Reassigned to Antarctica/Quotes

Count: "Other than that, how was Kyril Island, Lt. Vorkosigan? You didn't vid home much, your mother noticed."
Miles: "I was busy. Lessee. The climate was ferocious, the terrain lethal, a third of the population including my own superior was dead drunk most of the time. The average IQ equaled the mean temperature in degrees cee, there wasn't a woman for five hundred kilometers in every direction, and the base commander was a homicidal psychotic. Other then that, it was lovely."

Count: "Doesn't sound like it's changed in the smallest detail in twenty-five years."

—Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

The people of a territory can petition the Darrian Council to remove their knight if he does not do a good enough job representing them. Such a petition must be granted after which the knight is usually transferred to a territory with few or no people, where he "can't do any harm". This is considered a great disgrace and effectively ruins the knight's further career in government.

—GURPS Traveller Humaniti

"There's a ship leaving for Eastwatch by the sea tonight. From there I'm afraid its a rather long walk to Castle Black. I hope you enjoy the Wall. I found it surprisingly beautiful, in a brutal, horribly uncomfortable sort of way."

—Tyrion Lannister, to Janos Slynt, former Commander of the Goldcloaks, Game of Thrones.

It is necessary to get into the ministry to get out of the House; and they have to give you some office that doesn't exist or that nobody else wants and thus unlock the door. So you go to the Prime Minister, concealing your air of fatigue and say, "It has been the ambition of my life to be Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds." The Prime Minister then replies, "I can imagine no man more fitted both morally and mentally for this high office."

GK Chesterton, Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds