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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-01-16 02:06 pm

Friday Five!

Taken from [livejournal.com profile] ataniell93

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?



Here are some of the highlights:

"Real astronomers use kilometers.
Hardcore astronomers use centimeters."
- Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer

"I need some baling wire, nachos, 12 gauge shotgun shells, pantyhose,
an inner tube for a 26" bike tyre, and a Sponge Bob Square Pants bath towel.
It's poker night." -from eplaya.burningman.com

"CALIFORNIA, a large country of the West Indies...
It is uncertain whether it be a peninsula or an island."
-- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st Edition (1771)

"How am I supposed to hallucinate with all these
swirling colors in the way?" - Lisa Simpson

Embrace Fascism. The uniforms look cool
Author of _GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces_

Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were.
-Chicago reader, 10/15/82

Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!)

There is no International Evil Mutant Penguin Conspiracy.
(NOTE: the revolution will be Formal.)

Ni ubivaiyte menya, ya znayu mnogo sekryetov Russian for "Do not kill me, I know many secrets" more or less.

TML Great Old One, The Keeper of Penguins
Plague of the Traveller Riders of the Apocalypse
Chant "Penguin Boy" thrice to summon.

"I created the universe; give ME the gift certificate!!"
- Lisa Simpson, Overachiever

"I don't have typos, I write with a Welsh accent."
- Robert Baldwin, in rec.games.frp.dnd

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

I wasn't in my senior yearbook, for reasons strange and obscure.

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

JUMP 6 The maximum possible FTL "speed" in Traveller

GURPSGM I run GURPS. Duh.

UA SOL 6 Unified Army of Sol. Term from Ground Forces in the US Army, "6" is the call sign if a commander.

BLKORNG Go Giants!

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

Nope.

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

"Stranger please, lend an ear
And help me with my worries
Drop the Sporting Green here
When the Giants win the Series"

"I Got Away With It"

"Well, this was predictable."

"Visitor to my grave
From my far future
I know you know not my name
But let me reassure you
In my day I was widely known
Though not in history you've read
I was not rich or powerful
But I was damn good in bed.
(That's my story, and I'm sticking with it)"

"Failed my Saving Throw"

"Dead. That about sums it up."