The ECC VII Quote Board

Now that ECC VII is over, it is time to finally post the (in)famous Quote
Board quotes! While not as many quotes as in the past (many people were either
too caught up in games to break away to write what they heard, or didn't want
to leave their games for fear of missing more good lines that wouldn't get
recorded), there are some very good ones in here. No doubt some will surface
from people's
memory while reading these. Also, the game/scenario/circumstances
that the quote was said in will be noted in square brackets or
parentheses (or both ;-) if it was noted with the quote (or I knew
of the situation/game in question ;-).

So, without further ramblings, enjoy!

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The GZG ECC VII Quote Board FRIDAY, Feb 27:
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[at the registration table]
Bob Yeager: "Do you guys have a color printer?" (upon learning he didn't
need to have FTL drives in his SSDs for the bring-your-own-fleet game)

Aaron Neuman: "How many languages is it published in?" (referring to
the one-of-a-kind Polish copy of Full Thrust Jon T brought with him)
Jon Tuffley: "English and Polish...I'm thinking of doing an American edition."
(said copy was later auctioned off, with the proceeds going back into the con
funds)

Tony Finan: "Nothing burns like a chicken." John Lerchey: "Especially after
you launch them."

[War of the Worlds game]
Indy: "What do you have exposed to his [the Martians] units?" David Raynes:
"Errr....these two." Indy: "Pick which one that you want to save..."

[War of the Worlds]
David Raynes: "That's my favorite tactic: recon by Green!"

[P.O.D. Racing]
Mike Hudak: "I'm losing control here rapidly."

[War of the Worlds]
Indy: "You want me to roll the die?" (as Aaron Teske misses with three shots
in a row)

[War of the Worlds]
Tony Finan: "Not even close....waitaminute, I am!" (after double-
checking the range from his Martians range bands to target)

[Egg McGuffin?]
Scott Field: "The bad news is I have no working systems. The good news is I
don't have to roll thresholds for them."

[War of the Worlds]
David Horning: "This is a game where the Martians have superior technology but
no idea of tactics." John Lerchey: "I'm not going there."

[Egg McGuffin?]
Scoff Field: "Damn, he's going to miss the asteroid. I really wanted him to
hit it."

Chauncy: "I got a NEW plan!"

[War of the Worlds]
David Raynes: There are twoo many things on this table trying to reproduce."

[War of the Worlds]
Tony Finan: "He's doing the one-legged Martian Happy Dance!" (referring
to one of his tripods that just had two legs shot off - as interpretted
by two Mobility chits drawn in from a single tank's fire)

SATURDAY, Feb 28
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[WWII In The Dirt - DSII game]
David H: "You don't know what's there, but there could be armored chipmunks."

[RE: the minis painting contest]
Scoff Field: "The bases are painted better than most of my ships!"

[Stuart's Cinegrunt game]
Martin: (in falsetto, as Victoria) "Darling! Please don't let the beard throw
you!" (talking to Nick, after Victoria refused to let Nick's character
go....with marriage in her eyes....)

[WWII In The Dirt]
John Lerchey?: "Ivan the Invincible!" (referring to his nigh-
immortal Soviet tank group) After being killed moments later: "Ivan the Almost
Invincible!"

[Cinegrunt]
Aaron Teske: "Getting shot in the head was not exactly expected."

[Carnage con Queso]
Adrian: "He got two terminators, and **I** get a little alien who wants to
kill me??"

[Carnage con Queso]
Tomb Barclay: "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!...I mean, don't shoot Adrian."

[Carnage con Queso]
Mike Hudak: "I didn't even want the 10 points, I just wanted to kill the news
team."

[Carnage con Queso]
Laserlight: "You have a lawyer - you're the natural enemy of all
mankind."

[Carnage con Queso]
Tony Finan: "The sniperbot is more human than the lawyer."

[Carnage con Queso]
John C: "These are Mexican Aliens. They go right through you."

[Carnage con Queso]
Paul J: "If anyone wants to buy a bridge, I'll sell it to you."

[Carnage con Queso]
Unknown: "Seize the cheese! Seize the cheese!"

[Carnage con Queso]
Mike Hudak: "Normally I'd be happy to take second, but I don't know if I
should feel comfortable being equal to [Tom] Barclay."

Carl Sheu: "I got monkey-stomped" (relating the tale of a recent
less-than-victorious FT game)

[FT Pirate game]
Jerry Han: "Nobody threatens Pirate Han, ayyyye!"

[Found Me A Sheep - FMA Sheep game]
John C: "On the one hand, we have unspeakable ancient evil. On the other, we
have the U.N. You tell me: which is easier to control?"

[Found Me A Sheep]
Jon Tuffley: "This Elder God isn't sufficiently enraged, so let's go poke it
with a stick."

[Found Me A Sheep]
John Tuffley: "Range is...do I count to the middle of the eldritch horror or
to the end of its tentacle?"

[Found Me A Sheep]
Indy (looking for the character portraying him): "Where am I?" Jon Tuffley:
"You're the one in roller blades with enormous cleavage."
Indy: I--what?!?"
Mike Hudak: "And Jon's your roommate." Jon Tuffley: "If he looked like her I
don't think I'd worry."

[Found Me A Sheep]
Adrian: "What we need is a nuke to attack Cthulu with." Laserlight (as Honest
Abdul): "Ahh, effendi. What value would you put on such an item?" Adrian:
"Well, it is pretty valuable." [looks at character sheet] "How about TomB's
soul?" Laserlight: [blinks] Lasterlight: "You got it. The nuke is in the
mosque..."..moments later... Adrian: "Poor TomB" Jon Tuffley: "He's not going
to need it. He's Canadian."

[Found Me A Sheep]
Laserlight: "I hate to tell you this, Indy....actually, I'm not going to tell
you. Jon can tell you." Jon Tuffley: "You're being groped by a tentacle."
(referring to the
roller-blading, gun-toting chick representing Indy who was currently
ensnared by the green spongebob wannabe)

[Found Me A Sheep]
All FMA Sheep players, as the Narn Baa Squad, surround Tom Barclay menacingly:
"BAA! BAA! BAAAA!" Tomb: Now, I'm not only not associated with this game, but
I'm the
innocent victim of a drive-by sheeping."

[Found Me A Sheep]
Tomb: "This must be Jon's way of dealing out a viscous bleating" (after his
character took two stress chits from the strange
baaa-rbaric ritual)

[Found Me A Sheep]
Adrian: "It's a transgender sheep." Unknown: "Wouldn't that make it a
sheepmale?"

FMAS III - THE QUEST FOR THE SOUL OF TOMB BAAA-RCLAY
A.K.A., Zombie Sheep con Queso

Sunday, February 29:
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[EFSB game]
(Homonculus) Lorenzo: "Aaron [Neuman], based on what Tony told me about you, I
had a lot of respect for you. But now that I've read this briefing, I know
you're just sadistic."

[Battle for Durango DSII game]
Scott Field: "Oh no, not more cows! Oh well, at least they're not sheep."

[EFSB game]
JP Fiset rolls ten beam dice for 1 point of damage. Aaron Neuman: "Are you
guys REALLY trying?"

[Battle for Durango]
John Lerchey (defender): "Are you shooting my tanks again?" (to Jerry
who just targetted 4xGMS/H's at John's platoon)
Jerry Han: "You shot at me. I feel I have the right to shoot back."

Vince: "DISCLAIMER - no sheep were actually harmed in the making
of these games!"

[Battle for Durango]
Jerry Han (after firing a GMS/L, one of which drew a 'Firer
Systems Down' chit on the previous turn): "Okay, now to draw 3 chits and avoid
the dreaded 'Firer Systems Down'" (to which end he did indeed draw another
'Firer Systems Down' as his first chit).

[Battle for Durango]
Scott Field (to John L after John's tank failed to fire): "You only get a
'Firer Systems Down' if you are a Canadian or shooting at a Canadian."

[FT game]
Scott B: "Turn to your right - NO! Your OTHER right!" (immediately
after an NSL battlegroup got its directions wrong)

Scott B: "Picture if you will...all of Pennsic doing the macarena."

> Indy wrote:

> [P.O.D. Racing]

Mike was the GM.

> [Carnage con Queso]

Paul had found a Bridge-in-a-Box

> [Found Me A Sheep]

He ["she" -- Edie Kochte] tried feeding Sponge-Bob Squidlips a
deep-fried Mars bar.  When it grabbed her with a tentacle, she tried
hacking at it with a climbing axe, shooting it with a pistol, and finally
reading a spelunking magazine to it, presumably in hopes of boring it to
death?

> [Found Me A Sheep]

> Laserlight wrote:
[...]
> > [Found Me A Sheep]

Jon musta found my collection of NSS (National Speleological Society)
magazines the day he was "resting" from his flight over. ;-D  Stark
contrast to Zoo Weekly that Jon brought over...and left behind...with Nell
McAndrew in it...I'll be in my bunk.

> > [Found Me A Sheep]

Now that the subject has been brought up, will it appear next year?

Mk

> Indy wrote:

I'd already put the spelunking magazine on Eddie Kocht's equipment list (and a
wallet on Jersey Han's, and so forth) about a week before. I don't want to
think about what JonT would have put on there if we'd given him free rein.

> [Found Me A Sheep]

Will "Found Me A Sheep" (or "Zombie Pirate Sheeps con Queso", or whatever)
appear next year? I don't know, I'll have to wait till Adrian

stops gibbering. Or did you mean TomB's soul? David Raynes had it when

last I saw. The ECC Committee might enquire if he'd be willing to donate it
for auction....

> Laserlight wrote:

I think that, for the benefit of those list members of nervous disposition, we
ought to explain at this point that "ZOO" is a new UK
"lad's mag" - kind of like a weekly version of FHM or MAXIM - and
nothing to do with, ahem, "animal husbandry" or similar pursuits....

I picked up the current UK FHM at Heathrow to read on the plane, and a free
sample copy of ZOO came bundled with it.... Indy seemed to take a liking to
it, so I left it with him (along with this month's SFX as well, which has a
very perky Eliza Dushku on the cover).

If Indy has a secret stash of spelunking* mags, then I never noticed
them...... but hey, each to their own!

<GRIN>

Jon (GZG)

* It's a very good thing that I understand what this means, as the
possibilities for bad jokes are practically endless - but then I
guess Laserlight had this in mind when he put it on the character
sheet...

> > [Found Me A Sheep]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:01:24 +0100 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
> (K.H.Ranitzsch) writes:

Yes, we have. <grin>

> Guesss this depends on what media you were looking at. I have seen
Sometimes I think 'serious Media' = 'tabloids" here in USA. Ever since the
news became entertainment oriented.

Gracias,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:28:19 -0600 Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
writes: <snip>
> I suppose, we should cut this thread, though perhaps the last word

Agreed. Ryan, any comment?

Gracias,