Well, 2016 wasn’t very good, so it probably makes sense that the quote of the year is just kind, you know, meh.
The winner is Denise Roche, a member of parliament in New Zealand. A local church official said that gay people cause earthquakes, to which Denise said, “sex just can’t be that good.”
Haha OK, it’s not bad. Quote of the year, though? It’s not exactly Oscar Wilde material. But eh, why not, let her have it. Like you have anything better to say over the last 12 months?
The runners up are similarly modest. “In the beginning I really admired Colin. It was only as time went on that I realized he was a douche bag,” said a woman on the witness stand at a trial. That’s not bad.
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“If Americans were given a choice, they would have a gun on their flag,” said a comedian named Matt Stellingwerf. That’s kind of just true, and not really even a joke at all?
Our favorite is maybe the one attributed to a farmer who helped rescue some cows stranded by an earthquake. “You’re a clever cow to skip and dance while the land beneath you is disappearing down the hill,” he said. That’s got an odd poetry to it, and the fact that it was spoken to a cow makes it even prettier. Imagine that the farmer is a hunky gay porn fantasy and we’ve got ourselves a quote of the century.
But was the cow having gay sex? Is that was caused the earthquake? The world may never know.
dgsea06
“Sex just can’t be that good”? While it’s not Oscar Wilde, nor Gore Vidal, it is a good comment. Didn’t Carole King sing “I felt the earth move under my feet”? Er, umm, she probably wasn’t referring to her soup and salad.
While having sex may certainly feel like an earthquake, how can it possibly create one?
Tectonic plates? Nah! Fracking? Nah. Subterrain waters? Nah. The Earth moving under my feet? YES! It’s doing it, and New Zealand knows it as well as the rest of us, or more.
Still, a fun comment.
Seattle guy, Nisqually messed me up for days if not years. Not good to “blame” sexual activity for the internal working of our planet.
Juanjo
Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor in the mid 300s believed that homosexual anal sex caused earthquakes and he outlawed gay sex altogether as a result. About 15 years later his successor, Theodosius the Great outlawed same sex marriage in the empire and ordered all same sex couples who were married already to be put to death. So apparently prior to 300 AD no one thought gay sex caused earthquakes. Christians thought that one up. Prior to that same sex marriage occurred but was rare. Cicero mentions being invited to the Marcus Antonius of Cleopatra fame, when he was a young man of about 19 once announced he was going to marry his best friend but apparently was this was a prank to scandalize his parents who were critical of the friendship.
Big Softy
Julian the Apostate was not a Xtian. The clue is in the word “apostate”.
Armiya
Yet some handsome cowboy says something inane and that’s the pic used in a headline about a politician. Queerty is seriously a joke!
dwes09
@Armiya: Actually that picture is of two New Zealand gay farmers who were the subject of a short film about rural coupled gay men. Has no relation to the article at all in any way.
Jack Meoff
@dwes09: Actually the two guys in the pic are Australian not NZ. The rest of your statement is correct.
Ogre Magi
“You’re a clever cow to skip and dance while the land beneath you is disappearing down the hill,”
I thought animals were better at detecting earthquakes than humans
Carlos Primero
@dgsea06: As an oddity, “I felt the earth move under my feet” dates back to the sleeping bag scene in Hemingway’s 1940 novel of the Spanish Civil War, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
Mmmrrrggglll
Yeah, I thought of the same thing. I didn’t understand it when I read it at 21, but then the earth moved and I was a man.
ErikO
@Juanjo: You need to study history more.