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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 11:58 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hello all,
 
I love all the different "zingers" that appear from time to time in SCI/FI. These are one or two lines that stay with us forever. Lets all join in a list of our favs.
 
Here are some of mine to get things rolling:
 
"Soon I'll be dead. And you with me." Luke Skywalker (I like saying this to people when they tell me I MUST do something.)
 
"I can kill you with a word!" Muad Dib
 
"Destroyed! By the Empire!" This works in so many situations.
 
"Scotty!" You know who. Try yelling that out in a restaurant and see what happens.
 
"Drop all weapons!" Lord Kruge (we still call that out when entering people's houses. Especially here in LA.)
 
Lets hear from all you.
 
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The stock phrases that have made it into my conversation include...
"Warning, Warning" or "Danger, Danger"
"Don't get cocky, kid." (I know, it's supposed to be, "Great kid. Don't get cocky." But it's what gets said that matters, lol)
"He's dead, Jim."
...and of course, "42"

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"Oh my stars, its full of gods!" Ken MacLeod, "The Cassini Division"

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
and "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." Yoda, Star Wars
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like Lyn, I use "42" for almost everything. Even on the phone with a customer says 'can I ask you a question."

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I think it was a Poul Anderson galactic-merchant novel, in which the protagonist is trying to set up a lucrative trade deal with the central government. He encounters the beautiful and mysterious leader of the rebel forces who want to knock down the oppressive regime. He rejects her request for help by saying, "I come to curry Caesarism, not to raze it."
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"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God. Just wonderful.

  
"That blackguard Flashman, who never speaks to one without a kick or an oath--"

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I can't believe no one said, "I've got a bad feeling about this..." yet. That's a standard.
Also, (paraphrasing a bit), "You're so unhip, I'm surprised your bum doesn't fall off." (Good ol' Zaphod)

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"Look into my eye," Aliens.

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Aliens had so many good lines, although some were stolen from Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Like: "On the bounce!" originally in ST.

Drake: "Have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez. "No. Have you?"

Hudson: "Yeah, man. But it's a dry heat."

The Sarge: "Somebody wake up Hicks."

Starship Troopers the novel and the movie: "C'mon you apes. You wanna live forever?"
Although originally attributed to an unknown Sergeant in world war two.

"Mi does the dying. Fleet just does the flying." ST the movie.

"There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut." REH's Conan. (The novels.)

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Nuke them from orbit-it's the only way to be sure.

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"Twoooo weeeeks!" - from the film Total Recall
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