Quotations and tidbits

[Redeye]

This thread is for quotations and tidbits.

I'll start:

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the world was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while,
too.
Calvin: That's really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted
it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of
gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Calvin (to Hobbes): The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
Hobbes: Whenever it seems that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner.

[Thor Kaufman]

Heil Hitler

[Dogmeatlives]

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization- Sigmund Freud

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself-Henri de Lubec

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government-Lindberg


So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot-George orwell

[S4ur0n27]

Find love and die.

[vx trauma]

My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...

[Redeye]

2 versions of Ozymandias: (I think it's very appropriate here)


"In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand." The City's gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
—Horace Smith."


" I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818"

Oh, one more:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere;

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely, some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert

As shape with a lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

-William Butler Yeats-"

[popscythe]

Everything tastes better when it's been stark fisted.

[Dogmeatlives]

Everything tastes better when it's been stark fisted.

source? Abe Lincoln?

[fallout ranger]

bugger off ya fuckin dandys

[cazsim83]

Heil Hitler

OMG ban time!

[Manoil]

Everything tastes better when it's been stark fisted.

I can't believe it's not doo-doo butter!

[Wolfman Walt]

You're lucky this is the internet.

[TinyTeeth]

Heil Hitler

[Thor Kaufman]

Heil Hitler

OMG ban time!

That's a historical quote you illiterate troglodyte

[St. Toxic]

Funny how? Funny like a clown? :antimeasure:

[AnneGwish]

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

[St. Toxic]

Here's a good one:

I also saw a giant sausage roll the other day, it was kind of intimidating. Neither object nor man. The place in between, that of a cyborg.

And another good one:

You cannot win the heart of the glacier, nor can you conquer the mind of the moron.

DAC is a glacier full of morons?

[S4ur0n27]

did i actually say this?

[Redeye]

Everything tastes better when it's been stark fisted.

source? Abe Lincoln?

stark fist

Damn that shit is olde.

[Manoil]

WOW.
All I heard from that was fisted, therefore I assumed it was a unique form of fisting that delivered superior taste.

Danny was wrong.