Alpha 2005 Quotes

General:
"Did you just say the fuck word?" —Sonya

"Quit throwing plates at my gonads!" —Shaun

"Dead people need a game of frisbee." —DBK

"My name is Moo and my favorite color is sparkley!" —Moo

"That is a moose." —Caitlin

"I like dead people." —Sky

"Dead people are useful." —Sky

"Chickens rock... my world." —Zan

"Someone remind me to go back to the computer lab yesterday and print out German quotes." —Shaun

"I've had worse things in my butt." —Shaun

"I will raise your children for you." —Moo, to Shaun

"Bad id! Bad, bad id!" —Andrea

"My best friend is a trash can." —Zan

"You butt my kicked." —Caitlin

"Your face is a vagrant." —Zan

"You look like someone, but not someone I know." —Zan, to Moo

"Drew needs to overcome her fear of heights... by cutting off your ear." —Shaun, to Zan

"I'm magic and I'm treasurely." —Moo

"When I first heard the name Piggly Wiggly I thought, 'They're not trying to appeal to the Jewish crowd.'" —Jim Frenkel

"I hate it when characters just ejaculate!" —Toby

"I hate having evil evil and good good." —Moo

"In person he [Neil Gaiman] actually does shave." —Ann

"A lot of teenagers stay up late talking on the phone, but we stay up late putting boobs on Shaun." —Drew

"Caitlin is Jesus?" —Zan

"That's one hot flying monkey." —Zan

"I've always wanted an extra liver. Then I could be an alcoholic." —Toby

"I didn't know the Romanian language contained any words that didn't mean 'I am a vampire.'" —David Barr Kirtley

"The good thing about Alpha is you can't run away." —Ann

"Diane, this might come as a shock to you, but you're prettier than me." —Jim Frenkel


"Shaun, you didn't mind it when she [Caitlin] was adjusting /your/ boobs!" —Zan

"Every now and then when I was poor, I thought 'If I killed that person, I would go to prison and they'd probably let me write full time.'" —Wen

Sonya: What are they [the senior citizens] even doing here?
Wen: Being old.

"They[the baton twirlers]'re probably praying for us." —Shaun

"I met you, I love you. Let's go make babies!" —Elena

Drew: I could be more sane than you guys.
Jill: No, we just hide it better.

"Poetry is crap that people say every day transmuted into perfection." —David Barr Kirtley

"Look, it's like I'm a magnet!" —Shannon

"Give me a six! Give me a O! Give me a clock!" —Shaun

"It's only funny until someone's toe gets licked and then it's hilarious!" —Sky

"Baby, you make my back convulse." —Shaun

"Okay, who else am I mad at? Oh, right, Shaun. But then he'll give me an ear massage and I'll forget all about it." —Zan

"You /are/ a real person, Zan. I just like treating people like dolls." —Moo

"He's trash-talking God." —Jeannette

"When Alpha sets on fire, it's not my fault!" —Drew

"That wasn't an invitation to sprawl on our heads." —Lara

"I'm raping men, hallelujah I'm raping men..." —Shaun

"You're like the annoying older brother I never wanted." —Shaun, to Sonya

"Becky (x3) Why d'ya have to go? Becky, why d'ya have to leave me so cruelly? I don't understand why you had to leave me so bad. I don't understand. Becky, you make me so sad. Becky (x3) I'm lost without you (x2) baby. You're so mean. You make me want to scream out loud." —Moo, singing

"I'm going to Zan-handle you." —Zan

"I don't survive. I make other people wish they hadn't." —Tammy

"If it were his pet turtle, that'd be different." --John

"Plumbers on a spaceship might be having very weird problems." --Thomas

"Don't finish the coffee! You're gonna die!" --David Barr Kirtley

"Basically, I'm just taking neo-colonialism to a new extreme." --Shaun

"All I've done, I've done for my pet turtle. I love you, Fluffy." --David Barr Kirtley

"Tree! Tree Frisbee tree Frisbee Frisbee tree tree tree!" --Emma

"Sarah: pillow of steel." --Shaun

"Babies: my favorite STD." --Emma

"We won't have a nude model in the middle, so you'll have to provide your own." --Bobby

"I used my laptop for 15 minutes! Let's drag it around some more!" --Wen

"I guess I'm the only hardcore punk around here." --DBK

"Is he angry or did he spontaneously combust?" --Toby

"That's R-U-T-T-E-R and no, it does not have sexual connotations." --Toby

"Aliens are invading. How much more do you need?" --Toby

"Invest in that page-turning movement." --Toby

"Angel #46! Deploy! Deploy!" --Andrea

"Metatron! He's the angel that can turn into a truck!" --DBK

"The next person to mention anal probing gets anal probed." --Thomas

"You're round like a fork." --Sonya

"You only love me for my boobies!" --Shaun

"Wait, they get killed /and/ they die?" --Zan

"Did Caitlin go to sleep? Cuz I'd like her to fix my boobs." --Shaun

"Sometimes it's erotica and sometimes it's plumbing lessons." --Paul

Shaun: All in all not a bad piece of prose, actually.
John: To really carry that off you need a smoking jacket and a hunting dog at your feet. It was just a little bit pompous.


"Lesbians! Sex! Swearing! Oops." --Emma

"If I desert my spouse, as opposed to eating dessert..." --Paul

"Go Mars!" --Toby

"Canada doesn't do anything. I always forget it's there." --Sky

"Excuse me for being the whore!" --Caitlin

"I am not the solution to original sin!" --Emma

"They lay eggs that are fertilized differently, which has political implications." --Thomas

"We should go pick flowers! No, we should rob the candy store!" --DBK

"The aliens are telling me what to name my boobs!" --Sarah

"When in doubt, kill the animals." --Thomas

"Killing off the dog is a fabulous thing." --Thomas

"We're so gangsta when we save our nice little fantasy stories." --Emma

"I think manual labor is a good thing." --Jim Frenkel

"He's a Jew filled with guilt, and I can say that and most of you can't." --Jim Frenkel

"It's a quarter to now." --Diane

"I can't believe I looked down his blouse." --Kitchen Guy

"I can walk and talk at the same time. I just never know where I'm gonna end up." --Wen

"My ancestor fell off the Mayflower. Like you." --Zan


"Maybe it's just a cat burgler toe-licking fetish." --Caitlin

"Is it a shrink-wrapped vagina?" --Caitlin

"Yes, no more semen." --Andrea

“My parents won’t let me keep swords outside the dojo.” -- Shaun

Sky: “I guess it just wasn’t his thing.”
Jill: “Apparently he doesn’t /have/ a thing.”

“It takes some effort to position Sarah’s lap.” -- Thomas

“Sarah has a very difficult lap.” -- Emma

“It’s my spaceship, it can have foot pedals if it wants!” -- Caitlin

“Doctor, my baby has been dinging for the past few hours.” -- Shaun

“Z4’s are orgasmic.” -- Caitlin

“Well, if it makes you feel any better, there’s Jesus.” -- Caitlin

“Oh, it’s about Spock and Kirk and feelings! It’s wonderful!” -- Paul

Emma: “I was thinking something more informal --”
Caitlin: “This is informal --”
Drew: “But this is like a 19 person informal!”
Caitlin: “Actually, there’s more than that.”

“Um, yeah ... cause cross-species relationships usually work.” -- Sonya

“Daddy, can I have a pony killed?” -- Sonya

“If you like Ewoks, then you’ll love naked Robin Williams.” -- Tobias Buckell

“Bosoms are very good for camera holding.” -- Emma

Emma: “There are many things we don’t talk about now.”
Sarah: “Like what?”
Jill: “I don’t know, we don’t talk about them.”

“Hey, guess what! I’m the son of God!” -- Emma

“There’s been a lot of God and Jesus talk lately. I got called Jesus yesterday.” -- Caitlin

“Tom Sawyer was First Clarinet, and Clark Kent played the timpani.” -- Emma

“And I said, ‘Daddy, you look like a member of the Village People!’” -- Caitlin

“Damn cuddly lesbians. Let’s kill them all.” -- Thomas

“Your ninc is ompoop. That is a seriously ompoopy ninc.” -- Thomas

“You suck so much more than a vacuum cleaner.” -- Thomas

“I see his invisible whip.” -- James Frenkel


“Tobias Buckell is like the milk from the breast of artistic inspiration.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“Sex with your agent is very very bad. Or your editor.” -- James Frenkel

“The Promethean Mouse: This time he’s flammable -- or inflammable -- they mean the same thing.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“I’m a ninja... really.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“Oh look, the tall clumsy white ninja brought BOWLS!” -- Emma

“What do your farts sound like?” -- Jill

“Paul, if your farts sound like that, I think you’re doing them wrong.” -- Thomas

“I’m not going to respond to that because my comeback will end up on the quotes page. However, I will tell you my comeback was going to include the word baritone.” -- Paul

“Stop that sarcasm, Miss Sarah McSarah Pants I Can’t Remember Your Last Name Miller!” -- Caitlin

“Why thank you, I’ve been secretly wanting some exciting strange man to break in and lick my toes.” --David Barr Kirtley

“Wait, there’s a Christmas version of Indiana Jones?” -- Jen
“If he doesn’t show up, I’m gonna punch him!” -- David Barr Kirtley on Tobias Buckell

“Is this a bad dream, or is there a tongue in my armpit?” -- Thomas

“Fricking Nazgul!” -- David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley: “Fricking senior citizens.”
Paul: “Senior citizen cheerleaders.”
David Barr Kirtley: “Don’t they understand they’re too old to do cartwheels?”

"Don't use contractions. Contractions are just awkward during torture." —Sonya
“It depends on how genteel your torturer is.” -- John

“We’re all quoting him like fricking Jesus!” -- Sarah, on DBK

“He’s like, ‘you hurt me!’ and she’s like, ‘get over it, you’re a Klingon!’” -- Tobias Buckell

“I forgot to read it. We never stopped cuddling last night.” -- Jill

Sarah: “Jill has a magic bed!”
Jill: “Oh my! That’s delightful.”
Sarah: “It’s magically delicious!”

Shannon: “Are you going to want these back?”
Sarah: “Probably not. Unless you can, like, turn them into gold or something.”
Shannon: “Well, I can try.”

“Watch Wen snort Pepsi out of her nose.” -- Wen

Random Old Lady: “What are you kids studying here?”
Shaun: “We’re doing creative writing.”
Random Old Lady: “Oh, I might come in and join you, cause OURS SUCKS!”

“Hey kids, you want some shampoo?” -- Random Old Lady

“I am innocent. You are corrupting me.” -- Sonya

Caitlin: “I think you’re Elrond’s bastard grandchild.”
Sky: “By who?”
Caitlin: “Galadriel, that saucy minx.”

“Well, it’s actually legs and ass, but if you say it fast enough it sounds like Legolas.” -- Caitlin

“Death is gay...” -- Jill

“I molested Lara with a paper clip. Yes, again.” -- Thomas

“The tree gave birth.” -- Thomas

“Rabid wombats!” -- David Barr Kirtley

Sarah: “I’m distracting. Like a monkey.”
Caitlin: “I’ll distract YOUR monkey.”

“Ugh. Girls. Touching. Ew.” -- Thomas

“My hair is a harsh mistress.” -- Thomas

“Emma lost her corset! It died! It died! NO! AGH! It died!!! It died it died it died!” -- Zan

David: “You’re a rabid wombat!”
(After Toby collapses on ground laughing)
Thomas: “The ironic thing about that is that wombats are physically incapable of laughter.”
David Barr Kirtley: “WOMBATS DON’T LAUGH! On your feet!”

“My corset was molested.” -- Emma

Thomas: “You’re doomed, Jeannette. I got a picture. Your soul’s mine now.”
Jeannette: “Aw, man. I miss it already.”

“I savor your pain. I cherish your suffering.” -- Tammy

“Now I have an assistant. I'd marry her if I could. Her boyfriend might be a little weirded out, and so would Tim, but they'd get used to it.” -- Tammy

“Ugh, fantasy names. Well, Irish in this case, actually.” -- Tammy

“Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do anything better than you!” -- Shaun, to God

Sonya (to DBK and Toby): I’m going to write a story about how you both get turned into vampires.
David Barr Kirtley: Well, we’re already vampires so you’ll have to think of a better twist.
Sonya: Fine, then you have sex.
David Barr Kirtley: Oh, we already do that too.

“wandering around in his infinite little undead lifetime.” -- Drew

“On the other hand, you might have saved your nose-bacteria from going the way the Indians did.” -- Sarah

"It's doing its inchy thing on my hand." -Caitlin

"Humans exist solely because books want them to create more books." -Paul

"I was one of those kids where, as soon as I learned to walk, I walked away." -Ann

"So I said, 'Haha! It's my name, but it's also a liquor! Hahaha!'" -Sky(y)

"Maybe the angle just didn't pierce my butt." -Drew

"The big space bugle, yes." -John

"Coffee cups are people too." -Zan

"But where did the cheese come from?" -John

Emma: "'Certain individuals' who may or may not have written books that sound like Aragorn."
John: "Be specific, Emma."

"You don't want to have a character and then, fifty pages later, 'Oh, by the way, he's a giant red bird.'" -DBK

"You're just soaking up the hate, like the little hate-sponge that you are." -Shaun

"She's sort of pulling pistols out of the air and shooting people with them." -DBK

"I am godlike! Listen to my words, they are pearly words of wisdom!" -Jim Frenkel

"I love random love!" -Jillith

"That would be like Sir Lancelot coming up, lowering his lance, lifting up his visor, and saying, 'Dude! Hark!'" -Bobby

Jen: "When was the war of 1812?"
Sonya: "Last night."

"When did you first realize that you were the only real person on Earth?" -Jen

"I was attacked by bananas as a small child." -Shaun

"Evolutionarily, we should stick all the drug users in one concentrated area." -Shannon

"I want you to shoot me in the head." -Zan

"He just called me poor genetic material!" -Zan

"If you lack imagination, or you're well educated..." -DBK

"Alphacide!" -Shaun

"Sneezles are very dangerous! They must be contained, or they will run rampant. ...And years later, the effects are felt." -Tammy

"That's what you'd think humans look like if they grabbed you, kidnapped and anal probed you." -Thomas

"She had a village I wanted to pillage, if you know what I mean." -Paul

"Her face looks like pudding to me." -Sky, on Liv Tyler

"Hey little kids, let's worship Satan!" -Zan

Jill: "Sexy writer legs!"
Emma: "Sixty battered eggs?"

"Yes, actually, it was a flying space saucer smoke machine." -Sarah

Shaun: "Yesterday, since I had no pockets, I kept my keys in my bra."
Toby: "Yeah, that could have been a tactical mistake."
DBK: "On many levels."

"Oh, twenty-to-four A.M." -Jillith

"And the naked women would be really cool, too, if they had clothes!" - Emma

"'Uniquirrel' makes me go into the fetal position." -Sarah

"In the last book, I knew Harry was going to have to have the talk with Dumbledore." -Caitlin

"Harry Potter and The Stud Muffin of Hogwarts." -Thomas

"Hey, I'm sorry, I'll turn off the lights next time before I adjust my bra." - Thomas

"My dictator could be a woman, but it's not." -Lara

"I feel like I'm smoking a very small cigar. ...With salt on it." -Andrea, holding a pretzel

"There are some things you just don't joke about. Chocolate is not something you joke about." -Jim Frankel

"Yaaaay!" -Sarah, after being cheek-kissed by Caitlin

"You would make a very pretty pillar of salt." -Andrea

"That is correct, sir." -Jim Frenkel, to Andrea

"That's so cute, your nose moves around when you talk." —Moo, to Zan

"I don't have a quote 'cause I'm not funny." —Elena

"Aww, Shaun's changing? He already took off his boobs." —Zan

"I'm indulging my inner small animal." —Andrea

Elena: Why are we averting our eyes?
Sonya: I don't know, I'm watching Shaun take off his shirt.

"Two people can't be wrong." --Jill
"Unless they're Hitler and Stalin!" --Caitlin

"An honest to god Satanist. Wait, no..." --Toby

"Sky, I swear to you. This is like having unsafe sex on a bed covered with syringes and broken glass and saying, 'No, no, it's okay!'." --Toby

"I'm three quarters of the way through my novel. Today would be a good day to have my hard drive crash!" --Toby

"I was sacrificing the teddy bear." --Sky

"Children? I want a million. And five." --Moo

"We're happy, we're dancing, we're reproducing!" —Jill

"Chip chip rainbows." —Caitlin and Jill

Caitlin: Zan, we're in the same suite!
Zan: Really? Who?
Caitlin: Me and you.

"I think we'd eat Shaun first." —Caitlin
"Probably." —Thomas

"It's so hard to write on paper." —Moo and Caitlin

Emma: This bridge doesn't do the wobbley thing.
Sky: That's because it hasn't been trodden on by fat cheerleaders.
Emma: Isn't that an oxymoron?

"You will become...a basketball." --Emma
"You will /become/ a basketball." --Andrea
"You /will/ become a basketball." --Sky

"Sharing cubby holes, you never know what could happen." --Emma
"Babies!" --Sonya

"Potatoes, Nazis, and Mormons: the great state of Idaho." --Sarah, Jill, Caitlin, Shaun, & Emma

"The camera adds ten pounds. And facial hair." -- Andrea, on why Neil Gaiman always looks scruffy and unshaven in his photographs

"What a pretty dress!" —Random Old Lady #3, on the skirt Shaun was wearing

"It covers his eye, or the hole where it used to be?" -Emma, about an eyepatch

"Stop taunting God, Shaun. It's tacky." --Andrea

Drew: Any story about religion sort of has my spidey senses tingling.
Sonya: You mean your christy senses tingling?

Don't make writing not fun.


Lectures:
"He could have died a very poor man. Instead he died a very drunk man, but a wealthy man." —Jim Frenkel

Shaun: Would she be a /son/ of a bitch?
Toby: Well, it's a science fiction story?

"William Gibson wrote about virtual reality and people who do drugs and run around in the streets." —Toby

David Barr Kirtley: Post-scarcity?
Shaun: Not putting enough stamps on your mail?

"This is really profound and you're making Earl Gray." —Toby, on the Star Trek replicator

"External is big and it plops down and says, 'Hi, I'm a problem, you gotta do something.'" —Wen

"OK, she died, that was cool." —Wen

"Every now and then when I'm bored, I'll take the slash novel out and I'll play with it! Mwahaha!" —Wen

"She has the rat, whom she likes, whom she can talk to, who can give her rabies." —Thomas

Jim: Do you have one last, burning question?
Diane: Boxers or briefs is the only short one.

"I have ideas when washing dishes or cooking or driving cars... into walls." —Jim Frenkel

"Stephen King could not do Alpha." --Paul

"No more sex change barbarians, please." --Paul

"Feudal Japan is as good as alien cultures." --Toby

"I draw lines connecting the ideas and I use different colored markers and I have FUN, dammit!" --Toby

"Infodumps are not evil. You slip them in like spice." --Toby

"No matter how stinky you get, you're not as stinky as Cinderella." --Thomas

"Does this character die or not? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's a girl now." --Wen

"So I was calling my agent going, 'What? What am I supposed to do?!' and he was DEAD!" --Wen

"It's really a lot more fun when they go, 'Hi! Here I am! You don't have to do any work!'" --Wen

"Da's a super spy, Granda's an ubersuperspy, Grandma's a former priestess of the goddess, Mother is...Mother, Thom is the absent-minded professor, Alan's off with the King's Riders, and then there's Nawat." --Tammy

"Grind together! Grind together!" --Wen

“The protagonist falls in love with the nearest hot chick.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“The girl’s gone off to marry her brother or something and it’s raining, and there’s a montage, and it’s the really depressing part.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“Oh yeah, yeah, Darth Vader, yeah. Like that’s the important part of the story.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“Jabba the Hutt gets strangled by Leia’s bikini.” -- David Barr Kirtley (as misquoted by Sarah)

“There’s no schematic way of respresenting Ewoks.” -- David Barr Kirtley

“Fricking Ewoks! Where do they even get those hang gliders? It’s like they’re only there to sell toys!” -- David Barr Kirtley

"Oh crap, the world's falling apart!" -Thomas

"Everything is clean, the lights go 'booboobooboo!' and everyone's kinda sitting around in unitards." -Toby, on Star Trek

"Dammit, it's the evil ring of power!" -DBK

"Sweet, he's so hot and sexy!" -DBK, on Strider

"But frickin' Gandalf's not there! He was just hung over or something!" -DBK

"These people are all googleable." -Jim Frenkel

"The book store, unreasonably, wants to make money." -Jim Frenkel

"When writers get together, they talk about things like agents and editors and fields... and sometimes even writing." -Jim Frenkel

"[Editor] has had my manuscript for 2 1/2 years! What should I do? Should I try a letter bomb?" -Jim Frenkel

"If you had bookmarks, and postcards, and videos, and dancing girls in bookstores, people say, 'Hey! They must really care about this book.'" -Jim Frenkel

"...but it's a constant battle for truth, justice, and the American way." -Jim Frenkel, on catching errors

"And I'm sure if I hadn't come across that book, I'd be lying face-down in a ditch somewhere, with a switchblade in my back. So you can see how important titles are." -DBK

"Normally, wee people give me a rash." -Tammy

"And then a squirrel named Mrs. Wartnose (I named her that myself) invaded my life, and my sandwich." -Tammy


Critiques:
"Dear God, put your mirror back together already!" --Thomas

"He needs to just bascially tell her, 'I like you, kid. You got moxy.'" -Toby

Shannon, to Amber: "If you don't get this published, I'm going to hit you upside the head."
Zan: "That seems a little harsh."

"You're a spy for the big, evil, bad dude!" -Zan

"Frankly, your starship captain is a psycho bitch." -Toby

Jen: "I still don't get it."
Shannon: "Have you ever broken cheese?"
Jen: "No."
Shannon: "You should try that."

"If you tell me I'm a dead queen I'm not going to believe you... especially since I'm so confident in my masculinity." -Thomas


Confluence:
"I cook scones in lace; everything else it's street clothes." —Thomas

Zoë: You're back!
Ade: *looks over her shoulder* What about it?

"Your ickle finger is icklier than mine." —Thomas to Jill

"Maybe you deserve to be killed by the mafia if you have this bigotry against armchairs." —Xavid

"OK, all of Wisconsin sucks except for you and possibly some of the cheeses." —Megan to Amber

"Hi, I'm in hell, how are you?" —Zan

"That title clubs you over the head and leaves you bloody with fun." —Toby, about All-Star Zeppelin Stories

"When I cook, it's in a manly apronless way." —John

"Being dead is kind of boring." —Zan

"She's dead squared now." —Shaun, about Jill

"Are you sure you need that boat right now? Because right now I'm a little short on things like self." —Slade, about the giving tree

"Sleep in one thing, but it's also not other things." —Zan

"I miss having testosterone." —Shaun

"I could so make a song out of your noses." - Jillith

"It's like a quack on leedle-eedle drugs." - Jillith

"Your face is like a flower blooming." - Moo

"This is completely ridiculous." - Zion
"Confluence in a word. Or two." - Shannon Reilley

"'The man who'... 'the man stuck'... all I know is that it has goldfish in the title." - Tammy

"It's not even a circle. It's kind of a... lima bean." - Zoë

Shaun: West Side!
Slade: Of Hell?

"I bought some towels and they're black like my soul." —Slade

"My train of thought just crashed into a cow." —Ade

"I'm the epitome of normal. Excuse me, I'm going to go pay my taxes and play golf." —Ade

"Your nostrils are so fascinating; it's like a lava lamp only more repetitive." —Megan


general:
Erik said, "It was only gas" in an attempt to reassure the total stranger, Taylor, who he invited to live in his house & share his bed with, not to worry about the pain they both felt in their lower abdomen.

"I can fuck the whore hard & fast all night. Uhmmmmm. Maybe for 10 seconds. Anyways it's making LOVE."Erik says to Taylor


Quote Rankings
NameScore
David Barr Kirtley
32
Thomas
28
Shaun
24
Toby
24
Zan
23
Caitlin
22
Emma
19
Jim Frenkel
17
Jill
13
Wen
12
Sarah
10
Sonya
10
Moo
10
Sky
9
Tammy
9
Andrea
9
Paul
9
John
7
Drew
5
Shannon
5
Slade
3
Jen
3
Ann
3
Ade
3
Diane
2
Lara
2
Jeannette
2
Megan
2
Elena
2
Bobby
2
Erik
2
taylor
1
Kitchen Guy
1
Zoë
1
Shannon Reilley
1
Random Old Lady #3
1
Random Old Lady #2
1
Random Old Lady
1
Xavid
1
Taylor
1

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