overheard in our apartment
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lightgetsin: Ten references I expect my nearest and dearest to get. I did this by making a record of things said in our apartment over the last week, so it's less of a top ten list than it is a random sampling...
1. "Modified rapture!" (Double points for "Oh joy, oh rapture!")
2. "Never trust a god who grins all the time and wears a top hat, that's my motto." "Is it? That's a strange motto."
3. "We have top men working on it now." "Who?" "Top. Men."
4. They departed into their own country another way.
5. "My days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
6. "The Horse! I have been asking for nothing else for an hour!" [This may be a conflation of two quotations from the same source]
7. "I don't want all the marbles. I don't want any of the marbles. It's death for me to be caught with marbles in my possession, remember?"
8. "I'm retired!" "As am I, Robert, as am I. And yet... here we are."
9. ...a larj swety slof...
10. She took the point at once, but she also took the spoons.
No one is more surprised than I to find the author for #9 on the list.
Also, because I like to go to 11 for that extra push off the cliff, the email version (D would get neither of these):
11. "Don't you forget me, - -." "I would never."
12. "That girl is slow!"
lightgetsin: Ten references I expect my nearest and dearest to get. I did this by making a record of things said in our apartment over the last week, so it's less of a top ten list than it is a random sampling...1. "Modified rapture!" (Double points for "Oh joy, oh rapture!")
2. "Never trust a god who grins all the time and wears a top hat, that's my motto." "Is it? That's a strange motto."
3. "We have top men working on it now." "Who?" "Top. Men."
4. They departed into their own country another way.
5. "My days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
6. "The Horse! I have been asking for nothing else for an hour!" [This may be a conflation of two quotations from the same source]
7. "I don't want all the marbles. I don't want any of the marbles. It's death for me to be caught with marbles in my possession, remember?"
8. "I'm retired!" "As am I, Robert, as am I. And yet... here we are."
9. ...a larj swety slof...
10. She took the point at once, but she also took the spoons.
No one is more surprised than I to find the author for #9 on the list.
Also, because I like to go to 11 for that extra push off the cliff, the email version (D would get neither of these):
11. "Don't you forget me, - -." "I would never."
12. "That girl is slow!"
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Date: 2007-08-28 03:04 am (UTC)6 - yes,
4 is in the New Testament - don't recall if it was used elsewhere.
didn't remember 7, but it sounds right.
8 is familiar, but not dredging details
10 - when memory was jogged, yes. Didn't get it at all myself.
ah, well. I'll return for enlightenment.
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Date: 2007-08-30 12:48 am (UTC)