"Yep. Hysterical raisins."
--anti
my boss: "I try to never be consistant."
me: "Consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds. <pause> Wait, I think that's 'complacency'."
my boss: "It works better the first way.
How to answer irate tech calls:
"I think we should be issued tin-foil beanies and respond with quotes from
Strindberg."
--Paul Gallagher
"Ain't I a Purdy Lemming?"
--Ryan Tilder
"I'm not one of those stealth homosexuals, nor do I fly low and hard,
sneaking up from behind. I am wonder bread and apple pie, with the
faint smell of sandlewood."
--Garth Webb
"I'm not one of those 'nature' people. If it's green, you put it on a
plate and slap some ranch dressing on it."
--Steven Fairchild
"NACHOS! And my KEYS!"
--Josh Rogers
"I was at home. Trumpety felt the brunt of my sexual tension."
--Josh (again)
"Kat and Luc,
sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love,
then comes... some sort of weird Wiccan ritual..."
--Josh
"I think that every once in a while you have to stand out in the
middle of a field and scream at the universe, demanding what it is that
you want out of life, and tell it where it stands in your book of things.
I've always felt that, if the universe doesn't respond by hitting my sorry
ass with lightning right that minute, then maybe it's giving some thought
to what I had to say."
--Eric Webster
"Rome, do you find yourself saying 'yes' every time you pick up a milk carton?"
--Quill (Mike Dodds), The Madrid Game ('TMG')
"I'll spend a blood point to pump up my strength, and then... I'll quaff!"
--Aner (Corwin Milby), TMG
Rome: "What clan?"
Colin: "Lycanto."
[GM: THAT rings a bell.]
Rome: I'm scribbling: L -- Y -...
No, wait. I erase. "Ravnos."
-- Rome/Josh Rogers, Colin/Eric Webster, GM/Michael Williams, TMG
Celeste: "I have the best little haunted whorehouse in Texas."
Aner: "We're not in Texas."
Celeste: "Oh, whatever."
-- Celeste/Kat Leonard, Aner/Corwin Milby, TMG
Rome: "I'm standing by the car, and it's run--..."
GM: "The car? It's 1894."
Rome: "Okay, I'm standing by the horses. The horses are running."
Mike Dodds: "The horses are in neutral."
-- Quill/Mike Dodds, Rome/Josh Rogers, GM/Michael Williams, TMG
"Yes, there is a big crowd with couches."
-- GM Michael Williams, TMG
Quill: "Burn our bridges!"
Rome: "That wasn't a bridge. That was a pothole, effectively, in our lives."
Quill: "We burned that, too."
-- Rome/Josh Rogers, Quill/Mike Dodds, TMG
"I smile at him, that soggy tottering mass."
-- Celeste/Kat Leonard, in reference to Quill/Mike Dodds, TMG
"if you have a question or comment for an individual on the team, please
direct it to that person. possibilities include phone, smoke signals, or
my personal favorite, telepathy."
-- Matthew Butterick
<taw> ** engineer attacks hardvard-MBA with his +2 bastard sword! **
<taw> perl: roll 2d6
<perl> 2 3 -> 5
<taw> +2... 7 HPs of damage to harvard-boy.
<taw> harvard-MBA whips out his 3 magic missles (would be 2, but he *did* go to harvard)...
<taw> perl: roll 3d4
<perl> 4 2 1 -> 7
<taw> 7 and 7 ... they back off in a draw.
-- how work disputes are resolved by RHN engineering