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** Once upon a midnight dreary as I pondered weak and weary...
** Quoth the raven: "Nevermore."
* Another poetry example, from ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'': "So."
** It should perhaps be noted that only the Seamus Heaney translation begins that way. Others translators have rendered the opening word, "Hwæt!", as quite a range of words and phrases, among them "Lo!", "Listen!", and "Hear me!".
* [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]:
** Phn'glui mgl'wnafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
** Iä! Iä! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!
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** {{spoiler|[[Internet Backdraft|ALBUS SEVERUS]]}} POTTER?!
*** AS/S
** {{spoiler|Hedwig}} is not dead. [[Pani Poni Dash!|Dot com.]] Can be found [http://hedwigisnotdead.com/ here].
** ''Republicans for Voldemort''.
*** Alternatively, ''Democrats for Dolores''.
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*** Neville would have done it in four books.
*** What happens when you break an unbreakable vow? Neville.
** "''Anvil-sized,''" "''delusional,''" and the coming of [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|Potterdammerung]], thanks to what is known as simply [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/THE_INTERVIEW THE INTERVIEW].
** "My name is [insert character name here]. You thought I was dead. You were wrong."
** CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
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** [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=120 OOH MR DARCY] *bodicerip*
* ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' spawned [http://e-hobo.com/ The 700 Hoboes Project].
** [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp|The Furry Old Lobster]], which even got its own song by [[Jonathan Coulton]].
** Getting either [[Intoxication Ensues|very high or very autistic]].
** John Hodgman has only masturbated out a window ''once''.
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** The hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
* [[Thomas Pynchon]]:
** [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|We Await]] [[Ancient Conspiracy|Silent]] [[Arc Words|Trystero's]] [[Mind Screw|Empire]].
** [[Post Modernism|Don't]] [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Ever]] [[Broken Masquerade|Antagonize]] [[Milkman Conspiracy|The]] [[Conspiracy Placement|Horn]].
* ''[[Dune]]'':
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* "5. Thus, they at once began to quarrel about the nut." (From ''McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader'', [http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i6/air_vents_4.html via] the ''Annals of Improbable Research''.)
* ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'': "Cease, cows! Life is short!"
* In [[Snark Bait|snarky discussions]] of anything related to ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', copious amounts of [[Bishie Sparkle]] must be used. This is also considered a case of [[Never Live It Down]], since beyond the romantic plot between Edward and Bella, the only thing most snarkers (care to) remember is the fact that [[Our Vampires Are Different|Their Vampires Are Different]]... and Extra Shiny.
** The chagrinning books also suffer from the [[SMURFING|chagrinning]] act of shoehorning the word ''chagrin'', no matter how chagrinningly innapropriate, into every chagrinning sentence, much to the chagrin of many.
** THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLERRRRRRRR!!!
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** Winter is coming.
** I want to see him fly!
* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[GhostPaladin (Literature)of Shadows|Ghost]]''
** [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html OH JOHN RINGO NO].<ref> The phrase comes from a [[Live Journal]] review of ''[[GhostPaladin (Literature)of Shadows|Ghost]]'', wherein the reviewer is reading along and finding something interesting, then runs into something totally, brain-breakingly wrong, prompting the uttering of the phrase. Given that the book, an exercise in letting loose some demons in Ringo's head that were blocking his writing other stories, was originally to be titled "The Wanker Piece" until [[Baen Books]] marketing convinced Ringo otherwise, it goes without saying this was a frequent utterance on the reviewer's part.</ref>
** Ringo had the review pointed out to him, and in the journal he replied with praise for it as the most accurate review of the book he had ever seen. Later, the phrase was used as part of a t-shirt design for a garment whose proceeds were to be sent to an organization helping sexually exploited women around the world, many in the situation of pretty much all the prostitutes in the ''[[Paladin of Shadows (Literature)|Paladin of Shadows]]'' series.
* ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'':
** [[Stock Shout-Outs|42]].
** Don't Panic.
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** And, at least on this wiki, the [[Moral Dissonance|evil pacifists]].
* ''[[The Bible]]'':
** Samson killed a thousand Philistines [[The Bible (Literature)/Awesome|with the jawbone]] ''[[The Bible (Literature)/Awesome|of an ass]]''!
*** He [[Incredibly Lame Pun|made an]] ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|ass]]'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|out of them]]. (Yes, that pun is in some translations.)
** As for the fate of Dagon... ''Is The Lord Thy God [[ChappellesChappelle's Show|gonna have to choke a bitch]]?''
** ''[[The Bible]]'' is a [[Newer Than They Think|rip-off]]... of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]!!!''
** Due to a translation quirk, "[[Double Entendre|know in the Biblical sense]]" has become a [[Unusual Euphemism|Memetic Euphemism]].
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*** ''[[Discworld]]'': Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
*** Do not meddle in the affairs of [[Yaoi Fangirl|fangirls]], for you are hot and [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|would go well with other men]].
* [[It Was a Dark Andand Stormy Night|It was a dark and stormy night.]]
* The phrase "Yngvi is a louse!" from ''[[Harold Shea|The Roaring Trumpet]]'' became a meme among science fiction fandom before the Internet existed. [http://fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/YNGVI\]
* A common explanation of how ''[[Goosebumps]]'' books always end: "[[Tomato Surprise|The kids turn out to be dogs or something]]".
* [[The Butler Did It]].
* For a ''very'' small subset of fans who have read the right novels of the ''[[New Jedi Order]]''... Blackmoon Eleven is the ''[[Improbable Piloting Skills|greatest pilot of all time]]''.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (Literaturenovel)|The Princess Bride]]'' has generated many memes, but they're all under [[Memetic Mutation/Film|Film]]. No point in duplicate entries.
* ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'':
** The point is...the point is...the point that I'm trying to make is...dolphins.
** Gorillas. They build nests. Saw it in a film.
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** All tapes left in a car for more than a fortnight metamorphose into ''Best of [[Queen]]'' albums.
** Oh Lord, heal this bike.
* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'':
** I don't like lollipops.
** Your elf-kissing days are over, Artemis.
** My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!
** Bivouac?
* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'':
** ''[[Animorphs (Literature)/Characters|My name is]]''
*** ''We can't tell you who we are, or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. Because if they find us... Well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you've got to know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.''
** IT'S OAT [[Precision F-Strike|FREAKING]] MEAL!!!
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* ''[[Harry Turtledove]]'': CONFEDERATES WITH AK47s!
** Sam Carsten has blonde hair and freckles and burns extremely easily in the sun, which is a very bad trait for a sailor in the Navy. It doesn't matter how much zinc he slathers on, he still gets sunburnt. Also, General Clarence Potter sounds like a Yankee since he went to Yale.
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'': Don't get The Wife of Bath angry.
* ''[[Atlanta Nights]]''. Particularly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDh7yJSJ_0 Chapter] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blmimn5zJPk 34].
* Margaret Atwood [[Sci Fi Ghetto|does not]] [[Oryx and Crake|write science fiction]]. [[Science Fiction]] is about [http://talkingsquidsinouterspace.com/ talking squids in outer space].
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* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The Borg. They '''[[Peter David|EAT. FUCKING. PLUTO.]]'''
* Dorothy Parker told us that "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." (Hey, she was an American and she died in [[The Sixties]]--she was unfamiliar with the concept of a [[Meganekko]].)
* [[Ogden Nash]]'s idea of how to win over a girl: "[[Everything's Better Withwith Chocolate|Candy]] is dandy, [[But Liquor Is Quicker|but liquor is quicker]]."
** He also mutated Joyce Kilmer's "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree" into "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
* [[Gertrude Stein]]: A rose is a rose is a rose.
** [[A Bit of Fry and Laurie|Are you aware that the American novelist Gertrude Stein was a self-confessed lesbian?]]
* ''[[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]]'': The first rule of [[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]] is you do not talk about [[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]].
** [[Invisible Monsters (Literaturenovel)|Birds ate my face.]]
** Fight clubs themselves. Someone even did a mini-Project Mayhem, putting bottle rockets in mailboxes.
* ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'':
** HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.
** Exploiting the title as "I have no x, and I must y".
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** Woolheads.
* ''[[Vernor Vinge]]'': Hexapodia is the key insight.
* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': This book [[Older Than Steam|generated various memes that have survived for more than four hundred years]], and even are words recognized by the Spanish Royal Language Academy’s dictionary:
** '''"¿Leoncitos a mi?" ''' Could be translated as [[Badass Boast|"Do they want to scare me with those little lions?" ]]
** '''Quixote''': Man who fight for love of the ideal. Man who fight for noble causes
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** Maybe they're just windmills, but [[They Might Be Giants]]...
* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'': Malacasta is so sassy!
* ''[[Fear and Loathing Inin Las Vegas]]'': "Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..."
** [[The Long List|...a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls....]]
** Holy Jesus! What are these Goddamn animals?
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** Jacen's penis! <ref>The art for the American cover of ''Destiny's Way'' is a bit, ahem, suggestive.</ref>
* "My god--it's full of stars!" The last thing said by Dave Bowman in ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', though not in the film.
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' fandom:
** [[Ax Crazy|Mapleshade]] eats cats! <ref>A user on the [[Warriors Official Forum]] claimed to have obtained Night Whispers early and said that Mapleshade ate a cat in it.</ref>
** All hail [[Memetic Badass|Purdystar!!]] <ref>Purdy has become a popular character in the fandom</ref>.
** Every last part of the fanfic ''[[Starkits Prophecy (Fanfic)|Starkits Prophecy]]''.
*** The most-quoted line is: ''And he held out... SOME JEW!''
*** The [[Fan Nickname]] "Tiggerstar" for Tigerstar originates from one of the numerous typos in this fic.
** "I must take... the challenge!" <ref>This is a line from the "[[SSS Warrior Cats (New Media)|SSS Warrior Cats]]" fanimation that fans found a bit narmy.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOBhtrhTZQ Firestar Doesn't Like Waffles]
** Sol is trollin'. <ref>Sol's [[Affably Evil]] attitude has led to fans comparing him to an internet [[Troll]]. [http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/rykerzero/Random%20Stuff/skyclanSol.png This image macro] is an example.</ref>
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** Everything obscure Bobby says is quoted enough to be considered a meme. Especially anything he has to say about clowns, smilie faces, or his boxers.
* This trope becomes a lot less funny and gets a rather large serving of [[Nightmare Fuel]] when ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' enters the picture. Their [[Sarcasm Mode|beautiful]] universe has the Celestis, a group of Homeworld agents who foresaw a monstrous Time War, and obsessed with preventing the destruction of their bodies, they destroy them themselves, and leaving their ''meaning'' behind, making them sentient ideas, the literal physical incarnation of this trope. After they [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]], it becomes painfully obvious they're still the same fearful, backstabbing [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] they were, and they find about [[Oh Crap|their new cool powers]]...
* [[Maradonia Saga (Literature)|Maradonia Saga]]: 2 dislikes. Gloria and her mom have been here. <ref> Inevitably, whenever a video criticizes Team Tesch, 2 dislikes will appear. Because fandom for Tesch's books is literally nonexistent, youtubers took to saying they had to be Gloria and her mom. It's not clear where this first surfaced.</ref>
** "Appolyon's Club of Evil": "''The powers of evil believe in teamwork''!" <ref> [http://impishidea.com/Humor/615/maradonia-sporkings-part-fifteen Actual excerpts from the book] about the ''villains'', in a clear case of "I don't think those words mean what you think they mean" by Tesch. Now used to show how much of [[Designated Villain|Designated Villains]] Apollyon and co. are</ref>.
* ''[[Faust]]'':
** A Faustian pact or bargain as a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]], or anyone else who probably should have been avoided.
** Forbidden knowledge or diabolical research methods.
* ''[[I Want My Hat Back]]''
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