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Those movie/tv quote memes everyone on LJ is doing. Nicked most recently from snowgrouse.

I shall be pleasantly surprised if people get all of these without cheating.

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions

1. “The video arcade is down the street. Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They’re called books.” The Neverending Story - Matt

2. “Look, a drifter! Let’s kill him.”

3. “I’m going back and clean the crackers out of my bed. I’m expecting company.”

4. “We’ve got one person online and the workload is enough for, like, ten users.” - Hackers - Jenn

5. “I guess that’s the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself.”

6. “At last we meet for the first time for the last time.” Spaceballs - Matt

7. “I say the future is ours, if you can count.”

8. “He better not have broken those chains again. I’m not going back to the zoo for another set!” The Goonies - Matt

9. “It’s just like working in a fish-market. Except you don’t have to clean and gut fish all day.”

10. “May I have 55 words with you?”

11. “And he pulls out this AT&T cellphone, pulls it out of the shrinkwrap, finger-hacks it, and starts monitoring phone calls going up and down Capitol Hill while an FBI agent is standing at his shoulder, listening to him.”

12. “And that spells cash with a capital…” “K!” “You should go back to school.” “I hated teaching.”

13. “I’m not saying that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

14. “I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don’t notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.”

15. “Then I ram my ovipositor down your throat, and lay my eggs in your chest!” Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - Rie

1. Pick 15 of your favourite TV shows.
2. Find a quote from each TV show.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions

1. “Don’t worship me. I’d make a very bad god. You wouldn’t get a day off, for starters.” Doctor Who - Cameron

2. “Excuse me. I know this is a personal question, but are you clinically insane?” “It’s very unlikely. Why?” “Well, one of us must be.”

3. “You’re on a first name basis with lucidity, little friend. I have to call it ‘Mister’ Lucidity… and that’s no good in a pinch.”

4. “Was Patty Hearst crazy when she kidnapped the Lindbergh twins?”

5. “Who are you, and how did you get in here?” “I’m a locksmith. And, I’m a locksmith.”

6. “I’ll just nip off and shoot meself.”

7. “Drugs eh? What’s the point. They make you forget, make you talk funny, make you see things that aren’t there. My old grandma got all of that for free when she had a stroke.”

8. “If you’re interested, I’ve still got that stopwatch.” Torchwood - Cameron

9. “Remember when we said there was no future? Well, this is it.”

10. “How many times do I have to hear the word ‘womb’ today?”

11. “Bad people are punished by society’s law, and good people are punished by Murphy’s Law.”

12. “Foody, food, food, do you have any? Yes you don’t? No you do?”

13. “Blimey, if that skirt was hitched any higher I could see what you had for breakfast.”

14. “My hair heater!”

15. “Push the button, Frank.”

I think I may be coming down with something.

Always when I need to get stuff done…

Those of you who, for whatever reason, will end up at ShmooCon this weekend, be sure to check out my pal RenderMan’s talk “How do I pwn thee? Let me count the ways.” It promises to be interesting, and not just because I got to draw some cartoon slides he’ll be using in his presentation.

Best.
Headline.
Ever.

(via wtf_inc)

Stolen from everyone’s Livejournal…

Choose five TV series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.

1. Doctor Who
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000
3. Life on Mars
4. Mythbusters
5. Sealab 2021

1. Which is your favorite series from your list? And why?
Probably Who in general, counting the old and new as the same show. It’s got everything from total crack to SRS BZNS and everything in between. Also, the TARDIS which is the best thing ever.

2. If you were to pair two characters from 1 and 4, who would they be?
Romana and Kari would get married and lots of hybrid artsy-scientist babies. TRUFAX.

3. What is one thing you’d like to change about 3’s plotline?
The whole “Gene does something 70s-ish/Sam complains that it’s not the right way to do it and presents the Modern Way/Gene says something like ‘ok, just this one time you try your noncey thing but really I’m right you noncey nonce who is a nonce’/they turn out to be sort of both right in the end/Gene says ’see, you noncey noncey nonce, I was right after all, also, you’re a nonce’” thing got ever so slightly repetitive at times, but perhaps that’s a side-effect of watching 6 hours of the show in a row.

4. If both main characters of 2 and 5 were falling off a cliff, which one would you save?
I wouldn’t have to, they’d either survive it in some entertainingly comic slapstick way (MST3K) or simply be alive again in the next episode with no explanation (Sealab.)

5. Which event was the most horrible for you in 1?
“The Ghosts of N-Space.” Listening to that radio play is like having gonorrhea of the imagination wrapped in a raspy Jon Pertwee voice.

6. Which is your least favorite character of 2?
Poor old Doctor Erhardt, but it’s not entirely his fault, since he never really got much to do and only appeared in the seasons where the cast and crew were still slowly figuring out how to make a TV show.

7. If the antagonist of 3 were to rape the main character of 1, what would you do?
Is it possible to get raped by the spectre of possible madness? Hm. Poor Doctor, being furiously whipped with a clown doll by the Test Card Girl…

8. What song reminds you of 5?
Quite a few, but I blame the fact that I used to run the main fansite for it, and as such got a constant stream of god-awful Amateur Music Videos submitted to me on a daily basis.

9. Of 1, 3, and 5, which is the easiest to think about?
5. Usually in the form of Murphy or Stormy quotes which improve any bad day.

10. Are the protagonists of 2 and 4 similar?
A bit, in terms of snark, and drive to dissect their source material.

My sister Jo has moved in with her fiancee, and I was asked to help them move her stuff. It was a bit of a long day, but I don’t see Jo enough. Additionally, I got to hang out with her dude for the first time, and it tuns out he’s quite cool. They’ve got my big-brotherly approval.

Now I just have to figure out the whole brother-in-law thing. What the WTF is that all about?

NYC2600 has a new What You Say!! up. Go add a caption!

Also, if you have the wherewithal to do so, kindly post the words “blank expressions” somewhere on the Internet, hyperlinked to http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ . As declared in the January 30 episode of that show, it’s for science and stuff. Srs bzns, etc.

So this is what being busier than normally allowed by sanity and physics is like.

Cool!