Death, thy victory,
Death, thy victory . . .
The rubber plant is free.
Thou sinister albatross.
(The rubber plant is free . . . .)
Death thy victory.
I count the nights, the sistrum sounds,
The hoopoe awaits me,
And the linden trees quiver.
~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
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Quotes Hall of Fame (in no particular order) |
| "It's a tight squeeze!" ~Terry S., in effeminitely high voice |
| "Where's my shit??!" ~Nick H. |
| "You betta be steppin' or we gonna be scrapin' yo!" ~Anonymous ghetto kid |
| "You will enjoy food from a foreign land." ~Fortune Cookie |
| "It says 'uncontrolled projectiles,' not 'uncontrollable objects.' So as long as we don't throw the gerbil we're fine." ~Matthew C. |
| "Chubby little white kid..." ~Some kid from the ghetto referring to the Adam Aisen |
| "The who what?" ~Courtney's father |
| "I don't know, maybe I'll pick up a rock someday and underneath it'll say 'Made by God...in Taiwan'" ~Anonymous |
| "American components...Russian components---ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!" ~Cosmonaut |
| "The square root of negative sixteen is four i. Yay! I'm smart!" ~Stephanie B. |
| "What is the composition of the earth's inner core?" ~Matthew... "Molten Rock" ~Nick... "What elements?" ~Matthew... "Rock and Molten" ~Nick |
| "Trees will speak Japanese" ~Fortune Cook |
| "I have a telescope, but I don't use it for astronomy" ~Benedict N.T. |
| "I've always hated her. But now I have a reason. SHE BENT THE FORK!" ~Joel H. |
| "You broke my spoon! I have no respect for you." ~Joel H. |
| "I would have done that, but I was too distracted with the keyboard" ~Kyle B. |
| "Don't let a suitcase filled with rotting cheese be your big fork and spoon." ~Marie Barone |
| "I suppose I shouldn't use the words sex and climax in the same sentence." ~J. Stroebel |
| "Get the crutch off of the pool table!" ~Kyle B., while playing ping-pong |
| "I hit you with a something soft and fuzzy... you hit me with a piece of metal!!" ~Kyle B. |
| "That's the stupidest glitch I've ever seen." ~Matthew C. |
| "That's the second stupidest glitch I've ever seen." ~Matthew C. |
| "Syphilis!" ~David M. |
| "Oh, that's just what goes on in my head." ~Phillip, explaining the content of his art project, which consists of a chaotic arrangment of shapes with no coherent meaning... "That explains a lot!" ~Mrs. Prince |
| "We have discovered Tom's only skill: gardening." ~Matthew C. |
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"[The plane] repels radar." ~Tom S. "Uh, Tom? It's called stealth." ~Baker "Radar Repellent!" ~Matthew C. |
| "Perhaps. And perhaps not. But in the end, no matter what happens, the outcome will be the same. None of you can change it. The only one who matters here... is me." ~Matthew C., as the Narrator, Banaminal III: The Delicate Sound of Brutal Destruction |