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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

The basic process: Take a famous quotation and replace one word with your own name. Do this twice: once using a quotation that creates an impossibly boastful claim about yourself, and once with a quotation that humbles yourself.

Here's mine:

"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as Dagonee is left free to combat it." --Thomas Jefferson, ~1807

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our Dagonee." --Shakespeare, Julius Ceaser

Edit to add an exciting new title.

[ May 27, 2005, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

"It is easier to fight for Katie than to live up to [her]." -- Alfred Adler

"Imagination is more important than Katie." --Albert Einstein

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Give me six hours to chop down advice for robots and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

That's one small step for advice for robots, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

"We have nothing to fear but Enigmatic [him]self." --Franklin Roosevelt

"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and Enigmatic." --Martin Luther King

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

Aw heck, here's a few Bushisms, too:

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for Enigmatic as well." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

"Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about Enigmatic." —George W. Bush, Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005

Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :

"Senator, I served with UofUlawguy. I knew UofUlawguy. UofUlawguy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no UofUlawguy." -- Lloyd Bentsen

"But that is UofUlawguy's way; frequently he will explain and justify little things that do not need it and then make up for this by as frequently failing to explain important ones that do need it." -- Mark Twain

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Hubris Cake:
All men by nature desire Megan.
---Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysics

Humble Pie:
We cannot control the evil tongues of Megan; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
---Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

Posted by bunbun (Member # 6814) on :

"A little bunbun is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." --Oscar Wilde

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the bunbun."
--Darth Vader

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

My name is Teshi, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[Wink]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

*clap*

Very nice way to get two for one, Teshi! [Hat]

Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :

"Good people do not let others suffer Aiua."
-Pastwatch

"Aiua is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." Samuel Clemens

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

If the Devil declared war upon King of Men, I should at least make a favourable reference to him in the House of Commons.

There stands King of Men, like a stone wall.