Friday, June 17, 2011

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)

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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)

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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