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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
Something like "Satan's gotten so good, he doesn't need to tempt people any more; they're fighting for a chance to pay to get in." Possibly combined with "Hell's successful strategy: Charging admission."

If not, I want to claim it.
 

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Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
 
When I used to teach how to use spreadsheets, I'd use hell's operating expenses as an example. Ever-increasing costs for heating oil; ever-decreasing costs for recruitment; $0 for refreshments.
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
I posted something very similar here with a link to the quote from McEldowney's first or second Pibgorn tale, I think.
With a slight chance it was from 9ChickweedLane. Either way, definitely McEldowney.

I've a feeling that MarkTwain or AmbroseBierce also wrote something similar.
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
At the risk of being the subject of ridicule for some of my really guilty pleasures in reading, it also sounds a lot like something that would have been said somewhere in the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.

But you wouldn't admit to reading it, would you Squick?
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
It is far from an uncommon theme, actually.


And it is specifically alluded to in the Incarnations of Immortality series more than once.
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
::Hits head::

I remember now!

It was in that same movie/tv show as that other quote and was a direct response to this:

"It doesn't DO anything. That's the beauty of it."


 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by sndrake:
::Hits head::

I remember now!

It was in that same movie/tv show as that other quote and was a direct response to this:

"It doesn't DO anything. That's the beauty of it."

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At first I thought this thread was going to be about THAT quote, to be honest.
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
It may have been Incarnations of Immortality. I have things pop into my head at times and I often can't tell if they're from somewhere or whether the little men who work inside me sent them up.

I don't have to do anything to get these ideas though. That's the beauty of it.

[ March 06, 2007, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: MrSquicky ]
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by sndrake:
::Hits head::

I remember now!

It was in that same movie/tv show as that other quote and was a direct response to this:

"It doesn't DO anything. That's the beauty of it."

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I knew that this would come up somehow!
 

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Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
 
is it not from Devil's Advocate? (at least that's what it made me think of, but I could be wrong)
 

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