Quote Thread

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:04 am

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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Leumas · Post by **Leumas** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:34 am

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.

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:38 am

Yakov Smirnoff!

"In America, you can always find a party; in Soviet Union, the party finds you!"

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 6:05 am

It was tr1p1ea earlier on tcpa, idk where he got it but we were talking about xLIBs' readme

.

"In Russia car drives you!"

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 8:52 am

Where did i get what?

That is a true statement ... we really do spell those words as such.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 9:18 am

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.

Post by **benryves** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 10:45 am

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

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:17 pm

Terry Pratchet == Gold.

"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em."

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:22 pm

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/

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 12:23 pm

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...

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 1:04 pm

Around here we take calculators seriously "

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sun 05 Feb, 2006 1:27 am

QUick someone send some rechargable tr1p1eas to patori!

Something I said to patori as he needed some batteries for his calc.

lloydkirk1989 · Post by **lloydkirk1989** » Sun 05 Feb, 2006 1:50 am

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.

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Sun 05 Feb, 2006 4:41 am

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)

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Mon 06 Feb, 2006 12:59 am

"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.