A game for Geeks.. Quotes..

[bridgeburner]

Silly Wizard is the band, the song is The Valley of Strathmore


and I am a bottom-feeding, googling gutter-slut, but at least I'm honest about it. ;->

I've got a fairly easy one:


"How could we have been so stupid?"




-B

 

[snowy ciara]

YAY! I just love that song. That band, too. I'm working on yours.

 

[bridgeburner]

It may be more obscure than I think, but should be fairly easy for this group. If you don't get it in the next hour or so I'll post a second one from the same source and then just go from there.


-B

 

[bridgeburner]

Okay, here's another from the same source as a hint. I'll keep dropping them 'til somebody gets it. This one is also a bit obscure but if I used the obvious one's they're really, really obvious.


"To stinkin' Kevin!"



-B

 

[bridgeburner]

Okay, I'm obviously playing waaaay hard to get and really didn't mean to. Here's another one, same source:

"Dead? No excuse for laying off work. "


I'll just keep piling them up 'til somebody gets it.


-B

 

[bridgeburner]

And another:

"Oh, so THAT'S what an invisible barrier looks like!"


-B

 

[bridgeburner]

Okay, last hint for awhile. I'm sure somebody is going to get this ---- it'll even show up in Google at this point.

"God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time: forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"



-B

 

[Vixandra]

Only because I goggled it: Time Bandits.


Hmm... a quote... a book quote:

"Mr. Dubois," a girl blurted out, '"but why? Why didn't they spank little kids when they needed it and use a good dose of the strap on any older ones who deserved it- the sort of lesson they won't forget! I mean the ones who did things really bad. Why not?"


One of my fav authors and books.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Hmm... a quote... a book quote:

"Mr. Dubois," a girl blurted out, '"but why? Why didn't they spank little kids when they needed it and use a good dose of the strap on any older ones who deserved it- the sort of lesson they won't forget! I mean the ones who did things really bad. Why not?"


One of my fav authors and books.

A) Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers.

Q)

For the love that is purest and sweetest,
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

 

[Vixandra]

Bravo, Angelic.
That was faster then I'd expected.

Hmm... lost on that quote, though if its from a book, I'll probably end up buying it to read it so understand why it was said.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Bravo, Angelic.
That was faster then I'd expected.

Helps when you're a Heinlein fan, and a supporter of corporal punishment with parental supervision. For grins and giggles, here's a longer passage from the Heinlein work.

"Corporal punishment in schools was forbidden by law," he had gone on. "Flogging was lawful as sentence of court only in one small province, Delaware, and there only for a few crimes and was rarely invoked; it was regarded as 'cruel and unusual punishment.'" Dubois had mused aloud, "I do not understand objections to 'cruel and unusual' punishment. While a judge should be benevolent in purpose, his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment -- and pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. Why should society refuse to use such a highly perfected survival mecahnism? However, that period was loaded with pre-scientific pseudo-psychological nonsense.

"As for 'unusual,' punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose." He then pointed his stump at another boy. "What would happen if a puppy were spanked every hour?"

"Uh ... probably drive him crazy!"

"Probably. It certainly will not teach him anything. How long has it been since the principal of this school last had to switch a pupil?"

"Uh, I'm not sure. About two years. The kid that swiped --"

"Never mind. Long enough. It means that such punishment is so unusual as to be significant, to deter, to instruct. Back to these young criminals -- They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes. The usual sentence was: for a first offence, a warning -- a scolding, often without trial. After several offenses a sentence of confinement but with sentence suspended and the youngster placed on probation. A boy might be arrested may times and convicted several times before he was punished -- and then it would be merely confinement, with others like him from whom he learned still more criminal habits. If he kept out of major trouble while confined, he could usually evade most of even that mild punishment, be given probation -- 'paroled' in the jargon of the times.

"This incredible sequence could go on for years while his crimes increased in frequency and viciousness, with no punishment whatever save rare dull-but-comfortable confinements. Then suddenly, usually by law on his eighteenth birthday, this so-called 'juvenile delinquent' becomes an adult criminal -- and sometimes wound up in only weeks or months in a death cell awaiting execution for murder."

He had singled me out again. "Suppose you merely scolded your puppy, never punished him, let him go on making messes in the house ... and occasionally locked him up in an outbuilding but soon let him back into the house with a warning not to do it again. Then one day you notice that he is now a grown dog and still not housebroken -- whereupon you whip out a gun and shoot him dead. Comment, please?"

"Why ... that's the craziest way to raise a dog I ever heard of!"

"I agree. Or a child. Whose fault would it be?"

"Uh ... why, mine, I guess."

"Again I agree. But I'm not guessing."

Hmm... lost on that quote, though if its from a book, I'll probably end up buying it to read it so understand why it was said.

Nice try darlin', chuckling, but i will give a hint.

Genre is 1800's poetry.

 

[Kajira Callista]

A White Rose
by John Boyle O'Reilly
The red rose whispers of passion
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
But I send you a cream white rosebud,
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on its lips.



Heres mine.

"Are you angry because your girlfriend tasted
her first orgasm at the end of my whip?"

 

[m wisdom]

"Are you angry because your girlfriend tasted
her first orgasm at the end of my whip?"

~ Marquis deSade ~

I'm ashamed to emit that I had to search for it


Ok, my quote

Sex is better than talk...Talk is what you
suffer through so you can get to sex

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Sex is better than talk...Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Woody Allen ~ Hollywood Ending, 2002

"For our sins."

"Hooya."

"Hooya."

 

[snowy ciara]

"For our sins."

"Hooya."

"Hooya."

It was a bruce willis movie. Tears of the Sun, I think. (My roomate last year was a die hard Bruce fan.. I now know more about Bruce Willis than I ever wanted to!)

My Quote:

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

 

[graceanne]

It was a bruce willis movie. Tears of the Sun, I think. (My roomate last year was a die hard Bruce fan.. I now know more about Bruce Willis than I ever wanted to!)

My Quote:

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

Snowy! You're back! I missed you! *hugs*

 

[snowy ciara]

I missed y'all too! OMG Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? You gotta go there, sometime. Totally absolutely awe inspiring... (Oops, I think I just hijacked my own thread.. HEE!)

 

[AngelicAssassin]

It was a bruce willis movie. Tears of the Sun, I think. (My roomate last year was a die hard Bruce fan...

Not bad. i thought that one a bit obscure, but this ...

My Quote:

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

Most of us with a passing nod to Willy know Henry V, and if not, many know the Saint Crispin's day speech before the Battle of Agincourt.

Now i've got to try to think of a stumper.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Holy Chit ...

[hijack]i found a single hit Google. Thrilling in its own right, but back to the drawing board for a quote.[/hijack]

 

[AngelicAssassin]

My quote

"Since you have called me, I know your desire. It is a comfortless wish. You ask for pain."

 

[snowy ciara]

Tough one AA.

And yes, I know that Everyone should know the St Crispin's day speech (one of my favorites by the way..) but it's not as common as I thought. I posted it on the same game on an author's website, and less than half of the people knew it! And a great many of them gave the movie "Renaissance Man" with Danny DeVito. It was a pretty good movie from the mushy point of view. Anyhoo, I posted the whole speech, from the real source, (Henry V) on the quote thread (with all attendant detail and attributions) and one goober came back and said "You mean they really used real Shakespeare in the movie?!" I'm hoping this guy is out of the gene pool.

 

[bridgeburner]

Re: My quote

"Since you have called me, I know your desire. It is a comfortless wish. You ask for pain."

My first thought is Hellraiser.


-B

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Re: Re: My quote

My first thought is Hellraiser.


-B

Chuckling ... no.

i'd actually forgotten about Pinhead.

Hint: literary genre of horror.

 

[snowy ciara]

But it's not Dracula, (I don't think, I may have to go look, now) and it's not Frankentstien. Are we talking "classic" horror, or more recent stuff like Anne Rice?

Edited for a brainstorm

Is it Faust?

 

[AngelicAssassin]

But it's not Dracula, (I don't think, I may have to go look, now) and it's not Frankentstien. Are we talking "classic" horror, or more recent stuff like Anne Rice?

Edited for a brainstorm

Is it Faust?

Not a classic, in the sense you've used, and Anne Rice didn't write this.

Enough hints ... go look and have fun in the process.