1 | ->''The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:''\ |
2 | How do you keep a rhino from charging?\ |
3 | ''And in response, thus spake the Oracle:''\ |
4 | Reverse the polarity of his terminals. |
5 | |
6 | -> '''Uncle Donnie''': Let me fucking try a little reverse action. |
7 | -->-- ''Creator/AdamSandler'' |
8 | |
9 | -> '''Nova''': You're a worthy adversary, Misho! But even you could not anticipate that I would invert the photon charge of the deflector array... AGAIN.\ |
10 | '''Misho''': SOL DAMNIT THAT SHOULDN'T DO ANYTHING EVEN IF IT IS POSSIBLE! |
11 | -->-- ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' |
12 | |
13 | ->''"I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."'' |
14 | -->-- '''The Third Doctor,''' [[NeverLiveItDown far less often]] [[MemeticMutation than you think]]. |
15 | |
16 | -> ''"Really shouldn't have taken me that long just to reverse the polarity... I must be a bit out of practice."'' |
17 | -->-- '''The Tenth Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Lazarus Experiment" |
18 | |
19 | ->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' ...It's not working.\ |
20 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' ''[annoyed face]'' ...We're ''both'' reversing the polarity.\ |
21 | '''Eleven:''' Yes, I know that.\ |
22 | '''Ten:''' There's two of us. I'm reversing it, you're reversing it back again. We're ''confusing'' the polarity! |
23 | -->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Day of the Doctor" |
24 | |
25 | ->'''Yaz:''' What if you do something it hasn't dealt with before? Like you reverse the polarity or something? |
26 | ->'''Thirteenth Doctor''': Yasmin Khan, you speak my language! |
27 | -->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "It Takes You Away" |
28 | |
29 | -> '''Kurt:''' Why would it work this time?\ |
30 | '''Brian:''' I've reversed the polarity.\ |
31 | '''Kurt:''' What?\ |
32 | '''Brian:''' Changed the wires round. |
33 | -->-- The ''Series/{{Teachers|2001}}'' blow up a kettle, episode 3.06. |
34 | |
35 | ->''"The importance of reversing the polarity is literally the '''first thing''' they taught you in [[HollywoodScience vague science!]]"'' |
36 | -->-- [[http://www.bumrushcomics.com/?comic=chapter64 Vicky's]] OmnidisciplinaryScientist, ''Webcomic/{{Redd}}'' |
37 | |
38 | ->''So bounce the graviton particle beam\ |
39 | Off the main deflector dish\ |
40 | That's the way we do things, lad\ |
41 | [[AssPull Making shit up as we wish!]] |
42 | -->-- '''Music/{{Voltaire}}''', "The U.S.S. Make Shit Up" |
43 | |
44 | -> '''Wonderella:''' Sucker! I reversed the polarity on your inversion bomb!\ |
45 | '''Wonderita:''' Yeah, me too!\ |
46 | '''Wonderella:''' [[OhCrap wait what]] |
47 | -->-- '''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''', [[http://nonadventures.com/2015/09/05/dangers-a-foot/ Danger's a FOOT]] |
48 | |
49 | ->Despite all our much-vaunted power, [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] and I wouldn't stand a chance of defeating Warworld in a head-on confrontation -- so I've done the only other thing possible: I redirected the satellite's defense-systems in on itself! |
50 | -->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/WarWorld'' |
51 | |
52 | ->Atomic batteries to power... Reversing polarity of the neutron flow... activating quantum dimensional recall signal... Now! |
53 | -->-- '''Lena Thorul''', ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' |
54 |
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