Quotes mostly about things that suck.
Feb. 20th, 2009 06:37 pm"I wrote a similar thing taking apart Fallout 3’s ending, though I didn’t intersperse it with mockery, which is a nice writing device which I will be sure to steal." -- bbob
"Orthodox Judaism on the other hand remains optimistic that their covenant with God is eternal despite numerous calamities, and a Third Temple will be built on the Temple Mount." -- wikipedia
"According to Goren's aide Menahem Hacohen, he had not suggested blowing up the mosque, but had merely stated that 'if, during the course of the war a bomb had fallen on the mosque and it would have –- you know -– disappeared, that would have been a good thing.'" -- wikipedia
"Wishing you a great Christmas and many shooting stars in 2009." -- Mair
"ELOPP, Tom's house, party-time, Saturday 3 Jan. BEWARE OF HOLE." -- Tom
Fighter: "I can kill a guy in one turn."
Cleric: "I can kill a guy in half a turn."
Wizard: "I can kill a guy before my turn."
Bard: "I can get three idiots to kill guys for me."
-- Found on the internet, via tvtropes wiki
"Translations are as women. When they are beautiful, they are not faithful and if they are loyal, the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten." -- French proverb
"Top eighty reasons why lotus notes sucks. [I mean, how many do you need? -- JV]" -- lotusnotessucks.4t.com
"Lotus Notes is indeed the worst thing of any kind ever, pipping genocide at the post because of the 'memo' thing." -– Chris Marshall (Oct 26 at 17:34)
"I hate notes so much I'm voting this comment up, even if it is a duplicate post" -– Aardvark (Oct 26, two hours later.)
"Most fantasy readers go through a phase where they realize that The Lord of the Rings is conservative, reactionary and, by certain very real yardsticks such as, to take Morgan's example, realistic characterization, not very good. It's like figuring out that Narnia is a Christian allegory. You take a deep breath, pick your jaw up from the floor, and decide if you can go on liking the book in spite of these flaws--because it has other qualities that you value, and because a genuinely good work of fiction is one that you can enjoy even if you disagree with the attitudes it expresses. I really don't know who it is that Morgan and the other writers like him think is going to be blown away by their regurgitated criticisms, and I have an unpleasant suspicion that essays like this one are actually written for people who have already decided that they don't like Tolkien, and are looking for ammunition to lob at his fans." -- Abigail Nussbaum
"Orthodox Judaism on the other hand remains optimistic that their covenant with God is eternal despite numerous calamities, and a Third Temple will be built on the Temple Mount." -- wikipedia
"According to Goren's aide Menahem Hacohen, he had not suggested blowing up the mosque, but had merely stated that 'if, during the course of the war a bomb had fallen on the mosque and it would have –- you know -– disappeared, that would have been a good thing.'" -- wikipedia
"Wishing you a great Christmas and many shooting stars in 2009." -- Mair
"ELOPP, Tom's house, party-time, Saturday 3 Jan. BEWARE OF HOLE." -- Tom
Fighter: "I can kill a guy in one turn."
Cleric: "I can kill a guy in half a turn."
Wizard: "I can kill a guy before my turn."
Bard: "I can get three idiots to kill guys for me."
-- Found on the internet, via tvtropes wiki
"Translations are as women. When they are beautiful, they are not faithful and if they are loyal, the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten." -- French proverb
"Top eighty reasons why lotus notes sucks. [I mean, how many do you need? -- JV]" -- lotusnotessucks.4t.com
"Lotus Notes is indeed the worst thing of any kind ever, pipping genocide at the post because of the 'memo' thing." -– Chris Marshall (Oct 26 at 17:34)
"I hate notes so much I'm voting this comment up, even if it is a duplicate post" -– Aardvark (Oct 26, two hours later.)
"Most fantasy readers go through a phase where they realize that The Lord of the Rings is conservative, reactionary and, by certain very real yardsticks such as, to take Morgan's example, realistic characterization, not very good. It's like figuring out that Narnia is a Christian allegory. You take a deep breath, pick your jaw up from the floor, and decide if you can go on liking the book in spite of these flaws--because it has other qualities that you value, and because a genuinely good work of fiction is one that you can enjoy even if you disagree with the attitudes it expresses. I really don't know who it is that Morgan and the other writers like him think is going to be blown away by their regurgitated criticisms, and I have an unpleasant suspicion that essays like this one are actually written for people who have already decided that they don't like Tolkien, and are looking for ammunition to lob at his fans." -- Abigail Nussbaum