December Daily: overheard

[resonant]

mergatrude - Top five things you have overheard

Oh, a most excellent prompt.

5. The first time I remember overhearing something and writing it down was in high school Latin class in about 1981. Our text was about a naval battle, and the word it used for 'ships' was 'puppes,' so my classmate Janet gamely offered, "... to overwhelm the sinking puppies," and someone else put in, "Arf arf gargle arf arf."

4. On Halloween on my college campus, in the weariest voice imaginable: "Bill. It's been a long day. I've had a lot to drink. I'm dressed as a bee."

3. In the parking lot of a Dunkin' Donuts in Peoria, Illinois, guy to his dog, in a singsong voice: "Dogs don't eat eclairs! No they don't!" (This -- melody and all -- has entered our family language.)

2. In a meeting: "We'll throw you under the bus! Feet first, so you can see yourself getting crushed!"

1. Kidlet at about four: "Sometimes I think about thinking. I think: 'Well! I think I'll think.'"



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7 norah - Top five things you would tell your 25-year-old self
8 kitewithfish - Top five lines from movies or TV that have just made it into your day to day speech
9 libitina - top five beverages you wouldn't make for yourself
10 lunabee - Top five colors to wear
11 minutia_r - top five pieces of fandom history
12 celli - Top five TV episodes of all time
13 duffy - Top 5 OTPs in television or movies. Could be romantic or friendship. (Canon is NOT a requirement!)
14 minoanmiss - Top five poets? top five titles?
15 the_future_modernes - top five things you look forward to as you grow older
16 clevermanka - Five pieces of treasured advice
17 dine - Top five ice cream flavors
18 rhi Five favorite Christmas treats (cookies to make, mulled cider, Advent calendars, e.g.)
19 china_shop - Top five devices/appliances/bluetooth thingies/whatever :-)
20 dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather
21 summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
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Comments

[dorinda]

These are amazing.

"Bill. It's been a long day. I've had a lot to drink. I'm dressed as a bee."

Now I feel like using this one, even for the few times in my life I am not dressed as a bee.

[resonant]

It's relevant to a surprising number of occasions.

And one of those

[jesse_the_k]

...is Ray and Ray saying it to Fraser.

Now the challenge is why are the Rays in bee costumes?

[out_there]

I think: 'Well! I think I'll think.'"

That is so cute!

[resonant]

They were always a rather meta child, but then look who their parents are.

[jesse_the_k]

Acorn falling nearby!

[china_shop]

so my classmate Janet gamely offered, "... to overwhelm the sinking puppies," and someone else put in, "Arf arf gargle arf arf."

Heeee!

These are all wonderful. :D

[resonant]

Luckily my Latin teacher had a good sense of humor. I also remember a translation that went, "Soldiers in the military never return your ducks."

[adafrog]

:)

[resonant]

<3

[mergatrude]

I love your 'overheard' posts. These are all gems! Thank you so much and I hope your holidays are exactly as you'd like them to be!

[resonant]

Thanks! I was having an extended fantasy about hosting twelve people for dinner, and then I looked at my little tiny living/dining room, and then I thought, "Do I even know twelve people that I like that live in the same town?"

[mific]

These are all great, although the under a bus one is frankly terrifying!

[resonant]

It was a metaphorical bus, if that helps.

[lunabee34]

Kidlets say the most wonderful things.

[resonant]

And parents are standing by with pen and paper at all times.

Have you seen Ogden Nash's "My Daddy"?


I have a funny daddy

Who goes in and out with me;

And everything that baby does

My daddy’s sure to see.


And everything that baby says

My daddy’s sure to tell;

You must have read my daddy’s work

I hope he fries in Hell!

[lunabee34]

I love Ogden Nash. So much poetry is Serious Business. It's nice to be reminded that poetry can be fun.

[norah]

those are GREAT

[resonant]

I used to have them all in one place, but now I have one file on my phone, and one on this computer, and one on my work computer ...

[norah]

I missed your overheards! I had forgotten you did them and the suddenly YAY!

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