- He had delusions of adequacy (Clarence Darrow)
- Mean-spirited little dwarf
- I haven't had this much fun since a pig ate my brother
- Honey, we don't do that with cheese (my friend Kathy to one of her children)
- Get a move on you strange and insane idiot
- You are very beautiful. Are those your real teeth?
- Wholesale galloping ignorance (Calvin Trillin)
- We thought you was a toad ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?")
26 September 2005
Word pack rat
I jot down funny phrases on my Palm Pilot. I don't collect other things but I am a word pack rat -- particularly if those words are goofy, rather mean or don't quite make sense. (I'm not a mean person but I talk a good game.) I'm not sure where some of these came from. My apologies to the writers. Some favorites:
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Here is one I like:
Are you really this obtuse, or are you just trying to annoy me?
From one of those E.M. Forster books made into a movie - argh what's the title? The one with Helena Bonham Carter (again) and Emma Thompson as sisters . . ..
Howard's End?
I also like "Ahhh I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again."
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