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30 Dec 2022 11:11 PM
#2201
Member
Wash: "Well, if she doesn't get us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is gonna get pretty interesting."
Mal: "Define 'interesting.'"
Wash (deadpan): "'Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die'"?
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31 Dec 2022 09:30 PM
#2202
Oliphaunt
"Shelly, I'm not fooling around anymore! The first thing you're gonna learn is to have a good attitude. That's the key! Anybody'll tell you that."
— Leo, from *Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me*
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02 Jan 2023 11:04 AM
#2203
Member
Mal (over intercom): "This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode."
Serenity
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02 Jan 2023 07:18 PM
#2204
Oliphaunt
"Turn it right of center and you start to pick up the Tweed sounds. Just past noon and you are in the Tweed Bassman range with its mid-range breakup, keep cranking clockwise and this little puppy sound just like an insanely overdriven 1950s Champ."
— anonymous review of the Joyo American Sound amp simulator guitar pedal
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06 Jan 2023 11:36 PM
#2205
Member
Dr. Leonard H. McCoy (to Lt. Areel Shaw): "All of my old friends look like doctors. All of his [Capt. James T. Kirk's] look like you."
"Court Martial," Star Trek: The Original Series
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08 Jan 2023 08:15 PM
#2206
Oliphaunt
"Things can thus wax erotic, as Sag, who’s wont to thrash around, is restrained by the Ram, sometimes fueling elaborate fantasies for her. Sexy bonds and blindfolds easily elevate ye olde slap and tickle to something that harnesses Sag’s signature skittishness and nervy anticipation."
— some astrology thing I read somewhere online.
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09 Jan 2023 09:48 AM
#2207
Member
"Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of his predecessor, a former lord mayor of Birmingham
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09 Jan 2023 07:01 PM
#2208
Oliphaunt
"Batman beat the hell out of me and knocked me to the floor. I got back up and knocked him to the floor. He was being such a jagoff."
— Wesley Willis, "I Wupped Batman's Ass"
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12 Jan 2023 11:55 PM
#2209
Member
Mal: "Jayne, how many weapons you plan on bringing? You only got the two arms."
Jayne: "I just get excitable as to choice — like to have my options open."
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13 Jan 2023 07:19 PM
#2210
Oliphaunt
“In the 1990s, if you had a camera, you were a photographer. Nobody had a camera. It was a giant thing you had to wear around your neck, and it looked dorky”
— Jen Kirkman, comedienne
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15 Jan 2023 12:07 AM
#2211
Member
Mal: "I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job."
Jayne: "Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."
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18 Jan 2023 04:09 PM
#2212
Oliphaunt
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
— Fred Allen
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18 Jan 2023 11:31 PM
#2213
Member
Zoë: "We crashin' again?"
Mal: "Go talk to your husband."
Serenity
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19 Jan 2023 09:27 PM
#2214
Oliphaunt
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!"
— The Love Witch
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21 Jan 2023 11:04 AM
#2215
Member
Zoë: "Good to go, sir. Just loading her up." [To Jayne] "Are those grenades?"
Jayne: "Cap'n doesn't want them."
Zoë: "We're robbing the place; we're not occupying it."
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22 Jan 2023 08:12 PM
#2216
Oliphaunt
"My dick don’t hit the bottom, but I fuck the sides up."
— Bloodhound Gang, "Balls Out"
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24 Jan 2023 11:07 PM
#2217
Member
Mal: "Kaylee! Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right...."
Kaylee: "Everything's shiny, Captain. Not to fret."
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03 Feb 2023 07:15 PM
#2218
Oliphaunt
"You will be given large containers to store your urine and a container to urinate into. Make sure you know how to use them."
— "24-Hour Urine Collection | Johns Hopkins Medicine"
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04 Feb 2023 12:02 AM
#2219
Member
Mal: "You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!"
Kaylee: "That was six months ago, Captain."
Mal: "My ship don't crash. If she crashes, you crashed her."
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04 Feb 2023 10:01 PM
#2220
Oliphaunt
"Allegedly, one time he [jazz guitar legend Barney Kessel] took a break at a gig and put the guitar on his chair. As he started to walk away a fan came up and said, "Man Barney, that guitar sounds great!", to which Barney replied, "Oh yeah, how's it sound now?""
— anecdote about Barney Kessel from unknown source
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05 Feb 2023 10:49 PM
#2221
Member
Mal: "Bit of a rockety ride. Nothing to be worried about."
Simon: "I'm not worried."
Mal: "Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor."
Simon: "This isn't fear. This is anger."
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16 Feb 2023 09:10 AM
#2222
Oliphaunt
"He belonged to a [petite bourgeoisie de robe...don't know how to translate it exactly, but it can be easily Bingèd or whatever] family."
Fascinating short book about one of the architects of the first French Republican era. No, he's not related to me...it's a pretty common last name.
— Frédéric Augris, François Sébastien Letourneux : Nantais, avocat, ministre et révolutionnaire d'après ses mémoires [sic]
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19 Feb 2023 10:33 PM
#2223
Member
Simon: "Now, River, stay behind the others. If there’s fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It’s okay to leave them to die."
Mal: "Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could tears." [drives off]
Serenity
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19 Feb 2023 11:16 PM
#2224
Oliphaunt
“An army without profanity can’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.”
— George S. Patton, possibly apocryphal
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22 Feb 2023 10:27 PM
#2225
Member
Mal: "Listen up! We are coming down to empty the vault!"
Guard: "You have to give me your authorization password!"
[Jayne fires a couple of rounds of his gun]
Guard: "...Okay."
Serenity
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23 Feb 2023 12:16 AM
#2226
Oliphaunt
Driver: "Taking a trip?"
Bronson: "Yeah."
Driver: "Where to?"
Bronson: "Oh, I don't know. Wherever I end up, I guess."
Driver: "Man, I wish I was you."
Bronson: "Really?"
Driver: "Yeah."
Bronson: "Well, hang in there."
— Then Came Bronson
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24 Feb 2023 08:07 PM
#2227
Member
Mal (being chased by cannibalistic Reavers): "Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!"
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27 Feb 2023 05:35 AM
#2228
Oliphaunt
"Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty - a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig"
— Heinlein Have Space Suit — Will Travel
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01 Mar 2023 10:12 PM
#2229
Member
Mal: "They wanna run us down. The up-close kill."
River: "They want us alive when they eat us."
Jayne: "Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?"
Serenity
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02 Mar 2023 12:20 AM
#2230
Oliphaunt
“A director has to deal with a whole world absolutely teeming with mediocrities, jackals, hangers-on, and just plain killers.”
— Sam Pecknipah
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05 Mar 2023 09:16 PM
#2231
Member
Simon: "River, do you want to stay with them?"
River: "It isn't safe."
Simon: "No. I fear it isn't safe anymore."
River: "For them."
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07 Mar 2023 09:55 PM
#2232
Oliphaunt
"Took on big subjects, may not have been talented enough. — Usually works on his own, in way & fields that are opposed to current stream. — Possible that he feels guilty about not being productive & achieve similar acclaim as he did as a young man."
— Mar. 1970, psychiatrist note re Kurt Gödel, cited in Steph. Budiansky, Journey to the edge of reason : the life of Kurt Gödel
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08 Mar 2023 12:31 AM
#2233
Member
Kaylee: "Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!"
Mal [shocked]: "Oh, God! I can't know that!"
Jayne: "I could stand to hear a little more."
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13 Mar 2023 05:39 PM
#2234
Oliphaunt
"At Lincoln, the elite might fantasize about exterminating radicals through education; [sic] but for Yale's Dean Corwin, the Jews, especially New Haven Jews, were simply hopeless."
— J.E. Breslin, Mark Rothko A Biography (a tremendously engaging bio, although it is a birth-to-grave type endeavor which can be tedious)
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14 Mar 2023 10:24 PM
#2235
Member
Mal (greeting identical twins): "Fanty. Mingo."
Mingo: "He's Mingo."
Mal: "He's Fanty. You're Mingo."
Mingo (grins): "How is it you always know?"
Mal: "Fanty's prettier."
Serenity
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18 Mar 2023 12:14 PM
#2236
Oliphaunt
“Like to take that cap off?” the bartender asked.
“No, I wouldn’t!” Ignatius thundered. “There’s a chill in here.”
“Suit yourself,” the bartender said and drifted off into the shadows at the other end of
the bar.
“Really!”
“Calm down,” his mother said.
Ignatius raised the earflap on the side next to his mother.
“Well, I will lift this so that you won’t have to strain your voice. What did the doctor
tell you about your elbow or whatever it is?”
“It’s gotta be massaged.”
“I hope you don’t want me to do that. You know how I feel about touching other
people."
— Confederacy of Dunces
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20 Mar 2023 10:58 PM
#2237
Member
Simon: "I thought she was getting better."
Jayne: "And I thought they was getting off! Didn't we have an intricate plan how they were gonna be not here anymore?"
Kaylee: "We couldn't leave them now."
Jayne: "No, now that she’s a killer woman, we ought be bringing her tea and dumplings."
Serenity
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21 Mar 2023 08:09 PM
#2238
Oliphaunt
"[John Milius] doesn't write for pussies, and he doesn't write for women. He writes for men. Because he's a man."
— Sam Elliott about John Milius in *Milius*
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23 Mar 2023 10:44 PM
#2239
Member
Book: "Only one thing is gonna walk you though this, Mal. Belief."
Mal: "You know I always look to you for counsel, but sermons make me sleepy, Shepherd. I ain't looking for help on high. That's a long wait for a train don't come."
Book: "When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"
Serenity
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04 Apr 2023 05:10 PM
#2240
Oliphaunt
"Elvis said, 'Find 'em young!'
and Fred said, 'Old fashioned girls are fun.'"
— Roger D. Ferris, "The King is Gone"
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06 Apr 2023 10:51 PM
#2241
Member
Zoe: "Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later."
Serenity
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07 Apr 2023 08:19 PM
#2242
Oliphaunt
"Uh....the Earth sucks. Let's mess with those things."
— Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe
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10 Apr 2023 11:16 PM
#2243
Member
Zoe: "This is the place. We'll buy you the time."
Serenity
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10 Apr 2023 11:16 PM
#2244
Member
Zoe: "This is the place. We'll buy you the time."
Serenity
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11 Apr 2023 03:58 PM
#2245
Oliphaunt
""If you look me up through some family lawyer or some
corporation lawyer, he'll probably tell you that I'm a shyster. If you look
me up through some chap in the District Attorney's office, he'll tell you
that I'm a dangerous antagonist but he doesn't know very much about me.
If you look me up through a bank you won't find out a damned thing.""
Burke opened his mouth to speak, then thought better of it and was
silent."
— Erle Stanley Gardner, *The Case of the Velvet Claws (A Perry Mason Mystery)*
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12 Apr 2023 09:57 PM
#2246
Member
Zoe (implicitly referring to both herself and the ship): "She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true."
Serenity
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12 Apr 2023 10:48 PM
#2247
Oliphaunt
"She looked pathetic and helpless as she sat in the big office,
dwarfed by the huge proportions of the leather chair. And yet there was
something about her which gave the impression of having deliberately
brought about that effect. There was a hint of feline efficiency in the care
with which she had placed herself, in the very perfection of her
helplessness."
— Gardner, *The Case of the Sulky Girl*
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16 Apr 2023 09:50 PM
#2248
Member
Wash: "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
Serenity
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18 Apr 2023 07:58 PM
#2249
Oliphaunt
"Remember the tune, 'Big Bad John'? ... yeah, well, that's what they started calling me and at first I didn't understand it but I love it now. It's just a name; if it's going to help you, then boogie on up in there!"
— jazz organ great "Big John" Patton, on receiving his professional name/nickname
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18 Apr 2023 11:23 PM
#2250
Member
Mal (to River as he sets out to rob a bank): "This is what I do, darlin'. This is what I do."
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