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This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.

Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/).

Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread in the Image Pickin' forum.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM

NemuruMaeNi Since: Apr, 2014
#3152: Feb 9th 2015 at 10:35:11 PM

->"What the heck? That's a Mobile Suit!" IT'S A GUNDAAAAAAAAM!'

—>— Mooks throughout the franchise. It usually ends badly for them.

Current page quote from Franchise.Gundam page.

Before considering wiping potholed links (one is a trope page, which is denied by Administrivia.Sinkhole; another is external link, essentially same as what Weblinks Are Not Examples covers), I see this is a synthetic quote. As such I'm keen on deleting it altogether. But it doesn't hide its spoofiness much, so perhaps it can be taken as funny way to relay something that's hard to relay in other ways. What to do?

edited 9th Feb '15 10:35:31 PM by NemuruMaeNi

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3153: Feb 10th 2015 at 9:26:20 AM

I personally despise "page quotes" that aren't actually quotes. So if that's just somebody's idea of a funny way to parody characters in the show, or a common situation, I would just pull up the show, watch an episode or two, and transcribe an actual quote to the same effect.

Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#3154: Feb 10th 2015 at 8:42:35 PM

[up]I don't like those type of "quotes" too.

Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#3155: Feb 12th 2015 at 4:16:14 AM

Fountain of Youth uses the Healing Incantation from Tangled. While the song can indeed be used to restore youth, it isn't really reflected in the lyrics, which focuses more on the "healing" aspect.

As for a replacement, I can only think of this dialogue from Sket Dance:

Kiri: But how did he completely become a child?! Chuuma-sensei: Ah, yeah. All the previous versions of the drug was incomplete. I finally made the one that can revert a person to a child, in body and mind.

edited 12th Feb '15 4:21:45 AM by Adept

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3156: Feb 12th 2015 at 8:51:26 AM

[up] The grammar is a little wonky. Did you transcribe that straight from the work in question, or is that from memory?

Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#3157: Feb 12th 2015 at 10:44:13 PM

[up]It was from a Scanlation, to be honest.

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3158: Feb 13th 2015 at 8:43:30 AM

[up] Ah, I see. Well, if it wasn't an official translation, I'd guess (though I'm not positive) that you can make changes to improve grammar, since we don't have an "official" translation to quote.

My go at it:

—>Kiri: But how did he completely become a child?!
—>Chuuma-sensei: Ah, yeah. All the previous versions of the drug were incomplete. I finally made one that can revert a person to a child, in body and mind.

That said, I'm not a huge fan of the quote—it's just a little sterile. I feel like page quotes should be witty, and this one is basically just "Hey, here is a quote that is an example of this trope."

But it is still better than the current one, which is pretty nonindicative.

edited 13th Feb '15 8:43:51 AM by SolipSchism

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#3159: Feb 13th 2015 at 4:37:53 PM

Suggesting a more witty quote for Insult Backfire:

Phil: Geez Mick, where you born in a cave?
Mick "Crocodile" Dundee: Yeah! How'd you know that?
Phil: Never mind.
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

What ya think?

edited 13th Feb '15 4:38:13 PM by eroock

XFllo There is no Planet B from Planet A Since: Aug, 2012
There is no Planet B
#3160: Feb 14th 2015 at 2:12:41 PM

[up][tup][awesome]

ETA: I think both (the current and the suggestion) quotes on Fountain of Youth should be on the quote subpage. They just both so so to me. The suggestion is at least clear, but I second he opinion that it should be slightly wittier.

edited 14th Feb '15 2:18:26 PM by XFllo

Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#3161: Feb 14th 2015 at 10:14:57 PM

X-Pac Heat has 2 quotes, neither of which seem to really explain the trope without knowing the Trope Namer's history/context.

TheUnsquished Filthy Casual from A youngun between two oldies Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Filthy Casual
#3162: Feb 15th 2015 at 6:37:43 AM

Lost Technology also has two quotes. Which would be the best one to remain on the page?

(Annoyed grunt)
Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#3163: Feb 15th 2015 at 6:07:11 PM

[up]I like the second one. It's much more concise.

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#3164: Feb 15th 2015 at 11:27:16 PM

[up]I agree with keeping the second one.

The quote and picture caption on Franchise.Super Mario Bros are basically the same.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Charbydis Que asco! from software Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Que asco!
#3165: Feb 16th 2015 at 7:58:03 AM

How about this for a page quote?

"Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist."

- Hideo Kojima, Nintendo Power November 2010

I don't talk soft, that's the other guy.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#3166: Feb 16th 2015 at 8:12:30 AM

For Cool Airship,how about this quote?

->"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..." —>—Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#3167: Feb 16th 2015 at 11:57:52 PM

[up][up]I think that would go better on a page like Genre Popularizer.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
MisterNoh Troper formerly known as Nohbody from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Mu
Troper formerly known as Nohbody
#3168: Feb 17th 2015 at 7:43:32 AM

UsefulNotes.Punic Wars has two quotes, one from Cato (the source of the longer form of "Carthago delenda est"), and one discussing the state of Carthage after each of the three wars.

I think the second one is a better quote for the page, as it's more relevant to the actual wars.

edited 17th Feb '15 7:43:52 AM by MisterNoh

LordGro (Old as dirt)
#3169: Feb 18th 2015 at 10:16:52 AM

The second quote (written by a German in the 1950s) is actually about Germany and the World Wars. Really.

edited 18th Feb '15 10:25:19 AM by LordGro

ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#3170: Feb 18th 2015 at 4:10:41 PM

The current quote on Space Whale Aesop is "If You Give the Federal Government Too Much Power, Ghosts!", which is a decently good one. But I'm inclined to switch to this JonTron line: "The moral of the story is real good on this one - it's 'Don't be unlucky and be a dog.' ...Thassa good one."

Any thoughts?

edited 18th Feb '15 4:12:24 PM by ThePope

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3171: Feb 18th 2015 at 4:17:02 PM

The "Thassa good one" at the end of it feels really weird to me, but otherwise it's not bad. Little dull, though; there are quite a few on the Quotes tab that are making me giggle, like

->I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after New Year's or you get filleted by a hooker from God.
—>—Dean, Supernatural, Houses of the Holy

Or

->Cool kids don’t desecrate burial sites for starship fuel. Knowing is half the battle.
—>—Darren Mooney on Star Trek: Voyager, "Emanations"

(Trimmed the last sentence out of the latter because it seemed gratuitous—to be perfectly honest, you could even cut the second sentence, but it's not bad.)

edited 18th Feb '15 4:17:26 PM by SolipSchism

ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#3172: Feb 18th 2015 at 4:31:22 PM

I like the "thassa good one" ("that's a good one" if you want to be phoenetical). Adds a sarcastic touch of "yes, that is a good moral".

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3173: Feb 19th 2015 at 8:04:25 AM

I'm never fond of Funetik Aksent, which is probably why I don't like that part. And if it was delivered in a verbal/audio medium, I'd vote to just write it as "That's a good one". But my "dull" remark was just about the quote overall; it doesn't really hit "witty" for me, and the grammar is not wrong, but a little awkward.

It's not a bad quote, I just wouldn't vote for it over most of the other quotes of similar length on the Quotes tab. (I also don't like long quotes, so I wouldn't suggest—and didn't bother reading—most of the longer quotes. But most of the ones of similar length strike me as being better.)

Edit: Make no mistake, though, they're pretty much all better than the current quote, with its flat-out confusing grammar.

edited 19th Feb '15 8:05:35 AM by SolipSchism

ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#3174: Feb 19th 2015 at 8:52:57 AM

I still think it's the funniest.

Also, the Supernatural one's a bit too much of a stretch, and the Voyager one is only made funny by the statement at the end, whereas the Jon Tron one is amplified by the closing statement.

SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
#3175: Feb 19th 2015 at 9:20:09 AM

Wait. Are you kidding? How is "Cool kids don't desecrate burial sites for starship fuel" not funny and super indicative of the trope?


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