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NancyBrooke
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Do y'all know this list? known about it for sometime, and my husband and I frequently find ourselves referring to it when watching TV, movies, etc. etc. etc. ... v. funny.
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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I laughed, I cackled (maniacally, as I'm not engaged in life or death battle) and I bookmarked!
Thanks!
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ghettoelleth
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Its the Peter Papers!!!! I love this thing.
Three of my faves
1. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum -- a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.
2. I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion.
3. All midwives will be banned from the realm. All babies will be delivered at state-approved hospitals. Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild.
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Silvae
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My favourites :
68. I will spare someone who saved my life sometime in the past. This is only reasonable as it encourages others to do so. However, the offer is good one time only. If they want me to spare them again, they'd better save my life again.
60. My five-year-old child advisor will also be asked to decipher any code I am thinking of using. If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used. Note: this also applies to passwords.
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inglor
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All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.
If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her
I will make sure that my doomsday device is up to code and properly grounded.
Finally, to keep my subjects permanently locked in a mindless trance, I will provide each of them with free unlimited Internet access.
Goof Mindless Fun
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simon22cat
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What would be interesting is if someone could write a story using all of the cliches. Now that would be funny.
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DreadLadyFreya
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Thanks, Nance! I needed that after the week I'm having.
Strangely enough, some of these "helpful hints" can be very useful as parenting tools, such as:
- Ropes supporting various fixtures will not be tied next to open windows or staircases, and chandeliers will be hung way at the top of the ceiling.
- My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
- I will remember that any vulnerabilities I have are to be revealed strictly on a need-to-know basis. I will also remember that no one needs to know.
and last but certainly not least...
- I will make it clear that I do know the meaning of the word "mercy"; I simply choose not show them any.
Freya
Who, in honor of #29, should now be referred to as
The Fuscia Mistress of the Fortress of Evil Fuzzy Bunny Slippers
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NancyBrooke
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| simon22cat wrote: | | What would be interesting is if someone could write a story using all of the cliches. Now that would be funny. |
Sad thing is, it's done all the time ... and somehow they become movies.
An aside ... my husband and I got caught up in watching "The Thing from Another Planet" the other night. Talk about Cliche!! but so funny ... it had the alien discovered in a block of ice, the idiot who thaws it, the severed arm that comes alive, the scientist who gets killed 'cause he wants the specimen preserved, the wise-cracking journalist, the cool and stalwart commander who gets the girl, the wry and cool gal-friday, the Government who want It kept alive, the soldiers who know it must die or they will ... etc. all with Howard-Hawkes-esque dialog, characters interrupting and talking over one another. Very funny.
But Evil Overlord was definately on our minds (hence the original post); that and my favorite and surprisingly widely-applicable line from "The Big Empty": "You know what that is? That's a gen-u-ine alien claw hand ..." 
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FairlightMuse
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4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
6.I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.
16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know."
91. I will not ignore the messenger that stumbles in exhausted and obviously agitated until my personal grooming or current entertainment is finished. It might actually be important
Those are too good! How many times have we all groaned when someone made one or all of these mistakes in a film? |
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SpaceWeavil
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| simon22cat wrote: | | What would be interesting is if someone could write a story using all of the cliches. Now that would be funny. |
I think I have, but not deliberately 
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Galadriel8891
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| HAHA!!! Oh, I loved this list, it gave my family and me a good laugh. I especially liked #56: "My Legions of Terror shall be trained in basic marksmanship. Anyone who cannot hit a man-sized target at ten meters will be used for target practice." So true - I've always commented on how terrible the orcs especially are when it comes to shooting at our heroes. With the exception of Lurtz, of course... |
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Shanalir
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In every action movie I've ever seen, the enemy will be using machine guns, and will fail to hit the hero, even with a continual spray of bullets sweeping the area. And of course, their star marksman can't come any closer to killing our hero than a flesh wound. Useless unless the bullets are poison coated or hollow tipped with poison in the hollow, which fractures and releases the poison on impact, something I've never seen a villain do. 
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ghettoelleth
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| simon22cat wrote: | | What would be interesting is if someone could write a story using all of the cliches. Now that would be funny. |
HA! Me, Al, 73 NoDoz and a case of Redbull and we can whip this puppy out with our fonts tied behind our. backs!    
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ghettoelleth
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| NancyBee wrote: | | Sad thing is, it's done all the time ... and somehow they become movies. |
I just remembered this, has anyone ever seen Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? Funniest blatant use of all 100 reasons they add about 57 more, narf narf, get it, 57 hahahaahahah I'm so easily entertained when I'm tired 
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DreadLadyFreya
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | | simon22cat wrote: | | What would be interesting is if someone could write a story using all of the cliches. Now that would be funny. |
HA! Me, Al, 73 NoDoz and a case of Redbull and we can whip this puppy out with our fonts tied behind our. backs! |
Ghetto, honey, that's not necessarily a good thing!
Freya
Fuscia Mistress of the Fortress of Evil Fuzzy Bunny Slippers
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