Elite-22

[Spartacus]

"As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which AAP believed passionately. He was crazy."

 

[Spartacus]

"an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him." -Biteme

 

[Spartacus]

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive." -Lestat

 

[Spartacus]

"There was only one catch and that was Elite-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Gambino was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more alters. Gambino would be crazy to fly more alters and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Stilleto was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Elite-22 and let out a respectful whistle."

 

[GUARDIAN]

????

 

[Spartacus]

"'Elite-22...says you've always got to do what your commanding moderator tells you to.
"'But Elite admin says I can go plat with 199 dollars.'
"'But they don't say you have to go plat. And regulations do say you have to obey every order. That's the catch."

 

[Wulfgar]

I liked the movie catch-22

 

[Spartacus]

"History did not demand Phaded's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Phaded was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance."

 

[puddlemonkey]

"an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him." -Biteme

lol@biteme using "retrospective falsification".

 

[Spartacus]

"Borris was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant needto knew that borris might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet mods; tomorrow it might be the world. Borris had a mind, and Lieutenant needto had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet mods whom borris had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against borris was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with."

 

[Spartacus]

"I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning." -Redguru

 

[Spartacus]

"With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the forum to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway." -Youngguns

 

[Spartacus]

"Open your eyes, Spartacus. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."-AAP

 

[Spartacus]

"The enemy," retorted killahbee with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you bant, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Samoth. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live."

 

[Spartacus]

Javaguru sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Samoth at the officers' club one night to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that admin had moved in. "What Lepage gun?" colonel samoth inquired with curiosity. "The new three hundred and forty four millimeter Lepage keystroke gun," javaguru answered. "It deletes a whole thread of posts together in mid-page."

 

[Spartacus]

"You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail." MrPlunkey to AAP

 

[Spartacus]

"digger's heart sank. Something was terribly wrong if everything was all right and they had no excuse for another banning."

 

[Spartacus]

Climb, you bastard! Climb, climb, climb, climb!" anonymous to lestat

 

[Spartacus]

"They couldn't dominate bikinimom inside C&C, but they certainly made her behave. They had taught her manners. They couldn't keep bikinimom out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. People gave up the ghost with delicacy and taste inside C&C. There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about juicing that was so common outside of C&C. They did not blow up in mid-post like heatherrae or the dead alter in Stilleto's tent, or ignored to death in the blazing posting after midnight the way pick3 had been ignored to death after spilling his secret to rnch in the pictures of men forum."

 

[Spartacus]

The bino had "failed miserably, had choked up once again in the face of opposition from a moderator. It was a familiar, ignominious experience, and his opinion of himself was low."

 

[Spartacus]

"But I make a profit of 10 and 97 cents a plat by selling them for 11.97 a plat to the people in the discussion forums. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share." over heard by george to his drinking buddies at the Golden Cougar

 

[layinback]

"i would never join a club that would have me for a member." woody allen


"it is just a matter of time before i am banned." layinback

 

[Spartacus]

This time 4everhung had gone too far. Bombing his own men and gamblers was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him...4everhung was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made."

 

[Spartacus]

"It was possible that there were other threads of which he had never heard and that one of these other threads would explain succinctly the baffling phenomenon of which he had been both a witness and a part; it was even possible that none of what he thought had taken place, really had taken place, and that he was dealing with an aberration of memory rather than of perception, that he never really had thought he had seen what he now thought he once did think he had seen, that his impression now that he once had thought so was merely the illusion of an illusion, and that he was only now imagining that he had ever once imagined seeing a naked man sitting in a tree at the cemetery." spartacus commenting on jnevin

 

[Spartacus]

"...wootoom was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver."

 

[Spartacus]

"You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and bant!" -digger

 

[Spartacus]

"i would never join a club that would have me for a member." woody allen

"that's the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority."

 

[Spartacus]

"And looking very superior, he tossed down on the table a photostatic copy of a piece of e mail in which everything but the salutation "Dear Jack Schitt" had been blocked out and on which the censoring officer had written, 'I long for you tragically. Big Rick Rock, Admin, Elite Army.'"

 

[Spartacus]

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Jack Schitt's fault. The board was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them."

 

[Spartacus]

"Here was digger's plenty, allright, he thought bitterly as he stared- liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes that phaded had eaten that day for lunch."

 

[Spartacus]

"He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret samoth had spilled all over the messy forum. It was easy to read the message in his posts. Man was matter, that was Samoth's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Samoth's secret. Ripeness was all."

 

[Spartacus]

"When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven, or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and human tragedy." -Lestat

 

[Spartacus]

"Run away to Ukraine, Spartacus. And I'll stay here and persevere. Yes. I'll persevere. I'll nag and badger Colonel needto and Colonel stilleto every time I see them. I'm not afraid"- fistfullofsteel

 

[Spartacus]

"And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways," AAP continued [...] "There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"

 

[stilleto]

i told you feathers are sharp and painful. not soft and fluffy like people think.
right?

also, i can tell that you love me.

 

[Spartacus]

i told you feathers are sharp and painful. not soft and fluffy like people think.
right?

also, i can tell that you love me.

I would

 

[Spartacus]

"There are billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping me alive and healthy, and every one is a potential traitor and foe." -samoth

 

[Spartacus]

"He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down." -mrdb

 

[Spartacus]

"On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain the chores would not be done." -bino

 

[Spartacus]

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
T boy

 

[Spartacus]

"I'm talking about cooperating. Favors. You do a favor for me, I'll do one for you. Get it?"
-stilleto

 

[Spartacus]

"Do one for me," spartacus requested. "Not a chance," stilleto answered.

 

[Spartacus]

"Who is Spain?"

"Why is Hitler?"
"When is right?"
"Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call wodin when the merry-go-round broke down?"
"How was wootoom at Amsterdam?"
"Ho-ho beriberi."
"Balls!"
all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was needto with the question that had no answer:
"Where are the noodle kegs of yesteryear?"

 

[Spartacus]

He was polite to his elders, who disliked him. Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him never to put off until the next day what he could do the day before, and he never did. He was told to honor his father and his mother, and he honored his father and his mother. He was told that he should not kill, and he did not kill, until he got into the Army. Then he was told to kill, and he killed. He always turned the other cheek on every occasion and always did unto others exactly as he would have had others do unto him. When he gave to charity, his left hand never knew what his right hand was doing. He never took the name of the Lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbour's ass. In fact, he loved his neighbour and never even bore false witness against him. scotsman's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.

 

[stilleto]

So far, sounds pretty accurate.

 

[jnevin]

"It was possible that there were other threads of which he had never heard and that one of these other threads would explain succinctly the baffling phenomenon of which he had been both a witness and a part; it was even possible that none of what he thought had taken place, really had taken place, and that he was dealing with an aberration of memory rather than of perception, that he never really had thought he had seen what he now thought he once did think he had seen, that his impression now that he once had thought so was merely the illusion of an illusion, and that he was only now imagining that he had ever once imagined seeing a naked man sitting in a tree at the cemetery." spartacus commenting on jnevin

lol

I had to rear this one a couple of times.

 

[stilleto]

lol

I had to rear this one a couple of times.

freudian slip there, buddy?

 

[Spartacus]

do me a favor and take your low brow humor elsewhere

 

[jnevin]

freudian slip there, buddy?

LOL

I'm awesome at typing.

Spart- I know.

 

[Spartacus]

freudian slip there, buddy?

weak

 

[myway]

I love Joseph Heller. Picture this and closing time were almost as good as catch 22.