NPQiYBM: overheard in our household
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cahnAt 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
1. Ivan, A Civil Campaign (Bujold).
2. Mark, Mirror Dance (Bujold).
3. The Snowy Day (Keats) -- this is cheating a bit, but I thought the two people with toddlers might get this one :) E likes to run around chanting, "This is a stick!"
4. "Staying Alive," Portal, GLaDOS. If you have not played Portal, you totally, absolutely should, or at least watch while someone else is playing it, or at the very least watch a youtube video of someone playing it. It is awesome. And I talk as someone who is not a particular fan of video games in general.
5. Ged and Yarrow, A Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin).
6. Emperor Joseph II, Orsini-Rosenberg, and Mozart; Amadeus (Shaffer).
7. Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis (speaking to the computer Mycroft), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (It seems to be a helpful way to describe humor to a two-year-old as well, although jury is out on whether it'll stick.)
8. Raising Arizona (Coens), which I have actually never seen, but D quotes these lines a lot.
9. Hagrid and the centaurs in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
10. Hendrick, A Little Night Music (Sondheim). I originally took D on a date to see this musical, which we both love, though I would not recommend it for a date unless you are sure that your date has a skewed sense of humor about relationships (which, fortunately, D does).
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
1. Ivan, A Civil Campaign (Bujold).
2. Mark, Mirror Dance (Bujold).
3. The Snowy Day (Keats) -- this is cheating a bit, but I thought the two people with toddlers might get this one :) E likes to run around chanting, "This is a stick!"
4. "Staying Alive," Portal, GLaDOS. If you have not played Portal, you totally, absolutely should, or at least watch while someone else is playing it, or at the very least watch a youtube video of someone playing it. It is awesome. And I talk as someone who is not a particular fan of video games in general.
5. Ged and Yarrow, A Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin).
6. Emperor Joseph II, Orsini-Rosenberg, and Mozart; Amadeus (Shaffer).
7. Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis (speaking to the computer Mycroft), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (It seems to be a helpful way to describe humor to a two-year-old as well, although jury is out on whether it'll stick.)
8. Raising Arizona (Coens), which I have actually never seen, but D quotes these lines a lot.
9. Hagrid and the centaurs in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
10. Hendrick, A Little Night Music (Sondheim). I originally took D on a date to see this musical, which we both love, though I would not recommend it for a date unless you are sure that your date has a skewed sense of humor about relationships (which, fortunately, D does).
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Date: 2012-02-26 10:13 am (UTC)2 has got to be something about Miles Vorkosigan and Admiral Naismith.
4 I'm fairly sure is from Portal, and like the cake, is a lie.
5 is one of the Earthsea books - Ged is talking to a woman whose name I completely forget.
6 is Amadeus.
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Date: 2012-02-27 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-26 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-27 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-26 08:44 pm (UTC)#2: Mark, Mirror Dance or ACC
#5 Ged and Vetch's sister, A Wizard of Earthsea
#9 HP #1, Hagrid and the centaurs.
Unremarkably, if it's outside my narrow window, I have no clue. #3 sounds like something I should know. #6 sounds British, but I can't pin it down more than that.
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Date: 2012-02-27 02:31 pm (UTC)