Fiver quote game
Since Zeke suggested this game in the other quote thread...
The rules are the same as <a href="showthread.php?t=1615">the other quote game</a>, with the following additions: 1. You can't post your own fiver 2. You can't guess your own fiver. "Oh what chaos Mandel brought." Go. |
Awesome. Hope you don't mind my moving this to 5M.net Talk and adding a link.
Since I have a fairly blatant advantage, I'll always wait 24 hours or so and let others go before me... although I must confess I don't remember this one anyway. Pretty sure I have the author pegged, though. |
Oh this is one of my all-time favorites. It's Derek Dean's TNG one with the bit of sand that everyone assumes is alive because they've taken too many trips to the sand bar, right?
"What are you doing?" "I'm trying to help you." "Well, I wish you'd stop." |
That's not a win yet, Nah. You're right, but you have to name the episode.
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Couldn't tell you -- I only know TOS episode names by heart. :) Someone else can come up with it.
. . . Oh, it's "Home Soil", right? |
Yep. NOW your quote is in play.
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No takers? Shot in the dark, then... "The Jem'Hadar".
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Nope, wrong Trek series.
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"The Icarus Factor" or "Yesterday's Enterprise"? If not, I think it's time for a good solid hint.
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Wrong Trek series again.
This exchange happens just before someone finds shuttle debris. Legible shuttle debris. P.S.: Whoooa. When did fivers start carrying that "five" favicon in the URL bar? Funky. :) |
"Galileo Seven" is the only one that comes to mind. If that's not it, probably time to reveal it and post a new one.
(You're just noticing the favicon now? It's been there since '03. Unless you're seeing something <i>other</i> than a clock logo, that is.) |
All those destroyed VOY shuttles and you went with a TOS episode? ;)
No, it's from "Initiations", with Kahr annoyed by Chakotay. I like that exchange so much.* I've been on either side of it many a time. New one: "That's it! I've had it with you people mocking my uselessness! I quit!" "You already resigned." "No making fun of my intelligence either." The favicon I'm seeing on the subsites and individual fivers is a white 5 against a black-and-gray background. Maybe it's been there all along too, but I just don't remember it being there. * (And of course the author isn't half-bad either.) |
That's very weird. I don't remember making one like that. What browser are you using?
Normally I would let someone else try first, but since activity's been low so far, I'm gonna guess. And an episode where someone useless resigns... that's gotta be "The Loss". |
Yeah, I'm sorry activity is so low in this thread. I can remember lines from episodes much better than fivers. Thus I can't really play this game, as simply googling a phrase within a certain website seems rather petty, even if it wasn't cheating.
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Well, there's always going back and rereading the entire archive.
And I was totally going to guess Troi, dammit. *hmph*. Hmm...given that Zeke seems to be both the keenest player and best guesser, *and* the most prodigious fiverer, maybe the "can't guess your own" rule should be modified to "can't guess your own for x hours or until everyone else has whiffed on it." |
Yeah, maybe I was wrong that this thread would be a good idea. I have definitely read everything on this site at least once, so if even <i>I'm</i> having trouble, the game probably won't work.
Maybe some other kind of participatory thread would lend itself better to this site's content. (We certainly have enough to keep one going.) Any suggestions? |
Round-robins are fun. Sort of "fanfic by committee" -- you start with a premise (the Enterprise sends a landing party down to a planet) and each poster contributes as much to the story as s/he wishes. One sentence, a paragraph, two paragraphs, whatever. Stop mid-sentence if you like.
If you needed it to be relevant to this site, it could be "fiver an episode round-robin," but I think the chaos of a group fanfic story keeps momentum going. |
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I think I must have briefly crossed over into a universe where this started out as a Farscape parody site. The 5 looked like the S in Farscape at a glance. [edit]Kinda like this, but with the 5 centered and a bit skinnier. Quote:
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<img src="../images/prev.png" width=16 height=16> Sometimes browsers mess up favicons, using cached versions and such. Apparently yours just grabbed an image from the page, like Facebook does when you post a link. |
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We could call it "Fiver by Committee." |
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While we're deciding what to do with the thread, let me toss you one of my personal all-time favourites:
"Um... no... let's not destroy it. It's not a threat to us. I mean, look how small it is... (points fingers at the viewscreen) It's tiny!" (silence) "It's not small, it's FAR AWAY!" |
I'm going to go with the The Corbomite Maneuver or Q-Who.
And now that I've guess I'm going to go Google it. |
Doesn't ring a bell for me. It seems like the sort of thing an undercover spy might say, though.
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This one sounds familiar but I don't remember where it's from.
Actually it sounds like Zap Brannigan and Kif from Futurama. |
Nah is on the right track.
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Indeed. It might help if you know that it's two different people speaking.
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The only one that occurs to me is Troi standing on the Romulan ship in that episode where she's a Romulan. And I seriously could not tell you the title.
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Yep, that's the one. It's a Nic Corelli fiver.
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Wow. :cool: Well, Wowbagger got the title, so it's his turn.
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Wowbagger is next in both games! Does "two" qualify as a sweep?
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No, it qualifies as someone who doesn't log in often enough *g*
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Fortunately, Zeke messages me on Facebook to tell me "LOG IN YOU OLD POPSICLE!"
See, I thought NAHTMMM got the kill credit on this one, and all I did was get the +250 for the assist. But clearly I've been playing too much Tribes:Ascend, which is now free-to-play on Steam. Ah! For some reason, this fiver made me laugh harder than any other fiver line ever, back when I was twelve or whatever. "You call that a tricorder?" "Put the spoon away" |
Is that TNG's "First Contact," the episode?
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If so, then it was a reference. Unless I'm way off, that joke originated not in a fiver at all, but in <a href="../features/paneldemonium1.html">Paneldemonium</a>.
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Paneldemonium not technically a fiver? Because, yes -- that particular line is from Part 2.
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I sort of assumed it was just fivers, but you have a point. There's lots of memorable content in other areas of the site. Let's broaden the thread's scope, then.
For instance (since it's my turn now), in Minutemen Part 1, I had a gag about the Guardian of Forever having waited SINCE BEFORE YOUR SUN BURNED HOT IN SPACE for its two guest fivers to be published. That was a followup joke -- the Guardian had mentioned these guest fivers before. Anyone remember where? |
I didn't recall there being two instances of that joke, but I think the other is probably in a TJI. I definitely think the Guardian has cameoed in one of those.
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Yes, it was a TJI. It would be silly to ask for the issue number or headline, so to count as a win, can you say what that one was about?
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