the_best_phrase_in_the_english_language celestias shadow In Donnie Darko, Donnie was told that some people believe that 'cellar door' is the most beautiful phrase in the English language. I disagree. My personal favorite is.... event horizon. beautiful and menacing. and even the meaning is incredible. I love those two words. what's your favorite? 031124 ... Whitechocolatewalrus I can't figure out why she said that it was cellar door. I am pretty sure it is not because it sounds pretty. I think that it was because of what is implied about being behind the cellar door. Maybe I am completely wrong, I don't know. My favorite phrase is Dark and stormy night. I love the dark and I love storms (which might be weird considering my house was hit by lightning during a storm and burned down) and I love the night. Not only that, but my last name is Knight. 031124 ... smurfus rex there's a PS2 game called Tokyo: Extreme Racer Zero in which you can name the car you race... my best car was named Event Horizon. I'm kinda partial to the phrase "Escape Velocity" myself, as far as a best phrase... 031124 ... string escape_vwlocity event_horizon vanishing_point 031124 ... yeah... that too (oops) escape_velocity 031124 ... time_warp endless_possibility 031124 ... Doar timeless yearning 031125 ... the cheer-up kid Nothingness quotient 031125 ... typing on behalf of User24 Well if you are English, the best phrase is bollocks. 031125 ... nom i_love 031125 ... . . 040103 ... magicforest Shit. I clicked on this for the sole purpose of being the first to post "cellar door". Fuck you. 040103 ... zeke everything happens 040103 ... ivyducktwilightseto Well, first of all, in Donnie Darko she says tells Donnie "cellar door" because of some abstract meaning for it. Like how at that time in her life she need to go through a "cellar door" because she just got fucked out of her job. It also tied into the plot as events later revolved around Grandma Death's cellar door. Oh, and that movie is totally frickin awesome by the way. It really inspires me to uhh... kill myself. Anyway, as for my personal favorite phrase, I would have to go with fuck you. Why? Because I probably say it more than anything in the english language. Fuck you 040104 ... phil I don't know. 040104 ... superleni i'm a huge fan of "cellar door": it sounds beautiful, all dark, cool, quiet sounds, grounded on the heavy 'd' and 'l'. the american 'r' gives it more strength and mystery. its beautiful for its simplicity and its possibility - it could lead anywhere. its great too for the images it conjures of a low down door in a brick wall, possibly dripping water nearby, some mildew, some vines or roots and the smell of damp. the door is definitely closed, don't you think? 040104 ... misstree for anyone who said, "cellar_door": +23 points if you actually explained why you think it is absolutely the best phrase in the english language, -52 points if you didn't, and +40 points if, when faced by the beginning of whatever afterlife you particularly care for and asked this same question, you would be able to answer that your favorite english phrase ever is "cellar door" and still feel relatively confident that your afterlife will be a pleasent one. 040105 ... smurfus rex I haven't seen Donnie Darko. Should I? "go fist yourself" is another good phrase... 040105 ... fairbecca "I surrender" ...'cause it fits my life right now. With four syllables, it's almost implying that there is an end to the sadness that I live in. It's kinda like a short song....even if I can't see it at this moment. 040105 ... zeke everything happens at once 040105 ... Miles Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What_the_fuck." "What_the_fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. 040105 ... Braa-aaack! "Go stir your stick in a mud hole" is another 040113 ... pipedream requiem for a dream i don't know why, but its just a gorgeous string of words that not only look yummy, but taste good too. 040113 ... oldephebe "For God so loved the world.." 040113 ... magicforest i love you 040114 ... divine madness maniacal paranoia which describes many of those around me and you may even have it.... Are you sure you don't?... 040114 ... oldephebe i may..in that wide eyed hollow hour..it hits me sometimes..that some of my chaotic meanderings bear the stamp of maniacle paranoia..but i don't write those things here..*burp* 040114 ... Candy For English Press One. Pada Espaniol E' numero uno. Vagina Monologues September Eleventh "You're in America now, we speak English here!" -Melissa Are you sure we speak english here? In a world where some of the frequiently used words are: Waaaaassssuuupppp! Ain't, bling-bling and um.. Don't be hatin'... you have to wonder. 040218 ... grendel why in the flaming hell would "semptember eleventh" be a GOOD phrase? it was a disaster that has begotten a series of disasters it was one power-mad lunatic zealot (ObL)writing a blank check for another power-mad lunatic zealot (GWB) to make the whole world twitch and what is it with the persistent whining with a lot of thinly veiled racism about the English language today and last night? (to say nothing of the not so thinly veiled racism of that bogus rape story that was the subject of some pointless_repetition this morning) 040218 ... misstree grendel, my best guess is that sometimes blather rumbles and rolls over in its sleep. strange things happen when it does. i am currently having torrid love affairs with aleatoric_concinnity everything_in_excess and cataclysmic_overtures. my three moods. 040219 ... zeke i too take exception to september eleventh in this context. i was there. thanks grendel, i concur entirely about the day and it's effects on history. 040220 ... O_A pathalogical_optimist I'd say being optimistic... truly optimistic requires some sort of inate pathology, but then again, being pathological is probably a prerequisite for being human. 040220 ... meh... nothing lasts forever 040220 ... girl_jane "pathalogical_optimist" I just watched reality_bites tonight, in which, Troy, calls Lainy, a pathalogical_optimist. Crazy... 040221 ... realistic optimist *runs in* did someone call? 040221 ... Candy Perhaps I think that it sounds nice when you put the two together. Do you actually think I like what happend? NO! However, would I ever have even considered how nice those two words sound together had it not happend? Probably not. Do not punish me for what I think sounds beautiful. I met this guy named Jeremy. I for one think that that name is beautiful and screw you who thinks otherwise. 040223 ... Jess Is 'in my vendiagram of hatred, you are in the middle' 040608 ... x what are the categories in the diagram? 040608 ... Jess Firstly, thank you so much "x" for askin! I go round blather and ask people questions and they never answer! Lucky for you! I check my blathers! Anyway! For the particular person I was talking about the catagories were "in my form", "scutter", "in my house (king Edward! Not as in in my home!)" and "criminal record"! But in general Id probably have more catagories of my hate! "Being fancied by the person I like" is probably one! And one a few people would fall into! You probably didn't care that much though! What would be you're catagories? Who are you? 040609 ... auto weblink http://www.venndiagram.com/ 040609 ... silentbob my favorite is audible_sigh 040612 ... mr quackums "never do what you can't undo until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it." i guess it is more of a quote than a phrase, but it is still cool 040613 ... lilacbreeze puddle wonderful 040619 ... neutral complete understanding 040619 ... silentbob oblong box 040619 ... silentbob malicious intentions 040619 ... Borealis falling awake 040620 ... spiffy "safe as a clam." that was funny, and just... cute. 040620 ... oldephebe there is something to the whole thing of the speaking "English" question by most salt, sugar and carbohydrate ingesting corn fed americans whose command or rather objectification and or projection of American English (which is distilled through the rancid abacus of pop-culture and regional dialects) that kind of are a de-facto surrogate or euphamism for the nationalistic negating and or marginalization of other poeples.. even some poeple's whose forefathers inhabited the southwestern united states for hundreds of years..you know before the glorious appropriation of "The Alamo" ... 040621 ... silentbob nonsense verse 040722 ... poet nucking futs 040722 ... poet nucking_futs? 040722 ... poet nucking_futs? 040722 ... powt oops 040722 ... poet i give up 040722 ... laced in our next life when we are both cats 040722 ... silentbob business district 040726 ... sameolme What you see is what you get. Granted its not the most beautiful phrase, but for that we should probably go Arabic, which is the most beautiful language, both written and spoken. 040916 ... emmi within_and_without 041129 ... use your words carefully 041129 ... fix 041129 ... god iwouldn't use that to scratch mt hemhorrhoids 041207 ... Syrope "i'll be right there" 041208 ... Lila Pause "Oh well." 041208 ... Shifty "Can we go boing now?" 041208 ... (z) (conclusions inthe midst of change) 041208 ... oren I_understand. 051111 ... andru235 "Oh look it's the interdimensional transplanar portal that will take me, andru235, back to my homeworld!" it's definetly on MY top ten, anyway. i love the way it just rolls of the lips. plus the significance of the phrase is very stimulating for me, as well as (i would guess) several others. 051112 ... Dragonflye champagne supernova (I have no idea what the phrase means, or the song either, but it sure as hell sounds cool.) 060602 ... i note that andru created a self-fulfilling prophecy 060602 ... champagne supernova i like that, its grate 060602 ... grate = great 060602 ... ?x Historic_trial 060602 ... pSyche beautiful_disaster 060706 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Beautiful_Losers No, the phrase on its own sounds weak, but it's a good book. 131222 ... e_o_i So, a better one: yesterday_today says unreliable hexachord 131222 what's it to you? who go blather from