Summer Travels in the Truck

Just a few quotes for your amusement from our summer vacation.

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Trolleyman: Jen, did you bring a table cloth?
Brain: Yes, unfortunately it doubles as the pair of pants you're wearing.

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Brain: I'm doing some math in my head.
Trolleyman: Want my odd numbered toes?

Efficiency

He did not approve of anarchy.  Well, he knew he was in lazy doubt about everything.  Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
By Gregory Maguire

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Fancy Picnics serve haute dogs.

Happy pearl divers go overboard for work.

I couldn't repair yours brakes, so I made your horn louder.

Congrats J&C

Man

"Man? What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. Man's metaphysical pretensions are preposterous, a miserable bit of protoplasm full of ugly little concepts and mean little emotions and it imagines itself important."

~Dr. Pritchett

Atlas Shrugged

Riverdace at Wolf Trap

We were able to enjoy an afternoon at Wolf Trap seeing Riverdance in their farewell performance.  We even bumped into our dance instructors who said we would get extra points in class for the extra curricular!  Thanks to Tiff for working out the logistics and Kiki for all the pointers on what to bring along.  It was a marvelous time.

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Frantic people are usually on errants.

Many tree surgeons work out of branch offices.

Politeness is the art of choosing the thoughts you express.

What Men Think of Women

"The young woman," Emmerson went on, "is, if I know young women, weeping wildly in her room. That is what young women do when they are in a state of emotional confusion."

~Professor Radcliffe Emmerson
Lion in the Valley

Words of the Day

scuttle \SKUHT-l\,

verb:
1. To run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.

noun:
1. A deep bucket for carrying coal.
2. A small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel.
3. A small hatchlike opening in a roof or ceiling.

verb:
1. To sink (a vessel) deliberately by opening seacocks or making openings in the bottom.
2. To abandon, withdraw from, or cause to be abandoned or destroyed.

noun:
1. A short, hurried run.

Scuttle may be related to the similar verb scud, "to run or move quickly." Both words probably derive from the Middle English scottlen, "to move away."


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threnody \THREN-uh-dee\, noun:

A poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead; dirge; funeral song.

The source of threnody is the Greek thrēnōidía, where thrēnōs is "lamentation" and ōid is "song." Also the root of ode.