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Wonderful possibilities present themselves. A wherehouse might be a storage place so messy that people can’t find what they are looking for. (Where’s this? Where’s that?) Or it might be a house no visitors can reach because the occupants are incapable of providing simple directions. “You’re looking for the Allen place? Good luck. That’s a wherehouse.” (And yes, it’s important to get the first vowel right.)-Warren Clements

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Traditional

Liberty's Edge

"If I could believe whatever I want, I certainly wouldn't believe what I do. ...I'd be a Jedi."
- L. Aron Nelson

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"If you're using telekinetic power to bend steel, you're doing it the hard way."
- James 'The Amazing' Randi

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"Quit ruining my story with your logic!"
- Rick Castle

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"My geekiness is getting in the way of my nerdiness."
- Patton Oswalt

Link is NSFW


"Kill all the humans."

- Bender

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"Don't touch me motherf~%$er get out."
- Tommy Wiseau


Another article sang the praises of “addiction, subtraction and multiplication.” No wonder some people are obsessed with mathematics.-Warren Clements


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Some Christmas carols with updated lyrics reflecting on the past year, such as:

The first new oil

The coastlines did see

Bubbled up from a well

That went boom for BP.

And to the Gulf

It gave a great scare,

Coating lobsters and seabirds

And fish ev’rywhere.

New oil, new oil, new oil, new oil.

How many beaches can one well despoil?

Then from BP

T. Hayward did say

That the ruddy disaster

Was spoiling his day.

He said he wished

To get his life back.

To no one’s surprise

He came under attack.

Oh hell. Oh hell. Oh hell. Oh hell.

Some people urged that his head plug the well.


The die is cast. - Julius Caesar, about crossing the Rubicon in his bid to take over rule of Rome


My favourite Prime minister of Australia

It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

* 1992 The Redfern Speech, launching International Year of Indigenous Peoples


“Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin; ... censoring writings that offend the powerful is offensive to our deepest values… Your letter shows that, instead, your member banks do their lamentable best to deprecate the work of those outside their cosy club, and indeed to censor it.” - Ross Anderson of Cambridge University, responding to a request by the The UK banking trade association to censor a students masters thesis because it discussed a well known flaw in the chip-and-pin system


"Don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry."


GM: "You see a red dragon*…"

Player: who cut's off the GM mid-sentence "I charge!"

*(Insert name of any monster the party can't handle.)


A Knight without fear or blame who often had to teach his opponents the right way to practice chivalry.
An inscription written by Kaiser Wilhelm II on a wreath he laid on Saladin's Tomb


The substance, she says, was strychnine. You’d have to be really dopey to try that one.-Warren Clements

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“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” -Mark Twain


Martin, the article said, “bears a fair amount of his soul here in an absorbing 11-page memoir on his involvement with Alcoholics Anonymous.” Reader Andrew Vowles comments: “No doubt a heavy load, whether he’s clothed or not.” While Martin probably bared his soul, it is just barely possible that he had sold part of his soul to the Devil and therefore needed to bear only a fair amount of it.-Warren Clements


“I have moved from being curious to being genuinely concerned,”-Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, on China's military modernization

Liberty's Edge

"My dear Vincent, I don't believe anything. I am not a priest. I deal with evidence and probabilities, not beliefs."
- Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast, Cemetery Dance (Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child)


In contrast, according to the Bodleian Library’s 2010 book The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699, Kate in the late 1600s was another name for a “pick-lock,” a crook with a knack for bypassing security systems. A “rum kate” was a clever lock picker.


“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.”

–William Bateson, in The Method and Scope of Genetics, 1908.


James Keegan wrote:

"Uli's a nihilist. He doesn't believe in anything."

"Ah, must be exhausting."

"This aggression will not stand, man!"

One of the funniest movies ever.


“a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”-Thomas Babington Macaulay, the 19th-century British historian on the King James Version of the Bible


“Who can possibly have imagined that ‘ergonomify’ would make a decent transitive verb?”-Norman Harper, of the Aberdeen Press & Journal on new -ify (or iffy) words;

and as a bonus quote:

“We are constantly innovating in the field of fat and lazy. ... We may finally achieve John F. Kennedy’s dream of a chuggable pretzel.”-Stephen Colbert


“that a worker in the ‘constriction industry’ is ‘twice as likely to lose his life as a member of the police force.’ ” Gillespie comments: “Who knew that boas are more dangerous than brawlers?”

The Exchange

I love the voodoo that you do.


In the 1600s, people used “not” as a verb. It meant to clip or cut short, usually referring to hair and beards. A well-shorn man was properly notted. - Also some "not" so glorious history of the printing of the Bible


To pore over a book is to read it closely. To pour over a book is to make the pages wet.


Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789) Edmund Burke


Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Edmund Burke


The Soviets are our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy.-Curtis LeMay, General, US Air Force

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Crimson Jester wrote:
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” -Mark Twain

Oh, that's one of my favorites from Twain, and he's in my top three of cool quotable people (along with William Blake and Oscar Wilde).

Nice one!


It looks like a simple word, derived ultimately from the Greek ethnos, meaning nation or people. Ethnicity refers to a person’s linguistic, cultural, religious or racial origin. By that measure, all humans are ethnic.

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Set wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” -Mark Twain

Oh, that's one of my favorites from Twain, and he's in my top three of cool quotable people (along with William Blake and Oscar Wilde).

Nice one!

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

-Mark Twain

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To a wizard, death is just a metaphysical inconvenience
-Jack Deth, Trancers IV


"I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way for simple bullets. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance! All right, my man; go to your place" - General John Sedgwick, right before he was shot dead


“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases ... over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. … It has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old, established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe.”-Karl Marx


If you looked at the sky last Saturday, you saw the full moon at its perigee. This does not mean it was stuffed with potato, boiled and covered in sour cream. That would be the moon as perogy, which is unlikely, although there is a small crater in the moon’s northwest quadrant called Beer, which goes well with perogies.


If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

Liberty's Edge

God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
'Gott strafe England' and 'God save the King!'
God this, God that, and God the other thing -
'Good God!' said God, 'I've got my work cut out!'
- J.C. Squires

"For [Dr. Rankine] Good, there is a wealth of evidence that unmistakably points to the idea that [Charles] Darwin's illness was a 'distorted expression of the aggression, hate, and resentment felt, at an unconscious level, by Darwin towards his tyrannical father'. These deep and terrible feelings found outward expression in Darwin's touching reverence towards his father and his father's memory, and in his describing his father as the kindest and wisest man he ever knew: clear evidence, if evidence were needed, of how deeply his true inner sentiments had been repressed."
- Peter Medawar

Liberty's Edge

"My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms."
- Rollins

"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you."
- Rollins

"I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to."
- Rollins

"I want to blow these pieces of shit out of the sky when they come over the roof of my apartment. I want to take them to my station and beat the shit out of them. I want Everything. Because I'm lonely. Because I'm insane and sick and can't talk to people. I try and then the black wall rises and hurls me back into my darkened room. I want her to know me. I don't want to know more about sickness and insanity. I want to stop running. I want her to hold me in her arms. I want to think she's an angel. Help me before I turn into still breathing black cancer. Please save me from the Inferno, the Abyss. Save me from myself."
- Rollins


"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Attributed to Winston Churchill

"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis

I said to the man
who stood at the gate of the year,
“Give me a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.”

And he replied,
“Go out into the darkness
and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you
better than the light
and safer than a known way!” - poem by Minnie Louise Haskins; also used by King George VI.


“A pun should be a surprise encounter, evoking a sly smile rather than a groan and flattering the intelligence of a reader who gets the joke. ... The more obvious kind of word play (Rubber Industry Bounces Back) should be tested on a trusted colleague the way mine-shaft air is tested on a canary. When no song ensues, start rewriting.” - New York Times Style guide


"......"


"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." - Jim Lovell, Apollo 13


"The proof of the pudding is in the eating" - Benjamin Franklin and earlier, Don Quixote

Dark Archive

"Considering how much we hated each other, how exactly we ended up in bed together was a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in a warm layer of 'why the hell not?', with just a dash of 'the world's gonna end tomorrow anyway.'"

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