Overheard and overseen

[resonant]

Me: They've canceled Ash Wednesday services because of the bad weather.
Spouse: They don't want people to return to dust sooner than necessary?



'Plummet' is not a word you want to hear in your weather forecast.

I learned that early in the restaurant business. Never pay more than three bucks for anything you wear to work.

Soap is good. Soap is cheaper than soup.

Kidlet: If you run over Carmen and she's dead, can I have her head?

Girls, about twelve, at the skating rink:
You won't buy me a real green dress?
No, because that's cruel.
Oh, God, not you too.

What year are you?
Um ... more than a junior but not quite a senior.

Cute couple in matching glasses at coffee shop:
So why you wanna make me hate you like that?
I, uh, actually didn't know you hated me until you said that.

Choir director: Everybody got a Messiah?
Elderly alto: We really only need one Messiah.

Kidlet: Do you have one more hug for me?
Me: I have an infinite supply of hugs.
Kidlet: Of course, your supply of hugs runs out when you're dead.
[Spouse, when I report this conversation: I was thinking exactly the same thing.]

At the vet:
Me: What's his name?
Other person with cat carrier: His name is cat.tif. And the former owner must have been a computer-lover, because he has a sister named cat.jpg.
Me: OK, I have to ask: Is the sister a lot smaller than he is?
Other person: Yup, she's compressed.

At the coffee shop:
Ma'am, would you warm me up?
No, but I will refill your coffee cup.

Me: Hey, we're not watching the Oscars.
Spouse: Thank God.
Me: You know, one of these days we're going to turn into some kind of hermetically sealed ball of crankiness with no contact with the outside world.
Spouse: Going to turn into?

Comments

[kalimyre.livejournal.com]

Your family is made entirely of snarky awesome. Really. *is jealous*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

None of us pick up after ourselves, but there are compensations.

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

I want to meet the person who originally named the cats, and either point and laugh or marry them. Possibly both.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

me too.

[judas-river.livejournal.com]

Me three. :)

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

me point four

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I'm solidly in the camp of "marry" on this one! :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know! I thought it was so very clever. I do wonder what they call them at home, though. On the other hand, cats rarely wind up being called by their own names; Barnabas never hears his name, because we mostly call him things with "boosh" in them.

Overheard and overseen

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Your post made me laugh, always a very very good thing! Thank you so very much!
Love, max

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad! I love collecting this stuff.

Also love your icon with lovely bespectacled Rodney.

Re: Overheard and overseen

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

"...lovely Bespectacled Rodney..." (or as I call him, "Rodney-Glasses") was made by apple_pi. Someone else used it and I tracked it down (it took me several hours to find it in pi's gallery) and got permission from pi to use it! It's just so *Rodney* and he's so *handsome* here, IMHO!

Have a great day!
Love, max

[othercat.livejournal.com]

*snerk* These were cute.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

The last conversation could be me and dh except we don't even need to mention that we're not watching the Oscars. No tv.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Heh -- we have one, but sometimes I wonder why.

[nel-ani.livejournal.com]

HEE! *dopy grin*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The world is very entertaining, especially when I should be working instead of eavesdropping.

[china_shop]

Hee! The cat names, in particular, are wonderful! *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know -- I was very impressed by that.

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love these posts of yours -- they always make me laugh. (And your spouse and kidlet are so cool.)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad people other than me enjoy them. I've been keeping quotes since I was in high school (Latin class: "Janet, where did you get the idea there was a ship? There's no mention of a ship in the text." "I, um, supplied it?"), so I'm glad they entertain people.

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Choir director: Everybody got a Messiah?
Elderly alto: We really only need one Messiah.
Hee!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It made me giggle when I should have been paying attention to Handel.

[caseylane.livejournal.com]

I missed the Oscars too. Since I haven't seen any of the nominated movies I just didn't care.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I was reading a list of the nominees, and what struck me was how all the men were in one set of movies and all the women were in another, like we had a year of sex-segregated moviemaking.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Kidlet: If you run over Carmen and she's dead, can I have her head?

...It's frightening how similar my thought processes are to those of your kidlet. And I don't even know who Carmen is.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She gets the morbid stuff from the spouse, I swear. These things never occur to me.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Morbid? Maybe. For me it's just curiosity (okay, maybe the rest of the universe would say "morbid curiosity"); I'm a biology-related major, after all. :D Body parts fascinate me; there are bird wings on my coffee table and I keep having this random thought that I should learn taxidermy, just for entertainment value and a few extra bucks...

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Me: You know, one of these days we're going to turn into some kind of hermetically sealed ball of crankiness with no contact with the outside world.
Spouse: Going to turn into?

so delicious! I adore you so much....

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing, because the internet provides pretty much all of my social life these days.

[ectomycorrhizae.livejournal.com]

Nothing like 12-year olds discovering barenaked ladies circa 1992. And does the year question relate to the Chinese Zodiac, given that it's just past Lunar New Year?
...anyway, I love when you post these.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I think the year question was more that the guy was approaching his college life in a kind of haphazard way and wasn't really sure how many credits he had.

It's a good thing you post these

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

otherwise I'd have to bug your house.

Also: I read and adored Girlfriend, and I'm planning a play-by-ply for you.

♥

Re: It's a good thing you post these

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. I'm so glad.

And you don't have to bug the house -- you can come for dinner! I'll make soup! The kidlet will make you a placecard!

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

Hi! This is completely unrelated, but I just read Loving North and couldn't find it in your journal to comment on, so I'm just leaving you a note here to say thank you. I haven't read any DS fic in a loooooong time, but this was recced to me and I'm so glad it was. Beautifully written, and I was completely entranced by the picture you painted of the landscape and their relationship. Thank you :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! It's one of my old favorites. Fraser and Ray! How I still love them! (I don't think there's a livejournal entry; if I remember correctly, I wrote that one in my old mailing-list days before I even had LJ.)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

The vet one and the coffee shop one are priceless! (And the last one makes me giggle.)

Also, I'm friending you. FAIR WARNING, I SEZ.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Your icon alone makes you a welcome friend!