NationStates Jolt Archive

"I will give him seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom I chose for myself."

A cookie to whoever can guess the source and speaker.

It's The Iliad, book I, Agamemnon if I'm not mistaken.

Damnit man, you couldn't have waited? Seriously, you couldn't let a dozen people make asses of themselves guessing before you answered? Damn you!

Oh, and it's Book IX not I.

It's The Iliad, book I, Agamemnon if I'm not mistaken.

Sdaeriji gets a cookie. Of course Lesbians ment something different to Homer than it does to us. Herodotus wrote about them frequently in his Histories, as well.

what is Homer's Lesbian?

what is Homer's Lesbian?

A person from the island of Lesbos.

what is Homer's Lesbian?

Someone from the isle of Lesbos between Greece and present day Turkey.

Damnit man, you couldn't have waited? Seriously, you couldn't let a dozen people make asses of themselves guessing before you answered? Damn you!

Oh, and it's Book IX not I.

Yes, well I thought I typed an X in there.

Doesn't matter what it meant. Agamemnon really knew how to hand out presents, eh? ;)

You people really need to read a lot less, I was expecting mass confusion and statements of 'Dude, lesbians rock!" I in no way expected people to actually know about Lesbos.

And I am a classical history major. I've read The Iliad more times than I'd like to think about.

What about this one
" What about narcolepsy? I nod off, I wake up in strange places, I have no idea how I got there."

What about this one
" What about narcolepsy? I nod off, I wake up in strange places, I have no idea how I got there."

Isn't that from Fight Club?

Isn't that from Fight Club?
yes it is

yes it is

I rule!

I rule!
now i'll tjink of something harder.............give me a minute

"I've been around and around but I got nowhere to go now"

I just might give a hint if people don't get this one

"I've been around and around but I got nowhere to go now"

I just might give a hint if people don't get this one

So, can I answer it if I know?

I've been around and around but I got nowhere to go now
But the funny thing is that when I'm gone I'll kill you

When I tell you, I don't want you here

I've been around and around but I got nowhere to go now
But the funny thing is that when I'm gone I'll kill you

When I tell you, I don't want you here

I've been around and around but I got nowhere to go now
But the funny thing is that when I'm gone I'll kill you

When I tell you, when I tell you, oh now when I tell you
I don't want you here!

Nevermind, I guess.

Are you british, or do you just like supergrass?

I am American.

I am American.
i was talking to word games, did you know it too?

i was talking to word games, did you know it too?

Yeah, but I didn't want to post it since I'd answered the previous two.

I am Canadian

"There was a corpse in a sailor suit. Her kneck was twisted in an odd way and blood spread out from under her head but the corpse...... wasn't Kayoko Kotohiki's. It was Yuko Sakaki."

I do have ones better than this.

I am Canadian
Alot of people I know wouldn't have known it. It's the only reason I asked

Now that one I do not know.

Erm... a more accurate translation than the usual, but not the usual (and thus, fewer google results) because it doesn't scan as well into English.

"I am become time, shatterer of worlds."

Life is fragile and must protected oh look a cockroach. *smash*

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

"There was a corpse in a sailor suit. Her kneck was twisted in an odd way and blood spread out from under her head but the corpse...... wasn't Kayoko Kotohiki's. It was Yuko Sakaki."

I do have ones better than this.
M something I saw the movie and the spirals and snails were weird as hell but yeah the movie rocked.

thats a great book ain't it?

I have no idea. I don't know the quote.

I have no idea. I don't know the quote.
i missread your post

M something I saw the movie and the spirals and snails were weird as hell but yeah the movie rocked.

M something, you have me confused, snails?? what??? that has nothing to do with it, it's from a book, but they did make a movie about it

No I mean the movie name starts with a M and I saw it.

Here's one I like.

And then the Lord said Let there be LIGHT! But Bob forgot to change the lightbulbs.

No I mean the movie name starts with a M and I saw it.

Here's one I like.

And then the Lord said Let there be LIGHT! But Bob forgot to change the lightbulbs.
I've seen the movie and it doesn't start with an M, it has the same name as the book

It's a Japanese movie right? I'm pretty sure that Mizuko! That's the one I saw with those same characters and random spirals and corpses just scattered around in random scenes.

Come on, someone guess mine. It's not even hard!


And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

It's a Japanese movie right? I'm pretty sure that Mizuko! That's the one I saw with those same characters and random spirals and corpses just scattered around in random scenes.
The movie and the book are both called "Battle Royale" so no Mizuko, is not the one I was thinking of.

Frank Herbert
Dune

Yeah Dune Fear is the mind killer all that love the books.

What I lack in speed, I make up for in quality-
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And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Dune.

"He's spending a year dead for tax reasons."

:)

Alright I'm two for two let's go for number three.

Some Guiness was spilled on the barroom floor.
As the pub closed up for the night.
And out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse.
Who stood in the pale moonlight.
He lapped up the frothy brew from the floor.
And back on his haunches he sat.
And all night long you could hear him roar.
BRING ON THE GODDAMN CAT!

It's an actual quote.

What's the scientific purpose of that?
Revenge.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet --- or more frequently around a completely different planet.
Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of pure hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent.

Ford staggered back to the table where Zaphod, Arthur and Trillian were sitting waiting for the fun to begin.

``Gotta have some food,'' said Ford.

``Hi, Ford,'' said Zaphod, ``you speak to the big noise boy?''

Ford waggled his head noncommittally.

``Hotblack? I sort of spoke to him, yeah.''

``What'd he say?''

``Well, not a lot really. He's ... er ...''

``Yeah?''

``He's spending a year dead for tax reasons. I've got to sit down.''

He sat down.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Douglas Adams just don't remember which book.

Shut up Haggis.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet --- or more frequently around a completely different planet.
Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of pure hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent.

Ford staggered back to the table where Zaphod, Arthur and Trillian were sitting waiting for the fun to begin.

``Gotta have some food,'' said Ford.

``Hi, Ford,'' said Zaphod, ``you speak to the big noise boy?''

Ford waggled his head noncommittally.

``Hotblack? I sort of spoke to him, yeah.''

``What'd he say?''

``Well, not a lot really. He's ... er ...''

``Yeah?''

``He's spending a year dead for tax reasons. I've got to sit down.''

He sat down.

YAY! :D

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

I can sleep for eight hours.

And who says I can't make love for eight hours?!? Just not non-stop. ;)

Shut up Haggis.
Come on this is prime quote that needs to be un-quoted.

Come on this is prime quote that needs to be un-quoted.

Highlander.

"One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at the local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarassing for my relatives and all. But the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with a trip to the emergency room. Then, last week, I saw him in the pet store. He was buying another cat! I said, "Walt, what the hell are you doing, you know you're just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too, why don't you knock it off?" And he says to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy."

Nope not Highlander.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell


It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

William Faulkner

I will be a shark where others cannot swim.

"Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned." Cookie to the first to figure this one out.

Here's another one.
"What in the name of zarking fardwarks is the old man doing?"
"Meeting us at his ship in two minutes."

And a last one.
"It moved people aside with quiet understated authority, and came at last to a man lying in a desperate pool of blood, clearly now beyond the reach of any earthly medicine, breathing, coughing his last. The figure knelt down quietly beside him.
"Arthur Phillip Deodat?"
The man, with horrified confusion in his eyes, nodded feebly.
"You're a no good dumbo nothing. I thought you should know that before you went."

Ender's Game when he was addressing Mazer.

Here's one:

Be the shoe.

Ender's Game when he was addressing Mazer.

WRONG! It is in Ender's Game though. It also has something to do with serpents and giants.

Holy crap! Wait well at least I got the book so I get a cookie! Do my original one about the shark.

Fine. You get a cookie that plays shrill-voice pop music including Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears at top volume. And you can't turn it off. And if you try to unplug the huge stereo set which appeared as part of the prize, you get electrocuted.

I smash the cookie or eat it. Now do mine!