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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 00:36:27 JST mhoye

   Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.

   https://toot.cat/@pup_hime/115531963842950277

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 00:38:57 JST mhoye

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     "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" - a Dril tweet about yelling at zoo animals.

     "You cannot kill me in a way that matters." - a Tumblr shitpost about mushrooms.

     "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" - Spy Kids 2, the children's movie.

     And now:

     "Babies are born worshipping unknown gods." - a Dwarf Fortress bug report.

     Any other good candidates?

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 03:07:48 JST Jess👾

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     @mhoye
     I'm always amused at the origin of.

     "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 03:07:48 JST mhoye

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     • Jess👾

     @JessTheUnstill I think my favorite part of that is that there's a Professor Of Political Science Francis Wilhoit out there to whom this is frequently misattributed, when in fact it comes from Ohio Cellist, Composer And Occasional Internet Commenter Frank Wilhoit in a 2018 Crooked Timber thread.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 03:07:49 JST mhoye

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     From an unrepostable follower:

     "The light inside is broken, but I still work" - a sign taped to a vending machine, spotted by a Twitter user. (originally "the light inside has broken".)

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     Lea (lea@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 07:14:30 JST Lea

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     @mhoye In my household, we often quote this sign I found in the basement of an academic building. (Image taken February 3, 2020. A few months later I realized I should have taken the note but of course I didn’t get a chance for quite some time, and it was gone by the time I returned. Everything is not back to normal.)