The Official ZBB Quote Thread

Serali · Post by **Serali** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:05 pm

Sano: Thank you! You're funny sometimes you know that right?

schwhatever · Post by **schwhatever** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:57 pm

Serali wrote:Sano: Thank you! You're funny sometimes you know that right?

Please don't. This is a thread for quotes, not responses to quotes. You already established that you thought the post was funny. You really don't need to post another time.

Please?

Stop it. You have how many of these per post for christ's sake!?

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:23 am

schwhatever wrote:
Serali wrote:Sano: Thank you! You're funny sometimes you know that right?
Please don't. This is a thread for quotes, not responses to quotes. You already established that you thought the post was funny. You really don't need to post another time.

Please?

There is plenty of evidence to the contrary here, e.g. the discussion about sex with bicycles.

So, while the primary purpose of this thread may be posting quotes, responding to them is still fairly common.

Moving on...

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:48 am

Serali · Post by **Serali** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:33 pm

Sano: Well now you know.

And another one that I like is:

Is making idiotic threads a choice, or are people born with some kind of internet dumb ass syndrome?

This was in my sig at one point. I forgot who wrote it but it was funny.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:12 pm

Yiuel wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:Winter didn't arrive to Sweden (Västra Götaland) until a couple of days ago. The gods must be crazy!
SO THAT'S WHY WE HAD ALL THAT SNOW!

Thor really was drunk this winter, and he just snowed everything on this side of the Pond.

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:57 pm

In the "Mikmaq Grammar" thread:

Xephyr wrote:I found one.

Micmac

Phonology:

Paddywhack

Phonotactics:

Give a dog

Morphology:

a bone.

Morphophonology:

This old man...

Morphosyntax:

...came

Syntax & Grammar:

... ... rolling

Discourse:

... ... ... home.

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:57 pm

In the thread on the Corusi script:

Ollock wrote:
doctrellor wrote:
Serali wrote:
BOINGIES!

Cool, now there are other little annoying balls of fluff I can play with...
Ooh -- I would hate to see what would happen if Serali got a Tribble.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:16 am

Lol, the latest page of the photo thread is full of funniness.

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:
Dewrad wrote:Vortex- they let girls play football in the US?
Yeah. As you can see, they just move their boobs to their shoulders.

Wycoval · Post by **Wycoval** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:54 pm

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 517#607517

cody wrote:
TomHChappell wrote:Create a Czech/Vietnamese "contact language" as a conlang.
The orthography would look like an explosion at the diacritics factory.

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:15 pm

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:Egads, Serali, I sure hope you don't live in an apartment; imagine the people below you who would have to put up with you jumping up and down over and over again and yelling BOINGY PRETTY SCRIPTIES YAY at the top of your lungs.

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:57 pm

In a discussion of philosophy and language:

TomHChappell wrote:
Gazariah wrote:You mean the gnomic aorist.
Contrast with the "aortic gnomist", a physician who specializes in the cardiovascular ailments of earth-elementals.

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:17 pm

Best post in the history of forever:

Pthag wrote:
Eddy wrote: But most people know better than to mistake art for reality, which isn't the case for spiritual experiences.
snow demon

Carrot · Post by **Carrot** » Fri May 02, 2008 6:21 pm

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:
Dewrad wrote:
Salmoneus wrote:Or you could accept that 'grammar' is an ambiguous word, acknowledge the old and established meaning of 'an authoritative or widely respected text describing a language, that may be used by non-speakers to become familiar with the language', and see the comment as noting the comparative sparsity of such texts for colloquial Rumantsch.
Why has this screamingly obvious interpretation not occurred to anyone else?
Because this is the Internet. When in doubt, assume the stupidest interpretation possible.

Distilled truth, brothers and sisters.

yssida · Post by **yssida** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:38 am

jal wrote:
jmcd wrote:I drink my own blood when it doesn't stay inside me after all. (...) like indoors, I don't wear clothes.
Ok, so you're a blood drinking nudist. Just when I thought I had seen the most bizarre...

JAL

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:48 pm

zompist wrote:
linguoboy wrote:I don't recognise the first two characters, but my Hanja dictionary translates them as "mind-sapping dolorous anxiety". Love those compact expressions!
I think Mind-sapping Dolorous Anxiety will be the name of my new band.

Lleu · Post by **Lleu** » Sun May 11, 2008 9:42 am

Kuro no Mori wrote:
idealis wrote:
Dewrad wrote:
krinnen wrote:My girlfriend says she's fucking tired of me and my conlangs and my 'invented worlds'....
Stop telling her about them then?
Or look for a lover who likes conlanging, somewhere?
Conlanging is my lover.

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:35 pm

Wycoval wrote:
BettyCross wrote:Cat tastes like venison, right?
Gustatus similis pullus.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Thu May 22, 2008 5:19 pm

Sakir wrote:
Piotr wrote:...How is Indonesian an IE language?
INDOnesian

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:47 pm

From the "If you could change three things..." thread.

[two posts merged because of overlapping quotes]

QFT

linguoboy wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:
Tarasoriku wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:-Kick out all of the illegal immigrants and send them back to their home countries
How would you do that? Especially after removing all those departments. You're talking a couple million people here, people who pay taxes. What about the economic fallout from that? And prevention of further illegal immigration (our borders are fucking huge, and can never be 100% protected).
You can if you pull out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, wherever else we still have soldiers stationed.
That's right: As long as you don't mind ordering your soldiery to fire upon your own citizens, there's no real limit to what you can accomplish.

From the "GI Bill 2008" thread

Quoted for funnays

Dudicon wrote:
Xephyr wrote:
Sano wrote:As for "die for the country"; When, would you please enlighten me, was the last time a service member died defending US soil?
Hmm... Civil War? Though they were defending it from other Americans... Texas War? Though it wasn't American soil at the time... I don't know, probably some Indian war, unless you're gonna be retarded and count assaults on American foreign embassies.

I'm probably forgetting some much more recent, glaringly obvious example.
Well yeah, probably if there were a recent, glaringly obvious example, it would be a day which would live in infamy.

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:07 am

From the thread about faces on inanimate objects:

Viktor77 wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:What about telephone poles? Does anyone see faces in them?
Those are just creepy, especially those huge steel industrial tower ones. So much power, so high above you, so remote, they haunt my dreams.

TzirTzi · Post by **TzirTzi** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:15 am

Serali wrote: And another one that I like is:

Is making idiotic threads a choice, or are people born with some kind of internet dumb ass syndrome?
This was in my sig at one point. I forgot who wrote it but it was funny.

Quoted for Irony.

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:48 pm

From the "I Kissed A Girl" thread:

Dewrad wrote:
crimson90 wrote:
Dewrad wrote:Unfortunately arrant bicuriosity is a scourge of our times.
I hope this is sarcasm.
Actually, no. I'm genuinely homophobic. I think that homosexuality is a disgusting and abnormal practice. The very idea of it makes my skin crawl.

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:52 pm

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:51 pm

Wycoval wrote:http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... 517#607517

cody wrote:
TomHChappell wrote:Create a Czech/Vietnamese "contact language" as a conlang.
The orthography would look like an explosion at the diacritics factory.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, that joke is stolen from me!

I used it in my thread about Lhueslue when I was trying to figure out an orthography for its 16 vowels with 3 tones.