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"I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army".
This is an easy one. L. |
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"Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs."
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Oh... wait, maybe this wasn't an SF novel. But, it is a great opening line. BOb |
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"I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.
I never thought I'd live to see the day when Keep A-Movin' Dan would decide to deadhead until the heat death of the Universe." |
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"The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed sub-category. He's got esprit up to here."
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But you did make me think about lines that coiuld be applicable to convention experiences. Maybe something from E.E Smith's Lensman series, comparing someone's intellect to that of a Zabriskan Fontema... ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 10-11-2009 at 09:37 PM. |
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This is not one I remembered but ran across it and it is a great one. Let's see if anyone recognizes it:
"If a female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter otherwise, do not." |
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Yes Sir, which I just downloaded to re-read and the reason I ran across it.
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