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no words or phrases with the sweetie, but tons with friends, sometimes get the oddest looks out in public. But it is nice to be able to carry on a conversation without others quite knowing what you are saying.
Binkie looks very nice.

Our family phrases are: "I'm not stupid like the rest of them" (this is actually SUNG, from Mystery Science Theater production of Cave Dwellers) and "You can't be a fool", courtesy of Judge Judy. Yours are quite sweet, in comparison.

Hmmm. Can't think of any arcane phrases with my SO (other than the use of rat-bastard as a term of affection), but with my *ex* there were tons. One of them, used when being deliberately annoying, was "But honey, it's done out of LOOOOOVE." at which point the sayee would need to skip deftly out of the way of the annoyed recipient.
Also, a reference to a Bloom County cartoon "Look! Full moon! (unprovoked kick)."

For a while I ran an Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies (la-di-da!) at our MD temple. One summer we were studying an ancient Indian Buddhist text improbably titled "The Emptiness of Emptiness". In the text, the translator used the word "reify". Some folks didn't know what it meant, so I tried to explain: "It means to make like a king, you know like the French 'le roi' or, you know, Leroy." The others blinked at me for a second, and then burst out laughing. Ever since then, if someone is going into a convoluted, over-intellectualized explanation of something, they're bound to be interrupted thus: "Um, thanks, Leroy."

Also, on our side of the fambly, each member has an identifying animal. Mine, as it happens, is the pig, owing, I think, to my childhood eating habits. So same thing, no matter who's around, my mother will shout to me in the next room, "Hey PIG?" "Yeah Ma?" Always good for a bug-eyed stare and nervous laughter. BTW, after "Aunt Josephine" on the brigade list, you can put "and her condo pals" who she's recruiting like crazy. Who will be #100? I dig that the lurkers are un-lurking.

LOVE the pile o' binkies. We had a Mongolia slide show on Saturday that was SRO and everyone got a Dulaan flyer. Some of the show was truly heartbreaking. Believe me when I tell you you're all knitting for an excellent cause.

We don't have any catch phrases, except for whenever something gross happens that is kid or pet related, one of us will say "I'll never breastfeed; that's so gross." (It's something a ranger friend said when she was pregnant with her first child). We do high five each other in public pretty regularly, which has earned some strange looks.

Love, love, love the binkie, TMK.

Hubby happens to love John Wayne and in "The Alamo", a certain phrase is used constantly and sends me into giggles. So whenever one of us makes a point, Hubby says "Do this mean what I think it do?" and I respond with "It do". Think major hick accent. We are in Texas after all.

Love the binkies. Way too cool. Gonna hafta check out my local JoAnn's to see if they are having a sale.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Kevin and I both adore the Irish comedy "Father Ted" and our favorite line from that is, "Who're you?" as spoken by Father Dougal McGuire. It also means that we frequently speak to each other in what I am sure are horrid Irish accents.

Starting on a Dulaan scarf to match some of the hats. All in Rowan Big Wool. Keep 'em comin', folks! 1000 or BUST!

Stick me on the Dulaan Knitting Brigade list! I'll hopefully be at Janine's Dulaan knit-in and will make some other hats too, probably out of leftover Heilo.
My brother and I have a number of annoying catchphrases based on inscrutable "jokes" told to us by our Dad. Mostly very bad puns.
I also relish any chance I get to sing the song from the Simpsons that goes, "IIIIii am so smart. IIIii am so smart. S-M-R-T. I mean S-M-A-R-T." I suspect that does annoy some people and mystify many more.

My husband and I say "That'll do, pig" to each other, TOO! From the same movie, of course. And I also worry that people will think we're calling each other pig! But we're usually at home, so then I worry that he's going to think it's okay to call me "pig" on a regular basis. I'm sure it'll be a first for the marriage counselor.

Another of our favorite expressions is "If it's not Scottish, it's crap!" from the Monty Python sketch. We use it for everything, but it's especially useful when asking someone to hand you the tape. Must be spoken in horrible Scottish accent to be effective.

Huzzah!!! I am knitting like a fiend for Mongolia.

My Peace Corps application came in the mail today ... Asia (including Mongolia) is my second choice for location placement. I am soooo excited.

When does Cuzzin Tom leave for Mongolia?

My daughter Sabrina is preparing to join the brigade as well - she knits, and we'll pick up fleece and make fleece blankets.

In addition, I've printed out the flyer and she's taking it to school to see if her teacher wants to do a service project (fleece blankets would be a great class project!)

I've been lurking for a while and have read all the archives too. Love the blog, your humor makes my day and the knitting is an inspiration. Thanks!

My DH is great at remembering lines from movies and using them at every opportunity. Our two enduring favorites are the phone booth scene from Rainman ("Oh oh, Oh oh, OH OH!" in a high nasal voice) and I can't remember what the other movie was, but it was some sort of Western comedy where they were helping a guy break out of jail. He jumped from an upper story window right onto the saddle of his horse with legs apart, but imagine the impact to his private parts. The camera focuses on the expression on his face which twists from surprise at his success to PAIN. Then in a very pinched, high pitched voice he squeaks out to his rescuers "Thank you veddy much!" When a favor is dubious or a pun is bad, DH and I squeak the "thank you veddy much" all the time, along with the pained facial expression.

You might have had to seen the movie to get it, but it's hilarious to us ;o)

We also crack up every time we hear the phrase "chuck steak". We were staying at a Sierra Club Lodge near Donner pass and they showed videos for entertainment in the evenings. The night we were there, they showed an old and overly dramatic "movie of the week" version of the Donner Party story. It was really so overwrought that it was funny. At one point in the story, a man named Charles was missing. All of the actors were asking each other "where's chuck" and looking very distressed at his absence. Someone from the back of the audience called out "He's Chuck Steak". Sick, I know, but we couldn't stop laughing and still crack up every time we see chuck steak in the store or on a menu.

My sister and I use the phrase "It's almost Christmas, Charlie" to indicate that someone has just repeated something that everyone else clearly already knew or heard. It's from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (with Hot Lips from MASH).

Using that phrase in summer has gotten us some strange looks over the years.

My bf and I have gotten in the habit of tossing variants of "I bet you would be, Panama Red" (from "Meet the Parents") into our daily conversations. "I need to do laundry today." "I bet you do, Panama Red." It's so weird.
Love the binkie. :)

Ryan,
Wow, I have not heard the word "conversatin" since the 80's when I was law enforcing in Brooklyn! My hubby uses no slang, my favorite is OY! same as Norma.
I finished Dulaan mittens and am speeding through a sweater and might knit a matching hat too.
Have you thought about doing a Dulaan gallery?

Sign me up for the Dulaan project, I've got some Lopi bulky that I can use for hats & scarves or maybe a child size sweater.

A little more than half the Dulaan flyers are gone, picked up by people in the classes I taught during the Stitches West weekend!

I will bring the remainder to Gig Harbor on Wednesday night together with the display board I made.

"To call you stupid is an insult to stupid people" A Fish Called Wanda
"That's OK, I can walk from here" Annie Hall, having parked about 5 feet from the curb
"Just keep thinking Butch, that's what you're good at." Butch Cassidy
I can't join until I've knit something, so I'll knit something, already.

Oh, there are too many to list, but here's a couple:

"Have fun storming the castle!"--Princess Bride

"I've come to warn you, in three million years you'll be dead." "Will I *really?*" -- Red Dwarf

"The thing about a black hole, is, it's black. And the thing about space, the color of space, the basic *space color,* is, it's black. So how you s'posed to see 'em?" -- also Red Dwarf (This is usually shortened to, "The thing about (insert item here)...)

The best funny looks from strangers, though, come from when we're talking about D&D in public: "You didn't have to kill him, though--I wanted to interrogate him." "We killed all the others." "Exactly, we needed to find out who hired him!"

Judy's Red Dwarf comments remind about another one Ryan and I use a lot. "They're dead, Dave. They're all dead." Referring to the entire Red Dwarf crew that has been turned to dust, which Dave is taste testing as he's getting the news.

We use this for anything that is empty, finished, done,or dead (i.e., plants).

TMK

TMK was too nice to say, specifically, MY plants.

My husband and I find Zoolander to be one of the most quotable movies ever. A few favourites:

Who am I? (Complete with tilt of the head and wistful tone, to accompany any period of self-doubt -- usually precipitated by a notice of an upcoming "performance review" at the office).

Dear God, it's beautiful!

It's really, really ridiculously good looking.

I'm sure we quote other movies to each other, but Zoolander sticks out.

I've got four items done now (well, three were already done!)

We've got something that I can't remember the origins of now. Whenever someones asks the rest of us where an item is (and they obviously haven't looked for it) we callously reply, "If it was up your BUTT you'd know where it is!" Not helpful but heartfelt. Generally we try to keep this reply in the home.
Sometimes we get on a kick of speaking in show tune lyrics. It just happens. I don't know; It's a mystery.

Favorite saying whenever one of us does something stupid: "That's just silly, Ray" from Due South, said with proper Mountie clipped accent. No, neither of us are named Ray.

"She's not dead enough, Son." Another from Due South, whenever someone is annoying us and won't go away.

Of course, this is in addition to numerous movie and show quotes, depending on what we've seen recently. We've got certain scenes we can quote verbatim.

Just a brief note to say that what you and CT are doing is freaking amazing. I can't get over it. Wow.

I have the button on my site, didn't know you were taking names until I saw mention of the 500 thing. I have 2 hats done, on the 3rd and will hopefully get a neck warmer or two out of the leftovers. So put me on the list.

I've made three hats for the Dulaan project and will continue. Please add me to the list of enthusiastic knitters. Barbara

Quoting can sometimes become a pastime!
A family favorite growing up was "Time to make the donuts" (Remember all the Dunkin Donuts commercials with the guy constantly making donuts.) It was a code for us to get up and get moving. I have caught myself recently using it with my kids, they of course asked what kind of donuts we were going to make. Tried to explain, but 20 year old commercial references don't make a lot of sense to them.
Also, I would like to join the Dulaan Brigade. I have a use for stash!

Hi, I had a possibly-dopey question about the Dulaan Project. Are there any colors or imagery that are culturally inappropriate for Mongolian children that wouldn't be obvious to a Westerner? I was just thinking that when requests to help Iraqis were going out, it was said that depiction of human or animal faces was a no-no.

TChem--not a dopey question at all. We asked it before launching the project. We couldn't really find any no-no's. It's a somewhat conservative culture but, you know, ya'll aren't knitting cocktail dresses (you aren't, right?). In their traditional dress, they seem to go for rich, bright colors, so don't be afraid of that. I would also err on the darker side, esp. for the kiddie stuff, just cuz dirt doesn't show up as quickly.

BTW, all this week, the nighttime lows have been -42F.

Hmmm, we tend to "Smart people on Ice" from Real Genius and I also am known to blurt out "Welcome to the Ice Show" and "Look Ma, the Pyramid's opening" from some 35 years old Firesign Theatre.

My family is teaching the third generation to say "Mother and Pearl" when taking leave of another family members. It's a forty year old saying,but my sisters and I have a new twist. If you are in the yard, as the other family member drives off you must bend over and pick up a twig, in memory of our grandmother. Who had nothing to do with the original saying, or the repeating of it- it was all my uncle and my mother. It's good to keep the generations guessing.