History Quotes / MainstreamObscurity

-->-- Website/YouTube comment on Music/SidVicious' [[https://youtu.be/QTgai7Uo8i8 bass solos compilation]]

-->-- ''Pierre Menard, author of [[Literature/DonQuixote the Quixote]]'', Creator/JorgeLuisBorges,

-->-- Website/YouTube comment on Music/SidVicious' [[https://youtu.be/QTgai7Uo8i8 bass solo]]

->''This is ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', probably a game all of you have heard of but none of you have actually played, so I'm kinda hoping to get the word out about it a little bit more.''

->''This is ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', probably a game all of you have heard of but none of you have actually played, so I'm kinda hoping to get the word out about it a little bit more.''

->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' So as the credits roll, we see that the film is too cheap to get opening animation, so they just throw their storyboards at us. We see the narrator starts to talk about the story we're about to see, and, yeah, tell me if the voice sounds familiar.

->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' That's right. It's our very own Mickey Rooney.
->'''(Audience sounds confused)'''
->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Former biggest star in the world?
->'''(Audience still sounds confused)'''
->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' [[Literature/NationalVelvet Starred with]] Creator/ElizabethTaylor, the other former biggest star in the world?
->'''(More confused sounds from the audience)'''
->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Narrator of [[WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie Care Bears?]]
->'''(Audience recognizes him)'''
->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch a black and white movie sometime!

->[[ItsBeenDone There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.]] A philosophical doctrine is in the beginning a seemingly true description of the universe; [[CondemnedByHistory as the years pass it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a noun - in the history of philosophy]]. In literature, this ultimate decay is even more notorious. '' "Don Quixote,"'' Menard once told me, ''"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments was above all an agreeable book]]; now it is an occasion for [[PatrioticFervor patriotic toasts]], [[GrammarNazi grammatical arrogance]] and [[ConspicuousConsumption obscene deluxe editions]]''. '''[[MisaimedFandom Glory is an incomprehension]], [[FanDumb and perhaps the worst.]]"'''
-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, ''Pierre Menard, author of [[Literature/DonQuixote the Quixote]]'''''

->[[ItsBeenDone There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.]] A philosophical doctrine is in the beginning a seemingly true description of the universe; [[DeaderThanDisco as the years pass it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a noun - in the history of philosophy]]. In literature, this ultimate decay is even more notorious. '' "Don Quixote,"'' Menard once told me, ''"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments was above all an agreeable book]]; now it is an occasion for [[PatrioticFervor patriotic toasts]], [[GrammarNazi grammatical arrogance]] and [[ConspicuousConsumption obscene deluxe editions]]''. '''[[MisaimedFandom Glory is an incomprehension]], [[FanDumb and perhaps the worst.]]"'''

->[[ItsBeenDone There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.]] A philosophical doctrine is in the beginning a seemingly true description of the universe; [[DeaderThanDisco as the years pass it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a noun - in the history of philosophy]]. In literature, this ultimate decay is even more notorious. '' "Don Quixote,"'' Menard once told me, ''"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments was above all an agreeable book]]; now it is an occasion for [[PatrioticFervor patriotic toasts]], [[GrammarNazi grammatical arrogance]] and [[ConspicuousConsumption obscene deluxe editions]]''. '''Glory is an incomprehension, and perhaps the worst."'''

->[[ItsBeenDone There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.]]] A philosophical doctrine is in the beginning a seemingly true description of the universe; [[DeaderThanDisco as the years pass it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a noun - in the history of philosophy]]. In literature, this ultimate decay is even more notorious. '' "Don Quixote,"'' Menard once told me, ''"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments was above all an agreeable book]]; now it is an occasion for [[PatrioticFervor patriotic toasts]], [[GrammarNazi grammatical arrogance]] and [[ConspicuousConsumption obscene deluxe editions]]''. '''Glory is an incomprehension, and perhaps the worst."'''

-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, Pierre Menard, author of [[Literature/DonQuixote the Quixote]]'''

-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, Pierre Menard, the author of [[DonQuixote don Quixote]]'''

-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}''', in his first LetsPlay ever

->''Todd Hanson's voice resonates from under the conference table as he and his editor, in the weekly budget meeting, debate the wording of a headline. At the moment it's "31 Record Store Clerks Feared Dead In Mogwai Concert Disaster." But [Website/TheOnion] Editor in Chief Rob Siegel thinks Mogwai might be too obscure. He suggests Music/YoLaTengo, a New Jersey-based band that's been around for years, long enough to be familiar to readers but with enough cult appeal to nail the joke about hipper-than-thou music store geeks.''