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most quoted re "analogies": Jonathan North Washington (26), oberon (20), other (12), Tristan Alexander McLeay (7), Matt Sachs (5)

other categories found with "analogies": sex (22), weirdness (21), sadness (17), computers (17), language (13)



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[link] heard: 7 June 2015
[edit] added: 18 March 2002

Fran: "So I was at the bar at the airport and there was someone on the TV saying that banning same-sex marriage should be up to the states."

me: "Yeah... ☹"

Fran: "And murder legalised by school-district."

me: "Wait, what??"

Fran: "Well, I'm extrapolating."

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[link] heard: 22 August 2014
[edit] added: 22 August 2014

(03:55:29) taylskid: well they get the girl

(03:55:36) taylskid: so they don't care about the other stuff

(03:55:45) jonorthwash: yeah

(03:55:50) jonorthwash: "get"

(03:56:18) jonorthwash: not in the romance movie sense of the word

(03:56:38) jonorthwash: more like in the horror movie sense of the word

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[link] heard: 20 June 2011
[edit] added: 20 June 2011

"It's just all these narratives that're very ... like, whatever the adjective of ‘Lion King’ would be."

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[link] heard: 10 February 2011
[edit] added: 10 February 2011

"It's like he's the movie Speed, but a Mongolist."

If he doesn't leave the celebration early, he'll...?
movies, mongolian, analogies, fire, badness
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[link] heard: 5 November 2010
[edit] added: 5 November 2010

"Anthropology's just racist folklore."

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[link] heard: 21 March 2009
[edit] added: 21 March 2009

(03:46:50) Michael T: why do you think rice-a-roni was such a big hit ?

(03:46:52) Michael T: it was based on plov

apparently it actually was
analogies, culture, badness, food, SSSR
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[link] heard: 23 January 2009
[edit] added: 23 January 2009

(17:59:56) kesuari: reading 19th century writing is fun

(18:00:02) kesuari: books were often basically blogs :)

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[link] heard: 29 September 2008
[edit] added: 29 September 2008

Jonathan: "I mean, in Kazakhstan a cellphone is like a toothbrush, but in America, it's more like a bicycle."

Michael: "I donno, I knew some people in Kazakhstan who didn't brush their teeth, but you can bet they had a phone."

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[link] heard: 6 June 2008
[edit] added: 5 June 2008

(04:01:06) Aladnsane: *shrug* Go to a college bar. Throw a rock. Whoever shouts 'ouch' is 10:1 to have an IQ between... 10 and 1.

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[link] heard: 19 May 2008
[edit] added: 19 May 2008

(19:34:54) ***kesuari bags jon all the time, but jon doesn't always notice it

(19:35:12) [me]: no, I just can't tell

(19:35:15) [me]: I notice that something's up

(19:35:19) [me]: and consider that as a possibility

(19:35:25) [me]: but can't always tell if it's the right one

(19:35:37) kesuari: it's like shakespearean comedy, except with insults, not sex

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[link] heard: 16 May 2008
[edit] added: 16 May 2008

(21:47:20) Sarah: I think I'd have rather went to the leper colony with my parents than be swamped by old ladies.

(21:48:33) Sarah: The leper colony is historical, therefore cool.

(21:48:40) Sarah: Old people are NOT historical, unless they have neat stories...they're just old.

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[link] heard: 15 May 2008
[edit] added: 15 May 2008

(19:13:11) kesuari: well, i suppose they say one way to become a great artist is to copy everyone else

(19:13:26) kesuari: well, copy the great artists i mean

(19:13:37) kesuari: someone who wanted to paint well shouldn't copy any drawings i've done

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[link] heard: 12 May 2008
[edit] added: 12 May 2008

(23:17:03) [me]: ROFL

(23:17:08) Aaron B: ?

(23:18:29) [me]: just the way you talk about phonology

(23:18:38) Aaron B: how's that?

(23:18:45) Aaron B: like it's baseball cards?

(23:19:01) [me]: hah, no, like the actually processes are people

(23:19:08) Aaron B: oh, they totally are

(23:19:12) Aaron B: that's how i understand things

(23:19:18) Aaron B: segments are "doods"

(23:19:21) Aaron B: processes are things doods do

(23:19:41) Aaron B: constraints are like guys with whips

(23:19:55) Aaron B: bein' all like "dood, do this or i'll whip you"

(23:20:00) Aaron B: but then higher ranked constraints have bigger whips

(23:20:15) Aaron B: and are like "yeah, i know the dood to my right is going to whip you, but imma whip you harder if you don't satisfy me"

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[link] heard: 10 May 2008
[edit] added: 10 May 2008

Left-over master's thesis? Those things are like a surgeon's tool that gets left inside the body.

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[link] heard: 21 April 2008
[edit] added: 21 April 2008

(22:46:56) Анара: хотя снова я скажу это что

(22:47:05) Анара: Kazakh girlz rulez!!!

(22:47:24) Анара: больше чем кыргызки и другие номадки

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[link] heard: 15 April 2008
[edit] added: 15 April 2008

Lara: "Hm, it smells like animals in here."

anonymous: "It's all the Kyrgyz."

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[link] heard: 17 March 2008
[edit] added: 16 March 2008

Жыкы: "Америкада ушундай свободность жок."

Jonathan: "Туура, биз көчөдө пиво ичсек, полиция көрсө, биз сразу качып кетиш керек эле."

Жыкы: "Быякта наоборот, милиция көрсөң, сразу "Ооо!" деген..."

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[link] heard: 16 February 2008
[edit] added: 15 February 2008

(01:50:24) Sarah: Like [his] ex and her "fiance" - they're doing fostering. [She] doesn't need children, EVAR.

(01:50:45) Sarah: It's like giving a child with autism to a 2 year old to take care of.

(01:51:26) Sarah: I'm going to Hell for that analogy.

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[link] heard: 13 February 2008
[edit] added: 12 February 2008

(10:03:38) Michael: people think that the internet is the closed system of pipes, but it's more like mail-carriers all running around, out in the open

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[link] heard: 4 January 2008
[edit] added: 4 January 2008

(15:53:42) Sarah: My brain is like a supernova - it's so pretty when it explodes, but so dangerous.

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[link] heard: 24 December 2007
[edit] added: 23 December 2007

(13:35:56) [me]: oh man teleportation would solve so many problems wouldn't it

(13:36:04) [me]: I'm only just starting to see the potential

(13:36:11) Michael: well it would probably create more problems than it would solve

(13:36:20) [me]: oh?

(13:37:33) Michael: well... obviously security would have to be completely rethought.. or i guess it would just be more like network security

(13:38:09) Michael: i mean, can you imagine? illegal immigration would turn into like a DoS attack

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[link] heard: 4 December 2007
[edit] added: 4 December 2007

"It [the bottle of vodka] is not a microphone. Drink."

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[link] heard: 31 October 2007
[edit] added: 31 October 2007

"There's almost as many crows as there was percent alcohol in that beer."

actually, there were more. a lot more.
alcohol, animals, analogies, SSSR
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[link] heard: 23 October 2007
[edit] added: 23 October 2007

(13:06:16) Derek: I wanted to say thanks for speaking Kazakh (etc) around me all the time

(13:06:41) Derek: I think it's giving me a big edge in my Uighur class right now

(13:07:28) Derek: Turkic seems familiar to me instead of something strange, which is something the other students I would say definitely lack ;)

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[link] heard: 6 October 2007
[edit] added: 23 October 2007

"Well, he just came from America, where people have jobs and have to do stuff, but now he's in Central Asia, where people drink tea."

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[link] heard: 20 July 2007
[edit] added: 20 July 2007

"Chomsky would always cut people's feet off so he didn't have to step on their toes."

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[link] heard: 18 July 2007
[edit] added: 18 July 2007

(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs

(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 21 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007

(00:31:27) [me]: btw, safeway's website claims that this one is 24hours

(00:31:32) [me]: is it sketchy to go there at 1am?

(00:31:39) Derek: yes

(00:31:47) Derek: you're probably a crack dealer

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[link] heard: 17 February 2007
[edit] added: 18 February 2007

"IE 6 is the Netscape 4 of today."

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 23 January 2007
[edit] added: 23 January 2007

(00:45:36) [me]: I think I'd summarise Hawai'ian as (C)V

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[link] heard: 21 January 2007
[edit] added: 23 January 2007

"Breton music is like Irish dance music with Iranian instruments."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 18 June 2006
[edit] added: 18 June 2006

14:13:02 [Rianna]: yeah...fanfiction is like...free literary crack

14:13:32 [Rianna]: It is really fun, generally not too good for you, but you keep coming back for more each time you quit :-p

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[link] heard: 8 June 2006
[edit] added: 8 June 2006

Jonathan: "Yeah, it's a couple people taking advantage of one group's suffering to take advantage of another group's generosity to take advantage of another group's money."

Rianna: "It's like one big orgy of screw-overage."

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[link] heard: 2 May 2006
[edit] added: 4 May 2006

Jurgen: "You know, some people say I'm hard—I don't think I'm that hard."

Jonathan: "Well, you're flexible."

classmate: "You're the xantham gum of professors."

Avram: "Flexible, but still with integrity."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 23 April 2006
[edit] added: 23 April 2006

I'll spare you my escapades of sleep-deprived monitor/keyboard plugging-in (let's just say it was like Who's On First), but:

in an e-mail to cog-servers, which was about as would be expected with that introduction
computers, sleep, bad-ideas, technology, sadness, analogies
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 21 April 2006
[edit] added: 21 April 2006

"This tastes like melted lollipops."

about Manischewitz
alcohol, food, bad-ideas, religion, analogies
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[link] heard: 18 April 2006
[edit] added: 20 April 2006

00:35:10 [sn withheld]: Listening to Blümchen on a crowded bus is like having pink toenails.

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 29 March 2006
[edit] added: 29 March 2006

21:56:01 [me]: yeah, what's up with that? Freckles and red hair are like signs of evilness or something

21:56:13 [Vickie]: well id love to have red hair

21:56:38 [me]: yeah, but you also don't mind being evil

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 27 March 2006
[edit] added: 27 March 2006

Leyzer: "I should drop International Relations and take Georgian."

me: "The Georgian language is like international relations."

Shoshana: "Georgian wine maybe…"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 24 March 2006
[edit] added: 24 March 2006

Shoshana: "You know what this sounds like?"

Josh: "Yanni on crack?"

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[link] heard: 23 March 2006
[edit] added: 23 March 2006

21:24:31 [Hannah]: http://community.livejournal.com/baaaaabyanimals/1902984.html?#cutid1

21:24:32 [Hannah]: eew?

21:28:01 [me]: rofl, what is that, an aardvark?

21:28:19 [Hannah]: yeah

21:28:23 [me]: it's like a proto-mamal

21:28:26 [Hannah]: lol

21:28:28 [me]: it is!

21:28:41 [Hannah]: not cute is what it is

21:29:10 [me]: like, its feet are kind of prehistoric-looking, it's body is generic mamal, and it's head's evolved for sniffing out and sucking up ants

21:29:20 [me]: it's head's like the only part of it that's evolved

my 2¢ on aardvarks, based on a post to the baaaaabyanimals community on lj sent to me by Hannah
animals, cuteness, weirdness, time, analogies
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[link] heard: 5 March 2006
[edit] added: 5 March 2006

20:27:37 [me]: btw, your husband seems to bear some uncanny resemblance to Tom Cruise

20:28:23 [Amanda]: you think he looks like tom cruise?!

20:28:24 [Amanda]: that's awesome

20:28:28 [Amanda]: i think he looks like a chicken

20:28:32 [Amanda]: ... a cute one tho

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[link] heard: 27 February 2006
[edit] added: 27 February 2006

20:09:20 [oberon]: You have sun dials because you hope the sun will show up. Without sun, sun dials don't work.

20:09:28 [oberon]: You have universities because you hope 18 year old women will show up.

20:09:31 [oberon]: Same basic argument.

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 7 February 2006
[edit] added: 7 February 2006

21:08:53 [me]: well, I thought "file has vanished" was an interesting way of informing me of it

21:09:09 [oberon]: Well, as far as rsync was concerned, that's what happened

21:09:20 [oberon]: one minute there's a file, the next minute there's not a file

21:09:43 [me]: yeah

21:09:49 [me]: I suppose that could be called vanishing

21:09:51 [oberon]: Would you prefer "file has committed glorious harikari, and will ride the divine wind to its 70 virgins"?

21:11:07 [me]: heh

21:11:08 [me]: yes

21:11:44 [oberon]: So go edit the rsync source =P

21:11:50 [oberon]: or even the binary

21:11:54 [oberon]: just ask grep...

21:12:21 [me]: nah

21:12:28 [me]: I already don't trust rsync

21:12:31 [oberon]: lol

21:12:32 [me]: not going to screw with its binary

21:17:27 [oberon]: Am I the only one who thinks that 70 number is kinda arbitrary?

21:17:33 [oberon]: I've always sorta wondered about that

21:17:43 [oberon]: I mean, it's not like they're all useful at once

21:18:07 [oberon]: The sort of thing you do with virgins is not something you can do with 70 without engineered infrastructure and supports

21:18:37 [oberon]: Is the next verse of the Qu'aran something about "and you will also receive a house so large, it requires 65 people to keep it clean?"

21:31:26 [oberon]: That's still counting on an awful lot of women to die virgins

21:31:34 [oberon]: And I don't think infant mortality counts here

21:34:05 [oberon]: Maybe 70 is just an average

21:34:09 [oberon]: and it's really determined by annual ratios

21:34:47 [oberon]: so, like, if you have a string of really unsexy years, 'cause the plague hits or the 70s happen or something, you get more virgins, so everyone gets 71.2 or something

21:35:47 [oberon]: So it's more like "I got 70 virgins*" and then in fine print: "*results not typical. Actual results may vary. Consult your doctor before..."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 19 August 2005
[edit] added: 19 August 2005

[00:00] Aaron B: eel is like fish that got mutated...

[00:00] Aaron B: i bet if you genetically combined a sheep and a fish, the first few would come out like eels.

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[link] heard: 7 August 2005
[edit] added: 7 August 2005

"On a scale of 1 to movies that didn't need be remade, that's a Lion King 1½."

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[link] heard: 6 August 2005
[edit] added: 6 August 2005

"You call it silly string, I call it semen."

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[link] heard: 25 July 2005
[edit] added: 25 July 2005

"Measuring an artlang by the number of speakers is like measuring the importance of a painting by the number of postcards sold with its picture on it."

Jan van Steenbergen
language, analogies, artsiness, wisdom, conlangs
[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 1 July 2005
[edit] added: 4 July 2005

Shawn: "He's so gay. He must spend at least 3 hours on his moustache alone in the morning!"

Michaela: "Oh, come on–you know you like girls who do that."

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[link] heard: 6 April 2005
[edit] added: 6 April 2005

(00:40:12) [me]: why do you keep comparing me to a squirrel?

(00:40:19) Оберон: I dunno.

(00:40:19) [me]: don't you have some sort of vendetta against them?

(00:40:35) Оберон: Not really, I just think they're tree-rats

(00:40:42) Оберон: whereas Anna thinks they're like little cats with big tails

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[link] heard: 27 March 2005
[edit] added: 27 March 2005

"This is soo cute. This is like middle school on crack."

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[link] heard: 25 January 2005
[edit] added: 25 January 2005

"I really don't understand people who like opera, and I mean like Klingon opera and Wagner. And yes, I equate those two."

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[link] heard: 22 December 2004
[edit] added: 28 December 2004

"It's like a little thing in the breakfast nook that's in their way and blares at them at newstime."

my Uncle Richard, on my grandparents and their TV set
family, sadness, scariness, time-travel, technology, analogies
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 18 November 2004
[edit] added: 19 November 2004

Jonathan: "Matt, what sorting algorithm are you using?"

Matt: "MattSort."

Jonathan: "That means that if you know the original state of the cards, you can recalculate which cards everyone has."

Matt: "No, because it's O(...look over there!)"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 3 November 2004
[edit] added: 3 November 2004

"I think I'm addicted to violence like you're addicted to gay porn."

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[link] heard: 26 October 2004
[edit] added: 26 October 2004

"No, you don't get it. Domino's is bad pizza for the same reason steak is bad pizza."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 16 October 2004
[edit] added: 16 October 2004

Nat: "If you keep speaking French, I'll be forced to hit you."

Jonathan: "What's wrong with French?"

Nat: "French sounds like ass."

Matt: "Nat, I don't know what your ass sounds like."

Nat: "I can show you."

Matt: "If it sounds like French, then okay."

Matt, Nat, and Jonathan, originally directed at Viktoriya, who was speaking French
sex, french, weirdness, language, analogies, violence
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[link] heard: 16 October 2004
[edit] added: 15 October 2004

[in a seductive voice]

"You say you like prime numbers? Well.... I've got something that's only divisible by one.. and itself."

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[link] heard: 15 October 2004
[edit] added: 15 October 2004

Jon: "I've got a sugary beverage in my pants."

oberon: "Uh, Jon, that's not a beverage."

Jon: "No, more like a protein shake."

followed by oberon confused and grossed out, spending 30 seconds trying to come up with a "shaken, not stirred" joke and failing

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[link] heard: 7 October 2004
[edit] added: 8 October 2004

Nat: "You wanna try my cheese popcorn?"

oberon: "I'll try anything food-like—ooh, that's not so much like food."

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[link] heard: 28 September 2004
[edit] added: 28 September 2004

Jonathan: "Well, emacs has its advantages..."

Aaron: "Yeah, like it's an operating system. I'd rather use emacs as my OS than Windows."

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[link] heard: 26 September 2004
[edit] added: 26 September 2004

Jonathan: "What's Microsoft encumbered technology?"

oberon: "SOAP. That's why Nat never showers."

Jonathan: "Wait, what? ... Oh."

oberon: "I think chunks of shampoo are owned by Sun."

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[link] heard: 18 April 2004
[edit] added: 18 April 2004

oberon: "What's that?"

Adam: "It's kinda like a little playground toy that kills kids."

oberon and Adam play smashbrothers
games, weirdness, death, analogies, child-like
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[link] heard: 7 April 2004
[edit] added: 7 April 2004

(02:36:12) Оберон: Someone trying to probe my web server for Windows security holes is like someone trying to probe me for female holes

(02:36:36) Оберон: It may not be rape but it still leaves me feeling dirty

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[link] heard: 22 March 2004
[edit] added: 23 March 2004

"Money makes the world go 'round. In a most delightful way."

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[link] heard: 20 March 2004
[edit] added: 22 March 2004

"You didn't know that song was in 6-4, did you? You say pətejɾəw; I say pətejɾəw and pətɑɾəw. You say təmejɾəw; I say təmejɾəw and təmɑɾəw."

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 6 March 2004
[edit] added: 6 March 2004

Jonathan: "Freckles are good."

Jess: "Yeah, they're like little specks of chocolate."

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[link] heard: 24 February 2004
[edit] added: 24 February 2004

(05:22:02) Оберон: I've learned to swim with the weasels somewhat

(05:22:19) Оберон: but trying to figure out what women think is attractive is like trying to build a 7 pointed cube

(05:23:03) Оберон: Weasels should have dorsal fins

(05:23:06) Оберон: it would help my analogies

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[link] heard: 21 February 2004
[edit] added: 22 February 2004

"Cat's cradle is like programming—you just put strings together. Why do you think they call it multi-threaded?"

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[link] heard: 1 February 2004
[edit] added: 1 February 2004

"This puzzle is like O(2Where's Waldo)."

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 25 January 2004
[edit] added: 25 January 2004

"By the way, don't get the veggie wrap the way they normally make it; it's like 30% veggie and 70% mayonnaise. It's mystery-sauce-alicious."

the joys of Brandeis dining
brandeis, food, sadness, scariness, sketchiness, analogies
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[link] heard: 15 January 2004
[edit] added: 17 January 2004

"Air is small."

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[link] heard: 10 January 2004
[edit] added: 10 January 2005

"American Tongues sounds like a porno."

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[link] heard: 10 December 2003
[edit] added: 10 December 2003

Jonathan: "I showed someone this picture and they said 'Whoa, how did you get Brandeis not to look like a post-apocolyptic wasteland?'"

Mark: "But you didn't show them this one. The background looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland."

Jonathan: "But there's Volen in the background."

Mark: "Yeah, that's like the post-apocalyptic command centre."

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[link] heard: 5 November 2003
[edit] added: 5 November 2003

"This e-mail was awful—it was like in another language. It was worse than the Justice, okay?"

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[link] heard: 4 November 2003
[edit] added: 5 November 2003

Matt: "I don't care if the TV is depressed—only if it commits suicide."

oberon: "What if it turns off DDR every 10 minutes and complains that no one loves it?"

Matt: "Well, I do that, but nobody seems to notice."

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[link] heard: 18 September 2003
[edit] added: 18 September 2003

(02:53:13) оберон(l): I own most of your recent quotes page

(02:53:27) оберон(l): I'm like some weird expansionist empire

(02:53:50) оберон(l): with an army of contextlessness and a desire solely for territory

(02:53:54) оберон(l): or possibly not.

(02:53:58) оберон(l): not at all, really.

(02:54:05) оберон(l): But I like the phrase "army of contextlessness"

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[link] heard: 14 September 2003
[edit] added: 14 September 2003

(01:45:50) оберон: Women are like my broken window shade.

(01:45:58) оберон: You can pull as hard as you want, but it's not going to change anything

(01:46:08) оберон: and the only solution is to jam them between your bed and the wall with a heavy blanket

(01:46:26) оберон: see, I have the gift if stupalogy

(01:46:29) оберон: it's not quite stupid

(01:46:33) оберон: and it's not quite an analogy

(01:46:38) оберон: and people are just so shocked they smile and nod

(01:46:57) оберон: and don't think to question how it is, exactly, that women are like a piece of plastic rolled over a metal bar.

(01:47:16) оберон: if they did, though, I'd calmly explain that it has to do with the sprinsg.

(01:47:18) оберон: springs, even.

(01:47:55) оберон: Life is like a fire alarm: you wish it would just stay nice and quiet but it never does and you always end up all wet.

(01:48:23) оберон: Now in actuality, a fire alarm is a device which goes "BUZZ" and life is a bunch of organic compounds wiggling about. But people buy it anyway

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[link] heard: 14 September 2003
[edit] added: 14 September 2003

(01:45:30) оберон: Women are like telephones. They ring when you don't want them to, they don't ring when you want them to, and they have a tendency to wake you in the middle of the night.

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[link] heard: 14 September 2003
[edit] added: 14 September 2003

(01:44:27) оберон: Women are like toasters. You've got to wait for a bit, and then they go ding. And if you keep waiting, you get a fire. And then you get a guy beating you senseless with a chair.

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[link] heard: 8 September 2003
[edit] added: 8 September 2003

"You keep asking questions—I feel like I'm in the Matrix, you know, and these bullets are flying by me and I'm dodging them."

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[link] heard: 24 August 2003
[edit] added: 24 August 2003

(01:41:03) [me]: my modem doesn't like handshaking

(01:41:18) Kesuari: my cat doesn't either.

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[link] heard: 22 August 2003
[edit] added: 22 August 2003

Cinga: Ah. Now I get a java.net:UnknownHostException.

Cinga: There seems to be an Exception for every situation.

Rentantilus: it's like the English language!

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[link] heard: 9 July 2003
[edit] added: 9 July 2003

(15:25:24) Qatharsis: Though it's more like /awa/ in quick speech. Then again, Bäärner never speak any quicker than a Zürcher on Valium with two spoons of peanut butter in his mouth.

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[link] heard: 1 July 2003
[edit] added: 1 July 2003

(22:35:45) Casoar: i imagine i'd play that in realplayer, which seems to be more like realcrasher on my computer

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[link] heard: 10 June 2003
[edit] added: 10 June 2003

(20:09:08) Kathryn: i might not be able to understand it, but i know french when i hear it

(20:09:15) Kathryn: it's like pornography

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[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 1 June 2003

"That's the problem switching between French and Spanish—in Spanish you roll your 'r's; in French, you xkhqkh your 'r's."

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[link] heard: 30 April 2003
[edit] added: 30 April 2003

(21:37:49) Ver D Antforest: he's so creative with his expletives. His Tourette's is like an expletive generating gift from God

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[link] heard: 13 April 2003
[edit] added: 13 April 2003

"That's quality. It's like a monkey meets Fred Astaire." or "That's quality. It's like a monkey named Fredistan."

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[link] heard: 11 April 2003
[edit] added: 11 April 2003

"You look like the magic pumpkin or whatever, but blue."

Jonathan, in reference to David in his big blue poncho
insults, weirdness, analogies
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"This is worse than like F-type Turkish prisons."

in reference to our dorm room
analogies, turkisms, school, hyperbole, patriotism, gradschool
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"Actually AIMI is cheating on Oscar with Oscar. AIMI gives Oscar what Oscar gives her."

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"It's like reading a really bad love story about a Colombian drug cartel and his love affair in Baja California."

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"She's like that Justice Brandeis guy come back as a Turkish girl!"

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