The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Viktor77]

houses?

Because bridges don't need architects?

And apparently neither do commercial buildings.

No, I believe those things need structural engineers.

Maybe skyscrapers but not your local dentist's new office....

[Salmoneus]

1/10th of atheists prey at least weekly.

Hey, I was originally going to write "1/10th of atheists prey at least weakly". Be glad for small mercies.

[masako]

Certainly most would agree that nerds are associated with blah blah dee blah dee blah blah fuck derp honk bonk ding wheee

[catberry]

Different in every way, you say? Do they communicate achronologically via EM waves in the microwave region? Are they spirally-polarized? Does the mechanism utilize all 4/10/11/26 dimensions? DO THEY HAVE RETROFLEX IMPLOSIVES???

[TomHChappell]

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[Tropylium]

I'm thinking about hosting the First International Convention for Hittite Revival. Who's interested?

Oh really? Well I'm gonna make a competing First International Convention for Hurrian Revival! It's gonna be way better than yours!

[Delthayre]

Eddy/Liguoboy

Dag, should never have stepped into that transporter booth before checking whether it was occupied.

Note for posterity: The above was written regarding a reply that Salmoneous made jointly to Eddy and Linguoboy in the Ephemera thread, "Why do some straight people think homosexuality is a choice?"

[Bristel]

I don't think the idea that if I piss on a rock during the cretacean era and come back to now the world would be ruled by starfish or something.

[the duke of nuke]

Next question: what is the chance that your conpeople would get together to discuss their conworlds? If they had conworlds?

AND SO THE WORLD IMPLODED

[masako]

Dammit, what the hell did I do with my bus card?

It and my hat have run away together.

[Bristel]

have got to acts as a special-cased, frozen quasimodal form.

I'm fairly sure it's politically incorrect to refer to French hunchbacks as 'frozen' and 'special-cased', even if they are almost mute.

[alice]

teledildonics

Well, now I know what to major in.

So what kind of degree would that be anyway, a B.S., a B.A., or a B.J.?

[linguoboy]

You're supposed to clean your wood first.

Or rather, your servants are.

(I'm ashamed to confess that it took nearly a day for this particular penny to drop.)

[Aurora Rossa]

"Objectivist linguistics"? Does this mean /A/ is [A]?

Is the next stop Gorean linguistics, where agent nouns are always masculine and patients are always feminine, with obligatorily bound morphemes?

[Viktor77]

All of this.

@Viktor: Would your ideal Victorian mansion include a fainting room? What about a saucery?

^

It was headed by a saucerer.

Is it bad that this is the funniest thing I have encountered all day? xD

Nope, that pretty much did it for me too

[faiuwle]

I also love how at the bottom, the wikipedia article says "See also: Sorcery (disambiguation)".

[jal]

Why would you want a beard, Rickard?

Because it's manly.

Bollocks.

It's certainly manlier than having ribbons in your bleached hair.

JAL

[Travis B.]

ETA: Also, you have to consider transportation costs. Eddy lives deep in the interior the Bible Belt, where black-bereted liberals are constantly under assault from marauding bands of heavily-armed neo-Puritan fundamentalist vigilantes. Italian espresso beans have to be smuggled in on muleback under cover of darkness. And there's the fact that the coffeeshop employees have to chop and haul their own cordwood in order to keep the steamer running. That sort of thing puts upward pressure on prices, even though the surrounding area is a ghosttown where stately homes sell for $1 and the bourgeoisie are fleeing so fast that you can't sleep at night for the endless streams of SUV taillights.

At least that's what I've gathered from his posts.

[Risla]

Another thing that bugs me: I'm so habituated to caffeine that coffee no longer wakes me up. It almost quakes me to say it, but I may need something stronger.

If you put out a call for people willing to come by in the morning and punch you in face, you'd find no shortage of volunteers.

Linguoboy is on a roll.

[Bedelato]

Well, Southwest Airlines and AirTran had a recent m--*shot*

No, in all seriousness, might a pan/pen(/pin) merger be possible in some areas? I know in some areas the vowel before the nasal in <pan> is rather close to the vowel in <pen>.

[Tropylium]

I also love how at the bottom, the wikipedia article says "See also: Sorcery (disambiguation)".

Even better.

[Nortaneous]

I also love how at the bottom, the wikipedia article says "See also: Sorcery (disambiguation)".

Even better.

Damnit, I just ate and now I'm hungry again.

[Xephyr]

A humorous exchange between my good friends Legion and Nae:

James Hannam has published a book called "God's philosophers" where he explains how, according to him, Christian thought in the middle ages laid the fundations of modern scientific thought (a claim that might seems outrageous in some circles, but which, he contends, is relatively consensual among historians of science).

After being shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize, the book came under attack by Charles Freeman:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2416/why-gods ... iety-prize

Then Hannam answered:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2441/in-defen ... ilosophers

Then Freeman answered the answer:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2444/science- ... -dark-ages



*Sits back and waits, with popcorn.*

Every trip begins with a single step, and sometimes you start traveling with clown shoes on. That doesn't mean you should run a marathon in them.

Even if the modern foundations of science had been created by Christians, that doesn't mean God is suddenly real, Legion.

Every trip begins with a single step, and sometimes you start traveling with clown shoes on. That doesn't mean you should run a marathon in them.

Even if the modern foundations of science had been created by Christians, that doesn't mean God is suddenly real, Legion.

You know, I wouldn't have been angry if you just said "tl;dr".

You know, I wouldn't have been angry if you just said "tl;dr".

I don't read troll articles. If someone describes something the way you did, and adds that damn popcorn line at the end, the whole thing is going to turn into a shitstorm whether I care or not.

You know, I wouldn't have been angry if you just said "tl;dr".

I don't read troll articles. If someone describes something the way you did, and adds that damn popcorn line at the end, the whole thing is going to turn into a shitstorm whether I care or not.

k, stfu then.

k, stfu then.

This thread is bad, and you should feel bad for making it.

[Torco]

People are pretty good at avoiding danger, when it's predictable and well-known. I mean, Americans own GUNS!

[Cedh]

Xephyr's current sig:

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