"I guess we say weird things a lot."
"No, we are weird things."

Not to be outdone by Inle and Homba Den, I have finally gotten around to digitizing the memorable words of the Dungeon of Pembroke East ('91-'92). This quoteboard started when Carey came into my room and said the first quote listed below in a rather plaintive tone. It just had to be preserved for posterity, and thus our hall group's quote board was born. Many communities at Bryn Mawr have them. It's been going sporadically ever since.

(10/11/91) CH, about Angela: "It's not that she's talking to a cockroach that disturbs me; it's that she's talking to it in an English accent."

(10/18) RM [Ars Magica campaign]: "Lord Vertex has, regretfully, kicked it."

On three, Steven gibbers.
On nine, Vertex simmers.

(10/25) CH [as Brecca, in Elsinore]: "Give me patience, and give it to me NOW!"

(10/25) CH [Elsinore]: Aeric and what was left of his mind parted company.

(10/25) SM [a grog's pick-up line in Ars]: "Can I floss your cat for you?"

(10/26) CH: "Ellen, your goddess is upside down.
EB: "Oh, that explains a lot."

(10/26) JM: "Wesley will be back next week! Joan is having a hormonal outrage!"
CH: "Joan is a hormonal outrage."

(10/30) AF [Elsinore]: Raikath dropped her fruit.

(10/30) EB: "Hello. My name is Arawn. I'm the god of death. Prepare to die."

(11/1) AL: "The Demonic Duo."

(11/3) CH: "I was channelling for Lwaxana Troi." (You just have to know Carey to realize how unlikely this is.)

(11/4) JL, a bit distracted while reading Elsinore: "The black magus heard the feminist echo of Del's sending."

(11/4) EB: "I don't like fruit so I'm not into S & M." (translation: Skittles & M&M's.)

(11/5) EB: "I've done this before to Phil Collins. I've given him brain surgery several times."

(11/5) AG: "A hormone is a terrible thing." ( variation on a theme)

(11/6) SK's English paper: "In Beowulf,   the contrast between God's champion and the evil monster is quite stark. Grendel is a creature of the night, forever without joy, forever without God's hats."

(11/6) RM: "And God must have some spiffy hats."

(11/7) QEI and Nursie [Blackadder]: "I miss those people with the funny faces and the bells."
"The jesters?"
"No, the lepers."

(11/7) CH: "Ellen, are you all right?"
EB: "I will be, as soon as I isolate this nerve ending."

(11/8) SM [Ars Magica campaign]: "Let me roll for random crew mauling."

(11/8) Same: "Is she there when I wake up?"
SM: "No, she's out flossing her cat."

(11/10) SK & AG: "We're your 800 series hostesses!" (think Terminator)

(11/11) AL, philosophy at 2AM: "Anything that is not nailed down is Amy's. Therefore, all people are Amy's, except Jesus, because he's nailed down. I could pry him up, but it would be messy."

(11/15) "Tongue is one of the requisite parts, also a hand."

(11/16) Picard: "I think I'll take this opportunity to remove my ears."

(11/24) EB: "It's for you, dear. Death is on the line."

(11/30) Anguished English:     "Abstinence is okay if practiced in moderation."

(11/30) EB: "Ferrets don't bury their hats!"

(11/30)SM [Ars Magica]: "No, that does not sound like an act of the faithful." --The abbess of Kleeve, about skinning nuns.

(12/1) "How old are you?"
"Two."
"Then it'll be a while before you can drink."

(12/2) AG: "If you don't have money for a xerox machine you can always use silly putty."

(12/4) Flake's 7 Rights spelled out, during a hall meeting trying to address some Dungeon friction: "You have the right to not remain silent. Everything you say will be treated with the utmost respect..."

(12/4) SMA: "Hey guys, I found Ellen's nipple."
EB: "Could someone come put a finger on this?" (hint: bodice-lacing)

(12/6) HG [Ars character with curmudgeon facade and flaw soft-hearted]: "If we don't go and rescue them they're just going to scream and wake us up again."

Into the woods: "A cloak with a hood doesn't protect you like it should, and flowers have their dangers too."

Same: "I was raised to be charming , not sincere." --Cinderella's prince.

(12/8) AG: "What's the parry bonus on a battle axe?"

(12/8) "You wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked atop a harpsichord singing 'Cunning Plans Are Here Again!'" --Our favorite BlackAdder quote

(12/9) CH: "My professors thiink I'm a gods-be-damned paper factory!"

(Always) TD: Bwa ha ha!

(12/11) AG: Ha-ha-Bwah!

(12/13) JM: "Damn! This sword just keeps falling down my bodice!"

(12/13) EB: "That was the game in which I brained my eyeball."

(12/14) CH: "Just because life isn't fair doesn't mean we can't bitch about it."

(12/15) "Poor Carey. Aeric keeps leaking."

(12/15) AG: "These shirts are not made for people with frontispieces."

(12/15) CH: "SPEAK or be sausage!"

(12/17) "Skynet runs on electrons, not testicles." (Terminator 2)

(1/somethin) EB's mom: "I did NOT make Ellen inhale napalm!"

(12/21) EB: "My brother, the mutagen."
RM: "No, he's a mutant.     It's entirely different."

"Blow your nose and avoid lechery." --One of MANY quotes from Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning

(12/24) CH: "Fine time to take a nap!" --As Catherine, when Torris passed out from too much spellcasting during the climax of the Ars Magica campaign.

(1/26) CH: "Look! Look! It's birthing!"

(1/26) CH/HG: "It fell to earth like a slimey geeble."

(1/28) EB: "Hey, baby, I can make your hairs stand on end with my nose."

(1/28) AF to one of Elsinore's characters: "Get a grip. Get a life. Get a skateboard."

(1/28) HG: "You brainless, drivelling, intellectual, you!"

(1/29) Prof. Victor Donnay, potato lecture: "There is something about having a hole that makes it essentially different from not having a hole."

(2/1) RM: "Never volunteer. They'll send you to Hell." (Not metaphorical.)

(2/1) Possessed female duck in Buggs, proof that Elsinore is universal: "Ya short, dark, handsome DUCK!"

(2/1) HG & SK: "We make penis-men, and have penis-fights.
We ball them up and throw them."

(2/1) AG & HG "Jesus, crunchy and tasteless...like so many people we know." (Hint: Communion wafers)

(2/1) AL SK AG: "The bust duster stopped sucking!!!"

(2/2) EB: "Gather ye robots while ye may..."

(2/6) CH: "Well, with a perception of 4, it's got to be a her..."

(2/8) SM: "Eye saline is an awfully expensive thing to be dripping up one's nose."

(2/9) RM giving EB a backrub: "Is that supposed to be there?"
"No, that's the Root of All Evil."

(2/11) HG: "It's a bit square-looking, but as long as it dangles freely, it'll be okay."

(2//14) LP: "How much Perdo Vis is Dean Parker worth?"

(2/20) EB: "The two of you have my divided attention."

(2/22) RM: "I guess you just weren't firm enough."

(2/21) ISA rehearsal: "I'm not going to wrap you in a sari! I'm not even going to try!"

(2/23) CH: "It's very rude to make presumptions about other people's nose hair."

(2/25) AL and RM's attempt at a steamy romance novel (sort of): "The hard promise of his wee-wee..."

(2/25) HG: "Just stick out your tongue and hope?" (Hint: snowflakes)

(2/27) "I'm going through alcohol very quickly, and you need to stop this."

(2/29) TD [Clue crossed with Elsinore]: "He did it in the Great Hall, with Morax."

(2/29) SM: "But does his cow die?"
"Only if it doesn't repent."

(2/30) AG: "Why are you making Bambi eyes?"
HG: "I want a venemous goat."

Amy's Psych book: "Everybody has a penis. Only girls wear barettes."

(3/2) CH: "If we're going to do this socially, forks are unacceptable." (hint: ramen noodles, the official food of the Dungeon)

(3/2) JM: "Your suitcase or mine?"

(3/4) EB [An example of a literal translation of Homer, somewhat lacking in epic tone]: "And I swore to the wimpy shades that I would wickety-wack a cow, tube-tied, in my sprawling flat when I got back to Ithaca."

(3/3) CH: "He's got those big, round, wide eyes that say, 'Hi, I'm a megalomaniac.'" (about a sculpture of a Greek child)

(3/4) Prof. Janet Monge, on skeletons: "You cannot sex an immature person. You can only sex an adult."

(3/4) Same: "For many people, there are interesting things that you can do to the pubic bone to do other things as well..."

(3/10) JM/CH "The ducks own Disneyland."

(3/18) AL: "I'm nicer to my bears than to my boyfriends."

SF theater, comedy channel: "If you can't kill the one you love, kill the one you're with."

(3/23) SM "I married a man once."
DL "That wasn't a man, that was a potato."

(3/27) AG: "That is why I never let my mind off a leech."

(3/31) CH: "Men have holes in them too, and if they don't have enough, you can always make more."

(4/2) EB: "Are you discussing men?"
AG: "No, Evil."
EB: "Oh, I'm sorry. I heard you say Amy..."

(4/2) EB: "The tongue action is rather interesting, though..."

(4/2) HG: "Of course, he didn't have breasts, so he looked very lopsided."

(4/6) TW: "I love you!"
SMA: "No you don't, you just like to hear me squeal."

(4/7) SMA: "Shit!"
KV: "They don't have it in Russian."
RM: "They must sure be a constipated country."

(4/7) CH: "I noticed it hitting you."

(4/10) CH: "Let's invite him to tea and see if he exists."

(4/11) EB: "I'm not masturbating. I'm looking for M&M's."

(4/12) EB: "I bet Robin can stick her finger up her nose and make her eyebrows dance."

(4/5) EB: "Where's the castrator?"
CH: "A spoon works just as well."
EB: "This way you can squeeze more easily."

(4/16) RM AG SK [excerpts]:

Souls and Majors and Careers

(4/16) SM [Ars Magica]: "Rolling on the rabbit--er--Rabid Abbot Table."

(4/18) SM: The hollow gourd (horde?) of hell.

(4/19) "Pay no attention to her. She has a problem with the truth."

(4/20) AG: "I'm too silly for this koala." (to the tune of "I'm too sexy".)

(4/26) AG: "I was angelic in white. It was funny as hell."

(4/28) CH: "No goosing the Queen!"

(4/28) St. George play rehearsal: "The ferocious dragon made out with the dean of St. Goatcrossing."

(5/7) CH: "At any time, at any place, Amy's agents can page you.
Have a nice day."

(5/7) In honor of Vasdru: "It's PINK!"

(5/10) JM: I didn't know Lucifer was litter trained."


And the tradition continues, sporadically:

(10/23/94) CH: "I still can't believe Brutus sat in Set's lap!"
HG [a beat...]: "And wriggled!"

(11/6) EB: "Hope springs eternal--then gets fried by a bug-zapper."

(11/18) HG: "Ellen? If you took the skin off a fomori--"
EB [interrupting]: "--and dunked it in vinegar, it would fizz!"
HG: "I didn't know fomori were basic!"

(1/14/95) CH: "let's just go [to the mall.] We could walk around and kiss people.

(1/14) CH: "You are forbidden to filk while I am naked."

(5/6) HG: "I think Peppermint Patty is bi and Marcie is a lesbian."

(5/18) CH: "Sweetie, if you buy me a flamethrower, make sure it's one that doesn't explode."
EB: "I will, my love. I will."

Blinks-at-Fire, 1:35 AM on 9/22: "I propose a new law of MUSHing: The urgency of the roleplay is proportional to the urgency of sleep."

(11/11) HG: "Follow the yellow brick rock." --Rite of Questing stone in a LARP.

(11/12) CH: "You're God. you haveto make sme decisions here."

(11/24) CH: "You can't breast feed and drive."

(12/1) CH: "I wish I had ears!" --to her cat

(12/2) JM: "Martyrs--Protein enzyme saints."

(1/6) CH: "That's it ! We're poorly designed! I want to talk to the management."

(1/14) JM: "There's only so many things you can say about a penis."

(1/16) CH: "If you stay i'll make you eat my glucose."

(3/1/96) EB: "The greatest part of the Carl to the highest in station."

(3/2) EB: "Hey. Every Harbinger sleeps with a teddy bear. Strider secret."

(Ars Magica Bryn Mawr Quote) AG, on phone with Mentor: "Boss? This is a pizza situation."
"A what?"
"If you don't get here soon, we're gonna be pizza."

One of the classic Dungeon Quotes: "Sorry. Not my deity, not my problem."

  • (1/97) EB: "The internet is an odd place. Some people spill their guts. Others just want to show you their fish."
  • (1/97) Magnus says "That's not just a fish out of water. That's a fish in pantyhose on Mir."
  • (5/98) Guest-of-Honor says "I've been wacked with a soup spoon in Genesis."