disclaimer: this is the "katie's really bad at delaying gratification and just couldn't wait to post these quotes" post

24 August 2006

• "I sleep better during the day!" --Jon Meck, on naps and Mel's lack of blinds
• "Can I make you a blind out of Pitt Newses?" --Jon, trying to be helpful. ("It'd have a string so you could pull it up and when it was up it would say 'Zachary Ransom.'")
  

23 August 2006

• "Jerry thought he was a Babylon Man . . . a caveman." --Jon, on Alex's beard
• "Then you could name it Shanaynay O'Shea-Shea!" --Katie, on Cara's future children (other names discussed for Cara's children: Shaquandra, Garbanzo, Garbledina, Nicodemus and Bob)
• "Is Pee Wee having a wet dream?" --Teresa Pizzella, on Pee Wee's Playhouse
• "I need a drink, I'm choking, I need--" --Jerry May
  "I know the Heimlich!" --Jon
  "I'm not--get away from me!" --Jerry; on chips and salsa
• "It'd be like you and me dancing." --Jon
  "Bad example." --Jerry
  "Okay, it'd be like a guy who can dance and me dancing." --Jon; on dancing with a lesbian friend
  

brand new, belated summer quotes!
the family fun edition

13 August 2006

• "I've never seen an Oompa Loompa have to fix their bra." --Patti Buono (my aunt)
  "Was that me or Katie?" --Ron Selig (brother); on the Augustus Gloomp Dance
• "How much rice did you have to pick before you could take a break?" --Aunt Patti, on my mother's horrible, horrible hat
• "Patti, it protected her head, it protected her neck . . ." --Rich Selig (dad)
  "But it didn't protect her dignity!" --me; on my mother's horrible, horrible hat
• "Will they take my deodorant?" --Ron
  "They'll take one look at you and let you keep it." --Diana Pilat (aunt); on new airport regulations
  

10 August 2006

• "I'll mutter 'Hezbollah' every once in a while--it keeps me in the game. . . . Man, isn't terrorism funny?" --Erika Selig (my sister), on family conversation
• "I wasn't kicking--that was me flipping pages." --Ron Selig (brother)
  "That was the last book you ever read." --Betty Selig (mom); on the Little Brother Manual
  

29 July 2006

• "It's not against you, it's against people who don't go to the library." --Michael Barton (a.k.a. Boogdish), on punk rock anarchy
• "Even if it's illegal, if enough people do it, you're free." --Michael, on pirates
• "The Great Depression wasn't that awesome." --Stanley Saeger III, playing Apples to Apples
• "Ham is someone we know, I don't just enjoy cured meats." --Kelly Hill, justifying Mad Gab phrases
• "Becky Pinto goes to my college and avoids eye contact." --Kyle Page, on high school classmates
  

undated

• "He's an orphan, we cheer!" --Kelly Hill, playing Mad Gab (actual phrase: "He's a Norwegian skier.)
  
• "We show our neighbor porn." --Katie, playing Mad Gab (actual phrase: 'wish i were never born')