Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Switch with one of the redirects
, started by dotchan on Sep 5th 2011 at 2:56:48 AM
Why the "no quotes" warning? I was just about to add a perfect one. Scotsman: "Ye call that thing dangling off yer hip a sword? Looks like a butter knife! Ye'll nae hurt anyone wielding a piece of tinfoil around! You'd be better off using yer slippers for a weapon! THIS, is a sword!
- long drawn out sword unsheathing*
Maybe they had too many people try to make their favorite quote the main one. I guess now it's confined to the quotes page.
Edited by TheBigBopper
Yes, basically quote bans happen when people change quotes too frequently.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I'd suggest that the Berserk quote is used if the quote ban is lifted.
I don't think Cloud and the buster sword are really big enough to REALLY bring the house down on this trope... I think the Panther Lily photo from the image links section of this article conveys the point across much better, not to mention its much funnier seeing the sheer ridiculousness of that sword.
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The source comment says, "Do not even think about changing this image."
Doh! Now I'm thinking about changing this image. And now everyone reading this comment is thinking about changing this image. "It's like being told not to think of a rhinoceros with a teacup."
New brain challenge: don't think of a fifty-foot (15 m) long crossbow.
The comment says that... but who put that comment in there? I mean, there's no sign it was a mod or anything. Can't find it in the history, either.
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It's related to this thread and this one.
Just wondering whether too bring up a difference between real and (most) fictional BFS. Real life examples of this trope are long, but not noticeably wider than is typical for a sword, in stark contrast to the cricket-bat-esque examples found in fiction. The reason real life bfs are built this way is because a longer sword allows its wielder to strike opponents from further away, while a wider sword offers no real advantage* over a typical blade of comparable length, requires greater strength to use, slows recovery after striking and uses more metal (costing more to both smith and swordsman).
- extra width does potentially make a blade more durable, provided the tang is also widened, and can help make the difference between an attack stopping when it strikes mail and shattering bones/driving mail into flesh, but the width should still be kept to the minimum practical value for use against a typical soldier of the area and era.
I was expecting Biblical accounts to go under Real Life or Literature or Religion... David was a historical king of Israel, not a Myth, so "Mythology" is not really an appropriate categorization. Archeological proof of this was discovered in 1993 at Tel Dan.
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David and Goliath is the part that's a myth.
It is shameful for a demon to be working, but one needs gold even in Hell these days.
BIG. FUCKING. SWORD.
Bye from Bea♡