What does it mean?
Yes, that's right - as a stopgap until I can put some more CapComs up tomorrow, I've decided to revive one of Adam's worst mistakes, the QuoCom.
How does it work? Simple. I provide a line of text, you complete it. Now, look at the picture below, and give it your best shot! 8).
Picard: "Alas, poor Yorick. . . _______________"
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"Audaces fortuna juvat."
"Fortune favours the bold."
[This message was edited by Elim Garak on April 04, 1999.]
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"Audaces fortuna juvat."
"Fortune favours the bold."
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"Audaces fortuna juvat."
"Fortune favours the bold."
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'It's okay to only know three chords but God, put them in the right order'
-Hank Hill
"Uh, Data, sir."
"Alas, poor Data...I knew him well. He did not deserve such an end."
"Actually, sir..."
"Look, will you shut up?! I'm holding my friend's skull and a good bit of his nervous system here, and I could stand a little peace, all right?"
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"The record of my unspeakable crimes, in previous lives, in previous times, indelibly stains the pages of history."
--
They Might Be Giants
Perhaps if you let me judge, I would be willing to drop the suit. =P
And "one of Adam's worst mistakes"?! Hardly.
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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."
-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
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If Galileo had lied to save his life, would America, or the West, or Space have been discovered?
And if Columbus had never set sail, would the Earth still be flat?
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http://frankg.dgne.com/
Destruction Drone: "Throw down your weapons and I will spare your miserable lives!"
Rollbar: "That's the best offer we've had all day..."
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Ah... Now I enter these hallowed halls a conqueror... Yes...
-Megatron, "The Agenda, Part Three"
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'It's okay to only know three chords but God, put them in the right order'
-Hank Hill
[This message was edited by Xentrick on April 05, 1999.]
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"Audaces fortuna juvat."
"Fortune favours the bold."
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Alamaraine, count to four...
Picard: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew her, Data: a Borg Queen of infinite assimilation, of most excellent futility of resistance: she hath borne me on her back a thousand times..."
Data: "Erm... Yes, sir..." *walks away slowly*
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"About as useful as a narcoleptic rickshaw driver."
-James Lileks
*wonders how many of you know what a T-101 is* :P
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The Unknown Vulcan
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"A screaming comes across the sky..."
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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."
-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."
-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
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The Unknown Vulcan
[This message was edited by DeadCujo on April 05, 1999.]
I found this picture, and I scanned it. It's not a very good scanner. I was going to use this as a CapCom, but then I got to thinking. "What if," I asked myself, "this was used as the basis for something like that disastrous QuoCom idea of Adam's? What are YOU looking at?" (this last addressed to someone on the train who was staring at me for talking to myself).
"Furthermore," I continued, ignoring the urgent whispers that same staring person was directing to the conductor, "rather than have someone come up with the obvious 'Alas poor Yorick' line, I use that as the jumping point for people to complete this famous quotation?"
So that's what I did, and that's the thread you're reading. If I'd thought the person who'd long ago conceived of this failed competition would then get all territorial over it, I'd never have bothered. I posted this competition, I judge it. End of story. Maybe I'm wrong. Please let me know, all of you, if you think so. Now, unless anyone really objects, can we get on with havning fun?
"Alas, poor Yorick. . . gone, and never called me mother!"
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"About as useful as a narcoleptic rickshaw driver."
-James Lileks
The winner is . Runners-up are The Shadow and Xentrick.
Picard: "Alas, poor Yorick..."
Lee: "Er, the contest is over."
Picard: "Oh, good." *tosses Yorick into a junk pile*
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http://frankg.dgne.com/
Destruction Drone: "Throw down your weapons and I will spare your miserable lives!"
Rollbar: "That's the best offer we've had all day..."
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"Audaces fortuna juvat."
"Fortune favours the bold."