DE: Hit That Perfect Quote, Boy

[bjornwilde]

 Inspired by yakalskovich 's idea last week (and ladyoflorien 's endorsement for use in the Shout-Outs or Indulgences):

What are some of your favorite milli-quotes? For those of us who weren't around in the old LJ days, Milliquotes was a comm where we would post up great lines from threads to share, that all may bask in their glory. The comm didn't seem to have made the transition to Dreamwidth but the tradition can live on!

Comments

[mnt_mike]

"Badboy Laddie. Badboy."
- Laddie

"For you the world, now take off your pants."
- Mike

"Strong like bull."
"Smart like toaster."
- Raph and Death, respectively.

[the_cupbearer]

Well, Death won. <3

[not_his_pa]

"Fuckin' Milliways'." No idea who said it first but it says everything.

"I just put a nuclear bomb in a wormhole!" Claudia Donovan during the Allpocalypse, Gill, correct me if I get the quote wrong.

I know there are others but I'm blanking, will come back later with more.

[misslucyjane]

I think "fuckin' Milliways," was Roland Deschain.

[minkhollow]

Here's the icon to do the talking. :D

[not_his_pa]

Thank you. I loved that moment and how she and Sameth acknowledged each other as they both took down awful things.

[bjornwilde]

I think my favorite is an oldy and referenced the Fortress of Solitude as innuendo. Can't remember the exact quote though as my brain is swiss cheese.

[lunamystic]

"What up, Sai?" -- Lilly Kane

[yakalskovich]

One of my favourite characters to milliquote has always been Guppy. He has this unique way of expressing things so they make sense.

From the thread where Dracula takes Javert from the infirmary (and Guppy gets locked in the loo) comes this very sensible objection:

"Also he thinks you're God, and I don't approve of that."

[wedic]

*grins* thanks

Are we restarting that comm? If not, we should.

[yakalskovich]

I don't think we are, but we are getting to milliquote people in the shoutouts instead. Just in time, hopefully, so I can milliquote Javert liking cars from the California OOM Write just posted. I love these little mismatchings of concepts so typical of Milliways.

[anthologia]

A few of my favorites brought over from the milliquotes comm!

'Jake replaces the glasses, and starts thinking out loud. "Well. So you're... possibly connected the United States government's intelligence sector. Which obviously means you have to keep secrets, so clearly I can't trust you. Both of these could be Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters, or both could be harmless.

"But you're also a geek, and a traditional one at that, which would mean that you'd want to make the test as close to the movie as possible.

"But then again, there's also no way to develop an immunity to Gargle Blasters that I can recall, otherwise Beeblebrox and Ford Prefect would've known about it and taken it. But we're also dealing with a magical bar that could provide you with anything you can think of, and there's always the chance that they just didn't think to ask for it."

Beat.

"Or you could have an Infinite Improbability Drive hidden in your pocket, in which case I'm screwed."'

[anthologia]

'Sabriel wonders vaguely what would happen if she were to enter Death while he was in the room. She isn't sure, but has a feeling it would be rude.' (walksindeath@lj)

'Apparently the proper response, in Endoftheuniverseian culture, to being handed a stranger's baby is "HEY THANKS FOR THE BABY, I'VE BEEN DYING TO GET ONE OF THESE".

...so Linguini shrinks back into inconspicuousness and stares at his hands-which-have-touched-baby, like people in movies do when they've killed somebody.' (garbage_boy@LJ)

'"I give them a very firm slap on the wrist and send them on their way."

He gives them a very firm slap on the wrist WITH AN AXE.' (slasherofprices@LJ)

[swankyfunk]

Aw, I miss Simon Skinner.

[mmexlibris]

I don't know if I'm supposed to keep this till next week, but this one struck me:

From Teja's thread with Valjean:

"Thank you," Teja says. "For reminding me. This is Milliways. Even those that are not, technically, people, are people here: - vampires and were-wolves and gods, and candy-coloured unicorns. Yes, you are people, all of you, and I very much see that."

[bjornwilde]

If I understand the proposed protocol, you may mention this with the Wednesday Night shout out (when it gets posted) or the Sunday, show us your awesome thread.

I am beginning to wonder if reviving the milliquote comm might not be a bad idea so folks can be more impulsive with quoting.

[yakalskovich]

Oh, thank you for the quoting! Yep, I felt the candy-coloured unicorns belonged in there to make the others less boding. Candy-coloured unicorns are strange, but not scary. Not even when their experimental magic goes wrong.