Overheard

[resonant]

I have a bad habit of making a new post without answering most of the comments on the previous post. Also of making a new post that doesn't have any smut in it. Sorry.

"I don't think it was a bad movie, exactly. It's trying to be nonlinear."
"Life is nonlinear. That's why we like to go to the movies every now and then."



"They had an exterminator working next door."
"Wonder if it was for something ordinary like ants or roaches, or something really odd?"
"What, like elk?"

"I look so fat in that picture! My forehead is almost a fivehead!"

"I tried to sell out. Nobody wanted to buy."

"He read an issue of Newsweek all the way until they released us for lunch. How is there that much reading in one issue of Newsweek?"
"Were his lips moving?"

"What does 'parkour' mean?"
"It's French for 'I hurt myself.'"

Spouse: "When I go through the print room, there are all these signs that say, 'Fill gaylords to the top.' I picture them, the gaylords, with their floppy sleeves and their lace collars, bearing horns overflowing with plenty, all filled to the top."

Kidlet: "All the best things in life stain. Raspberries, chocolate, peaches, avocadoes ..."
Spouse: "Blood ..."

"I accidentally sneezed into my cleavage."

Spouse to kidlet: "You can go upstairs and sleep peacefully. But if you stay down here, you have to listen to Heidegger."

Kidlet: "We should consider ourselves lucky that a watermelon has come to live in our yard."

Kidlet (about the ladycat): "When I come back from the bathroom, she's always curled up in a nice neat cat-loaf right in the middle of the warm."

"Do they bite?"
"They don't even exist!"

Comments

[sociofemme]

a nice neat cat-loaf right in the middle of the warm

I love this description so much!

[darklock]

I love your 'overheard' posts so much.

"Also of making a new post that doesn't have any smut in it. Sorry."

'Cause we don't comprehend language without smut attached to it. :-P

[china_shop]

Oh! "Cat-loaf" is such a perfect description! <3

[resonant]

How To Tell a Cat from a Meat Loaf

[sara]

I'm prepared to accept funny as well as smut. Particularly when so much of what I have to offer myself of late is O WOES. ;>

[ali_in_london]

"What, like elk?"

Since it's possible (but unlikely) that you've not yet seen the wonderfully epic Dogs In Elk, I present this for your (maybe repeated) entertainment.

[out_there]

"I look so fat in that picture! My forehead is almost a fivehead!"

As someone who occasionally shares that sentiment when spotting pictures of me, I have to love the phrasing there. Utter love.

[greyeyes]

So funny! Your kidlet definitely has a way with words.

[constance]

cat-loaf

awww, this line's kind of bittersweet, for me -- I used to call my beloved cat My Loaf (er, his name was Alex, though). He died a few years ago, and I still miss him sometimes; he was an epic cuddler.

[sheylindria]

"What does 'parkour' mean?"
"It's French for 'I hurt myself.'"

I'm still giggling five minutes later!

[monanotlisa]

"I look so fat in that picture! My forehead is almost a fivehead!"

\o/

Kidlet (about the ladycat): "When I come back from the bathroom, she's always curled up in a nice neat cat-loaf right in the middle of the warm."

\o/\o/\o/