Findings:
- Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- If there were more people like you, there would be less people
- I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
- I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
- when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
- To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
- If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
- They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
- "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
- Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
- If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
- The largest number that can be described in 14 words or less
- If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
- The cigarette between your fingers seems to be burning slower than normal.
- The music makes one's blood boil and long to be in some obscure, untamed place with the one you love
- They knew what our pain would be.
- I should be allowed to make myself miserable
- Why female athletes are paid less than their male counterparts
- people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
- The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
- If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
- The Man Who Would Be King
- If we classified ducks as monsters, well, that would be pretty accurate.
- If anything were different, everything would be different
- If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
- It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
- It's better to be alone than to wish you were
- a steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences
- Would you be more of a Jekyll or a Hyde?
- If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
- The Filesystem That Would Be King
- unless, of course, we assume the narrator is delusional or lying, which is far less interesting. Or, alternatively, if we assume magic is real
- grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
- Artificial intelligence should not be a substitute for real stupidity
- There should be laws requiring electric cars to make the Jetsons flying car noise
- It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
- The Ten Commandments revised
- I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
- If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
- If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
- Things never were what they used to be
- play dumb
- They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
- Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
- The next time they would come, I would not be here.
- If there were more people like you, there would be more people
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- you make my life a little harder than it has to be
- It has been claimed that some or all of this article or section is incoherent and not understandable, and should possibly be reworded if the intended meaning can be determined
- If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
- We must remember them or they cease to be.
- If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
- Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
- if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
- Automobile tire pressure
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- If I were Twenty-One I would make some permanent, amicable arrangement with my conscience
- If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
- Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
- they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
- Or were they chords of sun?
- "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
- I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
- if you weren't real I would make you up
- If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
- Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
- Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
- Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
- Inability to decide on what your morals and values should be
- The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
- panamaus does the Antipodes, or Get yer shorts on Sydney, there be a NoderParty!
- The Enigmatic Head of They Might Be Giants
- A whimper would be fine
- Let's Make Up and Be Friendly
- why you should never be a referee
- Ah, if you should turn out to be a fairy I don't think I'd put you in a jar
- I'm gonna be sad and then I want you to make me laugh
- eternity would be boring
- It's better to be heartbroken than to have a heart not worth breaking
- You must be 18 or older to enter
- If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
- she's the reason the dust i finally leave will be better than the dust i came from
- The Thing that Should Not Let it Be
- Should I be happy?
- I never thought it would be like this
- What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
- If people weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!
- Jurph should not be allowed to play with fireworks
- If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
- Should high school be mandatory?
- To be or not to be
- Don't be a smartass and expect to be taken seriously
- What engineering textbooks should be like
- Abbey Road should never be played on random
- Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
- It should not be this complicated
- Rebeca Martinez
- Want to be shot in the US or beaten in the UK?
- How can something be more beautiful than it is?
- If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
- I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
- You Should Be Sober
- Chalant should be a word!
- What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
- Daylight Savings Time should be ended
- Maybe That's Just As It Should Be
- Names that should never be given to important files
- A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
- Laundry should be free
- AI should be our top priority.
- Why Descartes should be Resurrected and then Shot
- Who is more likely to be color-blind, men or women?
- Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
- Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
- I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
- How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
- Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
- throw away words we catch in cages where our hearts should be
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- Here Be Monsters
- Every kitchen maid should be able to administer state affairs
- I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
- Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
- Should copyright laws be revised?
- I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
- If I had called you, would you still be dead?
- Be there or be square
- If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
- If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
- The best kind of bartender
- I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
- Candles should be burned, not dusted
- There is a space between your shoulders where your wings used to be
- Or at least it used to be
- What can be better than that?
- There is some place I need to be
- It's better to be lonely than to be with inferior people
- Software Engineering should be considered a contact sport
- Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
- In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
- Some moments seem too perfect to be real
- Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool
- Mind without body
- Be something... be anything other than this
- The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
- Recessive traits aren't what they used to be
- It's better to be hated than ignored
- What is and what should never be
- That I Would Be Good
- You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
- Whoever said lectures should be interesting?
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- Just to see what it would be like
- Be a model or just look like one
- I want to be alone until God rips a rib out of my chest and makes me a woman
- Sarcasm should be self-sustaining
- Heterosexist norms make it tough for gays to be themselves
- Life should be held in much higher regard
- People in prison should be treated like animals
- I assumed we would not even be friends
- One should be careful to whom he gives the finger
- You can never be too rich or too thin
- No threat should be taken lightly
- Tears must be shed to make room for the laughter
- It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
- You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
- I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
- May the world be a better place when I wake up
- I want to be somewhere between two points of nowhere
- I must die or be better
- Fellatio and Cunnilingus should be Olympic Events
- There has to be a better way to make human beings
- If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
- There are times when they seem to be right
- In the future, hairstyles will be just like they are now
- Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
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