"They are not interested in many things which are interesting. And that's the American way."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: unknown
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin, referring to American linguists
wisdom, politics, linguistics, people, provincialism, patriotism, sadness, indifference, insults
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heard: 12 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
Person behind register at Lowes: "I hear thunder."
My father, a minute later, sarcastically, and in jest: "Well, the rain has to come from somewhere."
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heard: 11 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
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[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"That ad is a nightmare—I can't imagine quilting toilet-paper for a living."
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heard: 15 August 2003
[edit] added: 15 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 15 August 2003
(02:54:22) Jade Solitude: Green's a good colour.
(02:54:39) Jade Solitude: I rather like this song.
(02:54:59) Jade Solitude: I just bought new speaker system, too.,
a typical conversation with Michael
randomness, music, diatribes, nonsequiturs, typical-conversations
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heard: 7 August 2003
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
(05:17:01) Kesuari: umm... clag is a kind of glue that children in kinder/grade prep/1/2 use... i can't describe it any better, but i mean it seems similar to that.
(05:17:11) [me]: paste
(05:17:32) [me]: My first thought with that word was glue-like stuff
(05:17:46) [me]: though I don't think I've heard that word before in my life
(05:17:50) [me]: it's an onomotopoeia for glue!
(05:18:08) Kesuari: do you mean you haven't heard the word clag?
(05:18:10) Kesuari: or claggy?
(05:18:12) [me]: or maybe it's because of its striking phonetic similarity to coagulate
(05:18:16) [me]: nope
(05:18:23) [me]: hey, you don't know what gyros are..
(05:18:30) Kesuari: true. what's a gyros?
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heard: 7 August 2003
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
(05:04:59) ***Kesuari wonders why america is the centre of the world if they don't have fish and chips, pineapple on hamburgers, or affordable buyable nice bread.
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heard: 6 August 2003
[edit] added: 6 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 6 August 2003
(00:21:26) Kathryn: .ther'es no latin for homepage, you know
(00:23:02) [me]: I bet someone's standardised some of this stuff actually
(00:23:17) Kathryn: i'm sure they have
(00:23:33) Kathryn: but those words weren't in my dictionary, and i'd rather make stuff up
(00:23:58) Kathryn: it lets me pretend i'm creating something in a subject that's older than God
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heard: 1 August 2003
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
(21:09:04) [me]: it's qt.. is it in python?
(21:09:51) Kesuari: no, i think i'ts just qt
(21:09:59) [me]: what language?
(21:10:10) Kesuari: python
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heard: 31 July 2003
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
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[edit] added: 31 July 2003
[standing by an orange tree trying to get down a good orange]
me: "Ooh, try to get that one up there."
Mahesh: "I'm not a monkey, man."
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heard: 31 July 2003
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
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[edit] added: 31 July 2003
"Captain, I'm reading bio signs on the planet. To quote Dr. Frankenstein, `It's alive!`"
