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{{quote|''"I need to consume more of your time than this comic alone can do. Here, have a [[Beat Panel|link to TV Tropes]]. [[Take Our Word for It|And another one]]. And [[The Oldest Ones in Thethe Book|another for good measure]]. Bwahahahahah!"''|'''[[User:DMM Aus|David Morgan-Mar]]''', ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1926.html #1926]}}
 
{{quote|''"Warning: this site is fascinating and will eat hours of your time."''|'''[[Phil Foglio]]''', ''[[Girl Genius]]'', [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/fun.php Extra Fun] (providing a link in the process)}}
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[[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|So much that you're addicted]] <br />
Don't be surprised if you lose your job <br />
And then are soon evicted |''[[Burma Shave (Advertising)|Burma Shave]]''}}
 
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{{quote| I once overheard two <s>botanists</s> [[Troper|tropers]] arguing over a Damned Thing that had blasphemously <s>sprouted in a college yard.</s> happened on a T.V. show. One claimed that the Damned Thing was a <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] and the other claimed that it was a <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]]. They each had good scholarly arguments, and they were still debating when I left them.}}
 
{{quote|The world is forever spawning Damned Things— things that are neither <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] nor <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]], <s>fish</s>[[Bittersweet Ending]] nor <s>fowl</s> [[Earn Your Happy Ending]], [[Blue and Orange Morality|black nor white]]— and the categorical thinker can only regard the spiky and buzzing world of <s>sensory fact</s> [[Canon]] as a profound insult to [[Home Page|his card-index system of classifications.]] Worst of all are the facts which violate <s>"common sense,"</s> "[[Magic Aa Is Magic A]]," that dreary bog of sullen prejudice and muddy inertia. The whole history of <s>science</s> TV Tropes is the odyssey of a pixilated card-indexer perpetually sailing between such Damned Things and desperately juggling his classifications to fit them in.|Hagberd Celiene, of the [[The Illuminatus Trilogy]], on tv tropes}}
 
{{quote|"Go ahead, wreck your life,<br />
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{{quote|'''Aurini''': ...Heh, this might be worth a top level post except tvtropes has covered it all already.<br />
'''[[Eliezer Yudkowsky|Eliezer_Yudkowsky]]''': The most rationalist-relevant TV Tropes would easily be worth a top post or three.<br />
'''JulianMorrison''': You'd lose your whole crop of rationalists. They would never come back out.|[http://lesswrong.com/lw/169/the_sword_of_good/1334 Comments] on [[Less Wrong]].}}
 
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