Your Favorite TAM 5.5 Quotes

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Post, here, your favorite lines you've heard (or overheard) at any time during TAM 5.5!

I will contribute a few:

"By the power of Grayman's beard!"
- Cleon, when he discovered Grayman's long beard had remained dry, after taking a dip in the pool.

"Sweet Smurfy Jesus!"
- (I am not sure who said this one, but Cleon is the one who informed me about its utterance)

"Baby animals and dinosaurs"
- Michael Stackpole describing one of his tactics for debating creationists

"Don't tase me, bro!"
- Wowbagger, as he got kicked out by 'security' during Mark Roberts' presentation



I have some others, but let's see what everyone else has to contribute.
 
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"Don't tase me, bro!" was pretty damn funny.

"When I was a kid, I convinced a fiend that I believed my stuffed animals could talk." --- Robert Lancaster, though the context is very important to the humor.
 
I've heard one that was attributed to Randi:

"Jeff who the-blue-blazes are all these weirdos in the office?!"
 
"I'll tell maintenance about the problem as soon as they get out of their meeting."

Background:
I had no hot water in my room Thursday morning. I called the front desk and was told that they'd send maintenance soon. Later I walked down to the front desk to I ask if I could move to another room that had hot water. That clerk told me that she'd gotten eighteen other calls complaining about no hot water and she thought that no room in the hotel had hot water. She finished by saying
"I'll tell maintenance about the problem as soon as they get out of their meeting."


Phil wrote:
"convinced a fiend"
I'm fairly sure RSL convinced a friend. :dewink:
 
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"Turn off the wireless connection!"
–Jeff Wagg to me, as Phil Plait's private emails were sequentially projected on screen for the whole conference crowd to read while we were trying to resolve a computer issue.

"Don't worry: he's ALWAYS doing magic."
Comforting words to me when I lamented missing Randi performing some impromptu sleight-of-hand at Friday's reception.

"We should get Mitch to do the last one."
–Grayman's stroke of genius, suggesting that Wowbagger be my final heckler. Never has scenery been so thoroughly masticated.

"That way. There's Mars."
–Phil Plait, instantly answering A's question "Which way is south?" while apparently pointing to a random area in the sky, which is a bad way for drivers to navigate.

And of course Robert Lancaster's stuffed animal line, mentioned above. He"s mighty quick, for a big man.

I recall getting a big laugh out of "Hey, baby, come on over for a little stem cell research," but I can't for the life of me remember the setup. Most of the weekend is a blur. :boggled:
 
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Wowbagger said:
"By the power of Grayman's beard!"
- Cleon, when he discovered Grayman's long beard had remained dry, after taking a dip in the pool.
Click to expand...

Only quote I have is Grayman saying "Am I the only sober person who jumped in the pool?"

I do think that "By the power of Grayman's beard" needs to be on a t-shirt. Although his hat also seems to have some super powers since it stayed on all the while he was in the water.
 
My favorite line was delivered by my ultra-sassy waitress at Denny's Sunday morning. This woman was seriously amazing, with this dry delivery that just killed me in my drunken haze. After I gave her my order she said, "Okay, so that's one veggie omelet, hashbrowns, whole wheat toast . . . and one strawberry milkshake. Weirdo."

I think I gave her a 40% tip.
 
"OK Ottle, can you lean forward for this next photo" me, not realising what I was saying when trying to photograph the shoes and faces of Rebecca, A and Ottle.

"I was worried that you would have a stutter" Cleon, commenting on my communication in chat vs real life. I made sure my speach was slurred for most of the weekend to make upfor it.

"so, I was on the bus from the airport, and I looked out of the window and saw a petol station- and I realised that I was north of the Citgo. I couldnt see a plane..."
Chilzero.

and then there was the whole Pelican Paparazi thing....
 
Robert Lancaster's "stuffed animal line" was the very essence of laser-sharp comic timing - absolutely hilarious and completely unexplainable to anyone who wasn't there.
 
"Have you read my X-wing novels?" -- Michael Stackpole.

"Randi said to me 'Sylvia Brown had a bad week because of you.' It was like Batman saying the Riddler had a bad week because of you." -- Robert Lancaster

"You left the party when. I'm so glad to hear that, I left at eleven and I'm glad someone left earlier than me." -- Library Lady. (Yes, I was handedly out partied by everyone.)

"If I saw that Lancaster guy walking down the street I would assume he's nearly homeless and doesn't know quite what is going on. But he gave an absolute amazing speech!"

"You folks are from that meeting next door aren't you. We had some people from over there here yesterday. There was a small guy with a white beard doing tricks. He was pretty good." - Semi-snarky waitress at Denny's Sunday morning. (Chillzero, Jmercer, and Library Lady will verify.)

"I just happen to have some spoons from a. . .(looks around) local hotel. . . I actually recommend the spoons from Denny's." -- James Randi.
 
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OH MY GOD!!! JESUS!!!

"I think if we keep going in this direction long enough, we'll reach Ft.Lauderdale...wait, I think our compass is wrong...we're just going to keep driving until we run out of gas...."

"GPS BEEEEEEETCH"
 
"So I told her, you're stealing money from people! At least I work for my money!" -My taxi driver heading to the airport this morning.

He was telling me about a psychic he gave a ride to once, and how he reacted when she tried to read him - and got everything wrong. He had heard someone else talking about TAM, and was asking me about it. I told him it sounds like he'd have loved it!
 
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I don't remember it exactly:

"You are the creepiest McCreepster on his creepiest freaking day." - Rebecca
 
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