h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, now that you all know what I need, could I have some Quotes, please?

I'd be ever so grateful.


Geggs

I work 26 hours a day trying to think of things that will be worth quoting. I don't nominate my own posts, because that would be tacky. As I wrack my brain trying to figure out who would be reading all the posts that are made at h2G2, I realize that the moderators would have to read a very large number of posts. Now,I know they have a busy enough life as it is with moderating, but do you suppose some of them might be interested in noting some of the more quotable posts?

Just an idea.

I thought you were going to say that you don't quote your own posts, but nobody else writes anything good enough

That thought did occur to me, Nosebagbadger, but lots of other people write things good enough. In the heat of an overheated thread, I don't take the time to nominate them, though. Then I log off and go back to my drab, wretched life, and the opportunity is lost.

Ah good, I've succeeded in my hope that this thread will start self-generating its own posts - and if people come to the thread, than it generates even more QoTDs

I'm glad to be of service.

Just as long as I don't get drafted.

ve 'ave vays of making you Quote, Mr paulh < in need of a german smiley >

Perhaps the H2G2 artists could come up with a Torquemada smiley. Until then, a smiley will have to do.

I'm in need of Quotes again. Would some kindly souls like to oblige?


Geggs

"Never ignore what someone says in anger."

"A man who won’t stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all." -Babylon 5

“I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.” -Mark Twain

"Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality." -Roger Ebert

"In war the greatest threat is the foe you believe to be dead." -Unknown

"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -Unknown

"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger." -Aesop

"A 'doctor' cures people, the 'medic' just makes them more comfortable, while they die." -Red vs. Blue

"Keep your friends close; kill all the enemies you can find." -Mr. X

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A friend to all is a friend to none." -Aristotle

"The simplest way to plan ahead is merely to be ready for everything." -Unknown

"There are two constant threats to our society: Chaos, and Order." -Unknown

"To be ignorant of History is to remain always a child." -Cicero

"An unjust law is no law at all." -St. Augustine of Hippo

"The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it." -Unknown

"A learning experience is one that tells you, “You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." -Douglas Adams

I'm a fool, but I'd rather be thought of as a jester.

Just a thought: perhaps, if you're really stuck for new quotes, you might introduce the odd fave from yesteryear? Having said that, this might be more effort than the recent ones.

hmm, I'll need to improve my production of witty repertoire

Right, off hunting I go

I found one for you Geggs. I'll never know if it gets to the front page, because I never look there. But I'll continue to send them. Actually, h2g2 people really are capable of producing a witty line a day between them, of this I am convinced. It's just a case of remembering to copy and paste, and send off that e-mail.

>> I'm a fool, but I'd rather be thought of as a jester. <<

A fool is someone who believes a young horse is a fool.

A young horse can be a foal. Is that what you meant?

I'm assuming the deliberate mistake and repetition(I think it was such) was the joke

I was just checking, Nosebagbadger. I'm so prone to typos that i like to give people the benefit of the doubt until I'm sure about what they meant.

to be fair I hadn't even noticed until you pointed it out - I did that twice during the post thing about mistakes today - can do grammar but apparently I read too quickly for my own good

I read too quickly, too. Force of habit, I guess. In graduate school I got into the habit of quickly scanning most books and articles.