^ALL HAIL KING NEPTUNE KURT VONNEGUT AND HIS WATER BREATHERS AWESOME QUOTES!

Also, I’m somewhat on the fence concerning semicolons. Sure, they look strange and not as “neat” as real colons, but on the other hand, my first impulse is to use one of them instead of a real colon; I think this signifies my terminal laziness and my inherent affinity for the side of Chaos over the side of Order.

@Beldam

Aren’t colons and semicolons subtly different?

They aren’t “subtly” different; they’re very different. The difference follows: colons indicate that you’ve started saying something that you’d said that you’d say (in this case, the difference between them and semicolons); semicolons separate complete – but related – clauses from each other, as in a list. Semicolons can be replaced with a comma followed by “and”, and, apart from tone, there’s little difference between the two methods.

Quote, because I want to stay on topic:

“We’ve always had problems with scalpers at PAX Prime. But this year, counterfeiters have upped the ante. And so, our own ante must be… upped. We have to up it.”

@ Stellar Jetman I have absolutely no idea why I wrote ‘subtly’ now that I think about it. I think I took on a pacifying tone without really meaning to. But yeah, I’ve always treated ‘:’ as list and ‘;’ as explanation. I use semi-colons a ton in formal writings—I absolutely love explaining myself. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a situation where I haven’t opted out of a colon. Besides, there’s just something wrong about a punctuation sign having the same name as an organ. At least the other one is only half an organ, and that is okay XD

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain

“Mr. Crockett is known for his cunning and quick wit. I have chosen for him the power of the fox. With his power coin, he can operate a small sized morphing grid, which was the prototype of the one you Power Rangers use. He can morph into a fox form, and calI on a hovercycle and a jetpack. His robotic arm has continuous access to the Internet, where the majority of his powers reside.”

@Dan/SJ – Dare I ask what that’s from?

Two days ago I told a 16-year-old boy: “Your handwriting almost rivals mine in its unrepentant hideousness,”

Can anyone tell me – did I really make that up on the spot, or is it some forgotten quote that spontaneously resurfaced from my dark and troubled unconscious?

^Awesome.
:-D

“Good Lord, that’s over a hundred and fifty atmospheres of pressure!”

“How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?”

“Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.”

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it Forever A Koan?”

“The boundlessness of my own stupidity is the most important lesson I have ever learned in my entire life.”

^^I loved how he called the baby Stormageddon throughout the episode.

“How are you holding up? Because I’m a potato.”
-PotatOS

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm…. And I’d like a world, wouldn’t you, in which people actually took time to think about what they were saying?” —Ted Kooser

Link’s broken. :(

^^I need to send that picture to my entire creative writing class. They think semicolons are fancy commas.

Portal 2 has so many awesome quotes.

“I’m Cave Johnson, the man whose goin’ to burn your house down! With the Lemons!”

In regards to people who always question if people are qualified to critisize something they aren’t involved in: “You don’t need to be Alexander Graham Bell to pick up the phone and know that it’s dead.”

“I love you when you’re nice.”

Always what?

Maybe it’s a Zen.

Oh, I get it. Haha, I walked right into that one.

Her eyes were violet, and her long, midnight tresses mirrored a Saharan night.

It’s from a short story I saw in someone’s college ap at work. Ew.

@Inspector – two of my favorite fictional characters have violet eyes, but… in literature/fanfic it’s still an overdone trait that screams Mary Sue.
I think the fact that neither of the aforementioned ladies are human makes it a lot better, though.

About as straight as Bella and Alice when they’re together.

Edit: I did NOT say that.

AHAHAHAhaha. Oh man, that was good. Made my Monday.

Ehh, they usually suck more or less. This one’s okay – I came up with some awesome stuff I want to put in my NaNo, and there’s some good things happening later this week, but I’m thrown back into an enormous homework black hole for the next five days. Blech.

@Inky – True dat. Good luck, my young friend.

@Inspector – Thanks.
YEAAAHHH!!! HOW MANY POINTS INTERNETS DO I RECEIVE?
:-DD

^I honestly didn’t think of it that way.
Good point. :D

....where did the “handing out internets” thing originate anyway?

Also, slightly more on-topic:

“I gotta show Rarity the crown jewels…”

I bet you do, Spike. I bet you do.
;-)

You sure that’s not an exaggaration?

And 4chan was originally an offshoot of somethingawful, so…

Yeah, 4chans, 7chans, Chris Chans, Jackie Chans. We know ‘em all.

@sansa – was it really? Huh. I actually didn’t know that.

I have failed as an addicted Internet person!

That’s quite alright, newfriend. 2003 was a long, long time ago.

Chris Chan

It’s looking more and more likely that he may end up doing some time, unless he bumbles his way out of it by reason of insanity. I hope this doesn’t mark the end of Sonichu for all time.

But hey, you only do two days nohow, right?

glare

>:3

“You want a realistic, down-to-earth show, that’s completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?” – Doctor Who as described by some Simpsons character.

“Four blows they exchanged, each more terrible than the last”.

WHAT.

Yeah, I read the first chapter of Inheritance while walking around at B&N, and I counted at least 5 times my innuendometer went up.

^^:D

I love Friends. At one point, I could quote huge chunks of dialogue from various episodes. I probably still could to some extent.

“Actually it’s Miss Chanadaler Bong.”

Oh who cares, that’s still an awesome line. I love Sir Pratchett so much.

“And what would humans be without love?”

RARE

^I agree with Mr Death there.

Vetinari!

Vetinari is pretty awesome. My favorite characters (who I refuse to rank, because I can’t decide) are Vetinari, Vimes, Death, Susan, Moist von Lipwig, Angua, and Tiffany Aching.

My favorite characters (who I refuse to rank, because I can’t decide) are Vetinari, Vimes, Death, Susan, Moist von Lipwig, Angua, and Tiffany Aching.

Agreed wholeheartedly, but only on the condition that Tiffany is the name of Moist’s hard-as-nails, chain-smoking girlfriend. If not then she, whatever her name is, replaces Tiffany.

The thing that I like about Vetinari is that he pretends to be a tyrant, but he is the best possible ruler for Ankh-Morpork.

WROOONNNGGG! He is a tyrant, and one of my favorite things about his portrayal is the way he’s almost made into a pretty nice, friendly guy, but the books force you to remember the ruthless, deadly vampire beneath every once in a while. It’s fantastically well done. Sometimes tyrants are the best possible rulers.

Fair enough. It is left vague enough that you can really go either way. :)

“Joy, 41, is a Virgo. She is a career secretary and enjoys ice skating and John Grisham novels. She’s pathologically afraid of balloons and hates the
word moist, she thinks it’s pornographic.”

???

Me?

It’s from Dead Like Me and is not related to anything you guys were talking about.