My Funny String of Numbers

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It would appear that my choir teacher may have gotten it from a variety of places. He's where I heard it first in 1998 or 1999. I'm not sure if either of your sources came from that time frame, but if you can provide me links, I'll be more than happy to take ten minutes and un-bullocks up my siggie.

EDIT: I did a little research of my own, and while Mark Twain is the earliest attributed source of the quote, Robert Heinlein receives the most widely ascribed credit for it, and he has more note-worthy sources behind him. I'm leaning on Heinlein indeed being the quote's originator.

Mirite?

[Taryble]

Wikipedia lists the original publishing date of "Time Enough for Love", which is where I recognize the quote from, as 1973. It won an award both that year and in 1974. The quote appears in one of the two "intermissions" in the novel where quotes from the main character appear.

The intermissions were published separately as "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" in 1978, and the Wikipedia page for this book specifically quotes the one in your sig.

[Fin]

Originally Posted by voodoodad I want to bare your children!

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PS: Did you know, pigs can fly? (At least, swine flew.)

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Originally Posted by Fin PS: Did you know, pigs can fly? (At least, swine flew.)

You've been officially recruited to my ship. You're a pirate now. If you were a ninja before, you're now an invisible pirate. You're just too openly awesome and must be among my ranks.

[Seerah]

Ah, now you see why we loves him so

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I updated my siggie. Look at that! I was going to just fix the quote, but then I got into it a bit and thought I'd really put my skills to work using layers, blend effects, and well-timed screenshots (most of which you can't see, but they were gorgeous before I spliced and shrank them for the siggie).

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OMG!!! It's my hundredth post! I'm a Flamescale Wyrmkin nao!

This calls for 100 bananas! ...or 1 banana for every 10 posts, since I'm fairly certain a post with 100 bananas would get the Ultimate Banhammar of Doom.