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mrsratched Judging you from Nowhere Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Judging you
#976: May 22nd 2014 at 2:07:39 PM

"I have had it with these motherfucking daimyos in this motherfucking island"

-Tokugawa Ieyasu

Haw Haw Haw
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#977: May 22nd 2014 at 2:44:07 PM

"Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life." - Nina Hartley

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
OmegaShadowcry Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man from The Arena Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
#978: May 22nd 2014 at 8:59:46 PM

"I'm certain that this is an awful idea. Why else would I be going though with it?" - Marie Curie, before starting the bit where she extracted Radium from pitchblende

"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
mrsratched Judging you from Nowhere Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Judging you
#979: May 23rd 2014 at 12:52:38 AM

"Well, I guess nobody over there has even take a look at my book"

-General Montgomery

Haw Haw Haw
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#980: May 23rd 2014 at 10:22:40 AM

"Who is this guy and why do people think I'm him?" Jesus Christ on Cesare Borgia.

RatherRandomRachel "Just as planned." from Somewhere underground. Since: Sep, 2013
"Just as planned."
#981: May 23rd 2014 at 10:27:30 AM

[up]Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a while, I needed it.

'Please! Your omnipotence! Have mercy!' - Aulus Plautius to Boudica

"After you've scrubbed all the floors in my new capital Londinium, then we can talk about mercy! Take him away!" - Boudica

"Yes, mother!" - One of Boudica's daughters

edited 23rd May '14 10:29:52 AM by RatherRandomRachel

"Did you expect somebody else?"
resetlocksley Shut up! from Alone in the dark Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
Shut up!
#982: May 23rd 2014 at 11:24:52 AM

"Was it me, or did the word think just escape your mouth? You weren't hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass!"

-Alexander of Macedon to Seleucus Nicator

Fear is a superpower.
Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#983: May 23rd 2014 at 11:44:35 AM

"I have built this special apparatus for looking into the future. In the 21st century, mankind will communicate en masse via an International Network. This 'Inter-net' will mostly be used to exchange altered photographs of housecats."

"The future is truly a dreadful place."

- Thomas Edison

"What'd I tell ya?"

- HG Wells

edited 23rd May '14 11:46:32 AM by Morgikit

MrsRatched Judging you from Nowhere Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Judging you
#984: May 23rd 2014 at 1:06:38 PM

"Maybe it would work with some vampirical romance" Stephenie Meyer on Don Quixote's plot

Haw Haw Haw
WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#986: Jun 6th 2014 at 6:16:35 AM

"Yarr, Queen Bess! I be the greatest pirate on the seven seas! Now give us a kiss or I'll nary hand over me doubloons!" - Sir Francis Drake

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#987: Jun 6th 2014 at 9:40:20 AM

"We need to look at things one bit at a time" -Jack the Ripper

"I can see clearly now the rain has gone" -Homer

"Run, forest, run!" -Paul Bunyan

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#988: Jun 10th 2014 at 8:03:07 AM

"I hated this play! Hated hated hated hated hated this play! Hated it!"

-Abraham Lincoln's last words

OmegaShadowcry Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man from The Arena Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
#989: Jun 12th 2014 at 9:02:40 AM

"Surely, nobody will think that I'm trying to look White... right?"

-Michael Jackson

"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
#990: Jun 12th 2014 at 3:59:22 PM

"I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a painting of a bunny with a pancake on its head." ~ Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!
DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#991: Jun 12th 2014 at 4:06:57 PM

"Rainbow Dash is BEST PONY." – Richard Nixon

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resetlocksley Shut up! from Alone in the dark Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
Shut up!
#992: Jun 12th 2014 at 4:34:00 PM

"Ooh ee ooh ah ah, ting-tang walla walla bing-bang!"

-Abraham Lincoln

Fear is a superpower.
RatherRandomRachel "Just as planned." from Somewhere underground. Since: Sep, 2013
"Just as planned."
#993: Jun 12th 2014 at 4:36:21 PM

"Now, let me speak to you about my new act..." - Tiberius, second Roman Emperor.

"Did you expect somebody else?"
resetlocksley Shut up! from Alone in the dark Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
Shut up!
#994: Jun 12th 2014 at 4:53:27 PM

"I'm gonna wind up soon, but not before I make a few strange noises with my mouth that'll go somewhere along the lines of 'bingle bongle dingle dangle, yikkety-too, yikkety-tah, ping-pong, lappy-tappy too-tah.'"

-Demosthenes

edited 12th Jun '14 4:54:17 PM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#995: Jun 13th 2014 at 10:17:12 AM

"Just keepin' it real"

-Rammesses II

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
AnSTH Lawful Evil Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#997: Jun 13th 2014 at 2:24:13 PM

"I don't want to walk all the way in just to take the receipt. It's just five dollars gas, right fellas?" -Al Capone

File your taxes properly. OR ELSE.

But that's a story for another time.
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#998: Jun 13th 2014 at 2:28:41 PM

"Party rock is in the house tonight!"

- V.I Lenin at the storming of the Winter Palace

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#999: Jun 13th 2014 at 2:46:49 PM

"YEEEEEEEEAH! SCIENCE, BITCHES!" - Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity, NM, July 16, 1945.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
resetlocksley Shut up! from Alone in the dark Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
Shut up!
#1000: Jun 13th 2014 at 4:08:58 PM

"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

edited 13th Jun '14 4:09:35 PM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.

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