The Official ZBB Quote Thread

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:39 pm

From the "What are you playing?" thread:

Radagast wrote:I quit WoW before christmas - cold turkey. Now I just play music.

Pie Man wrote:
Radagast wrote:I quit WoW before christmas - cold turkey. Now I just play Guitar Hero.
Fixed.

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:34 am

Herr Mors · Post by **Herr Mors** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:25 pm

psygnisfive wrote:Actually its spelled ante. Upping your auntie is probably illegal.

Kalor · Post by **Kalor** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:32 pm

schwhatever wrote:Some restrictions apply. Not available in all dialects. To place an order call 1-800-ALLOPHONES. Call in the next five minutes and receive a FREE field study recorder!

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:22 pm

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:44 pm

Primordial Soup wrote:
Elyndian wrote:Primordial I love your sig! Zork rules! Hahaha!!
Aww, thanks. I figured this board was one of the few places where people would get a pun that requires at least passing familiarity with Zork, the concept of a "basic color term", and Chinese and/or Japanese linguistic history.

Ollock · Post by **Ollock** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:27 am

Dewrad wrote:
Mugdokker wrote:Nonsense can be grammatically correct.
Yes, thank you Chomsky.

Damn -- I can't fit this in my sig:

bricka wrote:
PTSnoop wrote:Edit: fixed "biblial" to "bilabial". For some reason, I've always read it as "biblial". Thanks, TomHChappell.
"Biblial" to me would be the sound you make when you close a large book for dramatic effect.

Oh, well, already retired the other one.

Risla · Post by **Risla** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:15 pm

aardwolf wrote:
Delalyra wrote:Likes: Doing the dishes, my boyfriend, books.
Intentionally ambiguous?

langover94 · Post by **langover94** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:05 pm

Dewrad wrote:
cybrxkhan wrote:looks circle like to me.
You're doing it wrong.

LOOKS LIKE TENGWAR

Cedh · Post by **Cedh** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:09 pm

On "truly alien languages":

Yiuel wrote:Well, human languages are weird enough :

"Have you seen those aliens? Look at how the transmit information between each other : encodings travelling through differences in air pressure. Isn't that weird? They cry and move their mouths and their friend gets the message hearing the variation in pressure it creates. Truly amazing."

Dewrad · Post by **Dewrad** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:08 pm

I found the following wryly amusing:

psygnisfive wrote:It's the arrogance of assuming that everyone but you is wrong that I dislike.

Kereb · Post by **Kereb** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:34 am

Dewrad wrote:
Serali wrote:Aren't they cute? Just made them. The original had very dark green stripes with white. And I messed around with the colors on Gifworks.
You know, for a retarded girl you're talented ^__^

Serali wrote:Why thank you! ^_^

M

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:26 am

Pisceesumsprecan wrote:Note that 'no' translates the use of 'it' as a dummy pronoun. The word has been around for a while (in my conlang) and I've forgotten it's etymology. My conlang is West Germanic. If anyone has any ideas about where it might come from, do tell.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:35 pm

This is just... WOW.

Enjoy!

Pthag wrote:
gsandi wrote:It had its worshipped founders,

gsandi wrote:its sacred texts

gsandi wrote:and its privileged interpreters,

gsandi wrote:its obsessive dogmas,

gsandi wrote:its schisms

gsandi wrote:and its pretense that it was needed to guide peoples' day-to-day activities.

gsandi wrote:Its main departure from other religions was that it did not accept the need for a belief in God

The Constitution wrote:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion....

gsandi wrote:although a good philosopher could probably see a divine analogy to such concepts as the categorical imperative.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:05 pm

an interesting thing I learnt about Rev. Robertson recently is his ALLEGED sexy role in the Congo War:

http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:26 pm

On the subject of ANTIGUA: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes (Part 1):

boustrophedon wrote:On the other hand, this book becomes a surreal artistic masterpiece if you read every exclamation point as a sudden high-pitched warbling cry.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:15 am

Legros wrote: it is a well-established fact that human beings occasionally have sex with goats and sheep, but never with cats.

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=603395

Salmoneus · Post by **Salmoneus** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:10 pm

Actually, it's a well-established fact that humans will have sex with anything that moves, and many things that don't. I would bet a very large sum of money that human-cat porn can be found on the internet.

On which point, I shall belatedly shout about how it is perfectly OK for women to use whatever sex toys they want, yet when a man uses a bicycle as a sex toy in the privacy of his own home, he gets arrested!

Sure, it wasn't his home, it was a room he was renting - but if a hotelier walks in on a woman using a dildo in her hotel room (having locked the door) the woman doesn't get arrested for a breach of the peace or for public indecency

I know it's a fairly trivial matter, it just bugs me, as a liberal - if we can't even get the trivial issues right, what hope do we have? If the state can put a man on probation for three years, and stick him on the sex-offenders register (which can blight someone's life), purely for what he does behind locked doors with an inanimate object, how can we trust it to exercise restraint when it comes to human relationships?

- · Post by - » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:15 pm

The "bike as sex-toy" bust really was ridiculous.

But I have to admit, the first thing I thought when I saw that story was that the mechanics of it are mind-boggling. How, exactly, do you go about using a bicycle as a sex toy*?

(* NB: RHETORICAL QUESTION ONLY. I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.)

Salmoneus · Post by **Salmoneus** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:17 pm

Buggered if i know, no pun intended. Possibly something masochistic involving spokes? I'm guessing it was just the seat. Nonetheless, he should be given added credit for ingenuity!

EDIT: post made before footnote was added...

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:44 pm

Well, many bicycles are partly made of tubes, right?

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:00 am

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=27369

Dewrad wrote:
Gremlins wrote:
Dewrad wrote:Any of you nominally Christian folks doing anything religious to commemorate the death and resurrection of the son of your god, or are you all just going to wallow in rampant secularism?
We're going to play "hunt-the-heathen". I just got my pitchfork back from the blacksmith.
Well, you know where I work...

Kalor · Post by **Kalor** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:25 am

Pekka wrote:After 20 minutes of guessing various consonants a contestant finally gets one right.

Host: Would you like to buy a vowel?
Contestant: Yes, both of them please.

The Ubykh Wheel of Fortune

Serali · Post by **Serali** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:26 pm

Zhen Lin wrote:The Serali Continuum Hypothesis: Scripts form an well-ordered set under the relation "more pretty than", i.e. for any given nonempty subset there is a script for which all other scripts are more pretty than.

Trivial corollary: There is a least pretty script.

Conjecture: The set of scripts can be mapped onto the interval [0, +∞).

LOL! Where did this one come from? There was also one that Sano had written in response to some one who mentioned using a Chinese dictionary and it started out like this

Dear Mr. 20 yr Chinese dictionary user,

If you find it necessary to state that my actions are ridiculous, then I must....

And I can't remember the rest. I love that one it made me peed my self from laughing sooooooooo hard. Does any one know where I can find it? Thanks.

I consider it a classic among ZBB Quotes.

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:34 pm