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The internet is a useful tool for discovering where to send dangerous packages to DMs who irritate you.

[quote:post_uid0]You derive way too much sadistic pleasure from that.[/quote:post_uid0]
Well, yeah. I'm [i:post_uid0]evil[/i:post_uid0], remember? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]PC: "I search for traps..."
DM: (rolls) "You don't find them..."[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.


[quote:post_uid0]The internet is a useful tool for discovering where to send dangerous packages to DMs who irritate you.
[/quote:post_uid0]

Like incriminating photos.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Telus is evil and sluggish.

[quote:post_uid0]Like incriminating photos.[/quote:post_uid0]

I was thinking of explosives... but hey. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Think LG thoughts think LG thoughts think LG thoughts...Think CE thoughts....... aw cra..... *sound of a human exploding* - The last thing to go through a paladin's mind

[quote:post_uid0]I was thinking of explosives... but hey. [/quote:post_uid0]
Not a good idea. Than you can't play d&d anymore.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not explosives that powerful. ;)

Edit: Creepy. I'm nine posts above NAH int he rankings. I never thought I'd see the day when I was wordier than NAH. *shudder*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What, it wouldn't even kill a dm? What do you need explosives for than?

I know. I don't know what I want. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mangle factor, CM, mangle factor. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]But anonymously. I'm really attached to my character.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"As you're traipsing through the dungeon, whoever sent me that package fails their find traps roll and trips over a loose stone, absorbs a hail of darts in their chest, falls into a deep pit lined with stakes at the bottom, gets a cask of acid dumped on them, chokes on a tooth that got knocked out...and then a huge rock the size of a Buick falls on them.

Now, anyone else have any complaints?"[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]DMs are moderately evil.

[quote:post_uid0]Now, anyone else have any complaints?"[/quote:post_uid0]

Yes. What about MY needs? *huff* :p

Heh heh. I always wanted to try this (http://www.upsaid.com/sushiknight), but not with pants.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you have a deity, pray now. It's not polite to arrive unannounced.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][insert reference to Final Frontier here.][/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I am Locutus of the Borg. this tagline is irrelevant.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Random proverb.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What are you doing?[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He who climbs a good tree may receive a boost.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Who's Arcane Mark?"[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He who builds houses out of cards either has too much time on his hands or sucks at carpentry.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]As you reach for the web, a venomous spider appears. Unable to pull your hand away in time, the spider promptly, but politely, bites you. The venom takes effect quickly causing your lips to turn plaid along with your complexion. You become dazed, and in your stupor you fall from the limbs of the tree. Snap! Your head falls off and rolls all over the ground. The instant before you croak, you hear the whoosh of a vacuum being filled by the air surrounding your head. Worse yet, the spider is suing you for damages.


-- an actual quote from the original Adventure game[/quote:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Time flies like an arrow. Â Fruit flies like a banana.


[quote:post_uid0]The internet is a useful tool for discovering where to send dangerous packages to DMs who irritate you.
[/quote:post_uid0]

Like incriminating photos.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]You stole my line! You stole my line! You stole my---


*is mysteriously silenced by an anvil out of nowhere*[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Avoid standing under anvils.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Death is inconvenient. Try to avoid it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that.

"Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the Universe" - A. Einstein (possibly)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If I had known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Nan"]Avoid standing under anvils.[/quote:post_uid0]
Like most things, that reminds me of a Triangle and Robert comic (http://tr.xidus.net/tr349.gif). Â (Context: they've just returned to the incredibly unhealthy Chinese restaurant where they used to work, the Locust Garden, and are finding that it's almost normal now. The thing barking is their pet inverted capital G, which Robert thinks is a dog.)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If You Pass This Point You Will Most Certainly Die. -- sign on birth canal[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Life is a terminal condition.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If Murphy's Law were true, whenever you tried to take a breath, all the air would be on the other side of the room.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Laws spelt backwards is slaw.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Huh?

Never confuse an open mind with one that's vacant.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I tried to keep an open mind, but my brain nearly fell out.

(It's a dish.)[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"My rabbit has a lucky human's foot on its keychain. That doesn't bother me. What DOES bother me is what are those keys for?"[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you had DSL you'd have already laughed at this joke.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That one's confusing. Especially if you do. :D

There is no god. And Murphy is his prophet.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Jesus, save my garden from the RCMP![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"JESUS SAVES! And takes only half damage..."[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If it takes one to know one, then all the people on Earth are identical.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. This made a lot of people unhappy and was generally regarded as a bad idea.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Put all your eggs in one basket ... and [i:post_uid0]watch that basket[/i:post_uid0].

[quote:post_uid0]
Heh heh. I always wanted to try this (http://www.upsaid.com/sushiknight), but not with pants.[/quote:post_uid0]Reminds me of something which happened a couple of years ago to a woman who lives down the peninsula from here:

A favorite toy duck mysteriously vanished from her home. For the next year, at random intervals, she received anonymous envelopes in the mail containing photographs of the duck at scenic locations all over the world. At the end of a year's time, the duck just as mysteriously reappeared at her home.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Cthulhu for President. After all, You already know what voting for the LESSER Evil gets you."[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set.

~The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, tip #21[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]~The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, tip #21[/quote:post_uid0]
That is if you Ever Became An Overlord, right? You're already evil. :p

"Power corrupts, absoute power is kinda neat."[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I will not suffer incompetents in my organisation. And minion, lackey or underling incapable of passing a basic intelligence test will be immediately seconded to the experimental test subject volunteer pool.

- Sa'ar's Evil Overlord Tip #1

Porthoswack is what you do to make Chilliwack.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He who slings mud generally loses ground.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Contentsoftaglinemaysettleduringshipping.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"]That is if you Ever Became An Overlord, right? You're already evil. :p[/quote:post_uid0]
Why thank you. :D

An amusing t-shirt (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/38db/) once said:

01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000100 01110101 01101101 01100010 00101110 (http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php)

Hehehehe. Â :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If I were you I'd dance naked in the middle of the street just to embarrass you.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Another amusing t-shirt once said:

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those who understand binary and those who don't.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or rather,

"There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who can do math, and those who can't."

This was said by my math lecturer. Guess why I did so badly for my exams....[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]bleedin' double post... :muttermumble:[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The one thing this world needs more than anything else is fewer people telling this world what it needs more than anything else.


I can't stand people who are intolerant of other groups of people.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I think all right-thinking people in this country and fed up with being told they're sick and tired of being fed up.

But then again I could be wrong.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ideas wont work unless you do[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He who gets the last laugh didnt get the joke first[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Helpful advice" is neither.

[quote:post_uid0]He who gets the last laugh didnt get the joke first[/quote:post_uid0]

We've done that one already.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never utter the phrase "I know what I'm doing!" when you do not.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm all out of weapons? No problem! I'll just head butt the Illithid in the face![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:hands her Baguette of Thwapping: this should work.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ever have one of those millennia?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]no, but i've had a couple of mochas before.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]what is WRONG with ikonboard today? :sighs:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't mess with Mrs. Murphy. -- Murphy's Real Law[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never forget Rule One.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Reallity? Yeah... I sorta remember that...[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No no no you've got it wrong! What IS reality, anyway? Never heard of it...[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's that strange world everybody keeps telling you to return to.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Any similarity between your reality and mine is entirely coincidental.

Teenage love: The feeling you feel when you feel that the feeling you're feeling is a feeling you've never felt before.

When showing off one's Frisbee or yo-yo skills, one should never precede any trick with anything more predictable than "Watch this!"[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sometimes I wish life had an [ESC] key...[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]User error: press any key to continue or any other key to quit.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's not pinging. It's passed on. This program is no more. It's expired and gone to meet its make-r. This is a late program. It's a stiff... *This is an X program*[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0](Oh, [i:post_uid0]now[/i:post_uid0] you've gone and done it, Nan :O... Â ;))


User Error: Replace user.

Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.

[color=blue:post_uid0]Error saving file! Format drive now? (Y/Y)[/color:post_uid0]

File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) Â Â [i:post_uid0](I think that one should be standard on all computers. I loaded up that very file just yesterday, doesn't the silly bucket of transistors remember it? :mad:)[/i:post_uid0]

Windows VirusScan 1.0 - "Windows found: Remove it? (Y/N)"

Hit any user to continue.

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Runtime Error 6D at 417A:32CF: Incompetent User.

[color=blue:post_uid0]CONGRESS.SYS corrupted... Re-boot Washington D.C? (Y/N)[/color:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]2B || !2B, that is the question.

You know you've been hacking too long when you send your SO notes like: while !(together(you,me)) miss(you);[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That goes for computer programming too. I use to be a computer science major[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]should i be worried? Im about to start a computer programing program an a local votec[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]PROGRAM - A random collection of bugs.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you put a CD in, but it doesn't come out, DO NOT continue to put CD after CD in to try and make it work.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]PASCAL programmers are blind - they do not "C"[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If it weren't for C, we'd be using PASAL, OBOL and +.

WinErr 301a: This error reserved for future mistakes of our programmers.

Illegal Error: You are not allowed to get this error.

25 copies of Minesweeper running. Delete kids? (Y/n)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]C++ -- The language in which only friends can access your private members.

Code: (n.) a means of concealing bugs favored by programmers.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Shin (n): device for finding furniture in the dark.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Broad Sword: Usable by females only.
The Gentlemen's Club: Usable by males only.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If all else fails, use Duct tape[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.

(When all else fails, play dead - motto of Possum Lodge)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
(I think that I think therefor I think that I am.)

That's about all I know of Latin. And that it's incorrect, but it sounds good. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You stole that off Nan (or possible the same person that Nan stole it off).

FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC.

Motto of the Ankh Morpork City Watch.

Speaking of which, where's Pointy?[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Speaking of which, where's Pointy?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, he just lost 2nd place to me in total posts, then Cat just passed for 3rd.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]You stole that off Nan (or possible the same person that Nan stole it off).[/quote:post_uid0]
Actually, I stole it from my brother, who stole it from a friend, who probably stole it from someone else...
I'm sure, eventually, it comes down to one person making it up anyway.

[quote:post_uid0]Well, he just lost 2nd place to me in total posts, then Cat just passed for 3rd.[/quote:post_uid0]
And now, it's your turn to move down a place. :evil grin:


I am Cthulhu of Borg, and you are in some SERIOUS trouble.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When you do pass me, make sure you pass Sa'ar as well[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well... Sa'ar is really fast... Which doesn't mean I won't, :D but it'll take a while.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]In your dreams :P

Nil Illegitimi Carborundum.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]This[/i:post_uid0] dream might just come true. :p

Psychic Convention cancelled -- unforeseen problems.

[quote:post_uid0]Nil Illegitimi Carborundum.[/quote:post_uid0]
You do science AND Latin? :O[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I think, therefore I am. I think.

The Procrastinators Anonymous meeting scheduled for this evening has been postponed until tomorrow.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. Especially if you were expecting a Ruy Lopez. *rimshot*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.

E = mc^2 +_ 3d6[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never confuse your concubines and your porcupines.

[quote:post_uid0]You do science AND Latin?[/quote:post_uid0]

Mock-Latin.

This is about the only genuine Latin I know, and that's because it's my family motto: Justia et Fortituda Invicibilia Sunt.

Apparently it's customary in Latin to capitalise every word.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"No boom today, boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."


Just about sums up my experience with computers. Especially with regards to C programming. :shudders:[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN\DAMMIT\RUN[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:hauls out The Science of Discworld: Ah-ha! Here we have on hand a veritable trove of wisdom.


"The Ancient Principle of WYGIWYGAINGW: What You Get Is What You're Given And It's No Good Whining."[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Anthill Inside.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Does anyone know what 'Sunt Lacrimae Rerum' means? Or even how it is pronounced?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I tried Google, I found Andromeda, I ran.

Lacrimae means tear, the rest I don't know.

EDIT: I found it. It means "there are tears for things" or "tears attend trials"
You can hear how it is pronounced at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sunt[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Veni, Vidi, Velcro (I came, I saw, I stuck around).[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Contrary to popular opinion, God's last name isn't Damn.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Down Here the most evident rule seems to be "There are no rules", apart perhaps the one that can be expressed scientifically as 'Excreta Occurs'.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When stepping on a land mine, the usual procedure is to jump 300 feet in the air and scatter yourself over a large area.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Universtities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully cut and dried.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can attest to that last one.

When you are standing up to your neck in raw sewage, you *do* *not* want someone making waves.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I can attest to that last one.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I'm still in the middle of university, but I'm beginning to feel the truth of it.


'Evolution is overrated.'[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]When you are standing up to your neck in raw sewage, you *do* *not* want someone making waves.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Along similar lines:

"It can be hard to remember, when you're ass-deep in alligators, that what you came out here to do was drain the swamp."

-- Anonymous observation on the tendency of tasks to "have puppies"[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A lie goes 'round the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.[/color:post_uid0]

[Kristina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]...but, fortunately, truth and logic put together make a hard wall to crumble. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]They say that every formula halves the sales of a popular science book. This is rubbish-- if it were true, then [i:post_uid0]The Emperor's New Mind[/i:post_uid0] by Roger Penrose would have sold exactly one-eighth of a copy.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm going to kill them all. That ought to distract them. - Buffy

I didn't come here to fight! //thud// Ooh! Oh right, I did! - Buffy[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Do you not see that if we kill him with the drug in the jug made from the pill in the till that we do not need to use the candle with the 'andle on the gateau for the chateau![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Giles: Grave robbery? That's new. Interesting.
Buffy: I know you meant to say gross and disturbing.
Giles: Yes, yes, yes, of curse. Terrible thing. Must put a stop to it. Damn it.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]From an email I got:

Men are like lava lamps. Fun to look at but not very bright.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I found it. It means "there are tears for things" or "tears attend trials"[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thankyou Catalina, 'There are Tears for Things' makes perfect sense.

*slaps head* Duh, search engine!

Thanks again.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If it's not evil, it's all good.

We now have a divine caster. Thank God![/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oooooh, got me started with the inane Latin phrases! MUST.... RESIST!

Resistence... WANING!

Neutiquam erro. (I am not lost.)

Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! (God! Look at the time! My wife will kill me!)

Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)

Cogito, ergo doleo. (I think, therefore I am depressed.)

Raptus regaliter. (Royally screwed.)

Sona si Latine loqueris. (Honk if you speak Latin.)

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare. (I think some people in togas are plotting against me.)

Noli me vocate, ego te vocabo. (Don't call me, I'll call you.)

Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules. (If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.)

Canis meus id comedit. (My dog ate it.)

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. (I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.)

Re vera, potas bene. (Say, you sure are drinking alot.)

Utinam barbari spatioum proprium tuum invadant! (May barbarians invade your personal space!)

Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant! (May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!)

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! (May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!)

Radix lecti (Couch potato)

Non sum pisces. (I am not a fish.)

Quo signo nata es? (What's your sign?)

Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt. (You know, the Romans invented the art of love.)

Magister Mundi sum! (I am the Master of the Universe)

Fac me cocleario vomere! (Gag me with a spoon!)

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. (I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.)

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? {How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)

Nihili est -- in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui. (That's nothing; in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.)

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est. (Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.)

Vescere bracis meis. (Eat my shorts.)

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! (Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business!)

Fac ut vivas. (Get a life.)

Insula Gilliganis (Gilligan's Island)

Ut si! (As if! )

Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur. (Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.)

Ahhh, that feels better. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ooo, now we're doing quotations in funky languages? :D

[quote:post_uid0]Mnahe afw'ein qiuu;
rh'e hweithnaef
mrht Heis'he ehl'ein qiuu.[/quote:post_uid0]

That ol' Ahaefvthe was a real smart person, eh? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*feints*[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*runs over to Cat to make sure she is ok*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Did I mention I hate languages I don't understand?

Anyone serving in a fleet who is crazy can be relieved, if they ask for it.
Anyone asking to be relieved is not crazy and must be forced to serve.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Habeas testiculos, habeas cardias et cerbellum (One you have their full attention, their hearts and minds will follow)

Quanto canis ille fenester? Â (How much is that doggy in the window?)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Anyone serving in a fleet who is crazy can be relieved, if they ask for it.
Anyone asking to be relieved is not crazy and must be forced to serve.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]That's some catch![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Size 22.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Experience has thought me that interest begets expectation, and expectations begets disappointment so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C equals A, or whatever.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? {How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)
[/quote:post_uid0]


:howls:


TOO FUNNY![/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]Habeas testiculos, habeas cardias et cerbellum (One you have their full attention, their hearts and minds will follow)[/quote:post_uid0]
A somewhat... liberal... translation ;)

The actual translation is somewhat more explicit about how to get their attention and, well...
Let's just say it doesn't work on women :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]A somewhat... liberal... translation [/quote:post_uid0]

I'm a liberal kinda guy...plus there's a semi-official good taste standard around here.

The actual Latin itself is probably grammatically horrible as well.[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I wouldn't know about the grammar, I dropped Latin as soon as I could. Grammar was the main reason, especially what according to my dictionary is called 'cases'. I hate those in every language: Latin, Greek, German, horrible things they are. I'm glad modern English (and Dutch) don't have any of those anymore...

Edit:
By the way, shouldn't other languages also be kept to this 'good taste standard'? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If at first you don't succeed, keep making phone calls.

I have no idea what cases are, but I find the idea of arbitrarily dividing the world into two genders and then conjugating all your words along that system to be maddening. At least French only has two; German has four.

An excessive number of verb tenses in also an annoyance. French has the present, the past, the other past, the future, the future simple, the future complicated, the conditional, the arbitrary, and the unconditional surrender. OK, so I made some of those up (and the surrender joke wasn't meant to refer to France's war record).[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]So, you don't know what cases are, and you're trying to speak Latin? 8|

You're right about French. It sucks. I'm not gonna say anything else about it, because I'm finally done with it. Besides, I wouldn't know much about it anyway. Do you really think I paid attention in French class? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Che sara sara.

Italian: What will be, will be.

From the verb essere, future tense. I hate my Italian class. :crying:[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I have no idea what cases are, [/quote:post_uid0]
They're what you call it if a noun changes depending on it's function in the sentence (subject, object, etc.) Latin has 5 different cases :eyeroll:, German four (I think), and I think Greek also has four. Modern Dutch has none, Old Dutch has a couple, don't know how many.

[quote:post_uid0]but I find the idea of arbitrarily dividing the world into two genders and then conjugating all your words along that system to be maddening. [/quote:post_uid0]
Heh. Dutch has three genders :p
Male, female, and neuter. Male and female share the same article, neuter has another one.

[quote:post_uid0]At least French only has two; German has four.
[/quote:post_uid0]
German has four? Male, female, neuter and?
French is quite annoying, I can never remember which word is which gender (German is hard too, but it's more like Dutch so at least the words make [i:post_uid0]some[/i:post_uid0] sense)

[quote:post_uid0]An excessive number of verb tenses in also an annoyance. Â French has the present, the past, the other past, the future, the future simple, the future complicated, the conditional, the arbitrary, and the unconditional surrender. Â OK, so I made some of those up (and the surrender joke wasn't meant to refer to France's war record).
[/quote:post_uid0]
Latin has about 3+ past tenses, 3+ future tenses, at least one present.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Que sera', sera' in Spanish.



Spanish has present (I do), -ing present :p (I am doing), preterite [past] (I did), past imperfect (I was doing [i:post_uid0]or[/i:post_uid0] I used to do), present perfect (I have memorized what all these tenses are called, but I have suddenly found that their names have hidden themselves away in corners of my mind, or maybe under the stacks of paper), past perfect (I had done), future (I will do), future perfect (I will have done), conditional (If I were to do), subjunctive ([i:post_uid0]a tip-off that the speaker is doubtful about the accuracy of the statement being made[/i:post_uid0]) for past and present and future, command forms (Do this [i:post_uid0]or[/i:post_uid0] Don't do that), plus of course perfect -ing forms (I had been doing).

Or something like that. I may have goofed on the conditional. What's nice about Spanish (other than the 95% phonetic rate) is that you can often omit the subject of the verb because the verb ending will tell you who is doing the verb. Plus you have words like trabajabajabajabajabajamos or whatever that are fun to say. :smile:

Oh, and there are two words for "for".[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Spanish has present (I do), -ing present (I am doing), preterite [past] (I did), past imperfect (I was doing or I used to do), present perfect (I have memorized what all these tenses are called, but I have suddenly found that their names have hidden themselves away in corners of my mind, or maybe under the stacks of paper), past perfect (I had done), future (I will do), future perfect (I will have done), conditional (If I were to do), subjunctive (a tip-off that the speaker is doubtful about the accuracy of the statement being made) for past and present and future, command forms (Do this or Don't do that), plus of course perfect -ing forms (I had been doing).[/quote:post_uid0]

Are you saying English is the most dificult? You have examples for everything. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"]What's nice about Spanish (other than the 95% phonetic rate) is that you can often omit the subject of the verb because the verb ending will tell you who is doing the verb.[/quote:post_uid0]
Actually, I think that's another one of the most annoying things about Latin :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
(I think that I think therefor I think that I am.)

That's about all I know of Latin. And that it's incorrect, but it sounds good. :p[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]For the record, a correct translation would be "cogito me cogitare, ergo cogito me esse."[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Are you saying English is the most dificult?[/quote:post_uid0]

English is one of the most difficult languages for non-speakers to learn. It's a collection of exceptions to rules. Why do I feel we've had this conversation before?

I also find that Dutch people speak better English than the average AOL user (I know I've said that before). If Standback is in anyway typical, this comment also applied to Israelis (although the Israelis are far less homogeneous than the Dutch).

[quote:post_uid0]Plus you have words like trabajabajabajabajabajamos or whatever that are fun to say.[/quote:post_uid0]

Trabajabadoo.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And antidisestablishmentarianism.

I think.

Although, English is good as a trade language, because you can speak it terribly or with a very limited vocabulary and still be more or less understood.

Tonal languages. Now THOSE are hard. *shudder*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]For the record, a correct translation would be "cogito me cogitare, ergo cogito me esse."[/quote:post_uid0]

I gotta remember that.

[quote:post_uid0]English is one of the most difficult languages for non-speakers to learn.[/quote:post_uid0]

Let's see, Chinese, Japanees, Dutch, French (in my opinion anyway)...
One of how many are you aiming for?

[quote:post_uid0]It's a collection of exceptions to rules.[/quote:post_uid0]

I like these 'irregular' verbs like put and cut. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]English is one of the most difficult languages for non-speakers to learn. Â It's a collection of exceptions to rules. Â Why do I feel we've had this conversation before?[/quote:post_uid0]
I can think of a lot of languages I've had more problems with than English (German, French, Latin, Greek, and the rest I didn't even bother to try :p)
English exceptions aren't the exceptions, the 'regular' stuff are the exceptions ;). Also, the exceptions are much easier to learn than the actual rules. I never had any kind of problem with the exceptions, but the rules for the other stuff always confused the hell out of me (Made worse by the school spending about 15 minutes of class on the regular stuff and the rest of the years on the exceptions)
I've always been told that Dutch is one of the hardest languages for non-speakers to learn. We have a lot of rather complicated exceptions and it seems it's also confusing that verbs ending in 'd's aren't an exception (leading to conjugations ending in 'dt' but pronounced 't' )
The fact we changed our spelling a couple of years back might also cause some problems.

[quote:post_uid0]I also find that Dutch people speak better English than the average AOL user (I know I've said that before).[/quote:post_uid0]
It's a sad fact that a lot of Americans can't use their own languange properly, and AOL seems to draw a disproportionate part of it's user base from that group for some reason.
Your quote also reminds me of the fact that in Dutch-language competitions it usually turns out that the Belgians have a better grasp of Dutch than the Dutch :mad:[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I can think of a lot of languages I've had more problems with than English (German, French, Latin, Greek, and the rest I didn't even bother to try :p)[/quote:post_uid0]

Please note that English is way closer to Dutch than any of those languages, except German, which is just plane hard to learn.

[quote:post_uid0]... and it seems it's also confusing that verbs ending in 'd's aren't an exception (leading to conjugations ending in 'dt' but pronounced 't' )[/quote:post_uid0]

Now you're not talking about non-speakers anymore, are you?

[quote:post_uid0]The fact we changed our spelling a couple of years back might also cause some problems.[/quote:post_uid0]

It's supposed to be easier because of that. Of course, it's not. It just brings along more rules to follow.

[quote:post_uid0]Your quote also reminds me of the fact that in Dutch-language competitions it usually turns out that the Belgians have a better grasp of Dutch than the Dutch :mad: [/quote:post_uid0]

Which can make Dutch people quite angry. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][quote:post_uid0]Your quote also reminds me of the fact that in Dutch-language competitions it usually turns out that the Belgians have a better grasp of Dutch than the Dutch :mad: [/quote:post_uid0]

Which can make Dutch people quite angry. :D[/quote:post_uid0]
Hence the ":mad:" ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Back to the words of wisdom...

If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A good friend keeps you form doing something stupid alone.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much.[/quote:post_uid0]
I think I like that one. :D

Assimilation is futile. You will be resisted.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If an army of ten foot rats storms your door it would be best to srruender all you cheese[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]...or to start amputating limbs until they're ordinary four-foot rats.

[quote:post_uid0]I think I like that one.[/quote:post_uid0]

The parallel quote is "You can always tell a Dutchman, but you can't tell him much."[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I do believe I heard that one somewhere, like a few pages back. :p

Willow: By the way, are we hoping to find a body or no body?
Xander: Call me an optimist, but I'm hoping to find a fortune in gold doubloons.
Giles: A body would mean flesh-eating demon, no body would point towards the army of zombies thing. Take your pick, really.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like Spanish.

I hate Chinese.

German sometimes sounds like bad English (Morgan? Oh, Morning!)

Before eating strangely coloured cheese, make sure it is meant to be strangely coloured.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Red meat is good for you.

Blue, fuzzy meat is bad.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]There comes a time to either throw it away or name it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes, this is my truck. No, I won't help you move.

I've heard this quite often today. Anybody care to drive out to Vancouver and help me haul stuff across town?[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Feel the Swayze...[/i:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Arzosah"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I hate Chinese.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I second that. Mind you, I'm ethnic Chinese and I've taken the language for twelve years....[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Dutch/Deutch nightmare gets real! :dead: Everytime we tell an Italian we're Dutch, they think we're Deutch, but somehow they don't associate it with German.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Strangely, my friends and I were having this conversation about the Dutch/Deutch thing yesterday. Hmm.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Clammo, clammatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis! (Five points and a cupcake to whoever figures this out)[/quote:post_uid0]

I suppose I can't take a guess since, well, you told me what it means?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I suppose I can't take a guess since, well, you told me what it means?[/quote:post_uid0]

Something like that.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What does it mean? "A round of applause for glazed tears"? Or--no, wait, I get it. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't get it. :feels stupid:



"What's more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns? A single angry Narn with the key!"[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"What's more dangerous than an angry Narn? A thermonuclear explosion centred on your head (and little else)"

Great Maker, Taya, what the hell is that? Looks like someone's been watching Tron (as if I couldn't tell). It was on TV here this past weekend.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, I'm gonna regret this...

What's Tron?[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I was wondering that my self.

And here's a word of wisdom brought to you by futurama-

Hell hath to fury like the robot army's of a womans scorn.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Tron is an old science fantasy movie that seems to have a cult following, for lack of a better phrase.


Beware the Frisbees of Doom![/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]ALL HAIL THE SPORKS[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Tron is an old science fantasy movie that seems to have a cult following, for lack of a better phrase.
[/quote:post_uid0]

Who're you calling old? That movie's younger than I am (barely). It stars Bruce "Sheridan" Boxleitner and some other quasi-famous guy whose name eludes me right now. It was the first movie to go inside a computer, and it looks incredibly cheesy by today's standards.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, OK. I thought you were going to kill me. Like the reaction I got when i asked what Dune was.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"]Beware the Frisbees of Doom![/quote:post_uid0]
It's the Frisbees of DOOM!, dear... ;)


Arzosah... for more information, go look at the Matrix Reloaded thread in the Sci-fi section. That was the thread that got my interest piqued in this movie in the first place.


Hey, at least you all know what John Sheridan (vaguely) looks like now :D


p.s. Sa'ar... it was Jeff Bridges.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]From last night's Letterman show:

[quote:post_uid0]Top Ten Dumb Guy Explanations For Mars Being Close To Earth
10. Somebody must have left their vacuum cleaner running
9. Damn red planet -- you never could trust the Russkies
8. I want pie
7. Who cares? I'm gonna go shoot rats at the dump
6. Mars? Oh, I thought you said Marv
5. The whole galaxy's coming running for Applebee's honey barbecue rib tips
4. Did you say something about marshmallows?
3. Chewbacca -- HELLLLP!
2. Seriously, you got marshmallows?
1. Earth is being Punk'd[/quote:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't get no. 3. Slow, I know.... :looks tired:


From my Singapore Studies prof: "Specialists know more and more about less and less till they know everything about nothing."[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The thing to remember about Letterman's Top 10 lists is that actually making sense isn't a top priority. I mainly put it there because of #8 -- it seemed somehow appropriate to post it here. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ahh yes. Now I get it. The pie explains EVERYTHING :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I loved the pie reference :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Time flies when you're having pie.



It is better to have pie and burp, than never to have pie at all.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ooh that reminds me of a line from one of my favourite songs:


"It's better to have fallen in love, than never to have fallen at all."

I don't understand most of the song, but I like this line for some strange reason I can't put my finger on.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When we drink, we get buzzed. When we get buzzed, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven! --Brian O'Rourke

If drinking is evil, then why did Jesus turn water to wine?

Which is worse: Ignorance or Apathy? Who knows? Who cares?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

If someone with multiple personality disorder threatens to kill themselves, is it considered suicide or a hostage situation?

Does killing time damage eternity?

Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?

If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

Why do they call it "chili" if it's hot?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Who's cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Why does monosyllable have so many syllables?

Why isn't the word 'phonetically' spelled like it sounds?

If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast on the back of a cat and dropped it?

You know how most packages say "Open here". What should you do if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"]If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
[/quote:post_uid0]

:howls: And here I thought that mortality was the result of all the morons on this planet.

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"]If electricity If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast on the back of a cat and dropped it?[/quote:post_uid0]

They'd hover in equilibrium, never hitting ground, providing the perfect source of stored antigravitaTional energy. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="taya17"]They'd hover in equilibrium, never hitting ground, providing the perfect source of stored antigravitaTional energy. :D[/quote:post_uid0]
Were you trying to say "antigravitaTronal"? :S

And the reason that one line reminds you of anything is because it's a shameless rip-off of Shakespeare. ;)



A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But only if you're serious about adopting the vulture."
  --Jack Handy

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they hit you."
 --Calvin Coolidge[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Absolutely not, NAH... I was actually typing one-handed with a 5-kg genetics textbook in the other and the book accidentally whacked the shift key and I was too lazy to edit it.

More than you needed to know :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That's some high-precision whacking. What kind of genes did you splice into that textbook?

For the record, I'm typing while sitting on the floor with the keyboard gripped between my knees. I would not recommend this.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]More like, what kind of genes did that textbook splice into my hand?

:looks askance at hand:[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]oh no! She's going to turn into a text book mutant!

Why are you sitting on the floor?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]For the record, I'm typing while sitting on the floor with the keyboard gripped between my knees. I would not recommend this.[/quote:post_uid0]
You still don't have a desk? :O Are you ever getting one?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sa'ar... don't they sell little foldable tables in Canada? At all? I mean, you can even double it up as a stool or a redshirt sacrifice board when you're not using it as a table... :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I buy a table every summer. My house in Kelowna is stuffed with tables. I have no desire to buy yet another one (especially since Dad keeps stealing them). I just have no way to get any of them down here, and I'm trying to save money for Ottawa.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Aoh. But you'll hurt your back typing off the floor. And not to mention your wrists, you knees etc. Couldn't you just buy a table and sell it afterwards? Or use it as firewood?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Virent ova! Viret perna! (http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GREEN_EGGS_AND_LATIN?SITE=NJHAC&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]The target audience is "people who took Latin in school and have fond remembrance of it,[/quote:post_uid0]

They'll sell three books, one of them to Zeke.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Figured there were at least a couple of people hereabouts who'd appreciate the idea, at any rate.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, I agree. They sound neat to me, but I long ago discovered that my interests put me in the extreme minority.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Which is why you should take over the world. Since you're in such extreme minority, you can effectively become a dictator :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, believe me, I have plans for world domination. Nan and I do, actually.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And you're not including me in it? Sa'ar! How could you! :crying:[/color:post_uid0]

[pkyyr]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh dear. marital troubles, have we? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You should follow John and Delenn. They dont have marital problems. Death does not do them part[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The position of Empress-Consort is still open (leather corset is optional). Plus your genetics skills would be useful to our Killer Attack Tribble (KAT) breeding program.[/color:post_uid0]