Great CIV QUOTES Wanted! - Page 5

Zoid · June 30, 2002, 19:18

Kass, great work on the SMAC quotes.

Hope we´ll see them soon. Thank´s for submitting some B5 quotes, hope some of them will make it in also

Victor Galis · July 1, 2002, 12:49

Better yet, paraphrased from an actual church bulletin:

Bible Study tomorrow at noon, we will all meet for lunch after the BS is over.
-A church bulletin
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Free trip to heaven, details inside.
-Big sign in front of a church.
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"Die, my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!"
-Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865), last words
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dunk · July 3, 2002, 14:31

I found an error in a post. The last post I made brought up the Spaceship victory quote from Civ I. It said there were 1,000,000 people on the ship. That is incorrect. You could only have 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000 or 40,000 people on board. Each "Habitation Module" you built added 10,000 people to the ship.

Victor Galis · July 3, 2002, 14:43

But 2 popups a day is 3 too many!
-Victor Galis
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DarkCloud · July 3, 2002, 17:16

Vlad, those quotes were quite strange

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"...I live in Canada. They've never heard of us. That's our primary line of defense. We call it "Stealth Nation Technology"
-KrazyHorse
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"Person A- He was a Republican's Democrat
Person B- So, in other words, he was an Elephant's Ass."
-DarkCloud
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Kassiopeia · July 7, 2002, 22:30

Where are those SMAC quotes? If there's a problem with them do tell.



There're just too many ways to waste time in modern society. It's no wonder that all the great novels were written before the advent of television.

-- Mr. President

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Mr. President · July 8, 2002, 00:50



If of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me; what ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

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I have never seen a polar bear or reindeer live. I do not live in an igloo.

-- Kassiopeia

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Skanky Burns · July 8, 2002, 03:32

Now that you mention it, I haven't seen any SMAC quotes yet either. Prolly not added yet.

DarkCloud · July 8, 2002, 16:59

SMAC... The forgotten, lesser quotable Civilization Game.
Neglected by MarkG
Cursed by DanQ
Fated to rot in the archives, too.
-- DarkCloud
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Kassiopeia · July 8, 2002, 19:43

Mr. President, you have visited my website! I am touched.

The SMAC quotes are not being added... and guess who did all the work in editing them?
-- ME!

DarkCloud · July 10, 2002, 12:24

"We have more important things to do than update the quotes registry"
-MarkG, DanQ
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"I have the leadership abilities of a small Cantelope"
-Stefu
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(I'm not sure if that second one has been added yet

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Victor Galis · July 10, 2002, 12:26

I think the second one was added a very long time ago.

Kassiopeia · July 10, 2002, 18:21

Indeed it was, and 'cantaloupe' was spelt korekly.

Kassiopeia · July 17, 2002, 16:34

Bump!

DarkCloud · July 17, 2002, 17:12

Cantelope is spelled Cantelope...

I wasn't talking about the fruit cantaloupe you fool

I was talking about a Cantelope.

Kassiopeia · July 17, 2002, 18:13

My bad. Of course! The difference is vast.

Kassiopeia · July 29, 2002, 19:08

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Victor Galis · July 29, 2002, 19:46

eh?

Kassiopeia · July 29, 2002, 20:05

Haven't seen any SMAC quotes yet. Have you?

Skanky Burns · July 29, 2002, 21:37

I have, Kass. Can't remember which one though.

Mr. President · July 29, 2002, 21:53

"What goes up . . . better doggone well stay up!"
-- Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan

That's one of my favorites. All the literary ones and whatnot are cool, but they're a little long for the "Post has been added" screen.

DeepO · July 30, 2002, 05:55

(Coracle go play) Pac-Man... oh wait, it's not realistic that pac-man can eat all those dots. For him to be able to eat all of them his total volume would have to be greater than the sum of all of them. And Ghosts! Come on folks, lets get back to reality here.
-- wrylachlan, in response to yet another 'Culture Flipping is not realistic' argument
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DeepO

[Edited a little to make it more clear for those who didn't encounter it the first time around]

Kassiopeia · July 30, 2002, 17:46

Quote:

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I have, Kass. Can't remember which one though.

Ye have? Any other sightings?

Edit: I'll keep editing 'till I see one, damn it.

Edit: Jännitys tiivistyy...

Edit: Must... edit... again...

Mr. President · July 30, 2002, 19:04

You're likely to see the Morgan Gravitonics one I mentioned, I've seen it several times.

Chowlett · August 2, 2002, 19:06

Not exactly Civ related - but we have Zen quotes, which, given the Mathematical provenence of the original database probably came from Godel, Escher Bach. So I thought I should suggest:

To every w-consistent recursive class K of formulae there correspond recursive class-strings r, such that neither vGenr nor Neg(vGenr) belongs to Flg(K) (where v is the free variable of r).
-- Kurt Gödel, Proposition VI, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I"
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DeepO · August 2, 2002, 21:06

Chowlet, that is not only a mathematical quote, but also one that is used a lot in AI Philosophy. In that respect, it is more or les Civ related.

You might want to edit your message to end with a '%' though, or it won't be included.

DeepO

Mr. President · August 2, 2002, 22:53

Quote:

Originally posted by Chowlett
To every w-consistent recursive class K of formulae there correspond recursive class-strings r, such that neither vGenr nor Neg(vGenr) belongs to Flg(K) (where v is the free variable of r).
-- Kurt Gödel, Proposition VI, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I"

I've seen stuff that's even less Civ-related than that, though. There're some pseudo-philosophical things in the databse about why life sucks.

You are a coward.

-- North Korean fortune cookie on The Simpsons

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Victor Galis · August 3, 2002, 05:20

Quote:

-- North Korean fortune cookie on The Simpsons

-What episode was that in? (I clearly need to download it).

Mr. President · August 3, 2002, 06:55

It's mentioned in the one where Kirk and Luanne Van Houten (Milhouse's parents) break up at the Simpsons' party. Afterwards Marge is talking to Homer, and she says, "Those North Korean fortune cookies were so insulting. 'You are a coward.' I mean, nobody likes to hear that."

J Bytheway · August 3, 2002, 12:49

Quote:

Originally posted by Chowlett
Not exactly Civ related - but we have Zen quotes, which, given the Mathematical provenence of the original database probably came from Godel, Escher Bach. So I thought I should suggest:

To every w-consistent recursive class K of formulae there correspond recursive class-strings r, such that neither vGenr nor Neg(vGenr) belongs to Flg(K) (where v is the free variable of r).
-- Kurt Gödel, Proposition VI, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I"
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I had considered putting that one in my sig, but I wasn't sure about the fonts... - now I won't bother.