Quotemining for fun

[Inferno]

Is that me you're quoting? For the love of...! :lol:
Where did you get the bit about Hitchens though?

 

[Lallapalalable]

Is that me you're quoting? For the love of...! :lol:
Where did you get the bit about Hitchens though?

I was searching user posts, and went for one that was as serious as could be. Dont remember the exact thread,tttt, but I believe it was under religion and irreligion, and you were paraphrasing someone elses interpretation of his words/message.

Edit: This post

 

[lrkun]

"The key to change... is to let go of fear." - Rosanne Cash

After quote mining, The key to change is to fear.

 

[lrkun]

Money is more useful than god. - revy

Quote mined version - God is more useful than money.

 

[Lallapalalable]

lrkun, not to nitpick, but thats not exactly quote mining. It should be a chronologically ordered set of words fromt the original quote with few alterations.

ie, the Sagan quote from the OP origianally read "It aroused generations of eight year olds, myself included, of the possibility of life on Mars."

The funniest ones are those least altered with the most provocative interperetations.

 

[lrkun]

lrkun, not to nitpick, but thats not exactly quote mining. It should be a chronologically ordered set of words fromt the original quote with few alterations.

ie, the Sagan quote from the OP origianally read "It aroused generations of eight year olds, myself included, of the possibility of life on Mars."

The funniest ones are those least altered with the most provocative interperetations.

It's okay. I appreciate your effort for correcting my mistake. I'll follow that format in the next succeeding posts.

 

[Your Funny Uncle]

Creationist are correct.

 

[lrkun]

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." - Isaac Asimov

Ergo,

I believe in an afterlife, I spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.

 

[Inferno]

I just got a bit of fan mail on a different forum and thought I'd share it. Quote-mine at the bottom.

short introduction to the English language then, because apparently I seem to be better at it than you, even though it is merely my second language.

Oh, this is going to be so funny since I am actually English, and this is my native tongue whereas you speak a bastardized version of English that makes for amusing reading in pre-school classes my other half gives

"In a sentence, you need at least a subject and a predicate. -> "Arnold and Jenny are dancing.""

You want to lecture me on predicate and proposition? and you are what? 20? lol. Hey dickhead I was studying predicate and proposition with respect to it's application to artificial intelligence and building working models whilst your daddy's dick slipped out of your mom's ass and into her pussy accidently making the shit stain that is you!.

Save your 'analysis' for someone dumb enough to give your stupidity airtime. His remark was with respect to my post. To take a paragraph out of context and respond to something that I was not saying is dishonest and disigenuous just as you are being with respect to my answer to it.

Now dickhead, you obviously think you armed with a superior intellect despite repeatedly acting like an asshole, deliberately taking things out of context and assuming superiority without due cause, so as a matter of decency I suggest you rethink your attitude. You are not even a zit on my ass boy, and I really have no time for arrogant bullshitters whose only purpose in life is create a drama out of nothing so that they can look hard whilst shouting a few long words they once heard like 'predicate' and 'the' in order to try to impress people around them into thinking that you actually have some value to this world. If you actually care whether you are right or wrong, especially given your age and rate of gaffes, you would do well to talk less and listen more, and when you do talk, do so without such arrogance thus avoiding inviting a good bitch slapping like you are getting now. Yes, I know you are going to try to come back with some pathetic attempt of a rebuttal, but think about it, why? Do you think I give a shit whether you like me, whether you think I'm smart, whether you think I'm right or wrong? I care about what makes a decent person, and what makes an intelligent stragety for understanding. You sonny boy, have no fucking idea! grow some peach fuzz and shut the fuck up until you actually have something worthy of contributing to the forum.

You are not as smart as me, as educated as me, well read or mature. You talk like a tough guy despite the fact that you are just a spotty oik, and if you ever actually spoke to me like you do face to face it would be an experience you would never forget and something your dentists would be asking about for the rest of your life.

Some people in this world are better than you boy, get used to it, because if you don't you are going to learn some very tough lessons.

NOTE TO MODERATORS:
If you don't like the tone of this conversation then rein in this little twat immediately, elsewise revoke my membership to the forum. I don't mind which, but whilst I am active on this forum I am not going to tolerate fuckwits like this talking out of their asses and deliberately picking fights for the sake of drama.

You are armed with a superior intellect and you are a decent person. You actually have something worthy of contributing to the forum. Some people in this world learn some very tough lessons. If you like the tone of this conversation, revoke my membership to the forum.

 

[lrkun]

Some people in this world are better than you boy, get used to it, because if you don't you are going to learn some very tough lessons.

People are better used.

 

[DepricatedZero]

It's like pokemon: one day, you have all 151, nobody can deny your greatness

This is quote mining. Adding elipses to collapse sentences around words is fun, but not actually quote mining.

This, on the other hand, is hilarious without its context

 

[Lallapalalable]

ah, my bad

But I think one or two of those (elipses, brackets, etc) per quote would be acceptible here. I mean, to go without would be all the better, but some leniancy perhaps? Its just that some are so good, and to remove a certain word or ignore an irrelevant part just launch them into awesomeness.

 

[DepricatedZero]

ah, my bad

But I think one or two of those (elipses, brackets, etc) per quote would be acceptible here. I mean, to go without would be all the better, but some leniancy perhaps? Its just that some are so good, and to remove a certain word or ignore an irrelevant part just launch them into awesomeness.

Oh absolutely, they're funny as hell!

I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin

 

[SchrodingersFinch]

"I wish I were a lesbian."
"I would like you to unhook your bra and let it slide down your arms. You can keep your shirt on."
- Bill O'Reilly

Sauce (with audio clips):
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/03/off_with_those.php

 

[Laurens]

Karen Armstrong is clearly not an authority on Religious scripture, as she believes that Matthew wrote his Gospel in the 1980's:

But by the time Matthew was writing in the late 80s

- The Bible, A Biography page 70

 

[Lallapalalable]

"And then late in the afternoon on the third day of their moot, the Ents suddenly blew up. It was amazing."
Meriadoc Brandybuck (J.R.R. Tolkien), "The Two Towers"

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

"And then late in the afternoon on the third day of their moot, the Ents suddenly blew up. It was amazing."
Meriadoc Brandybuck (J.R.R. Tolkien), "The Two Towers"

Ents blowing up is always fun.