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Laughter keeps us young
Posted by Shannon on 11 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: heard
“Here I am, pining for my lost youth…”
- Shannon, getting ready for the day, sighing at her reflection
“No worries, Honey! They’re downstairs eating breakfast.”
- John, being helpful and making his wife laugh
“Any sufficiently advanced technology” and all that
Posted by John on 26 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: heard
“I’m frankly stunned by the quality of what’s streaming over the Internet to my television right now.”
- John, Upon firing up Netflix streaming for the first time
“That’s because you’re a geek who understands how things have changed. The rest of us just expect magic.”
- Shannon
Why I love this woman so much
Posted by John on 09 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: heard
“You know, sweetie, I won’t be wearing my wedding ring during my triathlon … you may want to be there to beat back the female competitors.”
- John, 3k into a 5k run with Shannon
“Just run faster than they do … I mean, it *is* a race, after all …”
- Shannon, 17 years into being married to John
Well… that depends on what the meaning of “wash” is…
Posted by John on 05 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“This hasn’t been washed… or if it has, it was with a stick of butter…”
- Shannon, upon retrieving a pot that the girls “washed”
Amanda’s 9th “Half-Birthday” quotes
Posted by John on 02 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: heard
First stop: the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, as we approach their newly opened “Dinosaur Trail”
“It’s starting to get a little Jurassic-y around here!”
Next stop: the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, leaving the “Warhol’s Polaroids” exhibit (which was more of historic interest than artistic, IMHO)…
“Well, he sure had a lot of fun with his camera!”
… and leaving the museum…
“Amanda?”
- John
“Yes?”
- Amanda
“Did you like the museum?”
- John
“Yes?”
- Amanda, unconvincingly
“Do you want to go there again?”
- John, trying to get to the truth
“Maybe when I’m older, and I appreciate ‘art’ more.”
- Amanda
On the way to the last stop (Northgate Mall’s merry-go-round), driving through the day-long rainstorm, now a massive downpour…
“I sure am glad we didn’t go to the zoo!”
… and on the way home…
“So, what was your favorite part?”
- John, curiously
“I think my favorite part was…”
- Amanda, interrupted
“You’re not allowed to say ‘the merry-go-round’. If you say ‘the merry-go-round’, then next year we’re going to the merry-go-round, riding it twice, and then going home.”
- John, despairing
“Oh… in that case it was the Dinosaur Trail.”
- Amanda, prudently
Poultry profits?
Posted by John on 19 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: heard
(During a conversation in which Shannon and I seriously consider getting some hens to raise in our pet-less, fenced-in backyard)
“We could name one ‘Henny’ and one ‘Penny’…”
- Emily
“… and one ‘Nickel’!”
- Amanda
Yeah, yeah… enough already…
Posted by John on 03 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“I just love the word ‘asymptote’. I mean, how many words have ‘m-p-t’ in them?”
- John, after just having used “asymptotically” in a sentence at lunch with Dave
“Um… ‘empty’?”
- Dave, John’s best-work-friend (or work-best-friend, or… whetever), after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, other than that one…”
- John, somewhat embarrassed
“Scrumptious?”
- Dave, again after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, okay…”
- John, giving in
“My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty…”
- Dave, singing, refusing to accept my surrender
“Okay, so anyway, as we were saying…”
- John, dragging the conversation back on track
Dave nods to acknowledge that we can continue the conversation and abandon the hunt for “m-p-t” words
“You’re still thinking, aren’t you…”
- John, after another five second pause, exasperated but laughing
“Verklempt?”
- Dave, now laughing as well, secure in his total verbal domination of the moment
Heard from the past…
Posted by John on 26 May 2009 | Tagged as: heard
(The following items were heard back in February 2009, written on our wipe-off board, photographed from there with my camera-phone, then quickly forgotten about. I just found them again and now present them here for your enjoyment.)
Apparently, Olympics >> American team-sports
“Is the USA in yellow?”
- One of the girls, while watching Super Bowl 43 (Being a Pittsburgh fan, I told her “Yes”.)
And if it’s the Super Bowl, where are the pins?
“Is this football?”
- One of the girls, again, while watching the Super Bowl
“Is what football?”
- John, wondering what they could possibly be missing
“What we’re watching.”
- Same girl
“Yes, this is football.”
- John, thinking “I’ve shown them this before, haven’t I?”
“Then why are they throwing it with their hands?”
- Same girl, apparently having been exposed to the term “football” more often in another, more international context.
Well, she’s got a point…
“It’s snowing and we bought ice cream! What kind of weirdos are we?”
- John, pointing out the irony of the situation
“We’re Straffins!”
- Amanda, pointing out a thorough understanding of her weirdo heritage
Witty “Mars” vs. Tired “Venus”
Posted by John on 02 May 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Should I bake? I should sew, though. No! No. I’m not going to sew right now… I’m too tired. I’ll bake…”
- Venus (aka “Shannon”)
(In a stereotypical American Indian “How!” sort of voice) “I am too tired to use sharp things, therefore I will use fire!”
- Mars (aka “John”)
(Tired giggles… for the next two minutes…)
- Venus
M… M… Montana? No. Maryland? No…
Posted by John on 15 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“One-Minnesota, Two-Minnesota, Three-Minnesota…”
- Amanda (shortly followed by Emily saying the same thing), showing preference for the mid-western state over the traditionally-used and southern “Mississippi”…