Quotes You Always Use

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Given your weapon of choice, in the event that you are successful perhaps you could also add, a la Nichelle Nichols: "That's why we had to beat you with tennis rackets."

This is a far cleverer rejoinder than what I’ve been doing, which is buzzing at the bees in my best approximation of Bender’s bee-speak (a particularly nonsensical response, as carpenter bees’ abdomens are decidedly not swollen with nectar).

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My back patio is plagued annually by carpenter bees

Find the nest (usually a hole in the ground). Pour in spirit vinegar. They will die shortly after contact.

Stop up the hole with a 50/50 mix of powdered sugar and baking soda. That'll kill any ants that might be tempted to move into the empty residence.

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My landlord sent some random dude (I don't think he was actually an exterminator, just some handyman in my landlord's employ; he seems to have "a guy" for everything) to the house about three weeks ago to perform some version of the operation you describe, tnuc, and it seems to have worked pretty well: I still see the occasional carpenter bee, but nothing like the swarms I was contending with before. My guess is there are still a decent number of carpenter bees living in the various wooden structures in the backyard, but, since the house isn't mine, I don't really care if they're slowly destroying the roof, patio, etc.—such is one of the (few) perks of renting, not owning.

Topic: My dog, like most dogs, enjoys sticking his nose in various things. I have recently begun supplying an interior monologue to his olfactory adventures by singing "I love sniffin', I love smellin' things" to the tune of Bender's little ditty ("I love stealin', I love takin' things") from "A Bicyclops Built for Two."

[Reply #643 on:]

In pretty much any video game I'm playing, when I'm in a situation where I have not quite yet actually won the battle/race/level/whatever it is that I'm on but am feeling 99% confident that I will triumph imminently, I often find myself saying "Victory is assured" like General Pac-Man...but although it would seem like I'm asking for trouble by doing so--considering what happens right after that quote in its original context--I don't think that I have yet been thwarted whenever I've said it.

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Boring old unimaginative Tachy only uses "Good news, everyone!". And also refers to himself in the third person.

 

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In pretty much any video game I'm playing, when I'm in a situation where I have not quite yet actually won the battle/race/level/whatever it is that I'm on but am feeling 99% confident that I will triumph imminently, I often find myself saying "Victory is assured" like General Pac-Man...but although it would seem like I'm asking for trouble by doing so--considering what happens right after that quote in its original context--I don't think that I have yet been thwarted whenever I've said it.

This reminds me of a time that I was watching a friend of mine playing one of the Dynasty Warriors games.  Every time that it looked like he was about to be overwhelmed by enemies I said, "You're boned," but each time he managed to barely survive, and he eventually managed to beat the game.  Afterward he said that he didn't think that he would have been able to do so without my helpful encouragement.

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Strangely, the opportunities to use "People need to know about the [CAN EAT MORE]" keep cropping up.

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My dog’s on some cancer-fightin’ meds that have altered his taste and appetite, and one of the few things he’ll eat consistently is ham—cold cuts, steak, etc. This has given me reason to use Leela’s “Who wants a ham?” from TDTESS with some frequency.

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One of the bits in the commentary that always made me laugh is from that episode, where they (Tress MacNeille and DXC I think - it's not in the infosphere, yet) refer to the ham shown on screen during the dog show as a 'comedy ham'.

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Ooo, yes, because of the cross-hatching, right? The S3 commentaries with Tress on them are a goddamn delight. The way she calmly, approvingly, and in her normal voice repeats Mom’s “Jam a bastard in it, you crap” in the “Future Stock” commentary is one of my favorite things ever.

I’d have to noodle on it a bit, but there are probably a fair number of lines in the commentaries themselves—at least from seasons 1 through 4—that I use quite often in real life. Not a line, but a moment that always stuck with me is Ken Keeler’s lament that (I’m paraphrasing) “in some ways it was a failure of writing of [TKOS] that while there’s this wonderful love story going on with Fry and Leela you feel worse for Bender because he can’t be a Globetrotter.” I don’t know that I fully agree with his assessment, but I do love the man’s persistent crankiness and seeming annoyance with his own (often brilliant) work. As an unpleasant writer-type myself, I strongly relate.

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I get so much use out of "Technically correct; the best kind of correct."

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I use that one so much that even my friends who aren't Futurama fans have started saying it.

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I went to the eye doctor a few weeks ago and picked out some new frames. My strategy is always to pick new frames that are as identical as possible to my old frames, meaning that a modification of Leela's quote from AOI I was top of mind: "New glasses. They're like my old ones, but with a crazy green stripe!"

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Occasionally I've used:

• Fry's "That was odd. Mighty odd." from the Playstation game
• "Tales! of! Interest!"

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I see your two oft-used quotes and raise you two oft-used quotes, new person!

1. I play racquetball with some regularity, and because my competitor and I are rather well-matched, we oftentimes achieve a score of 9-10. Meaning that whenever I’m serving the ball as the person with 9 points, I vocalize the score—“9-10”—before mentally adding “a big fat hen.” The name’s Bender.

2. Another one that’s super fucking obscure, but I realized recently that I do it a lot: I oftentimes find myself saying “Perfect” with an intonation identical to the one Leela uses in “Parasites Lost” upon learning that, if she thwarts the PE crew’s mission to rid Fry of the worms, he’ll be stuck with them forever.

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I find myself using "summarise it in one word" quite frequently.  Surprisingly too, people actually comply.

[Reply #656 on:]

I used a popular Zapp quote at work today and it got a couple of virtual chuckles.

"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."

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When I'm working on a jigsaw puzzle and there's a particular piece that I've made it my mission to try and find, as I'm searching over the array of possible pieces and I see one that looks like it might be it, I've taken to saying "Could it possibly be?" (and often with its "Are the old legends true?" continuation, silly though that is in this context) like the Professor does as the crew first happens upon Atlanta in "The Deep South."

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I acquired a mechanical keyboard a couple days ago and already foresee myself using a modified version of Bender’s line from “War is the H-Word” when describing the device to people: “It’s got clickety clackers!”