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Dear readers,

Just wanted to wish everyone in the eRepublik world a Merry Christmas, but don't bother to say Merry Christmas to me, because I'm a Baha'i (look it up if curious). I hope everyone across the eRepublik world is enjoying their Christmas in one way or another, and for us who don't celebrate Christmas - I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day just like everyone else.

I think it may be a good time to share my favorite quotes (many are funny - some are serious). igt may uplift the spirit of many.

Let's start with Humor:

You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!"
- General Melchett

"Edmund Blackadder: Baldrick, your brain is like the four-headed, man-eating haddock fish-beast of Aberdeen.
Baldrick: In what way?
Edmund Blackadder: It doesn't exist"
- Blackadder - The Cavalier Years

"Blackadder: Okay Baldrick. What begins with come here and ends with ow?
Baldrick: I don't know
Blackadder: Come here
(Baldrick walks over and Blackadder punches him in the face)"
- Blackadder Goes Forth "General Hospital"

General Melchett: [explaining why they can't rescue Captain Blackadder] Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?
Lieutenant George: Flossie.
General Melchett: That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?
Lieutenant George: You shot him.
General Melchett: That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car.
Lieutenant George: By *your* car, sir.
General Melchett: Yes, by my car. But that, too, was an act of mercy when you remember that that dog had been set on him.
Lieutenant George: *Your* dog, sir.
General Melchett: Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre, is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now: if not very nearly dead, then very actually dead!"
- Blackadder Goes Forth "Private Plane"

"Lord Edmund Blackadder: HA! Got him with my subtle plan!
Baldrick: I can't see any subtle plan!
Lord Edmund Blackadder: Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"
- Blackadder - A Christmas Carol

"Max Smart: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Chief: Depends. If you're thinking 'holy ****, holy ****, a swordfish almost went through my head, then yes"
- Get Smart

"Maxwell Smart: I think it's only fair to warn you, this facility is surrounded by a highly trained team of 130 Black Op Snipers.
Siegfrie😛 I don't believe you.
Maxwell Smart: Would you believe two dozen Delta Force Commandos?
Siegfrie😛 No.
Maxwell Smart: How about Chuck Norris with a BB gun? "
- Get Smart

"Lucius: Honey?
Honey: What?
Lucius: Where's my super suit?
Honey: What?
Lucius: Where - is - my - super - suit?
Honey: I, uh, put it away.
[helicopter explodes outside]
Lucius: *Where*?
Honey: *Why* do you *need* to know?
Lucius: I need it!
[Lucius rummages through another room in his condo]
Honey: Uh-uh! Don't you think about running off doing no derrin'-do. We've been planning this dinner for two months!
Lucius: The public is in danger!
Honey: My evening's in danger!
Lucius: You tell me where my suit is, woman! We are talking about the greater good!
Honey: 'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest *good* you are ever gonna get!"
- The Incredibles

"Teacher: All I know about politics is that there is a monster in the East with the big mustache and the monster in the West with the little mustache; this is all I need to know about politics.”
Isaac: Your messiah will have a mustache too… and a full beard!
Teacher: The messiahs are all in politics and they are killing us.
Zus: What is killing me is all your talking!
(long pause)
Isaac: “Roosevelt! He has no mustache!”
- Defiance

"You annoy me, therefore I exist."
- Defiance



Serious:

“The art of music is divine and effective. It is the food of the soul and spirit. Through the power and charm of music the spirit of man is uplifted."
- 'Abdu'l-Baha

“Nothing can be effected in the world, not even conceivably, without unity and agreement, and the perfect means for engendering fellowship and union is true religion.”
- ‘Abdul-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 73


So I hope you enjoyed your read and I wish you all a Merry Christmas (you can tell I love Blackadder).

Thanks for reading,

Jake Pearlshire

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