Ramming Always Works/Quotes

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Narrator: This is silly because technically you can ram at any speed. It would make more sense to announce an actual speed, using units of measure, appropriate to the amount of damage you wish to inflict. Shouting "Ramming speed!" only serves to alert everyone on deck to the impending event, allowing them to assume crash positions or otherwise brace for impact. This of course renders the next mandatory shouted command redundant at best.

Ore Freighter Captain: BRACE FOR IMPACT!
Prepare for ramming speed!
We've got him! *moments later, into the loudspeaker* All hands, brace for impact!
"Let's take the cheese. Ramming Speed!"
Otter and Hoover, Animal House
"They hit me with a truck!"
Brock Sampson[1], Venture Brothers

Deep One: You need only say the word and it will be done.

Becca: "Vehicular Homicide."

Crewman: Shields are down... weapons are expended.
Helmsman: The next hit's gonna take us out.

Hammond: Hold your course, brace for collision. If we go, they go.
"Because nothing quite says 'FUCK YOU' like being punched in the face with an aircraft carrier."
YouTube commenter on the Macross Attack
  1. who is uninjured from said collision