History ARareSentence / ThisBites

** '''Patient:''' In writing this chapter, I found myself saying, "Xom, you're comparing a giant warthog to a master swordsman."

** What ensued was one of the more bizarre chase scenes ever: a zombie in a bat costume that somehow allowed him to fly being chased by a manatee-sea turtle hybrid jumping off the air.

!! From Chapter 50:

** '''Smoker:''' We would be willing to pay you quite handsomely for your services, of course. ''({{Beat}})'' I never thought I'd be saying those words to assassins...

** ''...But even as relatively unnatural as Thriller Bark was, the sight of a speedo-clad cyborg swinging around a giant pair of flaming oaks linked by a chain to bash down the walking dead as though he were playing a macabre, jumbo-sized game of Whack-A-Mole was a whole new level of 'weird' for the island's ghastly inhabitants.''

** '...But even as relatively unnatural as Thriller Bark was, the sight of a speedo-clad cyborg swinging around a giant pair of flaming oaks linked by a chain to bash down the walking dead as though he were playing a macabre, jumbo-sized game of Whack-A-Mole was a whole new level of 'weird' for the island's ghastly inhabitants.'

** ...But even as relatively unnatural as Thriller Bark was, the sight of a speedo-clad cyborg swinging around a giant pair of flaming oaks linked by a chain to bash down the walking dead as though he were playing a macabre, jumbo-sized game of Whack-A-Mole was a whole new level of 'weird' for the island's ghastly inhabitants.

** '''Patient:''' In writing this chapter, I found myself saying, "Xom, you're comparing a giant warthog to a master swordsman."

** "Our cheap-as-all-hell navigator refused to pay the entry toll at Heaven's Gate, and we beat all the angel officers that came to fine and arrest us, so a giant lobster carried our crew away here, and we had to fight past tons of booby traps, a talking cream puff, and a bald guy with his giant dog on our way to them," Lassoo said boredly. Then he added in exactly the same tone, "And I'm not sure that's the weirdest thing that's happened to us since I joined this crew a few days ago."

** '''Cross''': ''(explaining his plan to Brook)'' Your first job upon us reaching the island will be to bamboozle the Ghost Princess of Thriller Bark, Perona. ''({{Beat}})'' I love the fact that I get the chance to use the word 'bamboozle'.

** '''Cross''': (explaining his plan to Brook) Your first job upon us reaching the island will be to bamboozle the Ghost Princess of Thriller Bark, Perona. ({{Beat}}) I love the fact that I get the chance to use the word 'bamboozle'.

!! From Chapter 46

!! From Chapter 48

** '''Cross''': I stated intelligently before shrugging and turning my attention back to the bloody but ultimately unremarkable brawl between the wedding guests (did I really just say that?).

** '''Xomniac''': Heheheh, I told ya that including the penguins was a good idea! ''({{Beat}})'' ...god bless the fact that I got to use that phrase in context.

** So saying, the menacing pigeon strolled forward, advancing on my talking snail, my bazooka-dog, and myself as I racked my brains for a way out of the bisected thirty-story Tower of Justice.

'''Franky''': ...It's a fine day in the Grand Line when I can hear a sentence like that and not question how much it makes sense.

** '''[[IronicName Drake]]''': Do not resist arrest, duck. ''({{Beat}})'' Arresting a giant duck... why did it have to be the Straw Hats?

** '''Cross''': Alright, who laughed at the giraffe? Who the hell is responsible for making me utter the phrase "Who laughed at the giraffe" in complete ''and'' utter seriousness?

** '''Franky''': Cross said he might have a way to save Merry but got attacked by a pigeon before he could explain. And it's a healthy day in the Grand Line when I can say that.

** '''Cross''': Alright, who laughed at the giraffe? Who the hell is responsible for making me utter the phrase "Who laughed at the giraffe" in complete ''and'' utter seriousness?

! A Rare Sentence:

A Rare Sentence:

From Chapter 14.

Luffy: Well, anyways, I'm gonna go and eat all this castle's food and then get our reindeer-doctor to join us! See you! (zips away)
Cross: I'm not the only one who can't believe that that sentence makes sense to me, right? Right?
Nami: Eh... I think I became a bit desensitized after 'a seagull grabbed my head when I flew up to catch it'.

From Chapter 21:

Cross: A homicidal otter with dual shell-blades and a vulture armed with high-caliber machineguns stole my talking snail and then tried to kill me when I jumped off a building to catch up to them! (Beat) What the hell has my life become?
Nami: Madness and insanity, Cross, madness and insanity.

From Chapter 32:
Drake: Do not resist arrest, duck. (Beat) Arresting a giant duck... why did it have to be the Straw Hats?
Likewise when Drake is listing Cross's crimes and includes "Assault with a deadly snail", Cross asks if he really just said that.
From Chapter 38, by the author himself:

Xomniac: "What would be a good expression for a giant concentrating to fake an accent?" I never thought I'd find myself asking that question, and yet I nonetheless did while writing this chapter.

From Chapter 40:

Cross: Who laughed at the giraffe? Who the hell is responsible for making me utter the phrase "Who laughed at the giraffe" in complete and utter seriousness?