Res ipsa loquitur

kitewithfish - Top five lines from movies or TV that have just made it into your day to day speech

I'm having some trouble with this one! I'm sure they're there, but I draw a blank.

We are occasionally known to say, "For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture." But I'm much more likely to default to the meme version: "I need this because of reasons."

We still try to read Dickens' A Christmas Carol every year, and when you read something out loud that many times, you do find that it creeps into your language: "But why do spirits walk the earth? And why do they come to me?" and "Mortal man, why do you doubt your senses?" and "Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it," and "The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile, and my unhallowed hand shall not disturb it, or the country's done for."

My favorite quote story is one I think I've told here before. I used to sit in the evenings with the kidlet on the arm of the armchair and the cat in my lap, and when it was bedtime I'd say to the cat, "Kitty, your revels now are ended," and pick her up and put her on the floor.

When the kidlet was older, we took them to see "The Tempest" at the Shakespeare Festival, and when Prospero said, "Our revels now are ended," the kidlet whirled around and said, "I never knew that was Shakespeare! I thought it was just something we said to cats!"




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The kidlet is writing another novel. This is very lovely, but the kidlet doesn't have a computer, and I can't afford to buy one just now.

The other day, before leaving for work, I said, "I need more access to my own computer. See what kind of division you can propose."

Later I got this e-mail. (These days I'm getting permission to quote the kidlet here!)

I get the computer from the time you leave until you get home and from 7:30 to 8 in the evening. You get the computer in the morning before you leave and in the afternoon until you start on dinner, during which time I'll probably be doing the chores you left which I didn't do because I was on the computer all morning. I get the computer while you're cooking if you're cooking. You get the computer at 8 and may retain it until you cease to be functional, succeeding which I may use the computer as long as you don't know about it, I am fully functional the next day, and the battery isn't dead, in which case you may revoke my nighttime privileges.