“Oh, no. I know. And I make 10% off the top for shipping it.”
" I don’t know much about electricity, but I feel I must have broken the circular motion of electricity"
“No, no! We have a system going on, you cant saw wood like that now!”
“And just two days later she was indeed burnt at the stake, which was a bit of an unexpected turn…”
Have you considered bollards?
“Shakespeare.”
“No, I was quoting She’s All That.”
“That’s what I said.”
“Don’t perform something that’s too tricky for you. Or to put it another way: don’t try and do things that are too difficult for you.”
ME: Teddy, your parents evening was amazing. I’m so proud of you. The one thing they did say was that sometimes, when you know the answer, you shout it out, even if its not your turn. Buddy, you’ve got to give others a chance to shine.
TEDDY (6yrs): But why? I’m so good at shining!!
“Alas, cat, the innocent look will not work on anyone in this house, 'cos two of them are trained on me and the other one is me.”
“Now I understand why rats eat their young.”
“No, you just hold them in your mouth until they settle down. But then crunch”
“Yeah, there’s just that one squeak too many.”
“And then they’re like potato chips: you can’t eat just one…”
Exchange just now between me and my wife.
“I see you piwakawaka, shaking your ass.”
(Not me, although I’m probably now going to be thinking it every time I see one for the next while.)
Context:
“Frog in your throat? Try Ribitsil.”
Gotta love fantails
Bananas are kind of like traffic lights: when they are green, you probably don’t want to eat them
I think I have never in my life seen a red banana…
If you ever do, STOP.
…If you love me
Now’s the time to be sorry
I won’t believe that you’d walk out on me
Baby, yeah
Ooh
Whilst cleaning today it occurred to me that in ‘I’m Still Standing’, what I had always thought of ‘There’s a cold hill on the light…’ is actually ‘There’s a cold and lonely light…’
Not sure why my brain took forty years to figure that one out but there we go.
Ah, the quagmire of misheard lyrics…!
(That would probably be a good thread.)
What surprises me more is that the actual correct lyrics just popped into my head whilst I was doing something else (not listening to music), four decades after I first heard the song.