What are the great quotes/one-liners you’ve seen lately? (Quoting yourself is not allowed).
My favorite from the last few months goes to Qadgop the Mercotan last December when pitting his Xmas tree: “May the agony of your death be exceeded only by the glory of my countenance”.
I can’t even remember who posted this, but there was a thread in Cafe Society about choosing either Sigourney Weaver or Britney Spears for a girlfriend. Somebody said:
“I’d take Sigourney Weaver. Sooner or later you have to either talk or kill aliens, and Britney would be worthless in either case.”
From [URL=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5001682&highlight=duck+Elton#post5001682]this thread, where Dopers wonder if a certain blond, flirting, 18-year old newbie-girl is, in fact, an hairy Russian guy in disguise.
This is the post that made we want to stay here, specifically the last few lines of the Post Script. I’d quote it here but it is liberally sprinkled with pit language. A bit of background: I was a Ph.D. Graduate student in Astrophysics at the time and had suffered through a radiation processes course in my Master’s degree. It was good to see there was another human being out there that had suffered as much as we did. My hat’s off to you Podkayne.
There’s a closed thread about peoples’ experiences with psychedelic drugs, and Master Wang-Ka wrote a brilliant, hilarious story about having unwittingly drunk some whiskey that was laced with LSD one time at a party. He went into a dark bedroom and lay down on the bed amid a pile of coats. After awhile, he wondered what would happen if somebody came into the room to look for their coat. “Well, we’d fool them by pretending to BE a coat. [snip] How does one impersonate a coat? Well … you cover up your face, for one thing. You lie very still, and loose, and floppy, and … you try to … to think coatlike thoughts.”
The rest of the story is a screamer. I wish I could have written something even approaching its greatness.
In a recent pit thread, a Doper describing a scene at home with his roommates mentioned something along the lines of the “tension level being at Defcon 1”.
Cracked me up, and had the chance to use it in conversation a couple nights ago. I’m meticulously fairminded about other people’s lines, though; I always have to say, “I can’t take credit for that, I heard that on the Dope [or wherever]”.