The GZG ECC VI Quote Board

Greetings!

Below is the (in)famous GZG ECC Quote Board for ECC VI. Note, due to
handwriting styles being rather drastically different, some of what was
actually written on the board may not have been transcribed properly (did my
best). Also, there were a few quotes that had no attributes, and thus are
marked "Unknown". I tried to give some background info to the quote when it
was either known [by me] or written down by the contributor. In any event,
feel free to send me corrections so we can get the amended version of this up
on the website (and if you feel a quote is missing, post it; I only
transcribed what was on the pages of the Quote Board). Some of the inflections
are lost in this transcibing, and that is a shame. Perhaps one day we will
have
audio recordings instead. ;-)  In the mean time, enjoy the read, and
put in place anyone's tone, accent (such as Stuart's rather dry British
accent), inflection in places as you might know it.

Mk
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                        The GZG-ECC VI Quote Board

**Friday Evening**

TomB - "It's not how many times you win or lose, it's how many times
you kill JP."

John Crimmins - "Going hand-to-hand with the cyborg monkey may be a
bad idea."

At the beginning of Stuart Murray's now famous Friday Night Cinegrunt game
series:
Stuart - "If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it and
mount it."
Indy - "Mount it??"
Stuart - "On the wall."
Indy - "Just wanted to be sure."

Aaron Newman - "Your sensor readings say 'soft & squishy'."

Stuart - "Amelia has been attacked by the nasty Pathanes"
Jon Davis (at another table, with high voice, in role of Amelia) - "Oh!
You brutes! You brutes!"

Stuart (referring to a Pathane that just had a close encounter with
[old religious women group] - "He's been converted."
David Raynes - "That's the strangest form of close combat I've ever
seen."

Unknown - "Follow the sheep! Follow the sheep!"

Soliciting reasons for a given platoon to start with an extra action on a
given turn of Cinegrunt:
Adrian Johnson - "We! We want to go first! Fire the canon at these
hordes of - KA-BANG!"
Stuart - "Noooo, that's no good."

Stuart - "The sheep were boring."

Indy (in the role of the Great White Hunter, still rolling miserably
and catching the tiger's attention) - "I winged the tiger. I'm toast."

Laserlight - "A morale check? I need a morale check?"
Stuart - "'Cause you might flee the building."
Laserlight - "That's what I'm planning on doing anyway."
Stuart - "So make a morale check."

Jerry Han - "Hey, you're attacking the ship I'm going to shoot at!"
TomB - "Yeah, I've seen your shooting."

Stuart (Referring to a close assault combat where the Pathanes killed
7 charging Brits and lost only one of their own) - "Guys? Can I point
something out? Those are colonial regulars. I've played a lot of colonial
games. And that sucks."

Adrian (referring to a role-play act he had to perform at the end of
Cinegrunt) - "I don't supposed I can get that picture erased…I can't
believe you guys talked me into proposing to Laserlight."

[soon after]
Adrian - What?? There was a video? Oh bugger!"

**Saturday Morning**

Jerry Han - "I'm Canadian, I'm not stupid!"

Jon Davis (Ambush FT scenario) - "I don't know what's funnier. Indy
rolling 1's on his p-torps or rolling 1's and getting eaten by a
tiger." (Indy had the only p-torp ship on the NSL side and, well,
tried...)

Mike Hudak (right after the SDF1 from Robotech appears) - "Do we want
to shoot at it, or check whether it is friend or foe?"

Jerry Han - "I've got to mount that more firmly next time."

Dan Blezak (counting beam dice) - "…6…12…18…22. Oh, this is fun."

Mike Hudak - "Who's ever dice these are, I want to buy them!"

Aaron Teske - "Three class-3s on the battleship." (rolls 1,1,2)
Jon Davis - "Hahahaha! That's an Indy Roll."

Roger Burton West - "When 2 gamers love each other very much..."
Rick Rutherford - "They get together and make...miniatures."

Robert Doughty - "You shot my friends! I'll shoot your friends!"
(bummer that the ship he was speaking to turned out to be just out of arc)

Adrian to Rick Rutherford after Adrian/JP's 10th failed comms roll in
Carnage Con Queso - "*#!& off!"

JP to Adrian after Adrian has failed to successfully calculate
fractional casualties in SG for the third time (simple division) -
"Adrian, what I'm really looking forward to is you trying to divide something
by four."

JP, after failing 4-5 comms rolls and aiy arrow penetration rolls in
Carnage Con Queso (early in the game, JP entered a boggy ditch) - "It's
the goo."

Roger Burton West - "I'm just waiting to work up enough nerve to run
away."

Adrian - "You suppress him. That's good, he can't do anything
except...call for artillery."

Aaron Newman - "He's using a grenade indoors, how could this not go
wrong?"

Unknown - "Read the instructions. Hitting buildings is discouraged."

A momentarily confused Indy - "What was I doing?"
Jon Davis - "We're having a p-torp moment."

Adrian during FMA Sheep - "Can I spend an activation to recock this
sheep?"

[then later]
Adrian - "Hey, that's not nice. You sunk my battlesheep…"

Mike Hudak (after unsuccessfully negotiating) - "I'm using one of my
actions to do something with Abdul."

John Crimmins - "I've come back from the dead and I smell like
lambchops and mint jelly. That says some disturbing things about the
afterlife."
Adrian - "The sheep know more than we do."

Mike Hudak - "I couldn't get a smoke grenade and YOU raised the dead?"
Laserlight - "You're talking to a merchant. He's talking to a saint."

Jerry Accord - "I gotta kill! Write your darn orders down!"

Tomb, to Stuart playing in another game - "Stuart, you've been killed
and raised from the dead by Jon of Needham "
Stuart - "I would have expected nothing less."
(Stuart's reincarnation was subsequently rescinded by divine fiat at the
request of the character on his side who requested he be raised)

JP (looking at all the cotton 'smoke' on the field of killed tanks in
The Battle for Gramicci Pass DSII game) - "It's starting to look like
winter."

Jerry Han (after using a geiger counter to detect the Fissionable Mass
Atomic Sheep) - "Gentlemen! RUN!"
TomB (referee, in a dry tone) - "And will you be speaking to the French
as well?"
[note: Jerry WAS the FSE...]

Unknown - "I can't get over Stuart coming back to life and smelling
like lamb chops."

Jim Bell & Indy (as two 'boom' chits are drawn in one pull) - "Boom!
Boom! Out go the lights!"
Nick Caldwell - "Hahahaha! (pause) That's not funny."

Indy (refereeing The Battle for Gramicci Pass) - "I'll be here for a
while 'cause Nick wants to FINISH a Dirstide game."
Jerry Han - "Okay, I'll bring the No-Doze."

All participants from FMA Sheep - "We just sat around having a pleasant
conversation. Nothing happened. There was no event. Nobody tell Beth."

**Sunday Morning**

Mike Hudak (refereeing FMA-Frag!) - Do you have a character sheet?"
Aaron Newman - "No."
Mike Hudak - "You should. Otherwise all your stats will be '1' and that
could suck."

Unknown - "It's too early in the morning to face the Teske."

Jerry Han (during Indy's undersea AquaThrust game) - "I assume this
isn't a floating map. Oh, well, it is, but "

Roger Burton West - "I hate to bring this up, but I note a significant
lack of Damage Control parties."

Indy - "Okay, all plotted?"
All - "Yep!"
Indy - "Move 'em!...then take photos."

Carl Scheu (while rolling threshold checks) - "Oh, SCREW me!"
Bill Spring (who just happened by) - "Probably not something you want
to walk in on."

During Jon Davis' Battle for Huntington DSII scenario, Dan Blezak rolls and
fails to close assault Constitutionalist militia. Stuart looks at
his figs and says - "That's probably because they're all facing the
wrong direciontion." (then he fixes them for Dan)

Laserlight (in FMA-Frag!) - "Now that Adrian is out of the game, we're
all going to have to stop and think about who we're going to shoot."

Aaron Teske (AquaThrust) - "I have no counter-measures, I have only two
hull boxes left." Roger Burton West (calculating the # of dice of torpedo
damage he was
about to inflict) - "Even I can't screw that up."

End of the Con

Dan Blezak - "Be careful. My ninja reflexes almost took over."

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

> Stuart (referring to a Pathane that just had a close encounter with

The London Ladies' Temperance Society, tagging along with the Brit column to
save the soldiers from the Evils of Drink. They also managed to crew an
artillery piece and fire a round at attacking Pathans; the Pathans then
captured the gun but the Temperance Society (played by RickR) managed to
convert one of them.

> Unknown - "Follow the sheep! Follow the sheep!"

That was me, conning the Great White Hunter

> Stuart - "The sheep were boring."

I think that was when the Great White Hunter's dog Blinky left off chasing the
sheep and went over to attack (and kill!) the Pathan shepherd boy.

> Stuart (Referring to a close assault combat where the Pathanes killed

It was worse than that. A Gurkha unit attacked the Pathans (who were
holding Emelia and her duenna) and died like dogs--I think it was
Pathans
8, Gurkhas 0.  The love-struck Leftenant Yeatman-Briggs then led an
attack by the Brit regulars and it was Brits 6, Pathans 1. The unit went on to
attack another Pathan building, leaving behind the Leftenant (who was busy
proposing)...and got slaughtered, with the survivors breaking and routing,
inspiring Stuart's comment.

> Mike Hudak - "Who's ever dice these are, I want to buy them!"

Jerry then said "These are the dice that I can't hit the side of a barn with!"
and Mike immediately replied "So they should be cheap!"

> Robert Doughty - "You shot my friends! I'll shoot your friends!"

One of Vincent's Islamic Fed ships shot (and destroyed? don't recall) a KV
ship. Robert, on the KV side, wanted to shoot back at that ship, but it was at
the edge of the IF formation and just out of arc. Thus "I'll shoot your
friend" rather than "I'll shoot you"

> Adrian during FMA Sheep - "Can I spend an activation to recock this

Adrian had found a Full Metal Attack Sheep and used it to fire at the other
side, but he had to spend an action to get it ready to fire again.

Oh, by the way...these quotes from Found Me A Sheep are strictly conjectural,
there was no event, no one can prove anything, look at the little blinky red
light here...

> Indy wrote:

> A momentarily confused Indy - "What was I doing?"

G'day guys,

> All participants from FMA Sheep - "We just sat around having

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:55:35AM +1100, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> There were sheep and nothing happened?! I don't believe you! What are

You might want to take a look at the pictures I've just posted...

R

> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

We've got to chip in and get the Fulton family to the States for an ECC! We'd
have a blast!

:-)

> >There were sheep and nothing happened?! I don't believe you! What

No, you don't. Trust me on this, you really, really, really don't.
Those are faked pictures anyway--nothing happened.

G'day,

G'day,

> No, you don't. Trust me on this, you really, really, really don't.

You know saying that just makes me more suspicious.... your first name ain't
Brer is it?;)

> > No, you don't. Trust me on this, you really, really, really

Nope, it's Honest Abdul, Purveyor of Fine Camels Slightly Used. And
you don't want to know.   So how's the weather in Tasmania?  I gather
that it snowed about a meter deep in either Toronto or Montreal this weekend
(this report is second hand and I don't know which relative it came from).
Must have made driving home rather interesting for those headed for the Great
White North.

G'day,

> Nope, it's Honest Abdul, Purveyor of Fine Camels Slightly Used. And

Ohh I think you're right there!

> So how's the weather in Tasmania?

Assuming I got my C->F right about 90 - 95 F. Nice and hot ;)

> I gather that it snowed about a meter deep...

Yes I've been hoping with one thing and another everything has gone smoothly!

Fingers crossed