Jones: (Floating in the water) "I hate this @#$%^&* place!"
Captain Morgan: "You be treading in MY realm now, snowboy!"
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:Celsia looked at the pile of crates with confusion."MCH #69 Sex-Ed Films? Who keeps dumping these in my hive?"
"Ah....this looks like direct-to-video bad fanfiction."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:Celsia looked at the pile of crates with confusion."MCH #69 Sex-Ed Films? Who keeps dumping these in my hive?"
"Ah....this looks like direct-to-video bad fanfiction."
Lucky for her, the Gura Invid never developed 1970s/80s, School Board issued Filmstrip Projector technology...
(Shot of Gura Gurab tangled up in film reel, and tearing it apart trying to get disentangled)
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:Celsia looked at the pile of crates with confusion."MCH #69 Sex-Ed Films? Who keeps dumping these in my hive?"
"Ah....this looks like direct-to-video bad fanfiction."
Lucky for her, the Gura Invid never developed 1970s/80s, School Board issued Filmstrip Projector technology...
(Shot of Gura Gurab tangled up in film reel, and tearing it apart trying to get disentangled)
After getting help from the base motorpool... (Shot of Gura and IceGuarders alike looking confused as they try to interpret the warbling sound and jumping picture.)
"Ah, surrealist entertainment again." "Makes perfect sense to me!" "That's because you're so doped to the gills you could walk on the ceiling and not notice anything wrong."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:Vanitch: "So anyway, I tried to send that Shinji kid back to MCH #69."
Jones: "What happened?"
Vanitch: "Tollivar, drugged him and packed himself in the box instead... Something about needing to get away from these crazy women."
Cut to a secret headquarters packed with scantily clad women...
Woman #1: "Rejoice Sisters! We have captured the box containing our beloved Shinji!"
They open the box...
"Your not Shinji!?!"
Tollivar:
"Will you let me sleep if I tell you where he is?" "We can punch you out for looking at us. AFTER you tell us where he is." "Fair enough."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Remembered and rediscovered this quote from the move Ice Station Zebra:
David Jones: Where were you stationed, Captain, before you were picked up in transit?
Capt. Leslie Anders: Asia
David Jones: Ah, then you haven't been on the ice before either.
Capt. Leslie Anders: No, Sir. A bullet goes just as fast up here as it does down there.
David Jones: Not quite. An insignificant difference, perhaps, but I think you'll find the operational characteristics of the M-16 indicate that a bullet will decelerate as much as 40 feet per second per second faster in these climate conditions. It's denser air, you know.
Clearly the Jones were associated with cold weather operations even during the Cold War...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:Jones: "I'm hoping sound doesn't carry though all the ice freezing around me."
Sparks: "I heard ice acts as an amplifier, Cap'n." Jones: "Shut up, Sparks. Why is there always someone named 'Sparks' on every ship and base in charge of comms?! "
SRoss wrote:Jones: "I'm hoping sound doesn't carry though all the ice freezing around me."
Sparks: "I heard ice acts as an amplifier, Cap'n." Jones: "Shut up, Sparks. Why is there always someone named 'Sparks' on every ship and base in charge of comms?! "
"Command amnesia.....it's easier for officers to memorize one name than to familiarize themselves with each individual soldier."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
(looking at hole in ice)"Wow...we just happen to be on EARTH'S North Pole this week..."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:(looking at hole in ice)"Wow...we just happen to be on EARTH'S North Pole this week..."
Twitch: "Actually, if I'm reading the map correctly, we're on Lake Baikal this time."
"Better than Europa...damned space-squid."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Ice Guard Trooper 1:"...heh...,more non-euclidian architecture..." Ice Guard Trooper 2: "Late P#feghk school I'd say." Ice Guard Trooper 1: "Nah, it's Fake Neo-Gr@'nn if anything. The finial ph'at*og are oriented all wrong for anything of the P#feghk formulations." Ice Guard Trooper 2: " But that -is- a characteristic of the deep ort adaptations of classical P#f, since they had to take into account time dilation differences and distortions in the ambient gravitational #hek fields from those cultures closer to the sun...not to mention the changes in color palette at that distance. You forgot to factor that in. Infrared paints are just not part of any of the Neo-Gr@'nn movements. "
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
SRoss wrote:[ This is why Leonard now supplies the IceGuard using ICBMs.
A warhead slams into the Commander's Office.
Vanitch: (Sticking her head out of the filing cabinet) "Sir, I think your China figurines are here."
"Well, it's not as if they're shipping us farm-fresh eggs...They really can't screw up powdered."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
"They bomb at random and hope for the best." "Emphasis on 'bomb'."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:"They bomb at random and hope for the best." "Emphasis on 'bomb'."
"It's not random. We call it 'Selective Targeting'!"
"Yes, we select the entire polar ice cap."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
"We have a name for you Robotech Masters." "Indeed? And what is that, arrogant micronian?" "Norca chow." ^GRRRAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR^ "AIIEEE-"
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Arnie100 wrote:"What the check's a Norca?!" "I dunno...but it's big and ugly!"
(The Norca turns and moves towards them...)
"Maybe you shouldn't have called it 'ugly'! I think you hurt its feelings!"
A ragged figure staggers out of the Mothership wreckage...
EBSIS Tech: "COMRADES! I SAVED THE NAKID PICTURE OF DANA!!!" (Collapses between them and the Norca)
"AAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!" (As the Nirvana swallows the EBSIS Tech...) "Man, I was hoping to see those pics!" "Uhm, that Norca's still coming after us!" "RUN, STUPID!"
Arnie100 wrote:"What the check's a Norca?!" "I dunno...but it's big and ugly!"
(The Norca turns and moves towards them...)
"Maybe you shouldn't have called it 'ugly'! I think you hurt its feelings!"
"From either end it's pretty hideous."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Arnie100 wrote:"What the check's a Norca?!" "I dunno...but it's big and ugly!"
(The Norca turns and moves towards them...)
"Maybe you shouldn't have called it 'ugly'! I think you hurt its feelings!"
A ragged figure staggers out of the Mothership wreckage...
EBSIS Tech: "COMRADES! I SAVED THE NAKID PICTURE OF DANA!!!" (Collapses between them and the Norca)
"[i]AAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!"[/i] (As the Nirvana swallows the EBSIS Tech...) "Man, I was hoping to see those pics!" "Uhm, that Norca's still coming after us!" "RUN, STUPID!"
Giving the picture the briefest of glimpses, the Norca charged forward and was promptly crushed by an incoming supply drop.
IceGuard Trooper: "Wow! So the Stirling Effect works on animals too. Who knew..."
Pvt. Tholdus: "Sir, I have a new idea how to attract more income." Major Jones: "Indeed?" Tholdus: "See, down in the Warm some extreme environment tourists like to visit places like Death Valley when it gets REALLY hot, just to say they survived...if they do. Well, we have some of the COLDEST weather around! We advertise that, we can get the summer AND winter crowds up here PAYING to be abused by the weather!" Jones: "Great idea, Private....there's just the matter that officially WE DON'T EXIST, so how we supposed to advertise?" Tholdus: "...ah..whispering campaign?"
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:Pvt. Tholdus: "Sir, I have a new idea how to attract more income." Major Jones: "Indeed?" Tholdus: "See, down in the Warm some extreme environment tourists like to visit places like Death Valley when it gets REALLY hot, just to say they survived...if they do. Well, we have some of the COLDEST weather around! We advertise that, we can get the summer AND winter crowds up here PAYING to be abused by the weather!" Jones: "Great idea, Private....there's just the matter that officially WE DON'T EXIST, so how we supposed to advertise?" Tholdus: "...ah..whispering campaign?"
Later
Tholdus: "Forget it guys, he didn't go for it."
Cut to: Niomi, Tolliver and Segundo, painting ads on the sides of several captured Norca.
Cut to: Niomi, Tolliver and Segundo, painting ads on the sides of several captured Norca.
"So, no funding for the jacuzzis and the ski lodge bar?" "Doesn't look that way."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Author of Rifts: Deep Frontier (Rifter 70) Author of Rifts:Scandinavia (current project) * All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. * Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. -Max Beerbohm Visit my Website
Annie: "Lookit what I found, guys!" (Riding on top of a Norca...) Scott: "What the -- ?!" Lunk: "I'm cold..." Rand: "How did we get here?!" Rook: "We followed YOUR instructions, you idiot!" (Smacks Rand upside the head...)
Oh yeah, though I picture them as all-white and having flukes.
Great find!
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Oh yeah, though I picture them as all-white and having flukes.
Great find!
Annie: "They're sssssooooo CUTE!" Norcas: :frazz:
Tholdus: "It's murder getting a leash on them for walkies, though." Naomi: " No it's not! You just have to scratch them under the chin while you're attaching the lead!" Tolliver: "...not all of us have a superpsychic affinity with hybrid mutant apex predators."
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"