General Page Quote Discussion:

As do I, not only for the vulgarity, but also for the attitude. It's a "Look, this trope is bad" quote. The current quote is fine.

Good point.

Pull that quote. It's in bad taste.

By the way, removed Wallbonking's quote, and someone already moved The Missionary's.

Speech-Centric Work: I know the quote is by one of the giants of filming, but I still feel it's too negative.

edited 8th Apr '14 6:39:22 PM by Elbruno

As far as the Handsome Lech quote goes, I think the Flash one is a little funnier, but the Escaflowne Abridged one is better because it actually mentions attractiveness.

Speech-Centric Work: That one is not particularly good, says I.

Edit. Realized I was in the wrong thread... Sigh. I need to have a discussion with three overly affectionate cats.

edited 9th Apr '14 12:05:26 AM by Candi

Speech-Centric Work: I don't know, it's a little dismissive but it's not actively hostile. He doesn't come out and say that "photographs of people talking" is necessarily a bad thing, even if it is implied.

I'd say keep unless we can find a better one.

edited 9th Apr '14 4:13:19 AM by johnnye

The current quote on Stuff Blowing Up seems a little complainy. How's this one instead?

• "TORGUE GUNS MAKE THINGS EXPLODE! .....END OF SALES PITCH!"
  • —Torgue Vending Machine, Borderlands 2

I'll swap the quotes on Handsome Lech and leave a note. The Escaflowne one won. :-)

That page has so many great quotes I kind of wonder why we use the current one... I'm partial to these two, among others.

Goddess of Explosions: Anyway, what is your wish?
Princess Pitch: More explosions.
Goddess of Explosions: Your wish is granted!!!
— Hyper Princess Pitch

"There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives."
— British Commando motto, World War 2

The "judicious use of high explosives" one reminded me of this:

"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."
— Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick

The quote on Everyone Is Gay is just a restatement of the trope title, and most of those on the Quotes page are similar.

edited 13th Apr '14 3:56:24 PM by johnnye

I like the Oot S one for Stuff Blowing Up; but I really like

->"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" —>— Sundance, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

edited 13th Apr '14 4:40:26 PM by Madrugada

That's on the quotes page too, as are some other similar sayings, but I prefer the British commandos' motto because Real Life example and, secondarily, British commandos. :)

Attributing the motto specifically to British commandos is not really sourced. Pretty much every form of military combat arms has been associated with that saying or some variant. Field artillery, combat engineers, US Marines...

The official motto of the Royal Marine Commandos is "Per mare, per terram (by sea, by land)."

edited 13th Apr '14 5:48:12 PM by Catbert

The page quote on Morality Pet is terrible. It is illustrating another trope entirely. This has nothing to do with a team mascot. I'd say ditch it and go for one on the quotes page.

edited 16th Apr '14 5:11:09 AM by Rethkir

Ditch that quote, it has no relevance to the trope. The ones in the Quotes page aren't that good either, though, and some of them have the exact same problem as the current - but if nothing else, I like the Claymore one best.

Anyway, Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin' have two page quote. The first one seem to fit better, as the second one sounds more like Karma Houdini than this trope.

I'd say the first one. I canned the quote on Morality Pet. It is blank for now.

Removed. I don't particularly like the first quote either, though.

The quote in Dream Weaver doesn't remotely describe the trope. The only quote I can think of is the following line from Inception:

• "We create the world of the dream, you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their secrets."

...but it might be more suitable for Dream Stealer if we add in Ariadne's following line ("Then we break in and steal it?")

I like the Inception quote for Dream Stealer. The Dream Weaver one, I'd move to its quote sub-page.

Decontamination Chamber has two quotes, but I don't particularly fancy either. I'd move both to quote sub-page.

If we have to keep one of them, I think the first one is better.

Vomiting Cop still has two quotes (I believe the concensus was heading for the second one), and so does New Job Episode (I like Donald Duck's myself).

Also, would this be an acceptable quote for Difficult, but Awesome?

->"Greninja's sophisticated moves are extremely fun to use once you get used to how it controls!" —>— Masahiro Sakurai on Greninja, Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS

The Cop Killer quote is a solid five-line paragraph. No quotes page, but there has to be something better than that.

UsefulNotes.Switzerland has two quote. The description is rather tied into the first quote if that's relevant.

Decontamination Chamber: Prefer the first quote as well.

@2570: I agree with your opinion on New Job Episode and Vomiting Cop.

The Inception quote is added to Dream Stealer.

Oh God, yes. The description follows straight on from the quote, and someone's come along and stuck in another one.

I've deleted the second one.

Well, There's this possibility for Cop Killer, from Damon Runyon's story "Earthquake", but it's not a great deal shorter. (It takes up three lines rather than four on my monitor.)

"But in the meantime I hear rumours that Johnny Brannigan is out of town looking for Earthquake, because it seems that while misconducting himself Earthquake severely injures a copper by the name of Mulcahy. In fact, it seems that Earthquake injures him so severely that Mulcahy hauls off and dies, and if there is one thing that is against the law in this town it is injuring a copper in such a manner. In fact, it is apt to cause great indignation among other coppers."

OR

Most of the first line could be cut, using just this part:

"...while misconducting himself Earthquake severely injures a copper by the name of Mulcahy. In fact, it seems that Earthquake injures him so severely that Mulcahy hauls off and dies, and if there is one thing that is against the law in this town it is injuring a copper in such a manner. In fact, it is apt to cause great indignation among other coppers."

On the page it will be 2 and a fraction lines long if we do that.

OR

It can be trimmed even further, to:

"...it seems that Earthquake injures him so severely that Mulcahy hauls off and dies, and if there is one thing that is against the law in this town it is injuring a copper in such a manner. In fact, it is apt to cause great indignation among other coppers."

A little less than two full lines long.

edited 19th Apr '14 5:14:21 AM by Madrugada