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I don't know, maybe the universe blinked, maybe God changed his mind - all I know is that we got a second chance.
"Well, let's just hope that high-IQ boys back home give us all the right answers to this test. Otherwise we're gonna get hit with a 500,000-megaton weedwhacker."
"Well, let's just hope that high-IQ boys back home give us all the right answers to this test. Otherwise we're gonna get hit with a 500,000-megaton weedwhacker."
Nothing the government does surprises me.
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss." ~Lazaraus Long, (RAH)
"Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree to give quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a while I might even come to enjoy it. But this .. this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go 'quack'?"
All generalizations are false, including this one.
"Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree to give quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a while I might even come to enjoy it. But this .. this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go 'quack'?"
"Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously."
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