Quotes

"Yeah. Make like a vegetable." -Erika, on what we will do on December 23, the first day of vacation

"Aww, you don't suck. If you sucked you'd be created a partial vacuum." -Noelle

"Wait, what is alpha?" "It's the factor that tells you how long you can chew on somebody's toe before to stops being kinky and becomes rude." -Nick and Lissa, talking about Punya's theory, following a conversation about Aron Ralston cutting off his own arm

"My friend taught me the longest word in Turkish. It's a word that means 'you are trying to be a Czechoslovakian but failing' ". -Allison

"I believe to be kinky to me would be to really sore." -Allison, who didn't know what "kinky" means

Later: "I'm never going to lick a toe again!" "...and I said, how about I lick your foot? It was a dare for a cookie. It was bad." -Allison, again

"Hey, are you ok? You have your game face on. You're gonna spank that puppy, right now. To quote Amelia the Elder." -Jess R, to Amelia the Younger

"OK. I got 150,000. Oh.... I haven't squared the electron charge." "I've got 10 to the -117th power. Oh.... I have Avogadro's number as 6.02 * 10 to the -23 power! That's why!" [Long pause, thinking] "That's 46 powers of 10 off!!!!" -Lissa, Erika, and Noelle, respectively, discussing the answer to a problem that was supposed to be a few nanometers

Aron: "Hey, has anybody seen Alli?" Charley answers, singing to the tune of Workin' on the Railroad: "Alli's in the bathtub with John-ny, Alli's in the bathtub with Johnnn-ny..." Sure enough Alli is sitting in the bathtub in the murph. Aron: "Who is Johnny?" Alli holds up a very large cucumber, and, solemnly, takes a bite. Several observers fall on the floor from laughter.

"Wow! You're really not using it as a sex toy!" -Jared, to Charley, holding a vegan hamburger

"What? No, I'm just saying you're the one reading Playboy at the dinner table. See, I'm just reading Calvin and Hobbes. My pictures are better." -Dave

"Well, the Y chromosome doesn't really code for anything... um... except for the, uh, general changes, and such." -Scott, studying SSRs and LOD scores with Lissa and Erika

Robyn is giving a clinic on bike-repair in pika's dining room. She's working on Amelia's bike, and the front wheel needs to come off. The two of them are stooped over trying to pull it off. As it pops off: "IT's a GIRL!!!" - Robyn

5 minutes later, as Amelia puts the wheel back on: "Amelia! I can't believe you just did that! She popped her back in, it was premature!" - Allie

Mark [on IM] : you know, i've seen girls down here that had less surface area on all their clothes than on their cowboy hat

"Real Dads have a paunch over which their tie can hang." - my Dad, a skinny guy, interrupting the reverent quiet while walking down the silent snowy streets towards the church on Christmas eve

"One day the sea creatures will rise up and form a hit squad.... Whomp. Whomp. Whomp." -Matt, on why we shouldn't use too many cleaning products

Jared: "I want some of your sweet sweet loving." Carlos: "What is that?"

A homeless snail. A slug without a house. - explaining to Joost what a "slug" is

Dave: "Sand bags are good because you can hang them from the ceiling and they drop on peoples' heads at comical moments." Anna: "Kind of like 3 ton concrete blocks, huh?"
Dave: "And pianos". Angela: "Avoid the Rainbow!" Bergey: "You're making me nervous".

 

 
 
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