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Damn, but I'm amusing sometimes
A friend of mine has a huge collection of sig quotes. Along the way, I've become fairly well represented in the Military and Roleplaying sections. Some of my better ones are behind the cut tag.
"40 seconds [the average lifespan of a machine-gunner in combat] is also about the time needed to blow through a single 100-round belt. Coincidence? I think not!"
"Sir, I just spent eight hours digging this fighting position in 100-degree, 90% humidity. It has grenade sumps, overhead cover, zone and FPF markers, claymores covering the approaches, is camouflaged, and I turned my range plan over to the First Sergeant. I. Ain't. Going. Nowhere"
"Sergeants Major are terrifying forces of nature. They really run the Army, although they let the officers pretend that they have something to do with it. Very tolerant ones will even call 2nd Lieutenants "sir" on occasion."
Infantry Officer's Basic Course: Hundreds of Second Lieutenants wandering around Ft. Benning like lost puppies, but nowhere near as cute.
"If you're in the Army, it doesn't matter.. you have no soul, being a brainwashed killer. (I was told this by a very earnest young woman in Berkeley the other day. The look on her face when I asked why she was risking life and limb by angering a soulless killer was worthy the lecture.)"
Metamorphosis Alpha is one of those games us vets can use to lord over the goths.. "You think you've got problems, fang-boy? Hell , back in '79, we was on the Wardn, and my character was forced to marry the Princess of the Giant Lab Rat People! Talk about angst! You kids today..."
We all quit playing Traveller and have switched to a Vampire/Bunnies and Burrows combo.
Oh, the angst of my existence, I wish to hop about, but what's the point?
Bunnies we are lest Bunnies we become.
That's the one. The Marine Assault Dress is what I see ABD as being; none of the "BattlePod" nonsense.
Real Marines want legs so they can kick the s*%t out of their opponents, and dance on their smoking remains.
"OK, how many of us think Dark Star is the ultimate Traveller movie? A bunch of nut cases in a scout ship with a bomb only a Referee could love."
"Sarge, is it man's nature to be evil, or are we essentially good, and corrupted by desire?"
"Good Question, Smitty. PLA-TOON, TEN-HUT! On command, you will consider this question! PLA-TOON! PON- (wait for it!) DER!"
The men of the 3257th Philosophy Battalion (the Descartes Demons)
"The answer is clear: TRAVELLER IS A VILANI PSYCH WAR OPERATION DESIGNED TO SOFTEN US UP FOR THE INEVITABLE INVASION!!!
Which is cool with me. Dibs on Quisling traitor in charge of California."
[Talking about moving conscienceness to an AI controlling a starship] "Assuming I can control the speed my computer brain works at, I'd take my ship body to a nice stellar hatchery and watch a star system form. Once late bombardment was over, I'd seed likely bodies with basic amino acids. Then wait for life to arise. Direct a few towards sentience.
Once a Game Master, always a Game Master."
"One of the things that Iain Banks has done to my Traveller games is radically change the pattern of naming ships. Witness the Far Trader Driver Carries No Change"
Feel free to use any of these if you like them, just be sure to quote me.
"40 seconds [the average lifespan of a machine-gunner in combat] is also about the time needed to blow through a single 100-round belt. Coincidence? I think not!"
"Sir, I just spent eight hours digging this fighting position in 100-degree, 90% humidity. It has grenade sumps, overhead cover, zone and FPF markers, claymores covering the approaches, is camouflaged, and I turned my range plan over to the First Sergeant. I. Ain't. Going. Nowhere"
"Sergeants Major are terrifying forces of nature. They really run the Army, although they let the officers pretend that they have something to do with it. Very tolerant ones will even call 2nd Lieutenants "sir" on occasion."
Infantry Officer's Basic Course: Hundreds of Second Lieutenants wandering around Ft. Benning like lost puppies, but nowhere near as cute.
"If you're in the Army, it doesn't matter.. you have no soul, being a brainwashed killer. (I was told this by a very earnest young woman in Berkeley the other day. The look on her face when I asked why she was risking life and limb by angering a soulless killer was worthy the lecture.)"
Metamorphosis Alpha is one of those games us vets can use to lord over the goths.. "You think you've got problems, fang-boy? Hell , back in '79, we was on the Wardn, and my character was forced to marry the Princess of the Giant Lab Rat People! Talk about angst! You kids today..."
We all quit playing Traveller and have switched to a Vampire/Bunnies and Burrows combo.
Oh, the angst of my existence, I wish to hop about, but what's the point?
Bunnies we are lest Bunnies we become.
That's the one. The Marine Assault Dress is what I see ABD as being; none of the "BattlePod" nonsense.
Real Marines want legs so they can kick the s*%t out of their opponents, and dance on their smoking remains.
"OK, how many of us think Dark Star is the ultimate Traveller movie? A bunch of nut cases in a scout ship with a bomb only a Referee could love."
"Sarge, is it man's nature to be evil, or are we essentially good, and corrupted by desire?"
"Good Question, Smitty. PLA-TOON, TEN-HUT! On command, you will consider this question! PLA-TOON! PON- (wait for it!) DER!"
The men of the 3257th Philosophy Battalion (the Descartes Demons)
"The answer is clear: TRAVELLER IS A VILANI PSYCH WAR OPERATION DESIGNED TO SOFTEN US UP FOR THE INEVITABLE INVASION!!!
Which is cool with me. Dibs on Quisling traitor in charge of California."
[Talking about moving conscienceness to an AI controlling a starship] "Assuming I can control the speed my computer brain works at, I'd take my ship body to a nice stellar hatchery and watch a star system form. Once late bombardment was over, I'd seed likely bodies with basic amino acids. Then wait for life to arise. Direct a few towards sentience.
Once a Game Master, always a Game Master."
"One of the things that Iain Banks has done to my Traveller games is radically change the pattern of naming ships. Witness the Far Trader Driver Carries No Change"
Feel free to use any of these if you like them, just be sure to quote me.
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I think this may be the best thing I've read today - and one of the best comebacks I've ever read.