“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to say?”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
—McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Lines from The Princess Bride that Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers..
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