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• The aus.culture.gothic FAQ.
• The ACG Short Story Collection - SubPlots
• 1998 ACG Show and Tell compilation.
• 1999 ACG Show and Tell compilation
• 2001 ACG Show and Tell compilation
• The ACG Classic Rants collection
• Classic ACG Quotes
• The ACG Cookbook
• ACG Photos
• Vurt.net

The ACG quote file

Here's a collection of quotes gathered over the years from acg, no on e knows why these particular quotes have been choosen - I guess they just touched something in people. If you've got some acg quotes you'd like to contribute - email then to me

"Here you live and die by your words. Nothing more, nothing less. Thats it."
- solitaire and entrippy on acg.

"It's all about the cowboy hats".

"heh... is this the same whale that had a fatal meeting with one Arthur Dent?... the gothic culture is an enigma, being without definite boundries, or rather those boundries are stretched and mutated with each generation. Yet something undeniably links the whole-whale-meaty-mess of us. It's just irresitable to theorise about what it is...kinda like a fascination with picking scabs."
- wrAEth - May 98

All threads are sex threads.
-Barbarella

It's _not_ about the fucking music

You are not your label.
You are not your wardrobe.
You are not your burgundy velvet or your black lace.
You are not your peer-pressured drug abuse, or your drinking problem.
You are not your bad makeup or your smeared eyeliner.
You are not your faux-silver candelabra with artistically faked dripping wax.

You are not a unique and beautiful Vampire.

--solitaire in ACG

"Wake up. Shut up. See for yourself. Love yourself. Love something that wasn't sold to you. Get a fucking life."
-Cam on acg

it's Saturday, 1:30am, Farinelli is on telly, utterly surreal situation, more booze than blood in the veins, and the only question should be: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
- Sandro

"...because if the 90s have taught us anything, its that soundbites are more valid than discussion."
-Madi on acg

"The only fucking advice that should _always_ be adhered to, imo, is - Never, Under Any Circumstances, Have Sex With Anyone From Whom You Haven't Already Witnessed Evidence Of A Sense Of Humour."
-Barbarella

"_We_ ARE the on-topic discussion!"
-Barbarella

>I make $75,000 a year and my soul is filled with dark angst.
That's not angst. That's marmite.
- RevDoc and Madi

Sorry, I didnt get into this scene to watch people being whipped, chained and set on fire.
-Trayce

"I was being nostalgic with scotch before I had anything to be nostalgic about"
- Spark, 1999

The best thing to do with those who obviously want publicity is to ignore them - however, this isn't going to stop me writing my novel - "Jesus Christ, Messiah or nigger loving kike poofta?" I figure that should kick up enough publicity to pre-sell my first million.
- entrippy

...it's nice to talk Australian without knowing it's going to be translated down to American by the reader.
- David Gerard, on the obvious advantages of acg

I spent some time this week expanding my word power and developed the following awful joke.
Q. What does a Vampire Dalek say? A. EXSANGUINATE! So far I've managed to get one person to laugh at it.
- Dillon Burke

[someone asked "WTF is hardcore, btw?", Stranger replied...]
It refers to x-rated pornography, a common medium used for visual stimulation as an aid to masturbation. Certain individuals from various subcultures proclaim themselves explicitly or implicitly to be more hardcore than others. What is meant by this is that they are claiming the status of the biggest wankers within their particular scene.
- Stranger

Good writing, meaningful writing - be it books or songs or poetry or whatever yanks your crank - should be a designer warhead created to penetrate a specific breed of target and explode within, resonating. Anything less is just pissing off a cliff and calling it spring rain.
- Cam Rogers

I'm a non-practicing sleaze.
- Stranger

My Inner Slut is bound and gagged.
- H*ydn

I've yet to meet a penis that tasted worse than latex.
- Barbarella

There are few things that can match slowly, elegantly degenerating conversation among friends.
- solitaire

Then I would suggest you start a club of DJs for DJs. You could call it "Circle Jerks".
- Stranger

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- PyroJames

I *like* being able to have something else in my life besides roleplaying... 24 hours a day... 7 days a week... 974 days a year 974 days a year, I hear you ask? You try spending time with roleplayers continually and see how long the year is).
- Neef

Awww. Okay, everybody crowd in... that's it... now... Group Hug!!!! There, isn't that nice? (Umm, what's that? Oh god, Sandro, put it away.)
- Stranger

what is this newsgroup
but a long drunken night at
a dark seedy pub

you meet some people
and wish they would go away
but others, you love

sometimes you wonder
if it's all worth the effort
why? but then, why not

- ..S. (woowar)

Sometimes I find myself thinking "Christ this is boring as watching mould develop on Vegemite, but hell, maybe they're all sick of me starting yet another poll or other... maybe if I do it _again_ everybody's first thought is gonna be Oh-how-predictable-B's-wanting-to-find-out-our-favourite-positions-AGAIN!".
- Barbarella

When you look back on the archaeological dig, the graveyard, the battlefield and the flower strewn stage that was your twenties, if you can answer these questions honestly, you have already lived a better life than 95 % of the people that ever lived:

What have you chosen to wear for your big night [to accept your Academy Award tm]?

Bjork. I would construct a dress out of a dead Bjork, and at some point during the proceedings, I would pretend I just laid a large icecube.
- Sandro

"Work like nobody's watching
Love like you don't need the money
Dance like you've never been hurt!!!"
- Alch0GoFF

>whats flash?
It's a drug web designers use for a quick hit, but eventually you need more and more of it.
- Antti

On a lighter note, allow me to pass you this metaphorical snorkel... <hands over snorkelgt; You're obviously going to need it to help you breathe with your head shoved that far up your arse.
- Barbarella

My life is complete, however, now that i've been introduced to the metaphorical snorkel.
- Deb

I.
Xerampelinae
Yada yada blah blah blah
Signal to noise low

II.
Barbarella-san
Wield tranquil snorkel of light
That hurt come winter!
- Cleo

We may live and die by our words but I feel that every word is another shovel full of dirt out of my grave.
- n4cat

You need never be bored again, or waste time with role-playing, now you have found acg, the most highly intelligent, impeccably mannered, culturally sophisticated and artistically gifted goup of dark bleak souls to ever inhabit cyberspace. We're all great roots too. :)~
- Stranger

Most of the time I feel like I'm having a wank and I haven't noticed the curtains are open and everyone's laughing at me but I'm far too engrossed to notice, and I just know one day I'll notice the curtains and I'll have to disappear for ever.
- n4cat

"curtseying is difficult while peeing ones pants"
- Miss Alex

"Any woman who will take on a Dalek with just a baseball bat and a few cans of Nitro-9 does it for me."
- H*ydn

Sandro - great punk music used to be better than watching two beautiful women having sex on your bed :)
-- Sandro on acg

See, I would have been more than happy with the prettiness, if only they hadn't led me on like a tawdry trollop through the early parts of the film, promising a cerebral blow job, only to leave me blue-balled through the second half while that painted jezebelle slowly injected my awaiting member with medical grade anesthetic.
--Entrippy on Matrix.

So yes....It *used* to be about the cowboy hats, but then we got distracted by something shiny...
-- Neef

"The path most travelled is also the path with the good resturants and all the good shops," - The Wisdom of Neef

(cut dialogue from the next movie)
Riker:Captain, Lt Commander Worf is boarding.
Picard: Power up foward phaser array, go to red alert.
Riker:But sir, we are in dock over the most peaceful planet in the galaxy
Picard:It's Worf number 1, something always is happening. And look there is a cellist behind you.
-- Usekh

On Usenet you can only throw metaphorical fruit.
-- PetrolGoth

World dominiation lies at the end of a bar crawl.
-Miss Alex

That reminds me. Whilst on my way back from Abyss I entered MacDonald's. I was my new frockcoat and lacey shirt, along with pointy boots..and there by the counter was a guy in pants so wide you could smuggle in refugees, a beanie some bright top and a dummy around his neck. He looked me up and down and sneered 'You mean there are clubs who actually let you in dressed like that' from a dude with a dummy around his neck :)
-Usekh

"The fashion industry - the best and biggest argument for nudity."
Sara on acg

"Just making it clear for the soon to be middle aged, vulture featured, red wine drinking, valium popping toorak set, that I am *not* from Mars. :)"
Neef on acg

Turning Thirty is, like, *so* 23 days, 1 hour and 4 minutes ago.
God, I was doing that back when you were 29.
It's not *all* about the Shunning, the Spontaneous Ugly, the Old Man Smell, and the Disillusionment, y'know.
*I* remember when it was all about seeing through walls and being able to shoot lightning bolts from your eyes.
Ah, those were the drugs.
- Cam on acg

--
That's way cool. Angry lego God.

Actually, it occured to me this morning that the Old Testament God isn't really a *bad* person. He's just doing what He had to do to make a name for Himself.

Which then inspired this bit of ganster rap:

When ya just a young G ya gotta build ya reputation
Throw ya wrath around at tha slightest provocation
There's a new god on tha block, ya gotta spread tha information
Fear and respect is how ya build ya congregation

God is in tha house, muthafaucka

Spread tha Word around, and put 'em in tha picture
Do that burning bush shit and smack em with tha scripture
Fire, flood and pestilence and raping of their sisters
Show em who tha Lord is and none of 'em will diss ya

God is in tha house

Then the day will come when ya wanna have a son
Send him down ta Earth to tell the world what ya become
That ya given up tha anger and tha vengeance shit is done
Peace and love and shit, homes, thy kingdom gonna come.

God is in tha house
- David W. (getting Biblical on yo ass.)

I have this dream where I own a really deep bathtub on those stubby little legs, like Grandma had. Rooms with a lot of light. And a dog.

Pretending to be a digital orc tends to *prevent* that.
- Cam (on computer games)