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Quote Thread
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:04 am
by kalan_vod
Post a funny quote or interesting quote.
In Australia we say things like 'Flavour' and 'Colour'
You can try to guess who said that
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:34 am
by Leumas
if it is a movie my guess is Crocodile Dundee. Other wise... NO CLUE
*it must be either an australian or english person, because they still spell Color="Colour". *If you will America changed it, but it still holds.
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:38 am
by DigiTan
Yakov Smirnoff!
"In America, you can always find a party; in Soviet Union, the party finds you!"
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 6:05 am
by kalan_vod
It was tr1p1ea earlier on tcpa, idk where he got it but we were talking about xLIBs' readme
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"In Russia car drives you!"
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 8:52 am
by tr1p1ea
Where did i get what?
That is a true statement ... we really do spell those words as such.
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 9:18 am
by Jim e
One of my favorite back & forths
coelurus wrote:"Cool stuff", that covers it all I guess
And if Spencer makes you others look bad, you know what you got to do... Spencer's not the one to blame
CoBB wrote:I've been saying the same thing for ages...
coelurus wrote:Thought I'd help you spread the word, so far not much has changed
CoBB wrote:Face it, no-one takes us seriously here.
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 10:45 am
by benryves
Leumas wrote:*it must be either an australian or english person, because they still spell Color="Colour". *If you will America changed it, but it still holds.
American English is specific to America, unsurprisingly. Which is why the simplified spellings of words (sulfur, color, tire) only apply there, and everyone else uses the regular English spellings.
As for a quote;
Terry Pratchett wrote:"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
...something I feel rather strongly about
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:17 pm
by KevinJB
Terry Pratchet == Gold.
"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em."
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:22 pm
by Timendus
One of my friends came up with a little program that gives random quotes. I didn't even run the program, but ripped the database and put it online
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
TO DO IS TO BE - Socrates
TO BE IS TO DO - Sartre
DO BE DO BE DO - Sinatra
http://timendus.student.utwente.nl/main/cookie/
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:23 pm
by coelurus
Woah, never thought I'd appear in a quote
Current mathematics professor from russia in the Fourier analysis lectures I go to:
Sometimes, a mathematics professor says 'a', but writes 'b', even though he meant 'c'. It should be 'd'.
Some fellar I got in mechanics:
Does anybody remember a quote by Bohr? Probably not because he's from Denmark...
Posted: Wed 01 Feb, 2006 1:04 pm
by kalan_vod
Around here we take calculators seriously
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Posted: Sun 05 Feb, 2006 1:27 am
by kalan_vod
QUick someone send some rechargable tr1p1eas to patori!
Something I said to patori as he needed some batteries for his calc.
Posted: Sun 05 Feb, 2006 1:50 am
by lloydkirk1989
benryves wrote:Leumas wrote:*it must be either an australian or english person, because they still spell Color="Colour". *If you will America changed it, but it still holds.
American English is specific to America, unsurprisingly. Which is why the simplified spellings of words (sulfur, color, tire) only apply there, and everyone else uses the regular English spellings.
I use to graded down for spelling in UK English durring middle school, but not so much anymore.
Posted: Sun 05 Feb, 2006 4:41 am
by blueskies
some of my favorites from an old math teacher, that will make so much less sense because no one here knows him. He's this 1000 year old dude named Adil Yaqub. He rules.
"and, of course, the integral of x is simplicity itself."
"1 minus cosine squared is an old friend." (LOL!)
"this thing is going to be dripping trapezoids."
"this equals to all this shabang"
kid: well why are we using the trapezoid rule then? adil: why do you do any calculus?" (best one ever)
Posted: Mon 06 Feb, 2006 12:59 am
by threefingeredguy
"It's the old backfiring time gauntlet trick." quoth Lister of Red Dwarf.
"Justify your existence." "I bring joy to the world because I have a beautiful ass." quoth Cat of Red Dwarf.