"Look, we're both stuck in this place. I'll use lasers to inscribe a line down the centre of the facility! And one half will be where you live, and I'll live in the other half. We won't have to try to kill each other, or even talk if we don't feel like it!"
— GLaDOS, Portal
Marty: Okay, you all have your side, and I'll have mine. And if you need me, I'll be over here, on the fun side of the island, havin' a good old time!
Alex: That's not the fun side! This is the fun side! This is the fun side, where we're gonna have a great time surviving until we go home! Ooh, I love this side! This side's the best! That side STINKS! You're on the Jersey side of this cesspool!
Calvin: My side of the woods is abound in natural scenic splendor. Your side wallows in decay and filth. My territory is infinitely superior to yours.
Hobbes: (rolls the big boulder serving as the boundary) Your side is smaller.
Calvin: Hey!
Hobbes: (rolls the big boulder serving as the boundary) Your side is smaller.
Calvin: Hey!
Marge: I'm sorry I had to arrest you, Homer. But what I did was right. Someday, when you really need it, you'll be happy there are dedicated cops like me out there.
Homer: I have nothing more to say to you, Marge. I'm drawing a line down the center of the house à la I Love Lucy. [draws a line] You stay on your side, and I'll stay on my side!
[zoom out to reveal that Homer had drawn himself into a tiny corner of the room]
Homer: D'oh!
Homer: I have nothing more to say to you, Marge. I'm drawing a line down the center of the house à la I Love Lucy. [draws a line] You stay on your side, and I'll stay on my side!
[zoom out to reveal that Homer had drawn himself into a tiny corner of the room]
Homer: D'oh!
— The Simpsons, "The Springfield Connection"
The space was divided into two, with a narrow bed against one wall on each side. The dividing line was painted on the floor, up the walls and across the ceiling. My half, your half.
So long as we remember that, the line indicated, there won't be any more...trouble.
In the middle, so that it bestrode the boundary line, was a table. A couple of mugs and two tin plates were carefully arranged at either end. There was a salt pot in the middle of the table. The line, at the salt pot, turned into a little circle to encompass it in its own demilitarized zone.
So long as we remember that, the line indicated, there won't be any more...trouble.
In the middle, so that it bestrode the boundary line, was a table. A couple of mugs and two tin plates were carefully arranged at either end. There was a salt pot in the middle of the table. The line, at the salt pot, turned into a little circle to encompass it in its own demilitarized zone.
