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repka


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Posted Sun Dec 20th, 2009 10:53pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Dear fellow fluffettes!

We all retain a lot of verbalized fryness in our brains - Stephen's sayings, quotations, funny neologisms etc. I believe it's time we share them. So, here is my thread proposal - stephenisms and quotes. The man is so wordily fertile, I'm sure we have many hours of fun and verbal delight ahead of us.

As a starting point - here is a Stephenisms cloud I made with wordle:

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - Stephen Fry, Harvard 2/22/11

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nongenderous


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Posted Sun Dec 20th, 2009 10:55pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Not sure whether it counts as a Stephenism, but he gave me a "freshly baked hug" on my Birthday (see Birthday Thread).
More:
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From "Paperweight" (Christmas Cheer): piffle-bibble, 'humbug, hooey and humgudgeoen',

It's just past midnight and I can't remember anything else at the moment.

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gjhsu


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Posted Sun Dec 20th, 2009 11:05pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Jo Brand: "... can you foresee any situation in the future in which we might be able to use this information... usefully?"
Stephen: "It's extraordinary, it's always the children who say 'Sir, sir, what's the point of geometry, or what's the point of Latin,' that end up having no job, being alcoholic, and they don't notice that the ones who actually find knowledge for its own sake, and pleasure in information, in history, in the world and nature around us, actually getting on and DOING things with their fucking lives... it's an odd thing."

One of my favorites from QI


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ginj


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Posted Sun Dec 20th, 2009 11:06pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

I love that cloud, I think I may want to print it out and hang it somewhere.

Freshly baked hug...that is adorable.

I love him *supersigh*


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tzioni


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Posted Sun Dec 20th, 2009 11:33pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Oh look there's my username!

My personal fave will always be "butterkin"...

Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas.

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zomgmouse


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 12:08am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

From the "Language" sketch: "tish, posh, vibble" and "correctly correctington".

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To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Sartre
Do be do be do - Sinatra
(-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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nemelle


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 10:36am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Oh dear, if I start to quote my favourite Stephen's sayings, I'll be banned sooner or later. Because I admire his swearing talents. The man is brilliant in everything he does, and his swearing is a pure braingasm.
'Arse, pants, botty and double damn it to hell' is a very special favourite of mine. Even if I feel so sorry for Stephen and his beloved Norwich FC - he tweeted this when Norwich went to a lower league.


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Soph


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 10:52am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

I just wanted to pop by to say; that cloud is immense.

Would 'Oh my Lordy potato' count and 'twitticide'?

He's brilliant.

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speckledband


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 11:24am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

"Oh my wordy wordington" from QI is cute I do admit to using that from time to time.

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Hope


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 12:02pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Aw, this thread is great.

I quite like "It is odd that we value knowledge above feeling and persuade ourselves too that knowledge is more difficult than feeling. But that is a thought for another day and another pair of pyjamas."

Oooh, and "Holy suck-pigging BITCH!" and of course "absolute complete and unmanageably gorgeous darlings"

There's something about this sentence from his '90s website which is just really Stepheny, imo: "please strip off the blue serge trousers of intolerance and pull on the snug jeans of understanding at this point"

..."Wimbledon. Oh, in the name of cock-mothering arse mustard."

*madgiggling*

I like wordy wordington. Has he ever said "lordy lordington"? Ooh, just googled it and couldn't see any immediate FryQuotes but gjhsu's Flickr page comes up.


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Fryphile


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 2:29pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Who else could say this about hangers?

"Entirely slappable entities at the best of times."

And that charity insult tweet he did:

"Doubled-arsed tittydamn to you & a bucket of wee. Hell's breath and ten torn nipples. Hope this what you sperming well wanted."

And pretty much everything everyone else said. And pretty much everything Stephen ever says.

I think of myself as someone who is filled with love, whose only purpose in life was to achieve love. - Stephen Fry

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repka


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 3:32pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Oh, yes, I remember the charity insult tweet. I would definitely pay for something like that.

Hope said:

Oooh, and "Holy suck-pigging BITCH!" and of course "absolute complete and unmanageably gorgeous darlings"

Isn't it amazing how he is equally good at cursing and at expression of extreme tenderness...

I love this quote from The Liar:
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'

He tweeted this about darts:
'You could cut the tension with a Black and Decker Tension Cutter.'

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - Stephen Fry, Harvard 2/22/11

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ladyfromhamburg


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 4:34pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

I love this thread and decided immediately to copy the quotes in a separate file.
As usual, the internal system is checking automatically the spelling. I can tell you, it’s completely bewildered and is underlining nearly every word


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gjhsu


Moderator

Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 5:27pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Hope said:

I like wordy wordington. Has he ever said "lordy lordington"? Ooh, just googled it and couldn't see any immediate FryQuotes but gjhsu's Flickr page comes up.

Bwahahaha, that's great!

"I have injected 30mg of Floric-19 into my thigh. So far, I feel no effects whatsoevr. I can see clearly, think clearly. Seven-sevens are 49, the capital of Australia is Canberry, the Prime Minister of Great Britain is Margaret Thatcher, Twelve-twelves are 144. No discernible contraindications whatever... wait a minute. Something's happening. My flesh - is expanding. The hairs, the hairs on the back of my hand - they're disappearing! That is, I... AAARGH, blaaaargh! YAAARGH!

Predictable as it seems, something was happening to Dr. John Fordice.

My god, something IS happening to me. I've turned into a woman. There isn't any doubt about it, I have two unmistakable breasts, and... UGH! I'm unquestionably a woman. Seven-sevens are... 77, the Capital of Australia is... A. I'm even thinking differently, intuitively. Freed from the shackles of logic and reason. I must note carefully the effects of this drug, but first I have so many thank-you letters to catch up on..."


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nemelle


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Posted Mon Dec 21st, 2009 5:39pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

"I hug you all with a great roaring hug."
"Lumme. Coo. Wowser. Blimey. Cor. Goodness. I say. Crumbs. Gosh. Gracious heavens. Lawks."
"Joy. Bliss. Divinity. Excellence. Radiant effulgence. Rapture. Content. Yards and yards of fine, fresh, fragrant happiness."
"Utter blissikins."
"1000 bags of purulent ARSE."
"See you in a vodka and a half."

All from my Twitter favs... I love you, Stephen.


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