Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[bhsup]

oh, i got the impression because you mentioned it was part of a commercial.

Oh, no sorry. I'll do a quick one post derail to explain. BBCAmerica had a commercial which I will put in spoilers below showing the difference between British English and American English. Bugwar's quote made me think of the Bastogne quote which made me think of the BBCAmerica commercial and I wondered if they could redo it with WWII quotes... clear as mud now?

Spoiler :

Oh well stuff it, I've been searching for 10 minutes and cannot find the commercial on Youtube. Suffice it to say it used Star Trek and contrasted British English with Jean-Luc Picard and American English with Will Riker.

Not wanting to leave you hanging, however, I leave you with this wonderful BBCAmerica commercial about Limeys infiltrating America!


Link to video.

 

[GamezRule]

Cash crops still need growing, so people can be employed to grow them.

Or enslaved, as it were.

 

[bugwar]

Quotes, people, focus on the quotes.

 

[cardgame]

What have I done...

 

[bugwar]

What have I done...

Now THATS a classic!

 

[GamezRule]

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. - Alfred Montapert

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

This game...
"Can someone do me a favor and turn on the [trash] compactor?"
-random guy on Borderlands 2 I played with, while he was inside said compactor.

 

[say1988]

This game...
"Can someone do me a favor and turn on the [trash] compactor?"
-random guy on Borderlands I played with, while he was inside said compactor.

He was being smart. There is a challenge in the game where you get points (which can add stat bonuses, for those that don't play the game) for doing so.

 

[GamezRule]

In politics, opinions count as fact and facts do not matter.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnn

-You know where from

 

[say1988]

In politics, opinions count as fact and facts do not matter.

In the real world reality doesn't matter, perception does.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

He was being smart. There is a challenge in the game where you get points (which can add stat bonuses, for those that don't play the game) for doing so.

It's only one Badass Token though. And come on, just think about hearing that before you get the context a few seconds later.

 

[Leoreth]

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnn

-You know where from

Any match of the German national football team before 2006?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Any match of the German national football team before 2006?

Star Trek II

 

[Zack]

Anyone discussing the general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves?

 

[del62]

"I have a cunning plan" Baldrick

 

[holy king]

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”

- Hermann Goering

 

[Borachio]

"To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas."

Dhammapada, v.183

 

[del62]

"I knew the people who worked for me... When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings."

Oskar Schindler

 

[classical_hero]

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

Samuel Adams.