my father: "Tell him he doesn't know how to pronounce the Queen's English."
Tolgonay: "Say ‘the Queen's English’!"
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my father: "Tell him he doesn't know how to pronounce the Queen's English."
Tolgonay: "Say ‘the Queen's English’!"
"Flips like a pancake, lands like a rock—that's your father."
(23:16:35) [my father]: it is normal convention, however. So laTex doesn't know what it is doing
(23:17:04) [my father]: what the hell do you want with something that uses louisiana and texas as its call name
"What's that bean curd stuff?"
(23:25) [my father]: they abreviate Perth, Western Australia as Perth, WA -- it one of the very few place abbreviation confusions in teh English speaking countries
(23:34) [me]: CA
(23:35) [my father]: Canada and California can be distinguished because California has more people
my father: "Wait, why's it that much cheaper?"
employee at undisclosed fast-foodery: "I gave you the senior discount. ...Not sayin' there're any seniors around here—I just hooked y'all up."
"The leader of Turkmenistan—what does he call himself again? Turkmen Bob?"
I sometimes wonder how they count.
they have trouble taking 10% of a large number
they were bothered by having claculators that couldn't handle enough digits
‘what is 24000 inches in feet?
let's guess until Dr. Washington tells us we're right’
me: "So how did the fishies that evolved originally get to lake Baikal? By air?"
my genious scientist father: "Probably."
My father: "I ate breakfast for a whole year."
Hannah: "Yesterday."
me: "How far back is his Cornish ancestry?"
my father: "Five or six generations."
me: "So he's got a lot of other stuff mixed in then?"
my father: "I wouldn't count on it."
me: "How inbred is he?!"
Hannah: "That's how he got that colour hair."
"If we could put the bathroom out in the carport, we wouldʼve done it a long time ago."
"My father likes ketchup on knishes. My father also likes ketchup on latkes. But he's a goy."
"I really do know how to bang bottles of coke."
"No, you don't need Word Perfect 6...No, you don't need 5.1 either!"
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."
"It's right across the street from the shoe hammer place. Uhm... whatever it's called... You know, the cobbler."