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{{quote|Again Alfred, it's a STEALTH FIGHTER JET shaped like a BAT and I use it to fight common STREET CRIME. WHAT ABOUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?!|'''[[Batman|The God Damn Batman's]]''' [http://twitter.com/God_Damn_Batman twitter entry for September 9th 2010]}}
{{quote|Give me a gun that never fires! Give me a sword that is ever blunt! Give me a weapon that deals no wound, so long as it always strikes fear!|''[[Warhammer
{{quote|That's not what [[The Empire]] would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Yuuzhan Vong]]-killing battle machine. They would have called it the ''Nova Colossus'' or the ''Galaxy Destructor'' or the ''Nostril of Palpatine'' or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? [[Lampshade Hanging|It wouldn't have worked]]. [[Attack Its Weak Point|They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up.]] Now ''that's'' what the Empire would have done.|'''[[Star Wars|Han Solo]]''', ''[[New Jedi Order|Destiny's Way]]''}}
{{quote|There are, still, some lessons here. One is that, contrary to the U.S. Navy's fervent belief, the aircraft carrier is no longer the capital ship. It ceded that role long ago to the submarine. In one naval exercise after another, the sub sinks the carriers. The carriers just pretend it didn't happen and carry on with the rest of the exercise.
About thirty years ago, my first boss, Senator Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, asked Admiral Hyman Rickover how long he thought the U.S. aircraft carriers would last in the war with the Soviet navy, which was largely a submarine navy. Rickover's answer, on the record in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was, "About two days." The Committee, needless to say, went on to approve buying more carriers.
| ''[http://archive.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind113.html Davy Jones's Locker]'' by William S. Lind }}
{{quote|Larry was still out, but Earl patted him down just in case. This time he found a .50 Desert Eagle, which was probably the single most unwieldy pistol ever manufactured, and to make matters worse, this one was actually [[Bling Bling Bang|gold plated]].|''[[Monster Hunter International|Monster Hunter Alpha]]''}}
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