Insistent Terminology/Quotes
"NOTICE: This page was not 'hacked', it was 'hijacked', completely legal, we just unadmined the old admins."
—Christian Beadles., Facebook page
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"I'm not a 'crazed gunman', dad, I'm an assassin! Well, the difference being, one is a job, and the other's mental sickness!"
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Granddad: Now hold up, Slickback... —The Boondocks, "Guess Hoes Coming To Dinner"
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"I don't like this word 'bomb'. It is not a bomb but a device that is exploding."
—French Ambassador Jacques Leblanc, on nuclear weapons
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Tony Greig: The Australians, too, looking resplendent in their bright canary yellow, here. —Twelfth Man Again
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"Call me a treasure hunter or I'll rip your lungs out!"
—Locke Cole (who is not a thief), Final Fantasy VI
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"It's not pink, it's lightish red!"
—Private Donut, Red vs. Blue
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"Well, now we're just arguing semantics." |
"Write it in English, not in Pentagonese. It's not a launcher, rifle cartridge, 7.62mm; it's a rifle. Call it a compass, not a direction-finding module. And if someone insists on being called AdComPhibsPac, the Fact File should explain to those not gifted in garblespeak that he's talking about the administrative office of the communication services for amphibious forces in the Pacific."
—Preface to The United States Department of Defense Fact File
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"Right, because nothing says 'covert' like bright red, yellow, and blue spandex." |
"What do you mean 'what eyes'? Right there--the front of our Zords." |
D'Argo: You cloned me! —Farscape, "Eat Me"
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Sam: So, what do you think of all these Samulacra running around? —Sam and Max Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
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Phoenix Wright: So, how did this guy die? |
Mario: You didn't tell me you were bringing a secret weapon, Luigi! —Super Mario World cartoon
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"I know you prefer Abduction, but the proper word is Rape. It's short and businesslike."
—El Gallo, The Fantasticks
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Mrs. Van Schuyler: You perfectly foul French upstart! |
Lisa: Wait a second... you planted a phony skeleton for me to find! This was all a big hoax! —The Simpsons episode Lisa The Skeptic.
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Peter: Don't say "retard," Chris; we prefer to be called "little people."
—Family Guy, "Petarded"
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