Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Ultimate Question, part 222

"What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety."


- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Ultimate Question, part 221

"Which one was first, egg or hen, and what was rooster's part in the business?"

- Abiturs' parody about matriculation examination questions

Monday, January 2, 2012

The Ultimate Question, part 119

“Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”

- The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Ultimate Question, part 118

"(singing) The drugs are spreading everywhere! The drugs are fun to plant and share!"

- Drug education by Rauno Repomies in Pasila (TV series)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Ultimate Question, part 117

"Although this film is inspired by John Ronson's book 'The Men Who Stare at Goats', it is a fiction, and characters Lynn Cassady and Bill Django are based on actual persons, Sergeant Glrén Wheaton and Colonel Jim Channon, all other characters are invented or are composites and are not potrayals of actual persons. The filmmarkers ask that no one attempt walking through walls, cloudbursting while driving, or staring for hours at goats with attempt of harming them... invisibility is fine."

- Credits of film 'Men Who Stares at Goats'

Friday, December 2, 2011

The Ultimate Question, part 120

Reid: A popular theory among leading astrophysicists estimate that the hyper-matter reactor would need about 10 to the 32nd joules of energy to destroy a planet the size of Earth. Now, Lucas said it took 19 years to build the first Death Star, right, but if you look at the new essential chronology there’s a test bed prototype for a super laser that’s been… Where you going?
Morgan: Taking back the last five minutes of my life.

- Criminal Minds

The Ultimate Question, part 116

"(To Pyösti) Go! Or I'll force you to make drug education in the schools! There you'll be rapping then! When you're smoking the drugs joyfully, your will blow rapidly... No! Earworm slithered meanly into my subconcious! The medicines! I mean the legal medicines."

- Rauno Repomies in Pasila (TV series)