"distressing" trivia

[arethinn]

The only two quotes in my quotefile (127 pages) which contain the word "distressingly" are:

"A person can be smart. People are stupid. Big groups of people with heavy firearms are damn near braindead, but distressingly mobile."
     --K'hel (someone on the truewyrm email list, but whom I have also met once or twice)

and

"In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine."
     --The Jargon File, entry for FOD.

I was searching for the former to quote it to saizai, but came across the latter first in the file.

Comments

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

You do realize the first part of the first quote is from Men in Black?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't! Neither saizai nor I could trace where it really came from. He thought he'd thought of it (minus the "weapons" part); I thought K'hel had thought of it when he posted it on truewyrm. I've seen Men in Black a couple of times and I still didn't know that. Huh. Now I'll have to go rent it and watch for it, heheh.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Yip. It's during the scene on the park bench where Kay is explaining what the agency does and why it exists. But the bit about people with weapons is a later addition, or perhaps from an earlier script than what was filmed.