Wed 3 Oct 2007
OK, we’ve done this before but I can’t always be original!
“Don’t be a duffer
Alex wasn’t!
“If you give a mouse a cookie…
“Sometimes you don’t NEED help
“Time for a little something.”
“Little drops of water…”
“With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear?”
“He can’t say it like our chief can.”
You’re such a dufflepud!”
“Water is powerful wet stuff.”
“A boon, a boon.”
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Shakespeare really hit the nail on the head with that one.
“My precious”
“You’re such a puddleglum.”
“Christopher looks just like a marshwiggle.”
“Help may be right at the door.”
Or how about family expletetives:
“Tiddely-pom”
or our newest:
“Phooey!”
Picked up from and A&E series based on a series of books. I have read the books. The children have seen the movies, at least a few of them. Any guesses?
And finally my newest addition to the family culture. I plan to throw this out randomly when didactic stagers interrupt my morning monologues:
“Am I doomed forever listening to idiots try to hide incompetence behind verbiage?”
Or maybe they will say that to me:)
Your turn!
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Oh!!!!!!!! We miss our little buddies!
Comment by Hannah R. (October 3, 2007 @ 8:42 am )
Cindy,
This is too much fun! I’ve meant to do a post like this for a long time and now you’ve motivated me to start thinking about not procrastinating so much. Maybe I’ll plan to do it soon.
Comment by KimC (October 3, 2007 @ 10:07 am )
Is that last quote from _Supper of the Lamb_? I love that book. Your link made me put a hardcover copy on my list. I underlined my paperback copy a lot. I think it would be a good hope chest item!
Oh, I got a kick out of all the literary references in your family culture.
Comment by Carmon (October 3, 2007 @ 10:09 am )
Yes, I am thinking The Supper of the Lamb will make nice Christmas gifts. I am having fun thinking up gifts for my new daughters both of whom like to cook.
Comment by Cindy (October 3, 2007 @ 10:21 am )
There are…”extraordinary noises overhead, which (are disturbing) the dignity and repose of (my) tea party”.
“Tut-tut, looks like rain.”
“This mess is so deep and so wide and so tall, we just can’t clean it up, there is no way at all!”
(For obvious reasons!)
Wow, I could go on forever. I’ll let other people comment while I go think on it for awhile or ask my kids! Whee! I love this!
Comment by Linda (October 3, 2007 @ 11:26 am )
Linda,
I like to look at my kids with an evil eye and say, “What would you do if your mother asked you?”
Comment by Cindy (October 3, 2007 @ 11:35 am )
Too funny! We have lots of these, too; but of course, I can’t think of any of them just now. Well, just one….
“Hasten forward quickly there!”
Comment by Cheryl (Copper's Wife) (October 3, 2007 @ 12:16 pm )
I’m guessing that “phooey” is from the Nero Wolfe series. I’ve been slowly making my way through the A & E series & revisiting the books as well. In the books he spells “phooey” as “pfui” so now every time I say it that’s what I see in my head.
Comment by Serena (October 3, 2007 @ 3:02 pm )
You are exactly correct, Serena.
Comment by Cindy (October 3, 2007 @ 3:29 pm )
Swallows and Amazons?
Bonnie
in Charlotte
Comment by Bonnie Buckingham (October 4, 2007 @ 7:54 pm )
In heavy wind…
“The wind was against them now, and Piglet’s ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along…”
Comment by Lisa W. (October 4, 2007 @ 11:39 pm )