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NPQiYBM: overheard in our household
Feb. 25th, 2012 09:17 pmAt the end of National Put Quotes in Your Blog Month, it is traditional for me to post an unattributed list of quotations referenced by our household during the month of February for people to guess. So here you are! I'll add the attributions to this post on Monday. (I think that, for whatever reason, this year's are easier than those of other years', but we'll see.)
1. [redacted]'s domestic disaster was provably not [redacted]'s fault, yes!
2. [Redacted] was a much classier creation, [redacted] thought with a silent sigh of envy. [Redacted] could take the Admiral out to parties, introduce him to women, parade him in public almost anywhere...
3. And he found something sticking out of the snow that made a new track. It was a stick.
4. This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.
5. "I too have stolen a cake."
"You have burned fingers, then. And when you're starving on the waste water between the far isles you'll think of that cake and say, Ah! had I not stolen that cake I might eat it now, alas!—I shall eat my brother's, so he can starve with you—"
"Thus is Equilibrium maintained."
6. -Occasionally it seems to have... oh, how shall one say... How shall one say, Director?
-Too many notes, your majesty?
-Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes.
-I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required, neither more nor less.
7. "Are two types of jokes. One sort goes on being funny forever. Other sort is funny once. Second time it's dull... Use it once, you're a wit. Use twice, you're a halfwit."
8. -These [balloons] blow up into funny shapes and all?
-Well no... not unless round is funny.
9. "...but have yeh seen anythin', Ronan. Anythin' unusual."
"Mars is bright tonight," Ronan repeated... "Unusually bright."
"Yeah, but I was meanin' anythin' unusual a bit nearer home."
10. Later... when is later?
All you ever hear is "Later..."
..."Oh, that lawyer's son, the one who mumbles.
Short and boring, yes, he's hardly worth ignoring,
And who cares if he's all dammed--"
I beg your pardon-- "Up inside?"
ETA: Sorry for the delay; answers ( here. )
1. [redacted]'s domestic disaster was provably not [redacted]'s fault, yes!
2. [Redacted] was a much classier creation, [redacted] thought with a silent sigh of envy. [Redacted] could take the Admiral out to parties, introduce him to women, parade him in public almost anywhere...
3. And he found something sticking out of the snow that made a new track. It was a stick.
4. This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.
5. "I too have stolen a cake."
"You have burned fingers, then. And when you're starving on the waste water between the far isles you'll think of that cake and say, Ah! had I not stolen that cake I might eat it now, alas!—I shall eat my brother's, so he can starve with you—"
"Thus is Equilibrium maintained."
6. -Occasionally it seems to have... oh, how shall one say... How shall one say, Director?
-Too many notes, your majesty?
-Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes.
-I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required, neither more nor less.
7. "Are two types of jokes. One sort goes on being funny forever. Other sort is funny once. Second time it's dull... Use it once, you're a wit. Use twice, you're a halfwit."
8. -These [balloons] blow up into funny shapes and all?
-Well no... not unless round is funny.
9. "...but have yeh seen anythin', Ronan. Anythin' unusual."
"Mars is bright tonight," Ronan repeated... "Unusually bright."
"Yeah, but I was meanin' anythin' unusual a bit nearer home."
10. Later... when is later?
All you ever hear is "Later..."
..."Oh, that lawyer's son, the one who mumbles.
Short and boring, yes, he's hardly worth ignoring,
And who cares if he's all dammed--"
I beg your pardon-- "Up inside?"
ETA: Sorry for the delay; answers ( here. )
