User:121a0012

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See also: my user page on Wikipedia, my user page on Commons

Some quotations I happen to like:

  • Jordan Bassior: Myspace is good if you're looking for dates
    Matthias Warkus: The cutting-edge design of most Myspace profile pages will, as an added benefit, also give you cancer of the retina.
  • You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.
  • This makes for exceedingly confusing maps, especially since unified maps of all the train lines in Tokyo are nigh-impossible to find, and look like the aftermath of someone throwing a bushel of kittens into a yarn factory.
    • Dave Brown, Usenet article <4sd9pe.209.ln@phb.lart.ca> (2007-01-25)
  • [Dragonlance:] It's like someone took 8bit Theatre, then removed all the Story and all the Funny, leaving only distilled stupid.
    • Douglas Henke, Usenet article <x7fy8yghbd.fsf@kharendaen.krall.org> (2007-02-22)
  • If you'd spent your life being called “Gyles Brandreth”, you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called “Bob”.
  • It takes a strong stomach to listen to the full CD-length version of "Requiem for a sleeve bearing".
    • Matt Roberds, Usenet article <OLPWi.1023$mv3.683@newsfe10.phx> (2007-11-02)
  • The ablaut distinction between lie and lay (and the parallel ones sit / set and rise / raise, all of which relate irregular inchoatives referring to body motion with regular derived causatives) is old, and therefore venerable to some. It's sacred morphology, like whom or Meā culpā!, and unnatural only to those who don't find history natural. Thus it becomes a badge also of education and social status in the Anglophone world.
  • The Fox agenda is distinctive not because Fox makes stuff up (though it's good at that) but because Fox builds and emphasizes particular categories, whether the stories in them are true or not. It's the national clearinghouse for stories about random episodic danger to children and pregnant moms. Fox scours the British tabloid press for stories about Muslim efforts to stamp out Barbie, Valentine's Day and the Three Little Pigs so you don't have to! Fox's agenda keeps you up to speed on the War On Christmas, the ACLU's efforts to turn your kids into socialist zombie apostles of sex, drugs and treason, and the doings of various unrepentant terrorists.
  • Science journalism isn't very good, but most of it isn't malificent. Fox journalism, on the other hand, is -- oh, how to put this? -- corrupt: anti-science and pro-stupid, not to mention nativist, pro-disease and a range of other unseemly traits, all in the service of its political masters. You can fix stupid, or at least you can try, but you can't fix evil.
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