Talk:Furmanism

This is awesome. In a "so bad it's good" sort of way. --DrSpengler 23:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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This is obviously an incomplete list. I also have some that were only repeated once, sometimes in differing forms, which I won't add to the page proper until we find at least one more iteration. If you can find more of any of these, feel free to add them.

Here's my remainder:

TIME TO MAKE A STAND

• "If I turn away now, I'll just keep on turning away. Sometimes you have to make a STAND!" -- Carnivac, Way of the Warrior, UK #237
• "Instead of running around like headless chickens we should be trying to HELP her! I say we make a STAND!" -- Thunderpunch, On the Edge of Extinction!, US #75

WHOLE WORLD OF PAIN

• "Get ready, quite literally... for a whole WORLD of pain!" -- Starscream, G2 #11
• "It's about PAIN, Megatron... here's a whole WORLD of it!" -- Starscream, TWWv1 #3

LIKE SOME PREDATORY BIRD

• "I now believe a SECOND menace exists, one that hovers like some predatory bird at the edge of my consciousness." --Optimus Prime, G2 #4
• "Ahead, hovering like some vast, predatory bird on the fringes of Fahl Space... the Decepticon flagship, Twilight--" Narration, G2 #7

--ItsWalky 23:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm waaaay too comfortable lying on my couch here to go upstairs and find the book and check, but I want to say Swoop did the whole "better to die than run" shtick when the Dinobots were fighting the demons in #76...? - Chris McFeely 23:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Indeed! Good memory. Hold on... --ItsWalky 23:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Call me humorless if you wish-

Normally, I love the humor here. I like that we don't always take everything seriously. However, I think this article is taking things a little far. Boo to this section, basically. Boo-urns, in fact. It feels like it's trashing Furman for no good reason. And I've never heard ANYONE say- "Hey, a similar bit of dialogue in a Simon Furman comic! Must be a Furmanism!"

And, seriously,you don't think some of it is intentional (particularly issue 67)?

I just don't see how this has a place here. --DJ Convoy

...I saw it as a celebration of Furmanisms, actually. -Derik 17:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Pretty much. Furman is my main man. --ItsWalky 18:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm sure there's gotta be more IT NEVER ENDSes than the three I got, right? --KilMichaelMcC 09:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, uh, I wasn't counting the IT NEVER ENDSes on purpose, because Furman does those on purpose, as an intentional self-referential running-gag to his original G1 send-off letter. I don't think it really belongs in this article, as such. --ItsWalky 17:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, being a cartoon-centric guy I didn't actually know what the original source of it was. It still strikes me as qualifying as a "Furmanism" though, albeit with a note in the article about it's origin and nature. --KilMichaelMcC 17:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd never called them Furmanisms before now either, but I do now. As for disrespect... Well, I think a Transfan has to kinda be a Furman fan by definition really. --82.41.82.183 22:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Not so. I'm a Transformers fan and I don't like Furman's writing much at all. However, I've heard the term "Furmanism" for years online, so it makes sense for this article to exist.--MCRG 23:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

REAP THE WHIRLWILD

Simon must be a huge Young Guns fan. =D--Speedbreaker 04:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Isn't it from the bible though? "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind", something along those lines? 70.53.249.237 22:31, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

On predatory birds and hovering thereof

Seriously, we really should include those. Yes, yes, it was only used one other time... but it's by far the most unique of them all. Also, hilarious. --Suki Brits 01:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Another Time And Place Furmanisms?

I seem to recall the Another Time And Place text story ending with the "It Never Ends" furmanism.. can anyone confirm? 70.53.249.237 22:31, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

It does. Though I'm still iffy on its inclusion in this article without some sort of disclaimer, as he purposefully includes it all the freakin' time (like even in the You Can Draw Transformers book) as some sort of calling card. --ItsWalky 23:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

If he includes it on purpose, wouldn't that make it that much more a Furmanism?--MCRG 03:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I think it would. 70.53.249.237 03:17, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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