From my quotefile:
"Captain, the ship hailing us identifies itself as the Jupiter Two!" -- Uhura
"What, are you kidding? We're on a spaceship. This place is crawling with toothpicks." -- Joel Robinson, MST3K
Little Willie made a slip
While landing in his rocket ship.
See that bright, actinic glare?
That's our little Willie there.
-- Randall Garrett
SMUG INTELLECTUAL. Formerly rampant human-coded AI with a sense of humor seeks bipedal oxygen-breathing cyborg for serious relationship in the galactic core. I've got cool guns if you like to break stuff. No yuppies.
"Are you ready, my eager young space cadet?"
"All set, your heroship, sir!"
Cloaked Figure 1: Our ship is damaged.
Cloaked Figure 2: I have been hit by a bowl of bean dip.
Cloaked Figure 3: Retreat to Neptune.
Look folks, the guy named his spaceship the "Flying Fuck." We're not exactly dealing with Captain Subtlety here.
My mother was from Krypton, my father was from Alderaan... their relationship was doomed from the start.
"May I have a tour of your ship?"
"But of course!"
"Waugh!"
"What the hell is that??"
"That's our chief engineer."
"That's a fuckin' penguin!"
"Waugh!"
"The penguin said that you should be quiet before he reaches down your throat and pulls your pants up, you speciesist bastard."
Actually, Picard has more hobbies than I do, come to think of it ... clearly I need to become a starship captain to get some free time. -- Steven Marsh, Pyramid, 7/5/02
In the spaceship,
The silver spaceship,
The Lion takes control.
-- They Might Be Giants, "The Guitar"
I build castles in the air because the land is cheap...
They said you'd have to be daft to build a space station out here.
"Hey, honey, what would you say if I told you I'd built a sarcastic cute female android that looks disturbingly like a Tim Burton character? Think fast!"
"WANNABES! All of you, spitpolishing your prosthetic limbs, und whitewashing your liverspots for this wretched back-patting, smarty-party! The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the 'hello my name is' badge. He STRIKES from below like a viper! Or on high like a PENNY, dropped from the tallest building around! He has only ze one purpose: do bad things, to good people, MIT SCIENCE!!!!"
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story,
We fashion an empire's glory;
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown.
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
-- Arthur Machen, "Dreamer's Ode"
Hm. I think my mental image of Fenspace is a bit more surreal than other peoples'.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
"Captain, the ship hailing us identifies itself as the Jupiter Two!" -- Uhura
"What, are you kidding? We're on a spaceship. This place is crawling with toothpicks." -- Joel Robinson, MST3K
Little Willie made a slip
While landing in his rocket ship.
See that bright, actinic glare?
That's our little Willie there.
-- Randall Garrett
SMUG INTELLECTUAL. Formerly rampant human-coded AI with a sense of humor seeks bipedal oxygen-breathing cyborg for serious relationship in the galactic core. I've got cool guns if you like to break stuff. No yuppies.
"Are you ready, my eager young space cadet?"
"All set, your heroship, sir!"
Cloaked Figure 1: Our ship is damaged.
Cloaked Figure 2: I have been hit by a bowl of bean dip.
Cloaked Figure 3: Retreat to Neptune.
Look folks, the guy named his spaceship the "Flying Fuck." We're not exactly dealing with Captain Subtlety here.
My mother was from Krypton, my father was from Alderaan... their relationship was doomed from the start.
"May I have a tour of your ship?"
"But of course!"
"Waugh!"
"What the hell is that??"
"That's our chief engineer."
"That's a fuckin' penguin!"
"Waugh!"
"The penguin said that you should be quiet before he reaches down your throat and pulls your pants up, you speciesist bastard."
Actually, Picard has more hobbies than I do, come to think of it ... clearly I need to become a starship captain to get some free time. -- Steven Marsh, Pyramid, 7/5/02
In the spaceship,
The silver spaceship,
The Lion takes control.
-- They Might Be Giants, "The Guitar"
I build castles in the air because the land is cheap...
They said you'd have to be daft to build a space station out here.
"Hey, honey, what would you say if I told you I'd built a sarcastic cute female android that looks disturbingly like a Tim Burton character? Think fast!"
"WANNABES! All of you, spitpolishing your prosthetic limbs, und whitewashing your liverspots for this wretched back-patting, smarty-party! The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the 'hello my name is' badge. He STRIKES from below like a viper! Or on high like a PENNY, dropped from the tallest building around! He has only ze one purpose: do bad things, to good people, MIT SCIENCE!!!!"
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story,
We fashion an empire's glory;
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown.
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
-- Arthur Machen, "Dreamer's Ode"
Hm. I think my mental image of Fenspace is a bit more surreal than other peoples'.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.