The Ultimate Question, part 65

[After Chuck has food delivered to their stakeout vehicle.] 

Casey: The idea behind a stakeout is to remain inconspicuous, you moron.

Chuck: Uh, hello? That's why I used an alias.

 

- Chuck (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 64

""There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he (Sherlock), leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.""

- The Naval Treaty by sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Ultimate Question, part 63

Sarah: Wow, I didn't think people still named their kids Chuck. Or Morgan, for that matter.

Chuck: My parents were sadists, and carnival freaks found him in a dumpster.

Morgan: But they raised me as one of their own.

- Chuck (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 62

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

- Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech (1963)

The Ultimate Question, part 61

23rd March 
Diamonds are forever

Except they're not. No story here because Sherlock decided not to take the case. Apparently a missing diamond isn't 'interesting' enough.

Still, we discovered a body today so that's something for him to get excited about.
 

10 comments

Where have I heard that phrase before? Diamonds are forever?

Sherlock Holmes 23 March 17:08

 

James Bond. You have heard of James Bond?

John Watson 23 March 18:02

 

I've heard of him, yes.

Sherlock Holmes 23 March 18:04

 

You haven't seen one, have you? Right, we're having a Bond night.

John Watson 23 March 18:06

 

It's nice to have something to look forward to.

Sherlock Holmes 23 March 18:09

 

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Sherlock.

John Watson 23 March 18:14

 

That's demonstrably untrue. That clip of a cat falling off a shelf for example. The one you insisted on watching twelve times.

Sherlock Holmes 23 March 18:16

 

That WAS funny. Anyway, why are you writing on my blog when you're sat downstairs?!

John Watson 23 March 18:20

 

I. AM. BORED. And I'm wondering what temperature I'd need to create to blow up your cans of beer...

Sherlock Holmes 23 March 18:23

 

OK OK I'm coming down.

John Watson 23 March 18:24

- The blog of Dr. John H. Watson 

The Ultimate Question, part 60

"Don't make people into heroes, John. Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them."

- Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 59

Chuck: Big Mike wants us to fix all these computers in two days or he's giving the position to

            Tang. Sorry guys. And Anna.

Anna: "Guys" is fine; I don't mind.

Chuck: It's not right. We need to come up with something non-gender specific. How do we

            feel about "team"?

Anna: Fellow Nerd Herders?

Lester: The Lesters?

Jeff: Chuck's Stable of Hos?

 

- Chuck (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 58

"Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours."
Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly and you can't pin him down to anything."
"Indeed?" asked Abdullah. "Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
"What do you mean — vices?" Sophie asked angrily. "I was just describing Howl."

- Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

The Ultimate Question, part 57

King Claudius: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
Hamlet: At supper.
King Claudius: At supper! Where?
Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
               convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your
               worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
               creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
               maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
               variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
               that's the end.

- Hamlet, act IV scene III

The Ultimate Question, part 56

Claudius: Where is Polonius?
Hamlet: In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger
              find him not there, seek him i' the other place
              yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within
              this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
              stairs into the lobby

- Hamlet, act IV scene III

The Ultimate Question, part 55

The Captain: What does Montag do with his day off duty?

Guy Montag: Not very much, sir. Mow the lawn.

The Captain: And what if the law forbids that?

Guy Montag: Just watch it grow, sir.

 

-Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)

The Ultimate Question, part 54

Ross: I don't want to be single, okay? I just— I just— I just want to be married again.

(Rachel in a wedding dress enters the shop)

Chandler: And I just want a million dollars!

 

- Friends (TV series)

The Ultimate Question, part 53

"Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London
 Underground."

- Albus Dumledore in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone