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Continued from here.

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ult'a Fedaro.

So no one has yet to answer mine eh?

groucho marx, very weird individual


"ugliness is definitely not distance's relative"


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oh and this one
"So no one has yet to answer mine eh?"

your becoming dislexic insider, your posting at very hi hours, or you antecipated this few line
i didn't knew your's, sorry.
i think no-one also sorry for not having answering yetti

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I'm decoming bislexic?

is that a churchill comment? sounds it.

no, i just made that up, carry on please

It wasn't Leslie Nielsen, was it?

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ult'a Fedaro.

dammit rntt I don't speak arab!!!

Olsson...that's not hi quote...that's his signature, and it's in a language he made up, so your not going to understand it anyway.

Now, Ram's is his own quote...it means 'S^abaal is the language of the federation'

and Olsson, your is from the Doc, he came up with it when he created this particular forum.

~Whistles~
You still haven't answered mine yet .

I have no idea about yours insider...I give up on it.

InSiDeR - It sounds liks Shakespear, though I can't name which one...

GrythusDraconis
I admire a man who can budget his life around his pint of Guinness and I envy a man who's wife will let him. ME, inspired by Suho1004 here.

Skaarjj
ok you learn a new thing everyday!

InSiDeR don't keep us hanging in the air to long. I'm just dying to know!
and please pick the next quote from the orignal hebrew bible so there is atleast a chance.

Oh come on, people, me and warjournal were dicussing it on Q. The quote is by Vincent Perez from TC: City Of Angels. Hehe, it's when he jumps through the glass ceiling of the crack plant, and then blows spidermonkey to hell. Eheh, I was waiting for someone to say Shakespear .

Ok next quote, something a little easier, and funnier...

quote:

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Can you even see up there?
I see everything.

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Terminator 2

Be right back.

quote:

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I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking
King of my jungle just a gangster stalking
Living life like a firecracker quick is my fuse
Then dead as a deathpack the colors I choose
Red or Blue, Cuz or Blood, it just don't matter
Sucker die for your life when my shotgun scatters

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I originally thought Ice T, but when I double-checked it on google it came up as Machine Heads song "Colors," and also a song by Ice T. Anyways:

quote:

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Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth
What you sow can mean Hell on this earth

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AC DC bitch.
To be more specific, Bon Scott, their original singer whom later died. .

And don't make me unleash lyrics. So I will refrain from doing so .

This next one on the poetic side, the author and the novella title please.

quote:

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We passed through the range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descenging again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather glow than flame.

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Come on poeple this should be really fucking easy.
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Prying open my third eye.

Whoa, my bad--I was a bit too quick on that one. It's The Cask of Amontillado (by Poe, of course). (The crypt part had me thinking about The Fall of the House of Usher, but then I thought about it and remembered that they didn't go down to the crypt... tricky, InSiDeR.) Now just give me a sec to think of something.

OK, here we go:

"'To thy grim tool now take heed, sir!
Let us try thy knocks today!'
'Gladly,' said he, 'indeed, sir!'
and his axe he stroked in play."

As usual, work and writer....

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Actually...I was thinking of Suicide Solution by Ozzy, but ACDC works fine too.

Well I would say Iron Maiden because i don't know better.

It's from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The original was on a manuscript dating from sometime in the middle ages. I'm not quite sure which translation you're referring to, but the original goes something like this:

quote:

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Ta now thy grymme tole to the,
And let se how thou cnoke3."
"Gladly, sir, for sothe,"
Quoth Gawan; his ax he strokes.

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Of course, the 3 is for the curly s-thing. Curiously enough, the one I studied was translated by Tolkien and E. V. Gordon.

Anyway, before somebody thinks I googled this, I did a paper on Medieval folklore and the Gawain story was one of my favorites. And, incurable packrat that I am, I kept the paper, probably for the fact that a 32-page paper was the longest I'd written up to that time.

Anywho, here's my contribution. We'll go with something a little more modern:

"I've only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards."

Hint: It's from, IMO, one of the best damn authors in the 20th century bar none. Well, that Joyce fellow was alright, but he's a bit dry. Also, I've included some other quotes from the same book to help out.

"The waiting's the worst part," said his sergeant, next to him.
"It might be the worst part," said the commander. "Or, there again, the bit where they suddenly rise out of the desert and cut you in half might be the worst part."



As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.


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Nice going, silence. That was actually from the Tolkien translation, by the way.

Thanks, Suho.

Actually, mythic lore has always fascinated me, and reading them in the original olde english is kind of fun. The Arthurian legends are full of interesting stuff.

quote:

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"The waiting's the worst part," said his sergeant, next to him.
"It might be the worst part," said the commander. "Or, there again, the bit where they suddenly rise out of the desert and cut you in half might be the worst part."

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I dunno. Who wrote it?

quote:

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"The waiting's the worst part," said his sergeant, next to him.
"It might be the worst part," said the commander. "Or, there again, the bit where they suddenly rise out of the desert and cut you in half might be the worst part."

As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.

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quote:

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"I've only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards."

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Terry Pratchett - Jingo

Aaahh...Discworld...ou're right...one of the best writers of the 20th century.


"The two figures on horse back appeared from around a bend behind them and stopped. They were a peculiar pair. The man wore a green Tolnedran mantle, a garment not really suited for riding."



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Bang on, Skaarjj. The entire Discworld series is an amazing read, and I seriously recommend it to everybody out there. Don't let the whole fantasy theme turn you off either, it's the best piece of literature you'll find.

Well, you've sold me. I've heard about the Discworld series, and I think this was just the push I needed to attack it.

Rameses, i think its just plain yours!

YOU THINK YOU'RE SMART, WELL THINK AGAIN!

Ahh, another convert. Glad to hear that, Suho. And, you'll even be able to get the UK editions with the Josh Kirby covers. The US covers are far too bland, but you decide.

Thanks for the tip on the covers. I'll look into that.

I was actually wondering what book I should take along with me to Thailand, and this series sounds like a good place to start.

it's great and the good thing about it is that you can pretty mcuh jump in at any book, it doesn't mtter, but if you want to realy start at the start, the books 'The colour of Magic' and 'The Light Fantastic' They are the first to books with one of hte main characters in them, the failed wizard Rincewind.

Skaarjj, that's not a quote.



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Actually, there is a definite evolution to the series, so the beginning books are a bit rougher around the edges.

If you are going to take just one book, I'd recommend either Small Gods or Pyramids. They're both standalone books and aren't part of any subseries. Small Gods in particular is a fascinating read.

If you have time to buy a few books, start with the Watch series which, in order are:
Gaurds! Gaurds!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
The Fifth Elephent

The Rincewind series is very good as well, but there are much more books. Hell, buy them all, that's what I'd recommend. I did.

Small Gods is a GREAT story! If you like religious philosophy in the least, you'll enjoy that one.

Isn't this supposed to be a Quote guessing game? What was the last quote we're supposed to be guessing?

Bodhi - Cell 617

i dont know what was the last one to be guessed but here is one to put us back on topic.

"Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"

by whom, and any one wanna translate it think early 20th century



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tomeagle - wilfred owen used that saying in one of his poems by a similar title, to my memory - is this who you are referring to?

"Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"

my super rough, never learnt latin, translation
dulce et decorum est - ok, this one i only have the gist of - "it's an honor"
(very rough translation, from "decorum" as for "dulce et", well, i know that "et" is "and"... peter, feel like helping here?)

pro patria mori - pro=for, patria="your country" (patria, think patriates, patriotism, etc), mori="die" (mori, like mortality, post-mortem, rigor moris)

so basically, it is an honor to die for your county.

...and i believe he referred to that saying as 'the old lie' - but i'm working on a recollection of about 4 years ago, when i studied his works.

Skaarjj had the last quote, it was:

"The two figures on horse back appeared from around a bend behind them and stopped. They were a peculiar pair. The man wore a green Tolnedran mantle, a garment not really suited for riding."

So I guess you can pick either one to answer.

And for the translation:

"Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"

Um, well...let's see. Sweet the decorum that/is, for, um, patron's mori. Or something like that.

edit: And after consulting my Latin textbook, I think the literal translation is: Sweet and Handsome/Becoming it is, for fatherland to die.


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hehe pretty damn close The actual translation is "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country"


by Wilfred Owen
First Published in 1921
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.


yup the old lie:told by people that won't be getting anywhere near the firing line to soldiers.


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ok, well, i now claim my right to put up a new quote.

"....i'll be back for breakfast."

(and if people take too long to guess it, i'll insert the first half of the sentence.)