The Quotes Thread

[Andrew Curnow]

"Actually, we freaks prefer to be called anoraks"

That was me today, in response to the observation that I was a Doctor Who freak.

[Rob McCow]

'Sometimes, these bus shelters have maps. The maps can be quite useful for telling you where you are.'

My teacher and Pedestrian Environment Review System (PERS) Guru, today.

[WhiteCrow]

"I told the girl in the shop I had a sore throat and she got me something to suck on!"

[Simon R]

"He'll always be C-list, and his wife's snatch has been rubbed on every pole in L.A. I'll ****ing tear his head off and stick it up his wife's ****!"

Mrs O, 2007

[P-Bal]

"Look down my nose at you? You bet I do... I'll tell you what Peggy Mitchell, you're filth. You had a villain for a son, a villain for a husband and a fiance who's a pervert."

Pauline Fowler, 100,000 B.C.

[Simon R]

"You laid your hands on me once I'll give you that, but you so much as wag another polished nail in my direction, you'll be picking your eyelashes out of that ice bucket."

Sharon Watts/Mitchell, 1995(ish)

[Pip Madeley]

"Yes I've had three wives. One cheated on me, one didn't make it past the reception, and one shot me. What would you like to know?"

Ian Beale, date unknown

[Simon R]

"You make my flesh creep. I can't bare to have you near me what with your clammy little hands".

Pauline Fowler, 2006

[Pip Madeley]

Peggy Mitchell: Oh, shut up you peroxide old bag!
Pauline Fowler: Oh, yeah? What's this, then - strawberry blonde at seventy, that's "real" is it?
Peggy Mitchell: Shut up! I'm NOT seventy!
Pauline Fowler: No, but you look it!

[Andrew Curnow]

"If he hadn't drowned, I think he'd've lived" - the forensics 'expert' in Taggart last night.

[Dirk Gently]

@Andrew.

[Si Hunt]

"I always said dying was the last thing I wanted to do."
(Garron, "The Ribos Operation")

Si.

[Dirk Gently]

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits".


Albert Einstein

[P-Bal]

"Cwissy Watts! Muwderwah!"

Peggy Mitchell, Colonial Times

[Simon R]

"I'm guffing like a bison"

Dawn Swann, The Age of Chaos.

[P-Bal]

"Good evenin Gee-Ahy-Whay. As annywon seen ma usband?"
Melanie Janine Brown, 2000

[Simon R]

"I think of you guys, sitting in your dressing room going...'Who does this bitch think she is?'"

MLVC, 1990

[Pip Madeley]

"Hello, Leg Warehouse? Yeah, could I get something for my friend Ted to stand on? What, he doesn't have anything to stand on?"
Barney Stinson, 2006

[Simon R]

"Lunch was as they say, on the run, which means you grab a sandwich if there's time. I don't think I saw the cameraman eat for the whole fortnight..."

Jan Chappell, 1994.

[P-Bal]

"I want a SIMPLE SANDWICH and a POT OF TEA!"

CAF, 2001

[Si Hunt]

Her initials bring a new meaning to the popular Stenders phrase "I'll be in the CAF having a bite to eat".

"Join us next time, for a discussion on facelifts..."
(John Stapleton, 1995)

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

"Well, this has been kind of fun, but I must really run. I'm conducting a seminar for multiple personality disorders and it takes me forever to fill out the name tags."
-- Niles Crane

[Andrew Curnow]

"You'll be replaced by a vending machine, boy!" - a terrifying threat from Geoffrey Beevers' character in tonight's Taggart.

[P-Bal]

"If you've got it in you, then it comes very easily."

Dame Kylie Ann Minogue, 1989

[Pip Madeley]

"Avaunt thee, foul fanged fiend."
HG Wells, ye olde times