SF Quotes <off topic>

"Lets Rock! BrrrrBrrrrBrrrr...." Vasquez (Aliens)

"Why don't you lie down Dave, and take a stress pill" Hal 9000 (2001)

"Up your shaft" Scotty (ST III)

"If winning isn't important, why keep score" Worf (STTNG)

"Today is a good day to die" Worf (STTNG)

"Let there be light" Bomb (Dark Star)

"Excellent. Our first catch of the day" - Empire Strikes Back

"I find your lack of faith disturbing" - Vader right before he
nearly chokes some sod to death.

"You are in command now, _Admiral_ Piet." - Vader right after
he choked some poor sod to death. Piet subconsiously reaches for his collar...

"You will be punished for your lack of vision!" - The Emperor.
This has to be one of the best scenes in the series. The Emperor was one cold
son of a bitch.

There are so many more Vader quotes that are perfect for using while gaming.

> At 09:54 27/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
SNIP excellent Star Wars quotes
> There are so many more Vader quotes that are perfect for using

How about one from real life:

"I demand more. This is your only warning. Vasiliev"

Vasiliev being Stalin's codename in the Great Patriotic War.

Rob

PS: Or from further back in history: I think it was Svyatoslav, Prince of Kiev
who died raiding the Petcheneg steppe nomads. The turned his skull
into a silver-mounted drinking cup, on which they engraved:
"Those who covet others' goods, often lose their own"

Which is nice.

In message <888610465.1117155.0@kryten.acs.bolton.ac.uk>
> Rob Paul <rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> How about one from real life:

One of my favourites then:

"Kill them all, and let God sort them out."

Said during one of the many Crusades, when someone was asked how to
differentiate between the Christians and Muslims in a city that had just been
taken by Christian forces.

> On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Samuel Penn wrote:

> In message <888610465.1117155.0@kryten.acs.bolton.ac.uk>

"Slay them all, God will know his own." is closer to the actual quote.

> Said during one of the many Crusades, when someone was asked

Close, but not quite. The first recorded utterance of this quote was from a
monk (his name escapes me) during the Albegensian Crusade. The target of this
particular crusade were the Albegensians (aka Cathers), followers of a gnostic
religion that lived predominatly in Southern France.

Later,

> Samuel Penn wrote:
Hmmm... that famous quote was from 12th century France during the Albgesinian
Crusade against the Cathars who were Christian heretics and radicals.

During the storming of the city of Beziers, the Papal Legate Arnold Almaric
uttered the words "Slay them all.. God will know his own."

Funnily enough the other cities involved surrendered very quickly

> From: Barry Cadwgan <bcadwgan@fl.net.au>
[...]
> During the storming of the city of Beziers, the Papal Legate Arnold

I just finished reading a book, "On Killing", which I recommend. This type of
killing was discussed in the section dealing with "The Power of Atrocity."

> At 1:35 PM -0600 2/3/98, " wrote:

<SNIP>
> Close, but not quite. The first recorded utterance of this
The
> target of this particular crusade were the Albegensians (aka Cathers),

> How about one from real life:

"Nuts!"

Response by American CO to German demand for surrender Battle of the Bulge

> Jeremy Sadler wrote:
...Snip...(JTL)
> "Nuts!"

Having known a few paras, I have always suspected the actual line was a great
deal more graphic and highly personal. The U.S. population would not have been
able to accept the actual verbage, coming from a general officer and a
gentleman by act of congress. This was the '40s after all and we wouldn't want
to offend now, would we?

Bye for now,

> Jeremy Sadler wrote:

I suspect you are correct, but I still love the story...:)

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http://nemesis.com.au/fastjax/stargrunt

On Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:12:43 -0800, John Leary <realjtl@sj.bigger.net>
wrote:

> Jeremy Sadler wrote:

Nope, that's exactly what he said: "Nuts." There was a thread about
this on soc.history.war.world-war-ii just about a week or two ago.
When the German officer didn't know what it meant, he was told that it meant
the same as, "Go to Hell." The German then expressed regret at the civilian
losses this would cause.

Check out soc.history.war.world-war-ii at Deja News with "Nuts" in the
subject for the entire thread.

> John Leary wrote:

> From what I've read here and there, the story goes something like this:

Around noon on 22 December, four Germans approached an 101 Abn outpost under a
white flag. With them was a demand for surrender of all US troops defending
Bastogne. Upon receipt of the surrender demand, the 101's acting CO, Gen.
Anthony McAuliffe said "Aw, nuts." Then he began to discuss with his staff
what the appropriate response should be. Eventually, McAuliffe's operations
chief, LtCol Harry Kinnard, said "That first remark of yours would be hard to
beat." Puzzled, McAuliffe asked "What did I say?" Kinnard
> replied "You said 'nuts'." Delighted, McAuliffe sat down and wrote:

To the German Commander:

Nuts!

A.C.McAuliffe American Commander

The Germans were understandably confused when they were presented with the
answer. When they asked whether this is an affirmative or negative reply, an
American officer explained: "It's decidedly negative. It means goto hell."