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most quoted re "weirdness": Jonathan North Washington (83), oberon (53), other (31), Abe Solomon (17), Kathryn Harris (15)

other categories found with "weirdness": language (34), food (29), sex (28), computers (27), linguistics (25)



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[link] heard: 11 February 2014
[edit] added: 11 February 2014

"Or maybe it's a book in Hungarian about Ruby errors."

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[link] heard: 11 January 2013
[edit] added: 11 January 2013

"I wonder if they make almond-shaped marzipan candy."

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[link] heard: 22 December 2012
[edit] added: 22 December 2012

me: "‘Draco’?"

my mother: "Yeah, they've started naming winter storms now."

me: "After what, Harry Potter characters??"

my mother: "Constellations, Latin names of things that might scare us, ..."

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[link] heard: 9 November 2012
[edit] added: 9 November 2012

(11:51:13) Francis Tyers: do you have christmas lists in america ?

(11:51:42) jonathan: uhm

(11:51:44) jonathan: maybe?

(11:52:00) jonathan: I feel like there's some extra piece of pragmatics attached to what you have in mind

(11:52:49) jonathan: like, a wishlist that you might show your relatives before Christmas?

(11:52:54) Francis Tyers: yeah

(11:52:56) jonathan: yeah, sure

(11:52:59) Francis Tyers: that you hang on a tree

(11:52:59) jonathan: we have that :-P

(11:53:02) jonathan: whoa

(11:53:02) Francis Tyers: for the christmas robin

(11:53:03) jonathan: wait

(11:53:05) Francis Tyers: to collect

(11:53:08) Francis Tyers: the christmas robin

(11:53:12) jonathan: wtf man

(11:53:14) Francis Tyers: takes the list to father christmas

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[link] heard: 28 March 2012
[edit] added: 28 March 2012

me: "Yeah, Tolgonay, if I won the lottery and got poisoned, you'd be the first person they investigate."

Andy: "Or they'll just look at the mouldy bread on the table, and be like ‘oh, it was an accident.’"

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[link] heard: 18 March 2012
[edit] added: 18 March 2012

(04:14:07) نىكو: cypriot also has no question particle

(04:14:10) jonathan: oh???

(04:14:18) jonathan: (pun not intended)

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[link] heard: 28 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012

[чаң]

[...]

мин: "Бер генә булдымы? .. Юк, сәгать өч икән! Нигә бер генә ди?"

[чаң]

мин: "Аа, ике икән."

[... чаң]

мин: "Өч. Булды."

Ростәм: "Белмим, чиркәүдә дүрт тә булырга мөмкен."

мин: "Нигә?"

Ростәм: "Чиркәү булса, һәр ничек була"

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[link] heard: 1 October 2011
[edit] added: 22 February 2012

"There's only three themes in Bluegrass anyway: death, bad love, and for some reason retail."

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[link] heard: 18 October 2010
[edit] added: 18 October 2010

[Baatar opens New Testament]

"‘G-d’, ‘G-d’, ‘G-d’, ‘Man’, ..‘Zeus’?!"

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[link] heard: 8 February 2010
[edit] added: 7 February 2010

"Мне нравится эта песня потому-что старая. Она моя бабушка."

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[link] heard: 25 January 2010
[edit] added: 25 January 2010

"Yeah, someone's throwing lemon harangue pies at me."

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[link] heard: 30 July 2009
[edit] added: 30 July 2009

(23:26:35) kesuari: "Use boldface for certain forms in Oscan and Umbrian, and to distinguish Gaulish and other forms originally written in the Greek alphabet." i don't suppose you have any idea why?

...

(23:30:58) kesuari: (actually, that's pretty ironic: using bold instead of italics for italic languages like oscan and umbrian)

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[link] heard: 31 January 2009
[edit] added: 31 January 2009

(18:02:22) [Tristan]: i think slang is just a word for colloquial words, at least in colloquial speech

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[link] heard: 16 June 2008
[edit] added: 16 June 2008

(12:27:16) kesuari: so i'm perfectly content to live for, say, a million years and call it a day

(12:27:38) kesuari: hopefully i can contribute enough genetic code to the human race over that time that future generations are still backwards compatible

(12:27:50) kesuari: i've thought about this too much too

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[link] heard: 12 May 2008
[edit] added: 12 May 2008

(22:54:40) [me]: /r/ → [j] → ∅

(22:55:33) Aaron B: ??

(22:55:41) Aaron B: whatʼs the second arrow mean?

(22:56:08) Aaron B: /input/ -> [output] -> telepathy?

(22:56:18) Aaron B: that would explain the sound/no sound alternation...

...

(22:57:12) Aaron B: if that's the case, then there might be a weird kind of suppletion thing going on

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 12 May 2008
[edit] added: 12 May 2008

(23:17:03) [me]: ROFL

(23:17:08) Aaron B: ?

(23:18:29) [me]: just the way you talk about phonology

(23:18:38) Aaron B: how's that?

(23:18:45) Aaron B: like it's baseball cards?

(23:19:01) [me]: hah, no, like the actually processes are people

(23:19:08) Aaron B: oh, they totally are

(23:19:12) Aaron B: that's how i understand things

(23:19:18) Aaron B: segments are "doods"

(23:19:21) Aaron B: processes are things doods do

(23:19:41) Aaron B: constraints are like guys with whips

(23:19:55) Aaron B: bein' all like "dood, do this or i'll whip you"

(23:20:00) Aaron B: but then higher ranked constraints have bigger whips

(23:20:15) Aaron B: and are like "yeah, i know the dood to my right is going to whip you, but imma whip you harder if you don't satisfy me"

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[link] heard: 19 February 2008
[edit] added: 19 February 2008

[MTVде уйду соосу көрсөтүлөт]

мен: "Неге саап жатат?"

Траллик: "Саабаса болбойт."

мен: "Жок, сааганын неге көрсөтөт?"

Траллик: "Просто, реклама, билбейм."

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[link] heard: 17 February 2008
[edit] added: 17 February 2008

(04:38:57) Jóhann: youd like this song :P

(04:39:03) Jóhann: kazakh weird music is the genre

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[link] heard: 14 February 2008
[edit] added: 14 February 2008

(23:10:36) Jóhann: no thong?

(23:10:39) [me]: no

(23:10:54) [me]: but at the bazaar right next to the cards at one place they had a big pile of women's underwear

(23:11:04) [me]: probably including thongs; I didn't check

(23:11:10) Jóhann: im glad you didnt check

(23:11:42) [me]: why?

...

(23:13:44) Jóhann: because thats just perfectly normal for a guy who looks straight with red hair to go through a pile of women's underwear in a middle of an unorderly marketplace in Kyrgryzstan...nothing strange about that

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[link] heard: 31 January 2008
[edit] added: 31 January 2008

(23:33:41) Rianna: You "saw" her? Either you mean, that she says you did, but you don't recall or that you hallucinated her while incredibly drunk, because it's too cold there for mirages

(23:35:21) [me]: no, she says I saw her, but I don't really remember. She certainly saw me

(23:35:49) Rianna: Were you wearing one of your Kyrgyz pimp hats?

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[link] heard: 15 January 2008
[edit] added: 15 January 2008

(22:36:56) Rianna: well...i mean, look at our orthography...it's weird but we know what to say

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[link] heard: 17 December 2007
[edit] added: 18 December 2007

"Yeah, it's like a bonus—if you've got hair that's fuzzy or warm, you should get that haircut, you know?"

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[link] heard: 17 December 2007
[edit] added: 17 December 2007

(16:05:58) [me]: sometimes people format them like an e-mail, and it's really strange

(16:06:18) [me]: "Hey X,

What's up? I had fun last weekend. See you around.

Your friend,
Y"

(16:06:21) [me]: and it's like wtf?

(16:06:30) [me]: it should be "Yo, had fun last weekend. Catch you later."

(16:07:02) kesuari: people write emails like that?

(16:07:20) kesuari: i thought i was the only person who used capital letters any more

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[link] heard: 17 December 2007
[edit] added: 16 December 2007

(01:29:38) Amanda: look at my smileys

(01:29:46) Amanda: >:o angry!

(01:30:44) [me]: ..

(01:31:37) Amanda: you see my lo9bster?

(01:32:00) [me]: what?

...

(01:32:39) Amanda: no my smiley faces are lobsters

(01:32:55) [me]: oh

(01:32:58) [me]: yeah, they kind of are

(01:32:59) [me]: it's weird

(01:33:14) Amanda: no they're literally lobsters

(01:33:22) Amanda: do you see them?

(01:33:47) [me]: ....

(01:33:53) [me]: then how about I say "no" this time

(01:34:01) [me]: no

(01:34:03) [me]: I haven't seen them

(01:34:08) Amanda: 'm confused

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[link] heard: 8 December 2007
[edit] added: 7 December 2007

(12:59:33) kesuari: god didn't invent circumstances for remembering, he invented them for happening

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[link] heard: 23 November 2007
[edit] added: 25 November 2007

Thatcher: "And her father was the largest contractor in Kenya—"

Colin: "He was huge!"

Thatcher: "Yeah, he was like 400lbs."

Colin: [buffs up, effects burly voice] "Want me to build you a shed!?"

Colin messes with Thatcher's story
weirdness, machoism, misparsings, randomness, provincialism
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[link] heard: 21 August 2007
[edit] added: 22 August 2007

[arrives on plane for connecting flight 5 minutes before scheduled take-off (40 minutes before actual take-off), and finds seat taken]

me: "You're in my seat."

other passenger: "Uh, well, we had to to, uhm—"

flight attendant: "Just sit anywhere."

[other passengers laugh]

I apparently missed some musical chairs…
randomness, weirdness, confusion
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[link] heard: 9 April 2007
[edit] added: 9 April 2007

Annex door creaks

Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"

Derek: "Truth by concensus!"

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[link] heard: 3 March 2007
[edit] added: 4 March 2007

Derek: "Blood sucks."

Jonathan: "Then it'd be a vampire, but blood can't be a vampire—then it'd be cannibalistic."

[comment] [rate] 1/5


[link] heard: 2 February 2007
[edit] added: 12 February 2007

Girl at check-out: "You just want the bagel?"

Derek: "Yeah. But I want the stuff inside too. Is that okay?"

Girl at check-out: "Sure."

[comment] [rate] 4.5/5


[link] heard: 5 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007

"And you're going to think, ‘Oh, the big thing is OT Pragmatics—I should do that.’"

Mark Aronoff, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
wisdom, weirdness, linguistics, conferences, gradschool
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[link] heard: 16 November 2006
[edit] added: 16 November 2006

(03:17:16) [me]: never heard of æ tensing? ;)

(03:17:55) Qatharsis: D'oh, of course. It's the opposite of q crumbling. ;)

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 1 November 2006
[edit] added: 1 November 2006

"They're called anti-formants, kinda like matter and anti-matter. Except if they meet, there's no explosion. And you can't make a space ship engine with them. You can't travel at light speed by going 'ananana'."

Richard talks about nasals.
linguistics, star-trek, physics, weirdness, phonetics
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 1 November 2006
[edit] added: 1 November 2006

"It's like a James Bond movie: 'A Pure Tone Rings Forever.'"

Richard talks about nasals.
linguistics, movies, weirdness, phonetics
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[link] heard: 27 October 2006
[edit] added: 27 October 2006

Jonathan: "A lot of people look like Galen today."

Derek: "Yep: Cartoons. Real people."

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[link] heard: 1 September 2006
[edit] added: 1 September 2006

18:14:37 kesuari: ummm. they have a holiday on the first day of classes?

18:14:56 kesuari: how can you have a day of classes on a holiday?

18:15:11 kesuari: isn’t that like going to work to celebrate a day off?

18:15:46 kesuari: soviets are weird.

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 3 July 2006
[edit] added: 3 July 2006

17:15:51 [Rianna]: even when i walk down the street, sometime 'ye olde inner monologue' becomes 'ye olde outer monologue'

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 28 June 2006
[edit] added: 27 June 2006

02:30:52 [Rianna]: Like being so into Rocky Horror Picture Show, that you're there all the time and sleeping with multiple cast members at the same time in the same room? :-p

02:31:45 [me]: well, that's not so sketchy for Rocky Horror if you're in the cast

02:31:57 [Rianna]: whoa, yeah, that is pretty weird

on sketchiness, though it turns out Rianna was referring to something else
sketchiness, sex, weirdness, geekiness, double-standards
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[link] heard: 14 June 2006
[edit] added: 13 June 2006

02:22:23 [Aaron]: (i need to hear a drunk irishman speak in order to live out my accent fantasy)

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[link] heard: 30 May 2006
[edit] added: 31 May 2006

"I'm just going to write it, because it's easier than spelling it."

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[link] heard: 30 May 2006
[edit] added: 31 May 2006

"It's necessary to separate ‘French’ from what I call ‘Non-French.’ There's a dichotomy and I think a lot of people who study Romance linguistics don't realise this."

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 27 May 2006
[edit] added: 27 May 2006

Rianna: "I don't even speak Danish!"

Jonathan: "Have you ever studied Danish?"

Rianna: "No, but still… I can't even read it. Out loud."

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[link] heard: 2 May 2006
[edit] added: 4 May 2006

Jurgen: "You know, some people say I'm hard—I don't think I'm that hard."

Jonathan: "Well, you're flexible."

classmate: "You're the xantham gum of professors."

Avram: "Flexible, but still with integrity."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 18 April 2006
[edit] added: 20 April 2006

00:35:10 [sn withheld]: Listening to Blümchen on a crowded bus is like having pink toenails.

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 23 March 2006
[edit] added: 23 March 2006

21:24:31 [Hannah]: http://community.livejournal.com/baaaaabyanimals/1902984.html?#cutid1

21:24:32 [Hannah]: eew?

21:28:01 [me]: rofl, what is that, an aardvark?

21:28:19 [Hannah]: yeah

21:28:23 [me]: it's like a proto-mamal

21:28:26 [Hannah]: lol

21:28:28 [me]: it is!

21:28:41 [Hannah]: not cute is what it is

21:29:10 [me]: like, its feet are kind of prehistoric-looking, it's body is generic mamal, and it's head's evolved for sniffing out and sucking up ants

21:29:20 [me]: it's head's like the only part of it that's evolved

my 2¢ on aardvarks, based on a post to the baaaaabyanimals community on lj sent to me by Hannah
animals, cuteness, weirdness, time, analogies
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[link] heard: 11 March 2006
[edit] added: 12 March 2006

Shoshana: "Hey, this seahorse looks like it's pregnant."

Josh: "Well, I don't know—it says here that it's a 'pot-bellied seahorse.'"

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[link] heard: 28 February 2006
[edit] added: 5 March 2006

"Regularity is a different kind of thing from a thing."

prof Zagona… not sure what she was talking about
philosophy, weirdness, linguistics
[comment] [rate] 1/5


[link] heard: 8 February 2006
[edit] added: 8 February 2006

05:43:30 [me]: I'm matching for a timestamp

05:43:40 [me]: since people don't generally say those

05:43:47 [me]: and all the im quotes have them

05:43:48 [Tristan]: i say them all the time

05:43:52 [Tristan]: every time i'm talking, i say them

05:44:08 [me]: oh?

05:44:26 [Tristan]: yes: "bracket oh-oh colon four-four colon twenty-three close bracket tristan colon: i do it all the time"

05:44:58 [me]: hence it being for ims

05:45:10 [me]: and you don't say that

05:45:15 [Tristan]: are you sure?

05:45:20 [Tristan]: have you ever heard me speaking?

05:45:49 [me]: actually, yes, but not conversationally

05:46:05 [me]: though granted you coulda stripped those out of the the recordings I've heard

05:46:10 [Tristan]: yeah, i did

05:46:30 [Tristan]: 'cos it's a bit weird, admittedly

05:46:39 [Tristan]: i didn't want to interfere with whatever eles you're doing

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[link] heard: 6 August 2005
[edit] added: 6 August 2005

"You call it silly string, I call it semen."

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[link] heard: 6 August 2005
[edit] added: 6 August 2005

"Now I can use the line later, `What, you've never used a whip on your RA?'"

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[link] heard: 4 August 2005
[edit] added: 4 August 2005

Aaron B [04:07]: i like it my way. when you become reincarnated as me in your next life, you can change it ;)

me [04:07]: … wait

me [04:07] that can't happen

me [04:08] can it?

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[link] heard: 13 July 2005
[edit] added: 13 July 2005

"I want my genie to come."

Scott, in response to learning that "my genie comes" means "I'm mad" in Kazakh
swseel, weirdness, sex, magic, language, kazakh, inappropriateness, anger
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[link] heard: 10 May 2005
[edit] added: 4 July 2005

(01:30:22) [redacted]: from now on, all adjectives will be in the form [+crack]

[comment] [rate] 1/5


[link] heard: 14 April 2005
[edit] added: 14 April 2005

"For you, walking backwards is forward."

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[link] heard: 12 April 2005
[edit] added: 12 April 2005

(17:22:47) Оберон: There is snow

(17:22:50) Оберон: it is going by my window

(17:22:53) Оберон: I am glaring at it.

(17:22:54) Оберон: ...

(17:22:57) Оберон: It is not stopping.

(17:28:44) Оберон: Ooh.

(17:28:46) Оберон: It stopped.

(17:28:52) Оберон: Perhaps now winter is over?

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 8 April 2005
[edit] added: 8 April 2005

(02:11:04) [me]: aw, but that wasn't helpful :-P

(02:11:04) Оберон : Naked and wet.

(02:11:10) [me]: neither is that...

(02:11:10) Оберон: Sorry.

(02:11:13) Оберон: Monkey is all I can offer.

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[link] heard: 6 April 2005
[edit] added: 6 April 2005

(00:40:12) [me]: why do you keep comparing me to a squirrel?

(00:40:19) Оберон: I dunno.

(00:40:19) [me]: don't you have some sort of vendetta against them?

(00:40:35) Оберон: Not really, I just think they're tree-rats

(00:40:42) Оберон: whereas Anna thinks they're like little cats with big tails

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[link] heard: 23 March 2005
[edit] added: 24 March 2005

"I mean, Xena has more sound effects than most asians."

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[link] heard: 23 February 2005
[edit] added: 23 February 2005

Matt: "Well, I'd rather be able to feed you than put jalapeños in it."

Vickie: "Why?"

Matt: "Because I like you more than I like jalapeños."

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[link] heard: 7 February 2005
[edit] added: 8 February 2005

"Er hot andere fish to fry."

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[link] heard: 2 February 2005
[edit] added: 2 February 2005

(01:07:03) [redacted]: i'm too tired to bullshit

(01:09:42) [me]: how are you too tired to bs?

(01:09:45) [me]: that doesn't even make sense

(01:09:54) [redacted]: i need to be 'on' to bs

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[link] heard: 28 January 2005
[edit] added: 28 January 2005

Nat: "Don't you want 50cc of chocolate ice cream?"

Vickie: "Oh! I need to call my mother!"

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[link] heard: 28 January 2005
[edit] added: 28 January 2005

"Yes, we're writing character sheets for silverware. Shut up."

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 25 January 2005
[edit] added: 25 January 2005

Ian: "With slight modifications, the iPod could greatly benefit the blind."

Nat: "With slight modifications, the iPod could be made into a tricorder."

Matt: "With slight modifications, the iPod could be made to be sentient."

Jonathan: "But then how would you know the iPod is sentient and not just the sentience inside?"

Matt: "I'm not allowed to discuss that."

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[link] heard: 15 December 2004
[edit] added: 15 December 2004

"You see, we're edumacatifying you."

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[link] heard: 12 December 2004
[edit] added: 12 December 2004

Matt: "Wait, how does nudity get rid of variables?"

oberon: "Because clothes are variable—everyone's always wearing different things."

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[link] heard: 11 December 2004
[edit] added: 11 December 2004

"How did you spell 'Hannukah' when you said it?"

Jonathan to oberon, making sure he gets quote 593 right.
religion, language, weirdness, quotes
[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 11 December 2004
[edit] added: 11 December 2004

"Are you guys getting me a chancellorship for Hannukah? I want to be chancellor of Germany for Hannukah."

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[link] heard: 11 December 2004
[edit] added: 11 December 2004

"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing because I no verbs."

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[link] heard: 10 December 2004
[edit] added: 10 December 2004

"I think s'more Schnapps is the best idea ever. Do they make that? Graham cracker liquour?"

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[link] heard: 6 December 2004
[edit] added: 6 December 2004

"Okay, well, none of you are 10-page papers, and none of you are due on Monday. Except possibly Vickie."

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[link] heard: 3 December 2004
[edit] added: 6 December 2004

Jonathan: "I mean, what sort of person founds an all girls school? I guess you have to be a rich guy with weird dreams."

Matt: "Yo."

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[link] heard: 20 November 2004
[edit] added: 20 November 2004

Jonathan: "If the flour turns into pie crust, then how do those kids in plays deal with getting it out of their hair?"

Nat: "They don't put flour in their hair—they put shoe polish or baby powder in their hair."

Jon: "Or Kool-Aid."

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[link] heard: 14 November 2004
[edit] added: 14 November 2004

Vickie: "Vickie am hungry."

oberon: "Vickie am go in closet."

oberon shoves Vickie into our pantry
weirdness, orcish, bad-ideas
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 November 2004
[edit] added: 6 November 2004

"My uncle... Well, actually my aunt."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 31 October 2004
[edit] added: 31 October 2004

(04:34:43) Оберон: Know Thineself

(04:34:57) Оберон: Else Thineself Will Wait Till You're Asleep And Steal Your Wallet.

(04:35:09) [me]: I'm more worried about other things

(04:35:13) [me]: My wallet can bite me

(04:35:21) Оберон: Damn. I'd get a new wallet

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 22 October 2004
[edit] added: 22 October 2004

"You know you're a classics major if you see a door labelled 'Attic Access' and you immediately think 'Dude! A secret portal to Greece!'"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 16 October 2004
[edit] added: 16 October 2004

Nat: "If you keep speaking French, I'll be forced to hit you."

Jonathan: "What's wrong with French?"

Nat: "French sounds like ass."

Matt: "Nat, I don't know what your ass sounds like."

Nat: "I can show you."

Matt: "If it sounds like French, then okay."

Matt, Nat, and Jonathan, originally directed at Viktoriya, who was speaking French
sex, french, weirdness, language, analogies, violence
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 15 October 2004
[edit] added: 15 October 2004

oberon: "The cheese is in the fridge, the cheese is the fridge, hi-ho the dairy-o, Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x54414750 at offset 0x1e0800"

Jonathan: "... Uhm.."

oberon: "What? You don't know that verse?"

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 6 October 2004
[edit] added: 6 October 2004

(01:11:36) Matt S: Lemurs stole my syllabery.

(01:11:42) [me]: ?

(01:11:56) Matt S: They tricked me, they said they just wanted to borrow it, and now they're all, like, "What syllabery?"

(01:12:05) [me]: oh?

(01:12:18) Matt S: Yeah. Well, just wanted to let you know to be on the lookout.

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 6 October 2004
[edit] added: 6 October 2004

(00:35:54) Оберон: Dude

(00:35:58) Оберон: your dad is making up moon porn

(00:36:01) Оберон: and putting it on his resume

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 3 October 2004
[edit] added: 3 October 2004

(18:49:47) Qatharsis: One of your weirdo Frenches.

(18:49:52) [me]: rofl

(18:49:54) [me]: *mine*?

(18:50:05) Qatharsis: You keep digging them up.

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 18 September 2004
[edit] added: 18 September 2004

Jonathan: "Hm, something messed up."

oberon: "Because you don't own files."

Jonathan: "No, it's the Monkees."

oberon: "Yes, Jon, it's the monkeys."

Jonathan: "The Monkees aren't working. Root owns the Monkees."

[oberon starts ignoring me]

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 30 April 2004
[edit] added: 30 April 2004

(03:22:16) Виктория: i dunno if testing people on understanding oberon is productive

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 24 April 2004
[edit] added: 24 April 2004

(00:02:44) Оберон: So we'll provide those three options.

(00:02:47) Оберон: And then show them darth vader.

(00:02:52) Оберон: And the power of the force will compel them.

(00:03:13) Оберон: "These are the pads you are looking for." "These...are the pads...we are looking for..."

preparing to ask for money from the fboard for new DDR pads
ddr, movies, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 22 April 2004
[edit] added: 22 April 2004

"Sunjay's full of a lot of things. Most of them float."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 19 April 2004
[edit] added: 19 April 2004

"You searched for 'real honest-to-G-d tank' and got 'how to install linux on a dead badger'? You win."

Nat Budin shops for transportation for the summer
computers, linux, animals, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 18 April 2004
[edit] added: 18 April 2004

"I was standing there peeing and I thought to myself 'I know they took the cow'."

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 18 April 2004
[edit] added: 18 April 2004

oberon: "What's that?"

Adam: "It's kinda like a little playground toy that kills kids."

oberon and Adam play smashbrothers
games, weirdness, death, analogies, child-like
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 17 April 2004
[edit] added: 17 April 2004

group: "Hey, oberon, try some fake absinthe."

oberon: "But that's fake bad crap. Which of these adjectives are good?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 12 April 2004
[edit] added: 13 April 2004

"Let's google Lemur noises."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 12 April 2004
[edit] added: 13 April 2004

all: "Where's the die?"

Jonathan: "I think it went under Matt's chair."

oberon [to Matt]: "You have a pompom. It's making die-like noises."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 7 April 2004
[edit] added: 7 April 2004

(02:36:12) Оберон: Someone trying to probe my web server for Windows security holes is like someone trying to probe me for female holes

(02:36:36) Оберон: It may not be rape but it still leaves me feeling dirty

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 23 March 2004
[edit] added: 29 March 2004

"You're going to come back to your room and there are going to be six recycling bins in your room and no one else, and you're going to say 'Hm, that's odd,' and sit down at your computer, and they're going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death and eat you. And your roommate is going to come back and find 6 recycling bins full of blood."

oberon lecturing me on not throwing things at recycling bins
school, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 22 March 2004
[edit] added: 23 March 2004

"Money makes the world go 'round. In a most delightful way."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 21 March 2004
[edit] added: 22 March 2004

"Flash of 'feine in the night. Another song you didn't know was in 6-4."

connected with this quote
ddr, music, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 20 March 2004
[edit] added: 22 March 2004

"You didn't know that song was in 6-4, did you? You say pətejɾəw; I say pətejɾəw and pətɑɾəw. You say təmejɾəw; I say təmejɾəw and təmɑɾəw."

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 16 March 2004
[edit] added: 16 March 2004

"Lemme see my schedule. Ah, all I have is happy afternoonage."

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 14 March 2004
[edit] added: 14 March 2004

"I really do know how to bang bottles of coke."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 13 March 2004
[edit] added: 14 March 2004

"Some guys don't have girlfriends."

[People walking in street in dark ahead of us]

"Some guys like pedestrian bowling."

[We drive by them with no incident]

"... No two people are not still screaming."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 12 March 2004
[edit] added: 13 March 2004

"Anyone in a leather jacket is Mr. Man"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 8 March 2004
[edit] added: 8 March 2004

"And it looks and says 'All my bretheren are still compressed.'"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 7 March 2004
[edit] added: 7 March 2004

"I don't know if I'm going to keep that calendar open to that page. I woke up in the middle of the night last night and was like 'Holy Fuck! That penguin is going to eat me!' One by one the penguins steal my sanity."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 7 March 2004
[edit] added: 7 March 2004

(16:37:41) Jackie: no, it does scare me

(16:37:56) [me]: whereas it amuses me

(16:40:01) Jackie: thats the difference between us jonathan :-)

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 March 2004
[edit] added: 7 March 2004

"I bought the coolest book this weekend, and we can play really fun games with it. And it isn't the Kama Sutra."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 March 2004
[edit] added: 6 March 2004

Jonathan: "Freckles are good."

Jess: "Yeah, they're like little specks of chocolate."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 1 March 2004
[edit] added: 29 March 2004

Jonathan: "But I love Chernobylian shoulder parrots."

oberon: "Polly wanna meltdown."

and Jonathan North Washington
weirdness, animals
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 29 February 2004
[edit] added: 29 February 2004

(04:52:12) [me]: Plastic Cup

(04:52:22) Amanda: sounds like an emo band

playing a word associations game..
language, music, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 21 February 2004
[edit] added: 22 February 2004

"Cat's cradle is like programming—you just put strings together. Why do you think they call it multi-threaded?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 17 February 2004
[edit] added: 17 February 2004

Vickie: "We can make margaritas, but we need a blender"

oberon: "Render? Burritos? Huh?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 February 2004
[edit] added: 12 February 2004

"Asian food is like Cajun food, but without the /k/.... Using that fact you can derive the taste of /k/."

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 10 February 2004
[edit] added: 10 February 2004

"Why do people even sleep with each other? With woman it's like death; it's so scary."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 9 February 2004
[edit] added: 10 February 2004

"My mouth is tingling funny. As long as it doesn't go bang I'm fine."

oberon has an adventure with Brandeis food
food, brandeis, school, weirdness, sketchiness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 9 February 2004
[edit] added: 10 February 2004

"I'm saying i ~ ɪ; you're hearing the airhead."

oberon learns phonetics
linguistics, food, weirdness, phonetics
[comment] [rate] 1/5


[link] heard: 2 February 2004
[edit] added: 2 February 2004

(18:03:18) Qatharsis: Man, you need therapy. ;-)

Christian, in reference to Jonathan, who couldn't keep his eyes open enough to read much of the conversation, and was thus #blink#ing
weirdness, craziness, sleep, compliments
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 1 February 2004
[edit] added: 1 February 2004

"This puzzle is like O(2Where's Waldo)."

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 1 February 2004
[edit] added: 1 February 2004

[on phone with Aaron]

"Hold on, I need to go make some soup."

[a couple mins pass]

"Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available customer service agent."

[more mins pass]

"Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received. Your call will be answered in .. two minutes."

[more mins pass]

"Tiki house, what you want ɔːdɐː?!!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 31 January 2004
[edit] added: 1 February 3004

Dr. Cool: "We're going shopping."

Aaron: "Boy shopping?"

Dr. Cool: "Yes."

Aaron: "Hello?" [points at self] "Best buy!"

Dr. Cool (Laura Covey and Shoshana Ginsburg) look for other boys.
sex, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 26 January 2004
[edit] added: 26 January 2004

"My mittens I can totally type with them on"

Aaron learns about the north
weirdness, computers, weather, bad-ideas, typos, linguistics
[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 15 January 2004
[edit] added: 17 January 2004

"Air is small."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 23 December 2003
[edit] added: 23 December 2003

(00:12:59) [redacted]: and OMG you're sharing 2 computers on dial up?!

(00:13:10) [redacted]: ware you crazy?

(00:13:17) me: :)

(00:13:24) me: it was three

(00:13:29) [redacted]: you are crazy, aren't you?

(00:13:33) [redacted]: you're certifiable

(00:13:36) [redacted]: THREE?@??@?

(00:13:39) [redacted]: HOLY SHIT ON A STICK!

(00:13:40) [redacted]: come on!

(00:13:43) me: four :-P

(00:13:48) [redacted]: that's like 2 kb/YR per person

(00:14:05) [redacted]: i do hope you're kidding

(00:14:05) [redacted]: about the 4

(00:14:11) [redacted]: tell me you were kidding

(00:14:15) me: no

(00:14:18) [redacted]: or i may just have a cardiac arrestr

(00:14:21) ***[redacted] dies

(00:14:21) me: I have a linux box sitting there doing nothing

(00:14:31) ***[redacted] has been magically revived

(00:14:45) ***[redacted] recalls why he died, then proceeds to die again

(00:15:04) ***[redacted] is revived again and would like to forget that FOUR computers were sharing a dialup connection

(00:15:09) [redacted]: at least its 56k, rite?

(00:15:09) [redacted]: not 28?

(00:15:32) me: uhm.. I think it's connected at 46666kbps or something right now

(00:15:58) [redacted]: well, yeah... 56k never connects at that

(00:16:39) [redacted]: but still

(00:16:41) [redacted]: holy jesus

(00:16:48) [redacted]: how long did it take to load google?!

Abe Solomon realises how hard my life is
slowness, religion, weirdness, computers
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 10 December 2003
[edit] added: 10 December 2003

[some noise]

oberon, covered in snow: "Whoa. That snowball just, like, unsnowballed."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 7 December 2003
[edit] added: 4 February 2004

Dan: "...because Becky's ticklish after sex."

Becky: "So are you."

Dan: "Shut up."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 December 2003
[edit] added: 6 December 2003

(03:25:41) Aarón: youre screenshots are scary

(03:26:00) Aarón: it's like looking through the eyes of a paranoid schizophrenic

...

(03:30:27) Aarón: AH! it's 330

(03:30:42) Aarón: ok... must sleep... snow is waiting for me

(03:30:51) Aarón: i can see it building up JUST for me :)

(03:30:57) Aarón: it's calling my name

(03:31:07) Aarón: "aaaaaron, aaaaaaron.. come plaaaaaay with meeeeeE"

(03:31:16) Aarón: o wait... it's the damn pipes in my room

(03:31:23) Aarón: SHUT UP, PIPES

(03:31:40) Aarón: ok, i think I'M the paranoid schizophrenic, not your screenshot

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 4 December 2003
[edit] added: 4 December 2003

(05:12:05) Aarón: ok, nasty thought

(05:12:13) Aarón: remove thyselves from my brain!

(05:12:23) Aarón: aaaaaand theeeeey;re

(05:12:25) Aarón: still there

(05:12:26) Aarón: dammit!

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 3 December 2003
[edit] added: 3 December 2003

(21:26:44) Kathryn: i meant logically

(21:26:45) [me]: you mean how that has anything to do with the part before?

(21:26:50) Kathryn: yes

(21:27:17) [me]: that can stay ambiguous. There's some context here that makes it a little clearer. You'll see later

(21:27:30) Kathryn: o...k...

(21:28:25) [me]: I'm not on crack; I promise.

(21:28:37) Kathryn: riiight

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 1 December 2003
[edit] added: 1 December 2003

(08:48:03) [me]: not what I meant

(08:48:06) Kesuari: i know

(08:48:11) [me]: I know you know

(08:48:18) Kesuari: i know you know i know.

(08:48:25) [me]: I know you know I know you know

(08:48:33) Kesuari: did you though?

(08:48:41) [me]: no :\

(08:48:48) Kesuari: didn't think so :P

(08:49:00) [me]: well, that's why I said it in the first place

(08:49:04) [me]: why I said "I know you know"

(08:49:26) Kesuari: i think i'm lost

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 1 December 2003
[edit] added: 1 December 2003

In reference to "advice" he'd given

(04:52:31) Aarón: (this has been a service of AaronsLoveAdvice.com - you stalk 'em we talk [to] 'em)

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 30 November 2003
[edit] added: 30 November 2003

(23:39:00) Mark: I always wanted to be a toy monkey. such a carefree life

(23:39:02) Mark: no homework

(23:39:19) Mark: get to see all sorts of exotic tourist destinations

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 30 November 2003
[edit] added: 30 November 2003

Cem: "I've written 12 pages for a 5-page paper that's probably going to be 20 pages long."

Jonathan: "Wow, what are you writing about?"

Cem: "Wisdom and the bible and philosophy and socrates and shit. It's fucked up."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 30 November 2003
[edit] added: 30 November 2003

"What do you do to splines? Reticulate?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 28 November 2003
[edit] added: 28 November 2003

(21:11:53) Kathryn: i think i need to do something about myself. like spray myself with crazy repellent or something

(21:11:58) Kathryn: this is getting out of hand

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 26 November 2003
[edit] added: 26 November 2003

[Rongrong implies that Jonathan needs to leave.]

Jackie: "A.k.a. 'get the fuck off my computer'."

Rongrong: "A.k.a.? Who's that?"

[Jonathan starts to add quote so far using Rongrong's computer]

Rongrong: "What kind of music you don't like? Britney Spears?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 26 November 2003
[edit] added: 26 November 2003

"Let's blow this joint! ... Do you have a car?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 25 November 2003
[edit] added: 25 November 2003

(19:42:39) Aarón: i misplace sodas a lot

(19:42:46) Aarón: they usually end up exploded in the freezer

[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 24 November 2003
[edit] added: 24 November 2003

"We always see you, but you always come out from behind something, like a rock."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 23 November 2003
[edit] added: 24 November 2003

"It's freezing; can we go get ice cream now?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 21 November 2003
[edit] added: 22 November 2003

"Well, you can actually navigate the steam pipes I'm told. You just have to figure out when which ones fire—No, I'm serious; people have done this."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 4 November 2003
[edit] added: 5 November 2003

"Put your left truck in. Take your left truck out. Hey, dipshit, come on!"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 3 November 2003
[edit] added: 3 November 2003

"You don't see the connection between a weasel and a tube? Get me a weasel and a tube and I'll show you."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 30 October 2003
[edit] added: 30 October 2003

(00:44:11) Aaron: shitmuffins! it's already 12:45!

(00:44:57) [me]: shitmuffins?!

(00:45:01) [me]: roflmfao

(00:45:12) Aaron: hey, i'm allowed to make up my own language if i want!

(00:45:18) Aaron: even if it is crappy english words combined!

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 28 October 2003
[edit] added: 28 October 2003

(21:08:48) Оберон: you should link that new quote to the old one

(21:08:51) Оберон: or it's not funny

(21:09:00) [me]: and how do you propose I do that?

(21:09:40) Оберон: ...with this "hypertext markup language" thing which is all the rage nowadays?

(21:10:08) Оберон: see, you use an "anchor tag", and then you give it a "property" called the "href" which...

(21:10:27) Оберон: y'see, Jon, when a mommy webpage and a daddy webpage really love eachother...

(21:10:33) Оберон: ...not sure where that last bit came from

(21:10:38) Оберон: but it seemed appropriate

(21:11:19) Оберон: perhaps because at this point I expect you to know at least as much about HTML as you do about sex

(21:11:24) Оберон: hell, at this point, you should know a lot more

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 28 October 2003
[edit] added: 28 October 2003

"There is a big difference between two and two. I mean two and one. But two and two also."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 21 October 2003
[edit] added: 28 October 2003

oberon: "I am not a perl interpreter!"

[me]: "That's what you think."

oberon: "I guess it's time to shave again."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 20 October 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

Cem: "That's what I want to be—a Samurai Sword Craftsman."

Jonathan: "That's an honourable profession."

Cem: "... Fuck that. I wanna be a Samurai. I wonder if they get paid."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 20 October 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

(01:05:09) Оберон: If the pagans are right and there's a god of language purity I'm so screwed.

(01:05:16) Оберон: Then again...so is everyone but the french.

(01:05:22) Оберон: and probably them too.

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 18 October 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

"Have you seen that guy—Matt Sachs? He's such a stud!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 15 October 2003
[edit] added: 15 October 2003

(18:53:42) Оберон: finding and translating russian biographies is easy with my intelligent dictionary/encyclopedia combination

(18:53:56) [me]: oh?

(18:54:00) Оберон: Yeah

(18:54:44) Оберон: It even translates non word-for-word

(18:54:55) Оберон: so you don't get weird artifacts from literal translations

(18:55:03) [me]: is it called Anna?

(18:55:17) Оберон: ...maybe...

(18:55:36) Оберон: I just heard a bunch of bangs from my common room

(18:55:42) Оберон: followed by "Yarr" and "Die"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 8 October 2003
[edit] added: 8 October 2003

(07:21:12) Оберон: do I look like a perl interpreter?

(07:21:16) Оберон: I know I haven't shaved in a while

(07:21:21) Оберон: but I'm pretty sure you can tell the difference.

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 21 September 2003
[edit] added: 21 September 2003

[Car alarm goes off in distance]

Adam: "Ooh, I wanna play too." [takes car remote control from pocket]

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 18 September 2003
[edit] added: 18 September 2003

(02:53:13) оберон(l): I own most of your recent quotes page

(02:53:27) оберон(l): I'm like some weird expansionist empire

(02:53:50) оберон(l): with an army of contextlessness and a desire solely for territory

(02:53:54) оберон(l): or possibly not.

(02:53:58) оберон(l): not at all, really.

(02:54:05) оберон(l): But I like the phrase "army of contextlessness"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 14 September 2003
[edit] added: 14 September 2003

(01:44:27) оберон: Women are like toasters. You've got to wait for a bit, and then they go ding. And if you keep waiting, you get a fire. And then you get a guy beating you senseless with a chair.

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 13 September 2003
[edit] added: 13 September 2003

"Your php client has gained sentience and shown a predisposition for Valley of Strathmore."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 September 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

"Jackendoff. That was the link between drinking and Flash in the Night."

someone at bbr... forget who
ddr, linguistics, brandeis, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 8 September 2003
[edit] added: 8 September 2003

Cem: "I wanna throw this awesome party in my Ziv, with like a mad DJ and strobe lights and everything and we'd have to hand pick who came and have a guest list, and you could hire this huge black guy to be a bouncer for like a hundred dollars for the night and he'd make money off people bribing him to get into the party."

Me: "I'd almost go to that party, just for the DJ and the strobe lights."

Cem: "You'd have to get past the bouncer though."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 8 September 2003
[edit] added: 8 September 2003

"You keep asking questions—I feel like I'm in the Matrix, you know, and these bullets are flying by me and I'm dodging them."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 8 September 2003
[edit] added: 8 September 2003

Me: "Mon nom c'est Jonathan, j'ai un nom qui sème la peur."

Mark: "Ce nom-là ne sème rien."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 3 September 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

"Mm. Chicken-fried doughnut."

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 3 September 2003
[edit] added: 4 September 2003

"If she wants genuine oberon, I can provide."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 3 September 2003
[edit] added: 4 September 2003

"So the Russians are still trading in squirrels? That could explain the value of the rouble."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 30 August 2003
[edit] added: 30 August 2003

[Kathryn is vegan]

Laura: "I should spray some squirt cheese at you. We could fill a watergun with it."

Kathryn: "I'm sorry, I don't think that has any dairy products at all in it."

Jonathan: "You could always melt a block of cheddar and put that in a watergun."

Laura: "But then it would get hard."

Kathryn: "And that would destroy the watergun."

&c.

while eating cheeseless pizza at Cappy's
food, weirdness, bad-ideas
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 12 August 2003
[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."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003

"That ad is a nightmare—I can't imagine quilting toilet-paper for a living."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 7 August 2003
[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?

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 31 July 2003
[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."

Mahesh—a friend of Marat's—and me
weirdness, animals, food
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[link] heard: 31 July 2003
[edit] added: 31 July 2003

"Captain, I'm reading bio signs on the planet. To quote Dr. Frankenstein, `It's alive!`"

T'pol, Star Trek Enterprise, Season 2 Episode 20
star-trek, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 25 July 2003
[edit] added: 26 July 2003

T'pol: "I still don't believe in time travel."

Archer: "The hell you don't."

T'pol & Archer, Star Trek Enterprise Season 2, Episode 1
star-trek, physics, weirdness, time-travel
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 22 July 2003
[edit] added: 22 July 2003

(03:43:48) Casoar: apparently there is no suprise

(03:43:50) Casoar: surprise.

(03:44:04) Casoar: stupid silent r. silent ahs shouldn't be spelt

(03:44:20) [me]: then don't spell them :)

(03:44:33) Casoar: okay, i won't then :)

(03:45:15) Casoar: if i can remembe not to spell them. i'll probly foget half the time though. unless the word in question is suprise, when i won't so much foget not to foget as not foget to remembe

(03:46:40) [me]: what??

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 19 July 2003
[edit] added: 19 July 2003

(03:40:39) [Cem]: yo i have a question for u man, are most college parties in the us like the ones in the usa?

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 19 July 2003
[edit] added: 19 July 2003

Nathan: "Take his keys."

Me: "He's walking home."

Nathan: "Take them anyway; he might drive his house into something."

me and Nathan Kuhlman, in reference to Marat
weirdness, craziness, alcohol, driving
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 18 July 2003
[edit] added: 18 July 2003

"The universe is a spheroid region 705 metres in diametre."

The Enterprise's Computer (Star Trek TNG, season 4, episode 5) in response to the question "What is the nature of the universe?"
star-trek, physics, weirdness
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[link] heard: 9 July 2003
[edit] added: 9 July 2003

(12:50:43) [me]: hehe, you used Bumblefuck

(12:50:57) Kathryn: shit yeah i used bumblefuck

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 July 2003
[edit] added: 6 July 2003

(17:18:55) Qatharsis: Huerehimmelherrgopfetaminomal.

(17:19:04) [me]: euh?

(17:19:10) Qatharsis: You don't wanna know.

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 24 June 2003
[edit] added: 24 June 2003

(22:08:55) оберон - desktop: I have determined that I like elbows and knees

(22:09:03) оберон - desktop: and shoulders and pelvises absolutely suck

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 22 June 2003
[edit] added: 22 June 2003

(19:49:51) ¡Luz!: got a fortune cookie tonight:

(19:50:16) ¡Luz!: "A woman who seeks to be equal with men lacks ambition. Ouch!"

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[link] heard: 18 June 2003
[edit] added: 18 June 2003

(01:27:22) Adam Batkin: Legal or pirated?

(01:27:28) [me]: hah, like it'd be legal

(01:27:36) Adam Batkin: Where do you get it?

(01:27:45) [me]: Jon Sagotsky and Jeremy Kolb

(01:28:10) Adam Batkin: That sounds safe

(01:29:00) [me]: iis that sarcasm?

(01:29:49) [me]: from Jon's profile (and away message both), something said by Jeremy (presumably to Jon):

(22:25:53) [Jeremy]: you are devilish and evil and embody all that is dark and creepy. you are the master of the bowels of hell, a rival to the great one himself. you absolutely exude evilness and your intelligence and brain power blows mine away. i can't even comprehend your majesty

(01:29:57) [me]: oh yeah, reeeaal safe

(01:30:11) [me]: they aren't safe people!

(01:30:14) Adam Batkin: Wow

(01:30:14) Adam Batkin: Well

(01:30:17) [me]: but then neither am I

(01:30:20) Adam Batkin: I was serious

(01:30:37) Adam Batkin: I'm glad you wanted to live with them

Adam and Jonathan discussing pirated software from Jon and Jeremy
computers, weirdness, omnipotence, evil, non-p.c.ness
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[link] heard: 17 June 2003
[edit] added: 17 June 2003

(02:03:48) [me]: and I have ten salts in my soup

(02:04:01) оберон - desktop: I usually put in 12.

(02:04:03) оберон - desktop: Gives it more flavor.

arguing about Russian orthography
food, language, weirdness, russian
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 16 June 2003
[edit] added: 16 June 2003

(02:06:56) Casuarius: you're insane, though. i have *no* idea why you're doing this when you could be bringing about world peace or something :P

Tristan on me successfully converting music files to oggs at 8kbps and lower (impressive as that is..)
insanity, weirdness, computers, politics, compliments, insults
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[link] heard: 15 June 2003
[edit] added: 15 June 2003

(18:50:38) [me]: it's sad that it has to say "made with real fruit :)" on this box of fig bars..

(18:51:04) [Tristan]: with a *smiley*?

(18:51:19) [me]: well, it looks like a smiley, but it could be a ray of sunshine

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 10 June 2003
[edit] added: 10 June 2003

(23:26:32) matthewg: Fah, real men telnet to the X11 port.

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 9 June 2003
[edit] added: 9 June 2003

(22:54:11) Verdant Forest: I remember when I first started using AOL when I was 10...

(22:54:27) Verdant Forest: I would go into chatrooms and people would be saying "IM me! im me!" and I would just wonder

(22:54:37) Verdant Forest: Why do they need to clarify that they are themselves?

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 9 June 2003
[edit] added: 9 June 2003

(21:08:34) Kathryn: i do my best to come up with terminology others can only come up with while under the influence of other things

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 9 June 2003
[edit] added: 9 June 2003

(01:58:21) [Shreyas]: played?

(01:58:48) [me]: by Natlihah

(01:58:58) [me]: she just wants to distill her guilt

(01:59:19) [me]: I don't think she really cares about them that much

(01:59:40) [me]: I'm not sure if this actually results in anything bad down the road

(01:59:43) [me]: but I suspect it will

(01:59:47) [Shreyas]: that's deeply comforting

(02:00:17) [Shreyas]: on an unrelated note, i just realized that an inertialess spaceship could be fabulously agile

(02:00:45) [me]: rofl, I suppose so

(02:00:50) [me]: good luck designing one

(02:01:19) [Shreyas]: i'll put it on the "rpgs to write" list

(02:01:41) [Shreyas]: right after the one about people who can see into the future as if it's just another spatial dimension

(02:01:52) [me]: heh

(02:04:06) [Shreyas]: it's got a lot of dangerous metaphysics behind it, actually. i'm imagining that futeresight is analogous to depth perception: it takes information you have and derives data from it, via some unconscious, hypercompetent capacity

(02:05:08) [Shreyas]: unfortunately for our prophets, futuresight has to work on their knowledge of things, so they can see any appreciable distance only in familiar situations populated by familiar things

(02:05:50) [Shreyas]: and anytime something unexpected happens, the prophetic capacity has to readjust

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[link] heard: 6 June 2003
[edit] added: 6 June 2003

(22:42:55) [me]: yeah, vxptj. It's a bunch of sounds together that could almost be russian but not quite

(22:43:01) [Vickie]: oh that means "gurgle" i guess...but not really its the sound of water running over rocks in a stream

Vickie was answering another question it turns out, but still....
language, russian, weirdness, mistranslations
[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 5 June 2003
[edit] added: 5 June 2003

(22:38:28) [me]: did you get that song?

(22:38:35) [Kathryn]: yes

(22:39:40) [Kathryn]: shit

(22:39:41) [me]: what do you think?

(22:39:46) [Kathryn]: this is a good song

(22:39:55) [me]: =)

(22:40:33) [Kathryn]: Jesus

(22:40:40) [Kathryn]: you know my taste in men and in music

(22:40:43) [Kathryn]: that's creepy

(and this trend that was identified has been consistent)
music, sex, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 5 June 2003
[edit] added: 5 June 2003

(17:12:07) [me]: I have a new haircut too, but it's pretty normal for me. just shorter than most people are used to

(17:13:40) [Sarah]: lol. the jonathan. i think we should market it that way

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 24 May 2003
[edit] added: 2 June 2003

"We're trying, but it isn't that easy—that part of Nova Scotia isn't anywhere."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 1 June 2003

"That's the problem switching between French and Spanish—in Spanish you roll your 'r's; in French, you xkhqkh your 'r's."

[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"Yeah, and don't walk in on me in the shower, unless it's Tuesday."

Rameez setting up ground rules with Cem for their living arrangements
weirdness, sarcasm
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"You don't mess with the boop."

Ayham Bahnassi, in reference to a secret street handshake
ghetto-talk, weirdness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 4 May 2003
[edit] added: 4 May 2003

Rameez: "Just because you're right doesn't mean I have to listen to you."

Jonathan: "That's almost quotes page material, but it doesn't make enough sense."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 4 May 2003
[edit] added: 4 May 2003

(13:28:38) Kathryn: well, i'm going to shower so i can reconstruct proto-romance

[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 2 May 2003
[edit] added: 3 May 2003

Rameez: "I just got shot to shit."

Jonathan: "Where's that?"

Rameez: "It's somewhere between Brooklyn and Queens, and they just call it 'Shit'."

while Rameez was playing GTA3
weirdness, provincialism
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 27 April 2003
[edit] added: 27 April 2003

"Mumbo, perhaps; jumbo, perhaps not!"

a robot in futurama
weirdness, tv
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 24 April 2003
[edit] added: 24 April 2003

Jonathan: "This guy isn't human! Hm, he doesn't look human either."

Rameez: "None of us are human."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 April 2003
[edit] added: 11 April 2003

"There's bullshit and there's bullshit, okay? Come on. A hummer is a good car."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 April 2003
[edit] added: 11 April 2003

"Y'all isn't a useful word; it's a creation of the devi——Wait!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 11 April 2003
[edit] added: 11 April 2003

"What does gizmo mean?"

Cem, when he heard Rameez talking on the phone in Urdu . . . about his cat Gizmo
cats, weirdness, language, animals
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[link] heard: 11 April 2003
[edit] added: 11 April 2003

"You look like the magic pumpkin or whatever, but blue."

Jonathan, in reference to David in his big blue poncho
insults, weirdness, analogies
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[link] heard: 3 April 2003
[edit] added: 3 April 2003

"They threw me on the ground and told me to offer up my treasure. That was the scariest moment of my life."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 29 March 2003
[edit] added: 30 March 2003

"But I want the experience of pluto shaking his face in my as... wait."

in reference to Disney Mix
weirdness, ddr, freudian, inappropriateness, scrambling
[comment] [rate] 3.5/5


[link] heard: 26 March 2003
[edit] added: 10 April 2003

"I don't like subgroups. They're not future-proof."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 10 March 2003
[edit] added: unknown

(2.5) extreme tabooing in Aboriginal languages (Trask 1996):

a) In 1975 tribe member named Djäyila died, verb djäl- "want" became taboo, was replaced with duktuk- (borrowed from a neighbouring language)

b) In 1950 tribe member named Ngayunya died, pronoun ngayu "I" was tabooed and replaced by nganku; a subsequent death made nganku taboo, and therefore ngayu was revived

Handout in historical linguistics, 10.Mar.2003
language, linguistics, weirdness
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[link] heard: 22 October 2002
[edit] added: unknown

"So BWT means 'Big Weird Things' and if they work, they work tremendously."

Omid Omidvar on C-SPAN
weirdness, politics
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 22 October 2002
[edit] added: unknown

"And if it says on the [box?], 'Banana from Iceland,' then they need to check it."

Omid Omidvar on C-SPAN
weirdness, common-sense, politics
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"This is one of the most famous incidents in the—Jesus Christ, fucking communist bastards. Shit."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Mm! That sentence meant nothing either!"

on his paper about Utopias
school, weirdness, misc, deepness, papers, language
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"If that bounces up and hits me I'm going to bounce up and hit you."

warning Cem about throwing a napkin
misc, omnipotence, wisdom, weirdness
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"We don't need no inspiration. We don't need no firewalls."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

Rameez: "You know, I've got five missing socks. The laundry must've eaten them"

Jonathan: "The laundry doesn't just eat socks. It just seems like it does."

Rameez: "It must be the dryer."

Jonathan: "Yeah, you know, there's a vent that goes outside. It must just like suck the socks in. Like, you know, it'll be spinning [waves hands and makes whirring sound] and then it goes like 'dounk' and sucks it into the vent, and then blows it out the other end outside."

Rameez: "If we were ever to find that, that would be like the motherload of socks."

Jonathan: "I should make a comic stip about this. Like in the first scene clothes spinning in the dryer, and in the second, like the same scene, but then 'dounk' and the sock gets sucked into the vent, and then in the the third scene, like a sock shooting out into someone's lawn, or onto a pile of socks or something. If I had any artistic talent at all, I'd so draw that up right now."

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"She's like that Justice Brandeis guy come back as a Turkish girl!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Where I live? Not in England! ... It's cause they give you a choice, where you live, and they showed a map of England."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Eating eggs is like eating unborn fetuses—look, you dropped fetus on your lap!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Wait, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, what people talk about."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

[18:03:17] firespeaker org: brb

[18:03:21] LunaCamilla: ok.

[18:05:25] firespeaker org: back

[18:05:50] LunaCamilla: oh good. the world had stopped spinning on its axis during those heart-stopping seconds in which you had gone

[18:06:01] LunaCamilla: but now that you are back, the world may resume its normal course

[18:06:11] firespeaker org: yeah

[18:06:22] firespeaker org: what can I say?

[18:06:28] firespeaker org: it always does that

[18:06:45] LunaCamilla: you're just so damn critical to the functioning of reality and the universe

[18:06:49] LunaCamilla: it must get annoying at times

[18:07:00] firespeaker org: no. actually, it's kinda fun

[18:07:08] firespeaker org: I enjoy being omnipotent

[18:07:18] firespeaker org: even if I'm inadvertently so

[18:07:26] LunaCamilla: heh i should hope you're not

[18:07:39] LunaCamilla: i don't want you knowing everything about me! eep!

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

[17:52:39] LunaCamilla: you're so damn weird.

[17:52:48] LunaCamilla: i could write a freaking paper on you, you know that

[17:52:53] firespeaker org: ooh, do it do it!

[17:53:02] LunaCamilla: i think i may this summer

[17:53:15] LunaCamilla: when i've nothign else to do but have my parents yell at me and read

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Is this grass? Let's pretend it's grass."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Ooh, my colouring book. I haven't coloured all semester. Okay, where'd it go? Oh yay, my coloured pencils! I stole this from my little brother. He didn't know it was gone. I stole it from him like three years ago. He still doesn't know it's gone. Wait, longer than that. I finished my last colouring book ... around sophomore year?"

[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

[21:41:53] LunaCamilla: my biscotti tells me that if it makes me happy, to do it at least once

[21:42:08] firespeaker org: that's not always possible

[21:42:18] LunaCamilla: yeah, i was thinking that

[21:42:23] LunaCamilla: i told the biscotti that

[21:42:27] LunaCamilla: but it wouldn't listen

[21:42:32] LunaCamilla: so i ate it

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Well, now that you mention it, that does look kinda like orange."

In reference to my *yellow* folder that everyone thinks is orange.
weirdness, philosophy
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Wait! Don't fuck things up: I'm so anal!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"It blows fat-tailed sheeps—purple fat-tailed sheeps!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Tiki, Tiki, bobiki, banana bana...."

out of nowhere
weirdness, food, brandeis, randomness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"I am the better Roma! Screw you!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"When she got drunk, she was a whorenog, man."

or "When she got drunk, she was a horndog, man."

take your pick
weirdness, sex, misunderstandings
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Good morning [spiderplants?]. Have we photosynthesised our breakfast today?"

Mr. Lisbon in Virgin Suicides
physics, weirdness, movies
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Did you just say 'Robo Williams'?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"I'm the kind of guy who would pour acid on my hand to see how fast it burns."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Drug movies are so in right now. It's such a fad."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Why do they look so freaky? Does Lowell reverse engineer people's souls?"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Dude, they're going to sodomise you with corn on the cob!"

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Wait, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, talking."

[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"How'd we get on the ceiling? Did you pay the gravity bill?"

Stewart and Eddy in Threesome
weirdness, movies
[comment] [rate] no rating