I'm not sure if weird is a strong enough word to describe The Secret Books of Paradys. . .It depends on your opinion of oranges and snowballs.(1)
The Lady
Oh, man, if I read too many words in a row, I get sleepy!
Joey, in Fatal Fury: The Movie.
Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterward.
Lewis Carroll
Hi, everyone. Kindly direct your attention to part of the FFML FAQ concerning flames. You know, the part that says I'll ban you if you do it.
Tybalt, FFML moderator...moderating.
I was a child genius until I was ten; then my mind began to wander.
Unknown(2)
Hope is when you realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train.
Anonymous
I beat him...with only my pinkie...
Ryouga, musing to himself, after defeating Ranma, from Ranma 1/2, Viz translation, Part 7, No. 3
School seems to be a culture all by itself, with its goals and limits, its achievements and disappointment.
Erik Erikson, in Childhood and Society
Any sufficiently cool technology is indistinguishable from religion.
Henry Cobb's sig file
The cinema is a ribbon of dreams.
Orson Welles
"I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch."
Captain Roque Carnicero, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García-Márquez
86% of women who sleep on their stomachs are in love.
From Love in the Afternoon, starring Audrey Hepburn
This must mean that 14% of men who sleep on their stomachs are in love.
K. Kerns, in response to the above.
...Born in the highlands of the Back to the Future ride...
From someone's sig file
Ryouga...you're the only man that I consider to be my rival.
Ranma, to Ryouga, from Ranma 1/2, Viz Translation, Part 7, No. 3
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
"Aureliano, it's raining in Macondo."
"Don't be a jackass, Gerineldo. It's natural for it to be raining in August."
From One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Outside of a dog, an otaku's best friend is his anime. Inside of a dog, there's no place to play the tapes.
From SlayerNext's sig file.
Cogito Ergo Sum(3)
Rene Descartes
If characters appear to be OOC(4), they are supposed to, so the can fit in the story better and writer's demented imagination. ^_^
Jonathan C. Tsoi, introduction to his fanfic, a Ranma/Wheel of Time
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Polonius, in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
This is a civilized discussion group of anime literature, and if you don't behave with decorum and manners I get cranky.
Tybalt, FFML moderator
IMO, a 'best friend' is someone that knows you enough that you don't have to explain yourself to them all the time. (like the (un)pleasant in-jokes, etc.; yes, my definition of 'best friend' is rather broad.) It's the kind of relationship where you could bash each other back and forth and still not care because you know your friend (and your friend you) well enough.
Razorclaw X, after an assertion by G. Kleppe that the Ukyou-Ranma friendship is often overblown, on the FFML.
"The best friend a person has is one who has just died."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
A best friend lets you be yourself and forgives you for it.
M. Akin
¡Cuidado!
Sra. Owens
This above all, to thine own self be true.
Polonius, to his son Laertes, in Shakespeare's Hamlet
The legendary Tatewaki Kuno _soliloquizes_. He does _not_ babble!
Kuno, in 8 Days a Week by Nigel M.
Patrick: Mama always said don't call a child bad. You call 'em bad, they'll be bad.
M. Montague: You're angelically challenged.
Upon hearing a student called "bad."
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
Roger C. Anderson
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter
Pray you never face a good man. He'll kill you with hardly a word.
From Pratchett's Men at Arms
Ooh, Isamu's got a cute butt.
Nabiki, 8 Days a Week by Nigel M(5).
Jane: Women fancy admiration means more that it does.
Elizabeth: And men take care that they should.
From Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
She's a real looker when she isn't falling on her face all the time.
Darien, in DiC's Sailor Moon(6)
"Give me a brain! I'm gonna be stressed!"
A mad lib from Matilda by Ronald Dahl(7)
I was born a dreamer, I will die a dreamer, and in between I will have seen a glimpse of eternity.
"A great teenage poet." (8)
You could almost say it's a reverse-harem with a bunch of good-looking guys surrounding just one girl.
Animerica, describing Fushigi Yuugi, in an interview with Yu Watase, FY's creator.(9)
What is it with uniforms? Is it because it's one zip and it's off?
A. Kleinfeldt, wondering about the supposed female fascination with "men in uniform."(10)
You don't understand. You're talking to a person whose mouth is constantly running. You don't interrupt me, I just keep going.
N. Bullock, when her friend apologized for interrupting her.
"I shall have my revenge!!!" Kuno yelled, thunder and lightning punctuating his proclamation.
"One of these days, my brother," Kodachi said, glancing outside at the sunny weather, "You _must_ show me how you do that."
"Do what?"
8 Days a Week by Nigel M.
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people. (Well, unless you hit them really hard with the gun or something, but I think, considering how often that happens, and how easy the alternative is, it's safe to generalize that it's really the bullets.) So, we should outlaw bullets. Guns are fine. Then again, it isn't really the _bullets_ themselves, is it? It's the kinetic energy from them that drives them through... we should make kinetic energy illegal. Hmm, but kinetic energy is based on the laws of physics...
Save Lives! Outlaw Physics!
Tozetre, Avatar of the Penguins(11)
My hair is purple. I wear mirror shades. Am I cool or what?
The Eternal Lost Lurker, self description(12)
A bare bodkin does not quietus make.(13)
Hamlet, from, well, Hamlet, by Shakespeare
You, sir have seen 'deep throat' one too many times!
(John snaps his fingers and two bulky men come out with a straightjacket...)
John Felix, in response to a Final Fantasy 7 fanfic, on the FFML
Heh...I ain't a sir. ^_^
Sailor Solathei, in response to the above(14)
And a satisfied virgin is a virgin no longer.
From Are You Being Served, an old (80s) British comedy
"Yes, ma'am, what can I do you for? I mean...what can I do for you?"
B. Lewis
Oh she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I caught her, and I held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, hey?
Mommy Fortuna, in the Last Unicorn
"Everyone says their vision of the future, except when they're lying, and then they say someone else's vision of the future."
Anonymous.
"Daddy, why are there boys?"
Little girl's voice, on a video of science and art.
Oh, Lyonesse(15), Lyonesse,
Where hath thee gone to?
From Lyonesse, a poem.
Dan, you don't have the right body parts to be in here. They're pierced, but...no.
M. Harris, music teacher, to a male student sitting with a Women's Chorus, whose nipples are pierced(16).
A manga is either a Japanese comic book, or a Spanish sleeve, but I dare say there are some who use them both the same.
Alandra
Inscription on a dog collar:
I am His Highness's dog at Kew,
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Alexander Pope
Ryouga: "I swear I'll destroy your happiness, Ranma! Now and forever I shall be avenged!"
Ranma: "How many times do I have to tell you, I have no happiness!"
Anime Hospital, Episode 2: Ill-Lum-innate-shuns by Joseph Morreale
A: Do you know what the id is, Minty?
M: The id is the superego.
A: BWAHAHAHAHAH!
Conversation between two students.
These years have shown me that you can take the dream out of the dreamer, but not that which makes them dream.
Unknown
"I'll tell you something. I've come to the point where I can't think anymore."
B. Miller, IB student.
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Joan Rivers
Deep in outer space, millions of Zentraedi cruisers, Robotech Master warships, and Invid vessels slowly approached the Earth. Aboard the flagship, the leaders from all three fleets were holding a meeting in the utmost secrecy. Because this is a spoof of Robotech, however, we get to eavesdrop on the bad guys anyway.
Anime Hospital, Episode 3: Basic Macek by Joseph Morreale
"His senior year was the toughest 3 years he ever spent."
Unknown.
I can never regret. I can feel sorry, but it's not the same thing.
The Unicorn, in The Last Unicorn
"...that's why Tybalt(17) is here. To maintain a certain level of sanity amongst this group of egomaniacal writers. ^_^."
Ed Becerra, mentioning the FFML moderator, while speaking of AdFics(18)
If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies.
Helen Castle
Whoever says that money can't buy you happiness doesn't know where to shop.
Telegraph Magazine
No Loytering.
No Loitering.
No Hanging Out.
Sign in front of Eddie C's Pub.
We hate Animes
What's with these guys anyways?
Tiny mouths and hubcap eyes...
From the beginning of the opening song of Anime Hospital by Joseph Morreale
Time wasting is a pleasurable exercise.
A. Henderson
The Number One Way You Know You've Been On the Internet Too Long:
When you wonder where the back button is on your word processor.
Unknown
Wow! This is absolutely incredible. You definitely display your knowledge of the components of English. You bring up points that I never thought about.
N. Bullock, upon reading an English paper
The paper is functional in making its argument and does it well. I congratulate you.
T. Rodriguez, upon reading the same English paper.
I have always had a strict policy against worshiping two-dimensional fictional characters. However, if I were to undertake such worship...
Richard Lawson, from The Right Side of the Ledger, posted at CoN(19)
Akane : Baka, I _asked_ you last night if I could wash before you this morning, and YOU said OK !
Ranma : And _you_ thought I was actually listening to a single word you were saying ?
From A New Face, by Toby Milrose (Bauxite)
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas
Photographs are our way of fastening time down.
Mrs. Standiford
"Is that what you call THINKING?!"
Ryouga, to Ranma, in Ranma 1/2, Viz translation, Part 7, No. 4
Mrs. S.: Ryan, what do you think about Barbie?
Ryan: I don't.
Trying to understand stereotypes in English class.
Never mention a gun unless you're going to use it.
An old writer's adage
A civilization that sets small value on human life naturally sets less on money, the fruit of human life...
J. Ingram Bryan, in The Civilization of Japan, describing Japan's feudal era.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
From Mending Wall, by Frost
Hello, everyone, it's good to see all our seniors back today.
S. Welker, assistant principal, on the day after senior skip day
It wasn't every day that a glowing martial artist ran down the streets yelling for pantyhose.
BlackRaven, in For Love of Money, part of Sugar and (Sp) Ice
A. Thorne: Hurry up!? No, you did not say something to me in command form.
Student: Is that familiar or formal?(20)
When told to hurry up [get off the bus]
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
From The Princess Bride, a movie based on a book.
Hui, we're in America. We don't arbitrarily decide to take the life of an innocent bubble.
J. Gregory, when Hui popped a soap bubble in Physics class.
"Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage."
Gaspode, in Pratchett's Men at Arms
Bagpipes! Run for your lives!
SKJAM!, in a MSTing of Onna:Red Side, written by Lurker.
" 'Desperation strike,' my steely buttocks!"(21)
Ryouga, to Ranma, in Ranma 1/2, Viz translation, Part 7, No. 4
Mr. B. is never going to grow up.
J. Wright, about a high school Physics teacher who as an assortment of little toys on his desk
"Your son have very bad misfortune to fall in Spring of Drowned Senior Babe..."
The Jusenkyo Guide, in a spamfic by James Champagne, in response to a challenge(22).
"Violence is only for those who've run out of good ideas."
Doug, from Doug's First Movie
"A man's right to swing his fist ends at the tip of another man's nose."
Gainesville City Commissioner Candidate
"Why is that? You're a grown woman, and you can't lie."
Character, to his wife, on "Keeping Up Appearances"
Mr. B.: Truth, does Will remember Tuesday?
Truth: Do you remember Tuesday, Will?
Will: Yeah!
Truth: He remembers.
Trying to get students to remember previously learned topics(23)
If something happens that Rumiko Takahashi would choke on her sake to see, 2 drinks.
The Ranma Fan Fiction Drinking Game, V 2.0, edited by Sean Gaffney
This is our fight.
Fuu, in Magic Knight Rayearth, Mixxzine Issue 1-6
Nobody really cares whether a star is right side up or upside down, they look the same.
Mr. B., explaining that telescopes show an inverted image.
Crap, I'm being attacked by Abu on a rug!
A. Davis, when a small Disney toy hit him
If it's one of the best fanfics you've ever read, chug
If it's one of the worst fanfics you've ever read, chug
Hell, just chug at the end for the hell of it. You're plastered
by now anyway...
End of The Ranma Fan Fiction Drinking Game, V 2.0, edited by Sean Gaffney
Can we go burn stuff?
T. Everett, during a lesson on lenses
If Jenica tries to get into a wreck, she'd probably miss.
J. Gregory, commenting on a fellow student's alleged bad driving
Ryouga: ...Meaning I'll never _ever_ be able to let Akane see MY STOMACH!
Ranma: Oh. Right. So tell me why she'd want to see your stupid stomach, anyway?!
Ranma 1/2, Viz translation, Part 7, No. 4
Boys are so dumb.
J. Upshaw, after her male classmates eagerly tried to shock themselves, in a lesson on electricity
Watch your feet, for they tread on clouds.
Anonymous
Toothache.
Suggested replacement for Tatewaki, by the Corel WordPerfect Spell Checker.
Fall away. . .
Anonymous
Bad sinks, the future floats.
Darwin, the dolphin in Seaquest: DSV
Come back to me, fanfic! You can have your old room back, I promise.
Bridget Wilde, on the FFML, looking for a fanfic of hers
Everything causes cancer, just live happy.
H. Xue, upon being warned of a tasty, but possibly cancer causing food(24).
"How did I get to be so GOOD?"
Ranma, to himself, in Ranma 1/2, Viz translation, Part 7, No. 4
If I hear you calling for help, I think I'll get someone else.
K. Thomas to N. Bullock, who asserted that she was the type to pull someone else down with her.
Woman: Hello?
R. S.: May I speak to Sashi?
Woman: She's sleeping right now [it's six o'clock in the evening], you can see her tomorrow in kindergarten.
R.S.: I think I have the wrong number.
Recounted by R. Stafford, then sixteen, trying to call classmate Sashi.
"There's a book on my desk, which distresses me."
B. Lewis, on finding an AP student's guide on his desk in English
class
.
In fantasy, there's always the belief that you can overcome whatever obstacles there are.
Robert Jordan
In 1992 a psychiatrist argued that happiness was a psychological disorder.
From Pop-Up Video, Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy
meatball (n): a small ball of often spiced ground or chopped up meat
head (n):
1. The uppermost or forwardmost bodily extremity, containing the brain, the principal nerve centers, and the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
2. Mind, intellect, or intelligence.
3. Calmness : self-control.
4. One in charge of something : leader.
5. Slang. One who uses drugs habitually
meatball head (n): 1) Tskino Usagi; 2) Serena
The first two definitions come from a dictionary(25), the last is just common knowledge. ^_^
"English is not knowledge. English is dogma."
S. Huey
Ranma: You gotta be kidding me! You mean I'll change into a girl whenever I get wet?!? I'll be the laughing stock of the school!
P-chan: You're right, this calls for drastic action. There's only one way to avoid public humiliation.
Ranma: Quick, tell me!
P-chan: [After taking a moment to think it over.] Quit the swim club!
From Bishojo Senshi Sailor Ranma, Episode 1: Why is that pig talking to me?, by Stephen Tsai
I want to ask Asuka why he created a robot that can kick ass and raise kids.
Julian, in Armitage III
"He made you too!"
"Yeah, but I can't get preganant."
Armitage and Julian, in Armitage III (see above)
"I am Tatewaki Kunou, the blue thunder of Furinken High."
"And I'm Ranma Saotome of the Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts."
"The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to my ear."(26)
From Tales of Ranma and Nabiki, Chapter 1, by Jeff Rutsch
> You people all need a cranial enama.
(whips out large plunger) I'm game. You first.
(shooka-thub, shooka-thub, shooka-thub POP!)
Oooh, neat! Squishy! (knead knead knead)
just like plasticine! Look! I made an ashtray!
(proudly shows ashtray to ML) Next, a shoe-polish
box!
Tozetre, Avatar of the Penguins, in response to the first line, on the FFML
Mina: You've got to stop reading so many romance novels.
Lita: Look who's talking! You think the paperboy likes you just because he rides by your front door every morning.
From DiC's version of Sailor Moon
Only a fool derides the search for knowledge, no matter how petty the knowledge may seem to be.
Mark Doherty, on the FFML.
Nanami: [rolling eyes] Boys. Always into such violence. Calm down.
Andrew Huang, in a MST of Children of Jenova by Sailor Solathei
"Do you know something? I think I quite enjoy being a nuisance to the church."
Father Oscar, in The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Akane: "Ranma, you don't like Nabiki, do you?"
Ranma: "I don't dislike her."(27)
From Tales of Ranma and Nabiki, Chapter 1, by Jeff Rutsch
[Editor Note: Someone has just commented on how Kasumi-type people always seem to win, because you just can't attack someone like that]
Just as confirmation, my wife took second place in the first East Coast Illuminati: New World Order tournament with a similar strategy... Dressed like a film noir Kodachi, acted like Kasumi, let everyone kill each other off while they stared at her cleavage, and then trounced the one who was left...
So yes, it does happen... (105)
Bob Schroeck, on the FFML, during some sort of discussion on Wargames.
Jadzia Dax: Don't worry, I have a light touch.
Julian Bashir: Not according to Worf...
From Deep Space 9(28)
"If humans don't want us, then why did they create us?"
Naomi Armitage(29), from Arimtage III(30)
"No roses today, Kuno-chan?" [asked Nabiki.]
"Unfortunately no. Some vile person by the name of Mamoru has cornered the Tokyo rose market."
From Ranma .05 Chapter 2
"...she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything."
From Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.
"Nice ass."
T. Rodriguez, to an orc, on an RPG(31), in a distraction attempt.
<The editor would like to point out that there is no c*b*l. There has never been a c*b*l. There will never be a c*b*l. You're fooling yourself if you think there's a c*b*l. There is no c*b*l. There *is* *NO* ***C*B*L***!!>
Sean Gaffney, in The Ranma Fan Fiction Drinking Game
Jupiter! Even if you beat an enemy, you still have studying to do!
Ami, reminding all of us that even if you're the saviors of the world, you still have to do your homework.(32)
"You know as well as me, there's no up, just everywhere the same."
Unknown(33), from Forever Knight
"...all I know about people is that they remember, they're afraid, and they die."
Father Ferro, in The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
> "Is... is there anyone else that would challenge Mousse his claim?" Though she asked the
> general populace, everyone knew that the question was directed to Ranma. (34)
Hiroshi: We will!
Daisuke: Yeah! Except we're no good at fighting, so instead we hereby challenge Mousse to a game of tiddly-winks!
Part of Gary Kleppe's response to Donny Cheung's R 1/2 fic, Fickleness.
Unleash awesome Protein Analytical Power!
From an ad, by Finnigan
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From: The Doorway to Makoto's Anime Fanfiction Room
"Am I done yet?"
Child in McDonald's, to her mother, while having a nosebleed
One size fits most.
From tag on an Amanda Smith wrap
Personally, I think Cologne looks like a giant bug ^_^
Ari-chan, on the Church of Ryouga Mailing List, about a character from Ranma 1/2
"Through it all we've stuck together. Maybe that's all the magic there ever really was. The magic of hopes and dreams, fairytales and friends. I believe."
Unkown
"You made Akane whose daughter?!?!"
"Genma's."
"Has she hit you with her mallet yet?"
"Several times, actually."
From Jim Lazar's sig file.
'My man has THREE FIANCEES!'
"Next time on Jerry Springer, we'll meet men and the many women who love them! Meet Ranma Saotome, who was accidentally engaged to several women across the world... and Ataru Moroboshi, who is in love with several women across the GALAXY!"
(CROWD : "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!")
...of course, they'd probably have to get A-ko or a Gundam or something to handle the inevitable fights and get the fiancees back in their chairs...
Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne, offering a fanfic idea to the FFML
Anime is life and death, the rest is just details.
From SlayerNext's sig file.
"Well, he's gotta be made of chocolate."
G. Ganeesh, describing the perfect man.
"There is an art in lighting a fire. We have liberal arts, and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts."
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The universe is a very large place and I am just one person. When I die, I will not be missed.
From SlayerNext's sig file.
Great. "Ranma... Is That You?" meets "Lies" and "Sunrise" in a blender, just before someone hits puree.
Nicholas Leifker, about an "Evil, Evil, Evil Fic Idea"
Do girls actually read lemons?(35)
Jeffrey "Oneshot" Wong, after a request for female prereaders for a lemon(36) fanfic(37)
No, I haven't seen a single episode of Tenchi, just the first movie [dubbed] but have you watched Megazone 23? Thank you.
Nightman, in parenthesis of a reply to a fic idea.
The three things you can count on in life:
1. Someone will be offended by your words.
2. Someone will be offended by your actions.
3. Someone will be offended by your existence.
From The Eternal Lost Lurker's sig file.
"Personal isn't the same as important."
Corporal Carrot, in Pratchett's Men at Arms
-You mean we're not living in an anime world?
-Nope. Sorry.
-Darn it, I guess I'll have to cancel my date with Mako-chan then.
-@_@;;
From Turtyl's sig file.
"So long as the irresponsible continue to explore the unknown, we need never fear."
Unknown
The fun part is, however, not in the destination, but in the *how * you get to that destination.
Brian Yaple(38), in the author notes of Where Does My Heart Beat Now? Part 1
People who play with woman's heart go very bad place.
Shampoo, from Ranma 1/2.
You think over-descriptiveness is a *good thing*? Have you ever read a Tom Clancy novel?
Shakudo, on the FFML
"I think it all breaks down to three topics: politics, economics, and social-ics."
Dan George, on the results of the Mexican revolution.
Every assignment here is optional...so is the grade.
Dr. Smith.
It is not wise to piss a woman off when she has access to certain areas...
Ataru, as part of the MSTing cast of a Mononoko Hime lemon fic, [msted] by Catbert254
What's me having a baby have ta do with him not putting his trousers down?!
Mrs. Slokum, on Are You Being Served?
Ukyo is kind of boring actually without her obsessions or ulterior motives. Perhaps you should give her some.
David Johnston, about J. Biles' fanfic Nine Princes in Anime
"Tell me, for example, would you deflower a virgin?"
"Excuse me, is that not the ambition of most young gentlemen?"
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I have no problems with reality, I ignore it, and it ignores me. We're quite happy with the arrangement, actually.
From Matthew Lewis's sig file
"The carnival comes and goes. If you wait for a while, it'll always come back to you."
Ryoko
No offense, but calling Ranma gay is idiocy. Homosexuality requires a fixed gender. Technically, under normal circumstances, Ranma's gay every time he goes out into the rain.
Nick Leifker, on "What if Ranma were gay?"
"Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get."
Albert, Pratchett's Hogfather.
"The secret to understanding women is that they don't actually need men."
Ares, in Hercules: the Legendary Journeys.
Gentlemen in the audience, if the women around you start exchanging looks but not words, you know you're in trouble.
From Surreal World, Season 1, Part IV: Men at Work, by RpM
We'd all kill, its just the circumstances that vary.
Lawyer, on The Practice.
"Civilization does not create War, it is War that creates Civilization..."
Wings of Honneamise(39)
"No one's a virgin, cuz life screws us all."
Unknown.
"Game over, pal. Remember to save. Sweet dreams."
Shermie, KOF(40) '98(41)
"By thinking of things, you could understand them."
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"It seems that all of the lesser villains and lackeys in any story are never very bright, doesn't it?"
Philip Hacker
"This is usually how our heroes survived to the end of the game :)"
John Biles
"You say that to ME? You stand there in that pretty dress and say that to ME? You? You prattle on about changing the world? Could you find the courage to accept it? To know what _must_ be done and do it, whatever the cost? Is there one human anywhere who knows what duty means?
"I said you must remember...for us, time is only a place. It's all spread out. There is what is, and what will be. If you change that, you carry the responsibility for the change. And that is too heavy to bear."
Death, in Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
"How could he _talk_ like that? Play around with people's lives, and then talk about duty?"
Susan, pondering her grandfather's words, in Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
"God's a bitch and so are we."
Unknown
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
"Now...the important thing, the _really_ important thing is...what're we going to call ourselves?"
Crash, in Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
"Kissing didn't become important until the later years, and now its all I do."
Actor who plays Eric Matthews on Boy Meets World
I think all they wanted was an explanation. Logic be damned.
Chan Wei Lik, in a comment on RpM's Mortal Fates 2, on the FFML.
Cadette Mars: Look, Serena! I got my 'Mars Fire Ignite' Badge today!
Cadette Moon: Well I've had my 'Moon Tiara Magic' Badge for a month, so there!
[A tongue war ensues...]
Pi, responding to a facetious comment that the Sailor Scouts were girl scouts, on the FFML
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
Czech proverb
No clothes, no socks, no hair brush...my god, I'm not a spinister, I'm a bachelor!
Me.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
"Dere's four people in this room, and only three of 'em's talking."
Cliff, in Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
"Men are like chocolate bars. Sweet, smooth, and head straight for your hips."
Anonymous
"...unless you're Gabriel Garcia-Marquez who can write a whole lot of words and not say very much."
Unknown.
"Just when you escape, you have yourself to fear..."
Tori Amos
"And here, sir, here is your intelligence line, I'm afraid it's a bit short."
Palm reader, to a customer at the 1998 Madrigal Dinners
NEXT EPISODE:
It's Urd time. Nuff said.
Surreal World, Season 1, Part IV: Men at Work, by RpM
Minta, you've gone psycho, control yourself!
H. Xue, to M. Akin, after watching her bake cookies.
It's not how you finish that matters. It's how you get there."
Buddy, in Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
The following changes have been made to the game since the reference manual was printed:
Page 39: Self Destruct. This is no longer a bluff tactic. Selecting this option will actually cause the Enterprise to self-destruct.
From the ST: NG "A Final Unity" reference manual.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
From Terry Pratchett's Hogfather.
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on it's face and the egg is frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg mutters, to no-one in particular, "Well, I guess we answered THAT question..."
Unknown.
Created: April 4, 1998
Last Updated: January 11, 2000
Endnotes
1. You'd have to read the books to understand.
2. I found this in a feminist calendar. Some people get it, some don't.
3. Latin for "I think, therefore I am."
4. OOC: Out Of Character. A term frequently used on the FFML, as authors often try to keep true to the original character.
5. Isamu is the new, cute, rich guy in town.
6. From the episode where Peggy, an artist, uses Darien and Serena as models. I hadn't seen an SM episode so funny since Darien was on a children's choo-choo train at a theme park.
7. Mad libs are where you take out some words, then, given the parts of speech, fill other words with out knowing the rest of the passage. Ex. Original sentence: I'm really tired(state of being verb)-->I'm really ___--->I'm really disorientated.
8. From the bottom of several Anne Packrat fanfics.
9. Volume 6, No. 1
10. He said this, however, in a place dominated by females, who, shocked, roundly denounced him, and this statement. Veracity does not overcome insult.
11. From a discussion of BGC self-inserts on the FFML, March 8, 1998
12. From his sig file.
13. Translations: Death does not mean peace. Refers to the Ghost, Hamlet's father.
14. This reply was not actually sent to the list, but Felix's reply to it was. Just another example of how you have to be careful about gender around here.
15. Lyonesse is one of the famed Elder Isles, rumored to have been off the coast of Britain.
16. How do I feel about that? So long as he keeps his shirt on, what do I care?
17. It is unfortunate that in the summer of 1999, Tybalt resigned from his (or her, according to some schools of thought) difficult post as moderator of FFML. Personally, I can't see any advantages to the job, so I can understand why he left.
18. The AdFics was an enormous craze, started by none other than The Eternal Lost Lurker, who, I think, also popularized "challenges." One particular person actually sent more than 17. Several offered to archive them, and Ed was one of them. Tybalt, noticing the trend in the FFML, eventually put a deadline, after which, any one who posted said fic would be tempbanned.
19. Because of the nature of this, it was an intro message to the CoN, you wouldn't find it on his own fic page. I think.
20. Both students here studied Spanish, in which there are formal, and familiar, command conjugations of verbs.
21. *snicker* The, uh, "translation" occasionally leaves something to be desired. *giggle*
22. You ready? The challenge was to use the line "Oh, God! You're a hottie!" and made sure that the one saying wasn't drunk, or otherwise under the influence. Here, Genma said it.
23. I swear, this actually happened!
24. Ah, the ignorance of youth.
25. Websters II New Riverside Dictionary Copyright © 1984 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.
26. That's my Kuno! Making his position clear, every time.
27. That's my Ranma! Playing it safe, every time.
28. From Andrew Petalik's sig file.
29. In this movie, there are several robots, who are very nearly human, called seconds. But there are also a secret group of highly sophisticated robots, cyborgs perhaps, called thirds. Arimitage is one of them. However, humans do not accept the idea of such robots easily, because it frightens them. Most humans, anyway. Which leads to Naomi's heart-wrenching quote.
30. From Andy Skuse's sig file.
31. I am so ashamed...none of my female friends knew what this meant. RPG=Role Playing Game.
32. From the Alex Grove trans., Sailor Moon, Vol. 13: Exam Battle 1
33. My original notation says that this was said by "Groc", or maybe "Gvoc", but I have no recollection of this character on the show.
34. Excerpt from the fanfic, Fickleness.
35. Yes, everyone else blinked too. The so-called "Queen of Lemons" was particularly struck by this question...
36. It has come to my attention that not everyone knows what a lemon is. This is a good thing.
37. Let me put it to you this way. The majority of the Romance genre (you know, those pink books with sexy guys and half-naked women?), is written by women, for women. Mr. Wong obviously never passes through that aisle in the book store.
38. Well, I think he wrote it. One is never really sure.
39. From Bombadil Goh's sig file.
40. KOF, I believe, refers to King of Fighters, a video game.
41. From Bombadil Goh's sig file.