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Bob
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| Donna wrote: |
My mom is the purveyor of sayings in my family. |
| kgreene wrote: |
You know, I had another one to run past you but I'm totally blanking on it now....  |
OK, here's another saying from my uncle: "Whenever one door closes, another one slams shut."
Geez Louise, my uncle was a pessimist.  |
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Bob
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| kgreene wrote: |
Lol.. are you serious? Lol... That's funny. I like when a commonly known phrase is turned around a bit. |
Nah, I'm not serious. That's just nonsense that I made up, and I decided to attribute it to my "uncle." I really did have an uncle that said crazy things, but in this case I used him as the "MacGuffin."
A "MacGuffin" is "an object, event, or character... that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite lacking intrinsic importance." I can't remember where I learned about that literary device.  But I was picturing an Office talking head, like Dwight, saying "Geez Louise, my uncle was a pessimist."
Here's a saying that I like. I don't know who said it first, but it applies to so many situations: "Things are more like they are now than ever before."  |
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Donna
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| Quote: | | Things are more like they are now than ever before." |
Sounds like something Michael Scott would say...by accident of course!
He could never be that cool to purposely come up with that.
It seems everytime I sit down with my computer I can't recall any more of my mom's sayings. I need to call her and have her remind me. She's got some doozys for sure!
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Bob
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| Donna wrote: |
It seems everytime I sit down with my computer I can't recall any more of my mom's sayings. |
I very often overhear a doozy at work. Usually, it is a liquor-fueled garbled phrase, and if I don't write it down quickly on a cocktail napkin, I'm sure to forget it. Then, I get annoyed at myself. I don't know why; it's not like I'm writing a book of twisted sayings. It's just that after I realize I heard something cool that I now don't remember, in my mind it becomes the funniest thing I ever heard. And if I do happen to recall it later, I always say "Well, that wasn't so funny." Or, Ann will say that for me. 
Gotta write the good stuff down, or it gets forgotten!  |
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| Bob wrote: | | Donna wrote: |
It seems everytime I sit down with my computer I can't recall any more of my mom's sayings. |
I very often overhear a doozy at work. Usually, it is a liquor-fueled garbled phrase, and if I don't write it down quickly on a cocktail napkin, I'm sure to forget it. Then, I get annoyed at myself. I don't know why; it's not like I'm writing a book of twisted sayings. It's just that after I realize I heard something cool that I now don't remember, in my mind it becomes the funniest thing I ever heard. And if I do happen to recall it later, I always say "Well, that wasn't so funny." Or, Ann will say that for me.
Gotta write the good stuff down, or it gets forgotten! |
I know what you mean. Somebody said something funny the other day that I cannot remember now.
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Bob
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I know what you mean. Somebody said something funny the other day that I cannot remember now. |
A while back, a guy at the bar was explaining his sticky predicament at work. As he hoisted his beer, he said "My back always seems to be up against the 8-ball." Me   I quickly wrote that gem down on a cocktail napkin, because I knew if I didn't, it would be lost forever. So...  ... uh, it may be worthless, but at least it's not lost forever.
Actually, mashing up "my back against the wall" with "behind the 8-ball" sounds like pretty good words of wisdom for Michael Scott to spew. |
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| Bob wrote: | | kgreene wrote: |
I know what you mean. Somebody said something funny the other day that I cannot remember now. |
A while back, a guy at the bar was explaining his sticky predicament at work. As he hoisted his beer, he said "My back always seems to be up against the 8-ball." Me I quickly wrote that gem down on a cocktail napkin, because I knew if I didn't, it would be lost forever. So... ... uh, it may be worthless, but at least it's not lost forever.
Actually, mashing up "my back against the wall" with "behind the 8-ball" sounds like pretty good words of wisdom for Michael Scott to spew. |
Lol... it really does. Man, you hear some serious malapropisms at the bar, don't you?
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Bob
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| kgreene wrote: | | ...serious malapropisms... |
Last week at work a guy brought in a funny calendar to show me. Each month had a different twisted "saying" on it, and they all made laugh. One was a "customer disservice" motto: "We're not satisfied until you're not satisfied."  It made me think of Michael Scott, and his "Limitless paper in a paperless world" slogan. Check out their website: http://www.despair.com/viewall.html |
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Bob
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These are funny, Bob. My favorites?
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If you're attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core.
I can imagine Kelly Kapoor sighing, as she says "That's so true..." |
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