overheard in our apartment

[cahn]

From 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!"

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Not "nearest and dearest", just someone who likes reading your comments on books, but I can get a few.

1. "Modified rapture!" (Double points for "Oh joy, oh rapture!" )
G&S. In particular, an actor overacted "Rapture" and was told to modify it: he then added the extra word instead. "Oh joy, oh rapture!" makes me think Pirates ("Summon your men and effect their capture"), but I've got an idea the "modified" bit was Mikado.

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."
Pratchett, but I can't remember which book this is from, or who the speaker is. They're talking about Baron Samedi and zombies.

4. They departed into their own country another way.
Isn't that the Three Wise Men?

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?"
Miles Vorkosigan, trying not to be caught with a private army in his possession.

10. She took the point at once, but she also took the spoons.
Lobelia Baggins. After reading the label on her present (of spoons, of course) from the Party. I forget quite what it said. "For her very own", or something like that?

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

1 - wow, I didn't know that! Now I like the line even better. You are totally right about Pirates.

2, 4, 7, 10 - yes! I don't think the label said anything significant, though.